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EL SALVADOR AND HONDURAS RENEW BORDER DISPUTE.

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On Sept. 11, 1992, at the International Court of Justice in The Hague, a judgment was handed down that would resolve the simmering border dispute between Honduras and El Salvador once and for all (see NotiCen, 1998-01-29). Honduras was the clear winner territorially, gaining sovereignty over 66% of the 450,000 sq km in question, and both countries were winners institutionally in the sense that they mutually accepted the decision. Ten years later, the discovery of an ancient map throws that decision into doubt.

El Salvador intends to exploit that doubt on the chance of recovering some of its lost territory by having filed an appeal with the ICJ just before a ten-year-period deadline was to expire. El Salvador claims to have convincing evidence that an antique map presented by Honduras a decade ago was altered and that the alteration cost Central America's tiniest republic 72 sq km.

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