Colombia: Their Waters Wrested Away, Colombia's Island Fishermen Lament - and Learn

Dec 6, 2018 | Anastasia Moloney, Thomson Reuters Foundation
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“But we can’t fish there. I’m afraid to go there,” fisherman Oreste Howard laments, as his small one-engine motor boat bobs in the breeze. The fear stems from a decades-long maritime dispute between Colombia and Nicaragua involving the archipelago of San Andres, Providencia, and Santa Catalina, and nearby seas.