Luis Alberto López Rafaschieri and José Alberto López Rafaschieri
www.morochos.net
Beyond the cartographic considerations that gave rise to the boundary problem between Nicaragua and Costa Rica, it calls our attention the aggressiveness of the current Nicaraguan president to discuss the matter.
Daniel Ortega has made the difference in the current dispute, because although this conflict comes from long ago, previous Nicaraguan governments had addressed it in a more diplomatic way, obtaining very good results with this attitude. In fact, in 2009, the International Court of Justice recognized that the sovereignty of that territory rightfully belongs to Nicaragua.
There was no need to threaten war against a country that does not even have an army. In addition, the mobilization of troops by a government drowned in a terrible budget deficit, and with a very low risk of aggression, is an act extremely difficult to justify.
Everything seems to be more of what we are used to seeing on the extremists in the region: Correa responded with military threats to his problems with Uribe, Chavez has also warned to start a war against the Neogranadine country several times, Ortega himself wanted to restore Manuel Zelaya to power by way of force, and now shows his fists to Costa Rica. It is as if those who direct the diplomacy of the ALBA countries need to maintain external tensions to distract their countrymen from the serious problems that, internally, the revolutionary governments have not solved.
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