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South America Conflict1

This document summarizes several border conflicts in Latin America: 1. Guatemala claims territory from Belize that was ceded over 150 years ago for its natural resources. 2. A 1969 soccer match triggered a brief war between El Salvador and Honduras, though illegal immigration was the underlying cause. 3. Colombia and Panama still have no land border crossing over a century after Panamanian independence due to their rivalry.

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South America Conflict1

This document summarizes several border conflicts in Latin America: 1. Guatemala claims territory from Belize that was ceded over 150 years ago for its natural resources. 2. A 1969 soccer match triggered a brief war between El Salvador and Honduras, though illegal immigration was the underlying cause. 3. Colombia and Panama still have no land border crossing over a century after Panamanian independence due to their rivalry.

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Diplomacy Latin American style

A sampling of the border conflicts in Latin America:


11. Venezuela-
1. Guatemala-Belize. 2. El Salvador-Honduras. Colombia. Sharply
Guatemala claims a A 1969 soccer match divided politically, the
large portion of Belize triggered a four-day war, two countries have tilted
— ceded 150 years although illegal Salvadoran dangerously close to war
ago — with natural emigration into Honduras in recent years.
resources a prime draw. was the real cause.
BELIZE
1 HONDURAS
GUATEMALA 2
NICARAGUA
10. Venezuela-Guyana.
EL SALVADOR For a century, the Spanish-
PANAMA
COSTA RICA VENEZUELA GUYANA speaking republic has been
3 11 10 SURINAME claiming most of the territory
3. Colombia-Panama. FRENCH — rich in minerals and timber
More than a century after COLOMBIA GUIANA — of its smaller, anglophone
Panamanian independence, neighbour.
there is still no land ECUADOR
border-crossing between 4
the two neighbourly rivals.

BRAZIL
PERU
4. Peru-Ecuador. A territorial 9. Brazil-Argentina.
conflict over a swath of Amazo- Friendly now, the two
nian jungle that started almost BOLIVIA South American
5
200 years ago has led to three 6 economic giants were
wars, most recently in 1995. 8 uneasy rivals under
PARAGUAY military dictators
CHILE during most of the
5. Chile-Peru. Frequent adversaries 9 20th century.
whose flashpoints include the legacy
of a 19th-century war, a dispute over a
URUGUAY
8. Paraguay. The country
grape-based liquor and an unresolved remains underpopulated
fight over maritime boundaries. ARGENTINA
and politically stunted as a
7 result of a disastrous
19th-century war waged
6. Bolivia-Chile. against three neighbours
Land-locked since losing that cost it more than 50
its seacoast to Chile in per cent of its population.
1884, Bolivia still
frequently complains 7. Argentina-Chile.
about its lack of The two southern
maritime access. neighbours almost went to
war in 1978, a conflict that
COMPILED BY OAKLAND ROSS required the intervention
MAP BY CATHERINE FARLEY/TORONTO STAR of Pope John Paul II.

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