Territorial disputes: A sea of troubles | The Economist
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A sea of troubles
Sep 12th 2013, 0:37 by S.B. | BOGOTÁ
NOTHING brings together domestic foes like an external enemy. So when President Juan Manuel Santos announced that Colombia would not heed a ruling last November by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague that granted 70,000 sq km (27,000 square miles) of the Caribbean Sea that Colombians have considered their own since 1928 to Nicaragua, even his harshest critics applauded.