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FOOT traffic across the Venezuela-Colombia border is set to resume fully today for the first time in a year.
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his Colombian counterpart Juan Manuel Santos agreed on Thursday to reopen pedestrian border crossings that had been closed for a year following attacks by smugglers.
They reached the deal at talks in the eastern Venezuelan town of Puerto Ordaz.
The disputed election of a far-right president, who is also a US citizen, signals further consolidation of Washington’s regional power and represents a threat to the country’s democracy and sovereignty, writes WT WHITNEY JNR
The global left must be unwavering in it is support for Venezuela as Washington increases its aggression, and clear-eyed about the West’s cynical motives for targeting it, says CLAUDIA WEBBE
