After days of violent confrontations between ELN guerrillas and FARC dissidents, President Duque ordered two battalions to regain control of the border region.
Colombia and Venezuela reopened overland borders at Cúcuta and San Antonio after the two bridges were barricaded with the 2019 humanitarian aid convoy fiasco.
As mine clearing continues across Colombia, the use of explosive ordnances by ELN and FARC along the Venezuelan border has exacerbated confrontation in the region.
The government of President Iván Duque will grant Protective Status to almost 1 million Venezuelan migrants and important “humanitarian gesture” other nations should follow.
Despite Colombia registering a significant lowering in active COVID-19 cases, land and sea borders will remain closed until November 1.
Many Venezuelans are willing to return to Colombia despite high numbers of coronavirus cases given the broken state of their country’s healthcare system.
Venezuelan migrants wanting to be repatriated were transported to the border at Cúcuta by Migración Colombia. On Sunday, the national COVID-19 count rose 79 new cases to 1485.
Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro reached across the political divide to offer Colombia’s Iván Duque two PCR testing machines as cases of coronavirus in the country reach 906.
Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaidó turned-up in Bogotá to attend the III Hemispheric Conference for the Fight against Terrorism, defying a travel ban by Maduro.
Migración Colombia expelled 59 Venezuelans on Monday for committing acts of violence and vandalism in Bogotá.
Colombia’s Iván Duque has waged foreign policy capital on regime change in Venezuela. But, the arrival of Russian military experts to back Maduro will extend the migrant crisis and geopolitical stalemate.
Playing for pesos is a reality many Venezuelan musicians face on the streets of Bogotá to survive with the economic collapse of their country.
U.S Vice-President Mike Pence attended the 11th session of the Lima Group in which he announced new sanctions against the Maduro regime, yet members ruled out a military option.
Venezuelan protestors at the border crossing in Villa Rosario are battling Maduro’s security forces and paramilitaries known as Colectivos after humanitarian aid was destroyed.
After the Venezuelan army fired at volunteers attempting to deliver humanitarian aid, the Lima Group nations are expected to pledge support for a return to democracy.
The humanitarian aid destined for Venezuela was suspended by interim president Guaidó after violence flared up at Colombia’s border crossings.