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Weekly Report - 14 August 2014 (WR-14-32)

VENEZUELA: Colombia fumes over ‘unilateral’ border closures

Colombia’s foreign minister, María Ángela Holguín, on 13 August severely questioned Venezuela’s “unilateral” decision to implement overnight (10pm-5am) border closures for 30 days in a crackdown on smuggling of food, fuel and merchandise goods into Colombia. Holguín’s stern words suggest the Colombian government feels that Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro’s administration overstepped the mark in its growing urgency to regain control of the flailing domestic economy.

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