www.CostaRicaTicas.com

This could certainly affect travel plans in the future.


(Newser) – Nicaragua's president warned once again yesterday that his country might seek to reclaim 20% of neighboring Costa Rica, AFP reports. "Costa Rica did not win that territory in an international court, but rather by force, with arms," said Daniel Ortega at a military ceremony. He was referring to Guanacaste province, a popular tourist spot he says Managua lost to "occupation" in 1824; he may appeal to the International Court of Justice to get it back.

Just last month, Costa Rican President Laura Chinchilla led a march to protest Ortega's attempts to reclaim Guanacaste, Bloomberg reports. The territory was annexed to Costa Rica about three years after Central America became independent of Spain, and 34 years later, in 1858, Nicaragua signed a treaty ceding the territory to Costa Rica. But Nicaragua had been under temporary military rule around that time, and the administration says the treaty was not "signed voluntarily." The two countries have quite a history of border disputes.


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"Cocta Rica loves everybody and everybody loves Costa Rica. What do we need a military for?" Former Costa Rican President Oscar Arias Sanchez. At least the guy had the right idea.

what was their bases behind all of this?

Well, there are two points.

1. Nicaragua does in fact hate that Guanacaste is now a part of CR, and they want it back. That one is pretty simple -- they will make every argument that they can to convince the world that Guanacaste should become Nicaraguan territory once again.

2. Nicaragua has for a long time been wanting gain total control over Rio San Juan. Nicaragua's primary economic goal is to build a "Nicaragua Canal" that would compete with and probably outperform the Panama Canal. and annexing Guanacaste would greatly help. A move that far south on the western border would probably (my opinion, and Nicaragua's) give them such a tremendous amount of leverage that they could control all of the territory necessary to build the canal.