More than 100,000
Venezuelans, some of whom drove through the night in caravans, crossed
into Colombia over the weekend to hunt for food and medicine that are in
short supply at home.
It was the second
weekend in a row that Venezuela's socialist government opened the
long-closed border with Colombia, and by 6 a.m. Sunday, a line of
would-be shoppers snaked through the entire town of San Antonio del
Tachira. Some had traveled in chartered buses from cities 10 hours away.
Venezuela's
government closed all crossings a year ago to crack down on smuggling
along the 1,378-mile (2,219 kilometer) border. It complained that
speculators were causing shortages by buying up subsidized food and
gasoline in Venezuela and taking them to Colombia, where they could be
sold for far higher prices.
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