More than 100 Colombians carrying their
possessions on their shoulders waded knee-deep across a river back into their
homeland, fleeing a Venezuelan crackdown on illegal migrants and smugglers that
is generating an increasingly angry dispute between the South American
neighbors. The dramatic scene came ahead of a meeting Wednesday between the
nations' foreign ministers to cool tensions that spiked after Venezuelan
President Nicolas Maduro closed a major border crossing last week, declared a
state of emergency in six western cities and deported more than 1,000 Colombian
migrants he blamed for rampant crime and widespread shortages. More…
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