Weekly Report - 24 April 2014 (WR-14-16)

Ecuador and Costa Rica have signed an agreement demarcating their maritime border after 29 years of talks. Given that virtually every border dispute in Latin America at the moment seems to be heading to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) at The Hague (two involving Costa Rica and Nicaragua), it is a noteworthy achievement that the two countries were able to resolve this dispute patiently at a bilateral diplomatic level.

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