El Golfo de Venezuela

"Brief legal-historical study of the Venezuelan-Colombian territorial dispute concerning the Gulf of Venezuela. Claims that important elements of the 1891 arbitral decision by the Spanish crown were ignored, thereby making later agreements on border demarcation null and void. Concludes that, according to the original decision, Colombia does not have any territorial rights in the Guajira or Gulf waters"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.