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Weekly Report - 25 June 2015 (WR-15-25)

COLOMBIA-VENEZUELA: Bogotá challenges Maduro’s maritime grab

Colombia has followed Guyana’s lead in challenging the 27 May decree by which Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro establishes four “operational integral defence maritime and insular defence zones” (ZODIMAINs in the Spanish acronym). In Colombia’s case the bone of contention is the Gulf of Venezuela or Coquivacoa, where sovereignty over oil-bearing areas and fisheries is still disputed.

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