116 Chapter 2
Outcome (and Settlement): Unclear (None)
Fatalities: None
Narrative: Ecuador protested when 15 Colombian soldiers entered the Amazon town
of Puerto Nuevo and killed two residents.
MID#4502
Dispute Number: 4502
Date(s): March 2, 2008 to March 3, 2008
Participants: 100 Colombia/130 Ecuador
Outcome (and Settlement): Unclear (None)
Fatalities: None
Narrative: Colombia crossed the border with Ecuador and killed a number of rebels
from Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia—People’s Army (FARC). Ecuador
and Venezuela both fortified their borders with Colombia following the incident (see
also MID#4503).
MID#4504
Dispute Number: 4504
Date(s): March 7, 2009 to August 12, 2009
Participants: 130 Ecuador/100 Colombia
Outcome (and Settlement): Unclear (None)
Fatalities: None
Narrative: Ecuador fortified its border with Colombia with additional troops twice in
March 2009, to protect against incursions by right-wing paramilitary forces from the
United Self-Defenders of Colombia (AUC).
Ecuador again fortified the border in August and demanded that Colombia better
patrol its side of the border.
100 Colombia/135 Peru
MID#1506
Dispute Number: 1506
Date(s): April 13, 1852 to March 16, 1853
Participants: 100 Colombia/135 Peru, 155 Chile
Outcome (and Settlement): Compromise (Negotiated)
Fatalities: None
Narrative: This dispute follows the Flores expedition, which was a rumored joint
Spanish-Peruvian endeavor to use the formerly exiled Ecuadorian head of state, Juan
Jose Flores, as a means to lead an assault on Ecuador. Chile reacted with suspicion
to the expedition, notifying Lima on June 2, 1852, that it would oppose any threat
that the expedition posed to Ecuadorian sovereignty. However, when Peru’s enemies
used the occasion to engage in belligerent behavior, Flores threatened Ecuador and