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"We are very happy to be able to return to Venezuela," said Alex Benitez of Avianca.

The first reports of Tren de Aragua’s expansion outside of Venezuela appeared in 2018. As migrants headed further south, so did Tren de Aragua.

Colombia has a vested interest in the potential of having a future democratic neighbor, and last week, we saw Washington lift sanctions on Caracas for six months.

Much of the private sector continues to think that a sovereign nation can continue to operate, pay the bills, and support all the public services required even with everyone paying the minimum taxes possible.

Venezuela’s rampant dollarization has fed a national demand for counterfeit dollars, and criminal groups in neighboring Colombia and Peru have ramped up production.

Venezuela produces industrial quantities of urea, tons of which are stolen and smuggled into Colombia to feed cocaine labs.

Despite growing concerns among residents, experts said the Gaitanistas and Tren de Aragua both lack the foothold to wage all-out war and that a dramatic rise in insecurity would be unlikely.

Illegal mining is by far the most widespread and insidious environmental crime occurring in the Amazon’s tri-border region of Colombia, Brazil, and Peru.

The border reopening for ground transportation in Norte de Santander helped increase total trade value to $143.8 million USD in a nine-month period.

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