Colombia expels Venezuelan student opposition activist
A Venezuelan opposition activist has been deported from Colombia and handed to Venezuelan authorities on Friday, Colombia’s foreign ministry said Friday.
A Venezuelan opposition activist has been deported from Colombia and handed to Venezuelan authorities on Friday, Colombia’s foreign ministry said Friday.
Colombia and Venezuela have begun a program to provide subsidized food to more than 16,000 families settled in Wayuu indigenous communities on the border between the two countries, the Colombian Foreign Ministry said…
The Colombian government is exploring ways to reduce the cost of agricultural inputs, which currently represent 30% of expenditures in the agricultural sector, and 50% of livestock, local media reported Thursday.
The Venezuela-Colombia trade organization has warned that the current curfew measures on the border between the two countries doesn’t serve as solution, Colombia’s El Espectador newspaper reported on Tuesday.
The Venezuelan government announced the nightly closure of its border along with deployment of 17,000 troops to patrol the long boundary it shares with with Colombia, local news reported Monday.
Truckers in one of the border states of Colombia and Venezuela are protesting the closure of the border as a measure to curb contraband, reported local media.
Venezuelans have been blocking the main bridge connecting Colombia and Venezuela since Thursday, putting a halt to trade between the neighboring countries.
Colombian paramilitary group AUC was planning the creation of a Venezuelan force to fight border-crossing FARC rebels in the neighboring country, a Colombian court has confirmed according to newspaper El Tiempo.
Colombia’s President Juan Manuel Santos and his Venezuelan counterpart, Nicolas Maduro, have agreed to create a new exchange rate in order to combat illegal contraband trafficking across the border, national media…