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Colombia didn’t exist as a country when the ship sank. Also, international maritime law is, well, international. Unless Colombia decides that they would withdr
by manuelabeledo 4y ago
Colombia didn’t exist as a country when the ship sank.
Also, international maritime law is, well, international. Unless Colombia decides that they would withdraw from the UN and international courts, of course it will apply to them.
- bigDinosaur 4y agoSo if I steal something from a country, with my own ship, and it sinks, the country from which I've stolen from automatically loses all rights to recovery of the stolen goods?
- manuelabeledo 4y agoIt depends. Does that country exist? Colombia was under the Spanish crown rule between 1525 and 1810, thus there was not a country there, at least not legally.
- djohnston 4y agoYou're implying there was a Colombian gov't that owned it to begin with. But there wasn't a Colombia.
- lentil_soup 4y agoThe article does say Colombia hasn't actually signed that international treaty, so it seems it doesn't apply to them