On May 2, 2014, the Constitutional Court of Colombia ruled [3] (Spanish only) that the Territorial and Maritime Dispute (Nicaragua v. Colombia) judgment [4] by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) could not take effect without a treaty between Colombia and Nicaragua. According to a news article [5], in the judgment, rendered in November 2012, the ICJ “reduced the area of ocean that belonged to Colombia around its cluster of Caribbean islands, determining that a section of their maritime shelf belonged to Nicaragua.”  According to the article, the Constitutional Court’s ruling “upholds the position taken by Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos, who said the Hague-based ICJ’s decision was not applicable according to Colombia’s constitution without such a treaty.”