Venezuelans break through blocked border crossing to seek food in Columbia
Reuters
via Columbia Reports
April 2, 2019
BOGOTA - (Reuters) - Thousands of Venezuelans defied the closing of the border with Columbia and broke through security barriers to enter the neighboring country on Tuesday.
According to newspaper "La Opinion" from the border city of Cucuta, the Venezuelans ignored border control officers, tore down barriers and climbed over parked shipping containers to reach the border at 11 AM.
The chaos erupted after rising waters of the Tachira river that divides the two countries flooded trails that allowed residents of the border region to reach the other side of the border illegally.
The barriers had been put up by Venezuela's border authorities in February after a failed attempt to force American aid into the country that is suffering one of the worst economic and political crises in it's history.
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