by the El Reportero’s wire services
New maritime territory of NIcaragua and Colombia.BOGOTÁ (Prensa Latina) – Colombia should accept the verdict of the Court in The Hague on the maritime boundary dispute with Nicaragua and obey the principles of international law enshrined in the Constitution of the country, said lawyer Bernard Vela.
Vela, who is the director of the International Observatory Analysis of the Colombian Externado University, said that the ruling of the UN highest court is immediately applicable and the new map of the western Caribbean is the one the international court decided in its ruling. Otherwise, he says, is speculation.
In an interview with the newspaper El Espectador, he said that Colombia ‘has painstakingly built a tradition of respect for the international legal order, which has given recognition and prestige to its foreign policy, and must preserve it.
In his view, refusing the decision could be taken as an attack and, consequently, against the key provision of the San Francisco Charter, constitutive of the United Nations, which expressly prohibits the use of force.
From Latin News: Latin Americans revel in role reversal at Spanish summit
It would have seemed inconceivable during the debt crisis that ravaged Latin America in the 1980s that there would come a day just a generation later when the region would be in a position to return the favor of lecturing the Old World about how to conduct its finances. But that is precisely what happened last weekend at the XXII Ibero-American summit, held in Spain’s southwestern port city of Cádiz.
Cuba’s missing data: what does it mean?
It has become increasingly difficult to assess the performance of the Cuban economy in recent years, because of the non-appearance of some important economic data.
At the end of October, the Anuario Estadístico de Cuba, which is usually published by July by the Oficina Nacional de Estadísticas e Información (ONEI, the national statistics office), was missing three chapters: chapter 5, which covers national income accounts; chapter 6, public finances; and chapter 8, the external sector.
Mexico: 99 percent of crimes go unpunished
The Mexico’s National Human Rights Commission (CNDH) reported today that 99 percent of crimes go unpunished in this country, which shows a very low police efficiency against high rates of violence.
