Ecuador Colombia Border Dispute. Both sides claimed the other initiated the conflict. The conflict is shutting down commerce along a border longer than the one between Texas and Mexico.
A long standing border dispute between Colombia and Venezuela over the area known as the Gulf of Venezuela or Gulf of Coquibacoa resurfaced when the recent decree of President Nicolás Maduro established this area as an operating maritime and insular zone of integral defense. After Ecuadorian efforts to provoke an incident in 1940 Peruvian troops massed along the southern border. Ecuadors Foreign Minister Francisco Carrion has described a renewed crop-spraying programme by Colombia along their border as a hostile act.
First is the countrys longstanding dispute.
In 1935 Colombia ceded to Peru territory that Ecuador continued to claim. Tovar Research Associate at the Council on Hemispheric Affairs. This entry includes a wide variety of situations that range from traditional bilateral boundary disputes to unilateral claims of one sort or another. Ecuadors Foreign Minister Francisco Carrion has described a renewed crop-spraying programme by Colombia along their border as a hostile act.
