NICARAGUA/ COSTA RICA:1ST UPDATE: Nico Army Will NOT Withdraw From Border Despite OAS Plea; Is Dredging A Test By Venezuela And Iran To Build Alternate To Panama Canal? Troop Removal Deadline Extended By 24 Hours.

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"We cannot invade our own territory," said Vice President Jaime Morales Carazo (pictured).
   With that statement, Carazo flatly rejected an OAS deadline to withdraw troops from a disputed border zone with Costa Rica,  despite conceding that it occupied the land only because Google Maps had incorrectly labeled it.
     Carazo still rejects Costa Rica's complaints because he states the land belongs to Nicaragua.
  Nicaragua does want bilateral talks to continue but Costa Rica does not.
     Some media are now reporting that the border incident is but a trail balloon to check resistance to a new canal.
     The Israeli website Haaretz claims its sources say the dispute is part of a plan by Venezuela, Iran and Nicaragua to create a "Nicaragua Canal" linking the Atlantic and Pacific to rival the Panama Canal. It also claims the U.S. is concerned and is working to foil it.

FOR ALTERNATE CANAL THEORY, SEE:
http://www.haaretz.com/news/international/iran-venezuela-plan-to-build-rival-to-panama-canal-1.324173

UPDATE, 12 NOV: Costa Rica is giving Nicaragua 24 more hours to remove troops from Isla Calero area. There are reports that Nicaragua has actually added more troops. With excellent foto display not seen elsewhere, GO TO:
 http://www.insidecostarica.com/dailynews/2010/november/12/costarica10111201.htm

COSTA RICA/ NICARAGUA:1ST UPDATE: Google Maps Blamed For Territorial Dispute.

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    OAS Secretary General José Miguel Insulza will  travel to both Costa Rica and Nicaragua to meet with the two presidents in an effort to arrange a dialogue between them over a growing land dispute.
    A Costa Rican newspaper reports that Nicaraguan military commander Eden Pastora used Google Maps to “justify” moving his troops into an area near San Juan Lake along the border, where they set up camp there, took down a Costa Rican flag, cleaned up a nearby river, and dumped the sediment into Costa Rican territory.
      Costa Rican President Laura Chinchilla is urging national restraint while it seeks a diplomatic solution before the OAS (pictured).

     But she called Nicaragua's alleged military incursion an act of ``aggression'' against a country without an army and rapidly deployed  police armed with military-grade weapons to the contested area.
      Nicaragua claims an earlier UN judgment upheld its rights over the river area and that all of its activities are within its borders. "We categorically reject the allegations made by Costa Rica,"  its OAS rep. Denis Moncada, said.

             FOR LATEST UPDATE, SEE:
 http://www.miamiherald.com/2010/11/05/1911356/a-river-runs-into-trouble-on-nicaragua.html