Nicaragua President Daniel Ortega said Monday his country’s navy is exercising control over Caribbean waters Colombia was forced to give to the Central American country by the International Court of Justice (ICJ).
According to Ortega, “our ships took sail to the recovered area on Sunday and at this hour is exercising sovereignty in all territory.”
The “recovered area” consists of 30,000 square kilometers of sea east of Nicaragua that Colombia claimed until last week when the ICJ ruled the islands in the western Caribbean belonged to Colombia, but most of the surrounding waters fell under Nicaraguan maritime territory.
Colombia has not recognized the ruling it considered a “serious judgement error” of the ICJ judges.