Thursday, September 17, 2015

Colombia’s Leader Says He’d Meet With Venezuela to Resolve Crisis


President Juan Manuel Santos said Wednesday he’s willing to meet with his Venezuelan counterpart to resolve a border crisis that has led more than 20,000 undocumented Colombian immigrants to flee Venezuela and fueled a bitter row between the two countries . Just hours before, in a four-hour speech on his state television program, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said he was closing the main border crossing between the Venezuelan state of Apure and Colombia’s Arauca. Mr. Maduro had already closed two other major border crossings in the Venezuelan states of Tachira and Zulia, paralyzing once-thriving legal and illicit commerce between the two countries. More…

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