Warum renoviert Kolumbien einen jahrzehntelangen Grenzstreit mit Peru?
Why is Colombia rehashing a decades-old border dispute with Peru?
Warum renoviert Kolumbien einen jahrzehntelangen Grenzstreit mit Peru?
Why is Colombia rehashing a decades-old border dispute with Peru?
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On Thursday, Colombian president Gustavo Petro reignited a long-running border dispute with Peru, saying he did not recognize its claim to the Santa Rosa Island on the Amazon River.
The disagreement dates to around 1970, when changing water levels in the Amazon River and sedimentation produced a new island on the border between Peru and Colombia, an area governed by a 1922 bilateral treaty.
On Thursday, the president broke tradition by giving an annual independence day address in Leticia, a town of 60,000 on the Amazon river which borders Peru and Brazil. He used the opportunity to criticize Peru’s congress for formalizing Santa Rosa’s legal status in June by declaring it a district of the country’s Loreto province.
“Colombia does not recognize Peru’s sovereignty over the so-called Santa Rosa Island and does not recognize the de facto authorities imposed in the area,” [said](https://x.com/petrogustavo/status/1953601670769713439) Petro in his speech.
Well what scandal is the Colombian president trying to bury?
Distractions, the US is weaker, bla bla.
Two ideas.
1, Conspiracy-minded folks will say the CIA wants to reignite the dormant conflicts all over the world for „controlled chaos“ purposes.
2, I would say the end of the Pax Americana will bring about the return of history, „thunderous and bellicose“, as Guillaume Faye predicted in his Mars and Hephaestus essay ca. 2010.