Frontier Games: The border showdown between Costa Rica and Nicaragua drew an international spotlight.
The final two months of 2010 will forever be remembered for the international conflict that roiled between Costa Rica and Nicaragua along the muddy waters of the Río San Juan.
What started as a Nicaraguan project to dredge the river that separates the two nations exploded into a contentious border dispute that will now be heard Jan. 11 at the International Court of Justice at The Hague in the Netherlands.
Relations between the two neighboring nations had been calm since the world court ruled on the last dispute over the river’s navigational rights in July 2009. But on Oct. 21, Costa Rican farm owner Marco Reyes said the Nicaraguan army entered his farm south of the Río San Juan, ordered him to leave and claimed his land belonged to Nicaragua.
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