This Monday September 26, at 9:00 a.m. m., the trucks will begin to transit the border between Colombia and Venezuela after its reopening. It was 2,595 days that the passage to the neighboring country lasted. With this, a new chapter begins in terms of commercial exchange between both countries.
(Read: ‘We are going to tear the border from gangsters’, Benedetti for reopening).
It is expected that at 9:20 this Monday morning the first truck will enter with Colombian merchandise to the neighboring country.
The formal act is thought to be carried out in the Simón Bolívar international bridge, in Villa del Rosario, with the presence of Foreign Minister Álvaro Leyva and the Ministers of Commerce and Transport, Germán Umaña and Guillermo Reyes, and representatives of the Government of Venezuela.
Likewise, the president of Gustavo Petro confirmed his attendance.
“We celebrate what is coming to the border area and we welcome all Venezuelans who will arrive in Cúcuta; we are a territory of integration and brotherhood”, said the mayor of Cúcuta.
(Also: Reopening of the border: what is coming for Colombia and Venezuela).
Border with Venezuela
Maurice Moreno. TIME
08:15 a.m. During the first hours of this September 26, Colombians and Venezuelans are seen coming and going from one side to the other at the border before the official reopening event.
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