At his office in Cúcuta, Gen. Mario Contreras, the regional commander for the Colombian army, said the violence had begun with the killing of a single family, which angered the ELN.

Almost half have sought refuge in Cúcuta. Many others have escaped into poverty-stricken Venezuela. The army has been sent in to rescue the thousands still trapped in their homes.

As darkness falls over Cúcuta, Colombia’s bustling border city, shadows provide cover for criminal networks. Each night, illegal dirt tracks connecting the city to Venezuela become highways for ...

Tags: Cúcuta, democracy, humanitarian aid, Humanitarian crisis, Juan Guaido, Nicolas Maduro, political crisis, Venezuela, Venezuelan military.

The arrival of Venezuelan groups in Cúcuta, specifically Tren de Aragua, coincided with the 2018 increase in migrants fleeing Venezuela, when some 3.4 million citizens crossed into Colombia. By ...

Petro crosses bridge into Venezuela On foot, Petro crossed the Simon Bolivar international bridge, dividing the Venezuelan town of San Antonio from Colombia's Cucuta and Villa del Rosario.

The alleged perpetrators “were hired in Medellín and trained there in Cúcuta, Catatumbo and Venezuela,” Molano said. According to Colombian press reports, the five arrested this week were ...

Camilo Daza airport in the city of Cúcuta, Venezuela. | EEIM By Walter Sánchez Silva Cucuta, Colombia, Dec 15, 2021 / 15:34 pm ...

Relations between Colombia and Venezuela have been tense in recent years, while Cucuta has been a hub for people fleeing Venezuela into Colombia and for commerce between the two countries.

A U.S.-backed effort to send aid to Venezuela in 2019 that ended in a violent standoff on the Colombian border was not planned in alignment with humanitarian principles, according to an audit by ...

On the Colombian side, two blocks from the border in the La Parada district outside of Cucuta, Ms. Pinilla volunteers at the soup kitchen run by Ana Teresa Castillo of Asociacion Deredez, a group ...

Instead, she roams the streets of Cúcuta begging for money with her children, worrying that they could contract Covid-19. Most days she makes just enough to feed her children.