On August 20, Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro issued a decree closing two key crossings along the country’s eastern border with Colombia. Since then, he’s closed four more, shutting down critical sections of the 1,451-mile Colombia-Venezuela border—which is longer than the one shared by Texas and Mexico. From August 21 through September 7, more than 20,000 Colombians living in Venezuela have returned to their country of origin; of those, 1,467 were deported, and another 18,619 returned on their own, albeit under claims of intimidation by Venezuelan security forces in many cases, according to a September 8 report from the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA). Some 5 million Colombians live in Venezuela. More… 
Monday, September 14, 2015
Explainer: The Colombia-Venezuela Border Conflict
On August 20, Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro issued a decree closing two key crossings along the country’s eastern border with Colombia. Since then, he’s closed four more, shutting down critical sections of the 1,451-mile Colombia-Venezuela border—which is longer than the one shared by Texas and Mexico. From August 21 through September 7, more than 20,000 Colombians living in Venezuela have returned to their country of origin; of those, 1,467 were deported, and another 18,619 returned on their own, albeit under claims of intimidation by Venezuelan security forces in many cases, according to a September 8 report from the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA). Some 5 million Colombians live in Venezuela. More… 
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