FOOT traffic across the Venezuela-Colombia border is set to resume fully today for the first time in a year.
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his Colombian counterpart Juan Manuel Santos agreed on Thursday to reopen pedestrian border crossings that had been closed for a year following attacks by smugglers.
They reached the deal at talks in the eastern Venezuelan town of Puerto Ordaz.
The global left must be unwavering in it is support for Venezuela as Washington increases its aggression, and clear-eyed about the West’s cynical motives for targeting it, says CLAUDIA WEBBE
Colombia’s success in controlling the drug trade should be recognised and its sovereignty respected, argues Dr GLORY SAAVEDRA
HANK KENNEDY contends that US military attacks in the Caribbean amount to modern piracy driven by Venezuela’s oil wealth


