Foreign Relations of Colombia - Latin America

Latin America

Country Formal Relations Began Notes
Argentina 1823-03-03 See Argentina–Colombia relations
  • Argentina has an embassy in Bogotá
  • Colombia has an embassy in Buenos Aires.
  • Both countries are full members of the Organization of American States, Latin American Economic System, Latin American Integration Association, Rio Group and Union of South American Nations.
  • (Spanish) List of Treaties ruling the relations Argentina and Colombia (Argentine Foreign Ministry
Ecuador See Colombia-Ecuador relations

Present-day Colombia and Ecuador trace back established official diplomatic relations to December, 1831 with the signing of the Treaty of Pasto, in which both countries recognized each other as sovereign states. The Ecuadorean diplomatic mission in New Granada (Colombia) did not open until 1837. It wasn't until 1939 that Ecuador raised the diplomatic mission's status to an official Embassy. Colombia did the same the following year in 1940.
Mexico 1821-10-10
  • Colombia has an embassy in Mexico City.
  • Mexico has an embassy in Bogotá.
  • Both countries are full members of the Organization of American States and the Pacific Alliance.
Nicaragua See Colombia-Nicaragua relations

The relationship between the two Latin American countries has evolved amid conflicts over the San Andrés y Providencia Islands located in the Caribbean sea close to the Nicaraguan shoreline and the maritime boundaries covering 150,000 km2 (57,915 sq mi) that included the islands of San Andrés, Providencia and Santa Catalina and the banks of Roncador, Serrana, Serranilla and Quitasueño as well as the arbitrarily designed 82nd meridian west which Colombia claims as a border but which the International Court has sided with Nicaragua in disavowing.
Paraguay 1880-06-05
  • Colombia has an embassy in Asunción
  • Paraguay has an embassy in Bogotá.
  • Both countries are full members of Union of South American Nations, Organization of American States, Organization of Ibero-American States, Rio Group, Group of 77, Latin American Economic System and Latin American Integration Association.
  • Paraguayan Ministry of Foreign Relations about relations with Colombia
Venezuela See Colombia-Venezuela relations

The relationship has developed since the early 16th century, when Spanish empire colonizers created the Province of Santa Marta (now Colombia) and the Province of New Andalucia (now Venezuela). The countries share a history for achieving their independence under Simón Bolívar and becoming one nation—the Gran Colombia—which dissolved in the 19th century. Following then, the overall relationship between the two countries has vacillated between cooperation and bilateral struggle.

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