Colombia and Venezuela are re-opening their border after seven years What might the official re-opening of the border to trade between Colombia and Venezuela mean for the two countries ...

RUEDA: So Gustavo Petro, the new president of Colombia, is trying to improve relations with Nicolas Maduro in Venezuela. And the border opening is just part of a broader plan he has.

Venezuela's Bolivarian regime Monday reopened the borders with Colombia and Brazil it had closed ahead of Friday's inauguration of Nicolás Maduro as President for a third consecutive six-year term.

Colombia and Venezuela, who share a 2,219-kilometer border, had their diplomatic ties severed on February 23, 2019, amid tensions between Maduro and Colombia's then-President Iván Duque.

With some shared history and culture, along with a 1,400-mile border, Colombia and Venezuela have been, at times, allies or rivals. (In the 1800s, they were even briefly part of the same republic ...

When he left Venezuela for Colombia in search of higher paying work in 2017, Mr. Colmenares’s only suitcase was filled with his baseball gear. Image “No matter what country I went to, ...

Venezuela and Colombia reopened flight routes in November 2022, after the election of Colombia’s first-ever leftist President Gustavo Petro, ...

Yet, with Venezuela’s economy in free fall, its citizens continued to pour into Colombia, home to nearly 2 million such migrants, and their children continued to flood the child-welfare system ...

Venezuela closed its borders and airspace to Colombia on Friday, the day President Nicolas Maduro is to be sworn in as the country's highest authority. Venezuela placed barricades in the middle of the ...

A former Venezuelan spymaster pleaded guilty to drug trafficking charges — including narco-terrorism -- a week before his ...

A surge in world oil prices because of the Iran war may not be a windfall for Latin American oil producers. Here’s why.

MEDELLÍN, Colombia — A heated and long-standing rivalry simmers between neighbors Colombia and Venezuela — not over politics, migration or even soccer, but over the humble arepa.