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Has Latin America ever had conflict with another country/region over mountains, rivers, other geog. features? |
Travel Info If so, with what country...and what was the dispute? Travel Tips Argentina against Britain for the Falkland Islands. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/falklands_w... Bolivia against Paraguay for the Chaco region http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/chaco_war... Ecuador against Peru for the Cenepa region http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/cenepa_war... Mexico against United States for what California, Texas, New Mexico, etc. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/mexican-ame... Others Argentina and Chile almost went to War over 3 islands in Tierra del Fuego in 1978 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/beagle_conf... Gran Colombia used to be present day Venezuela, Ecuador and Panama... Political differences led to the nations of Venezuela and Ecuador...(hence the similar flags) Colombia went into a Civil war with Panama, who was backed by the USA due to the intentions of building the Canal) and Panama gained their independence Colombia also had territorial issues with Peru over the Amazon region.... Currenty, most of Colombia's turmoils are within the country between the government and the guerilla rebel groups http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/colombia... Bolivia and Chile. Argentina and chile. Paraguay and Brazil. Peru and Ecuador. Argentina and Uruguay. In addition of the answers above: El Salvador-Honduras (called "The Soccer war" or 100 hours war) In 1969 Honduras has a dispute with El Salvador about an island called Isla del Tigre and Nicaragua about some territory called Parallel 17. |
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