The first truck decorated with a Venezuelan flag on the hood and balloons over the cabin crossed from Venezuela to Colombia at 12:35 pm local time (13:25 pm Brasília) and 17 minutes later, another, displaying the Colombian flag, crossed the Simón Bolívar International Bridge in the opposite direction , located between the Venezuelan cities of San Antonio del Táchira and the Colombian city of Cúcuta.
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The Colombian president crossed the border to the Venezuelan side to greet Venezuelan government delegates, AFP found.
With the Colombian initiative, the two countries took a first step towards trying to recover trade exchange that reached US$7,2 billion annually in 2008 and plummeted to US$400 million in 2021.
Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro was not present at the event, however his son, Nicolás Maduro Guerra, “Nico” tweeted about the opening of the border:
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Source: AFP
