Security & Strategic Review - December 2013 (ISSN 1741-4202)

COSTA RICA-NICARAGUA | ICJ rules against Managua. On 13 December the International Court of Justice (ICJ) at The Hague rejected a claim by Nicaragua (filed in December 2011) that Costa Rica was causing environmental damages by building a road parallel to the San Juan River. This is the second ruling by the ICJ against Nicaragua in less than a month, following a 22 November ruling ordering Managua to remove all personnel from the San Juan River area and to refrain from any dredging. It was also ordered to halt work on two new canals. The ruling may give the deeply unpopular President Laura Chinchilla and her ruling Partido Liberación Nacional (PLN) a boost ahead of the general elections scheduled for 2 February 2014.

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