Colombia, Venezuela Agree to Send Ambassadors Back to Posts

Colombia and Venezuela agreed Monday to redeploy ambassadors who were withdrawn in a month-old dispute that has paralyzed trade and movement along their border. The announcement came after the presidents of the two neighbors met in Ecuador’s capital for five hours discussing Venezuela’s decision to close its border with Colombia and begin deporting Colombian migrants. The leaders didn’t announce a reopening of border checkpoints, as some people on the frontier had hoped. They said only that their governments would work toward a gradual normalization of the situation on the border, without explaining what that might look like. More…