Rio Grande border disputes
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The
border disputes and uncertainties, both international (involving Mexico and the United States) and between individual U.S. states
:
- The U.S. Supreme Courtresolved this dispute in 1927.
- The Chamizal dispute was a border conflict over a parcel of land between El Paso, Texas, and Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua. The dispute was resolved by Chamizal settlement in 1963.
- The Ojinaga Cut was a disputed parcel of land between Presidio, Texas, and Ojinaga, Chihuahua. The dispute was resolved by the Boundary Treaty of 1970.
- The Rio Rico, Texas, that inadvertently defaulted to Mexican administration with the passage of time after an irrigation company in 1906 dug an unapproved cut across the oxbow to change the course of the river.[1]The issue, which was not technically a dispute as both sides were in agreement about its legal status upon its discovery, was resolved by the 1970 treaty which ceded the land to Mexico, but the official handover did not take place until 1977.
Numerous border treaties are jointly administered by the
Rio Grande Valley have caused tension between farmers in the border region and sparked a "water war,"[3] according to Mexican political scientist Armand Peschard-Sverdrup.[4]
References
- New York Times. Retrieved November 11, 2013.
- ^ Robert J. McCarthy, Executive Authority, Adaptive Treaty Interpretation, and the International Boundary and Water Commission, U.S.-Mexico, 14-2 U. Denv. Water L. Rev. 197(Spring 2011) (also available for free download at https://ssrn.com/abstract=1839903).
- ^ Yardley, Jim (April 19, 2002). "Water Rights War Rages on Faltering Rio Grande". The New York Times. Retrieved 5 April 2020.
- ISBN 978-0892064243.