![]() ![]() Maduro deploys 1,500 soldiers to the state in addition to the 500 permanently stationed there, and says he’s keeping the border closures in effect “until further notice.”Īugust 22: Venezuelan soldiers reportedly start going house to house in search of people in the country illegally. This move suspends constitutional protections there, including rights to publicly assemble and protest, and gives authorities the ability to conduct warrantless search and seizures. Some 5 million Colombians live in Venezuela.Īugust 19: Three Venezuelan soldiers and one civilian are injured in a shootout during an anti-smuggling operation at the Colombia-Venezuela border.Īugust 20: Maduro issues a decree to close off two border crossings in the state of Tachira for 72 hours.Īugust 21: Maduro declares a “state of exception” for five municipalities in Tachira. ![]() ![]() 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.įrom 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). On August 20, Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro issued a decree closing two key crossings along the country’s eastern border with Colombia. ![]()
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