Coto War
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coto-war-288-6180965
title:
Coto War
text:
The Coto War was a conflict between Panama and Costa Rica fought between 21 February and 5 March 1921. The casus belli occurred when a Costa Rican expeditionary force led by Colonel Héctor Zúñiga Mora occupied the town of Pueblo Nuevo de Coto, a hamlet on the banks of the Coto River. At that time the hamlet was in the Alanje district of the Panamanian province of Chiriquí. Zúñiga justified the incursion by the fact that there was no definite border between Costa Rica and Panama. The event ignite
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Conflict between Panama and Costa Rica in 1921
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coto_War
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2023-09-29T12:54:11Z
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