Tag: Venezuela/Colombia border

• Sunday, February 24th 2019 - 17:46 UTC

  Humanitarian aid to Venezuela clash: first round for Maduro, but defeat to the world's eyes

  

  Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaidó has called on other nations to consider “all measures” to oust President Nicolas Maduro. International pressure is building on Mr Maduro after opposition-led efforts to bring aid into Venezuela descended into deadly violence on Saturday.

• Wednesday, February 7th 2018 - 21:55 UTC

  Colombian government refuses to close its border with Venezuela

  

  At least 8,000 Venezuelans cross the border between Colombia and Venezuela daily to the department of Arauca, southeast of Colombia. Although the migratory flow at this point does not compare with the thirty or forty thousand Venezuelans who cross the Simón Bolívar bridge between Santander and Táchira every day, in Arauca the majority of migrants arrive in conditions of extreme vulnerability.