Venezuela re-opened its land borderwith Brazil on Thursday, nearly two years after the government of President Nicolás Maduro shuttered crossings over COVID-19 concerns, local Venezuelan authorities said on Friday.
By Reuters
Feb 25, 2022
Maduro closed crossings in March 2020 amid a nationwide quarantine, allowing only cargo transport.
The closure stopped dozens of students from attending classes in Pacaraima, on the Brazilian side, and forced Venezuelans seeking scarce food and gasoline to use illegal crossings, local human rights activists say.
“President Nicolás Maduro has instructed that this crossing be normalized. We have a brotherhood of many years with Brazil,” said Angel Marcano, the governor of Venezuela’s southern Bolivar state, in a statement published on state television.
Brazilian tourists were already booking tours to Venezuela’s Canaima National Park, the head of Bolívar’s tourism chamber Odimar López told Reuters.
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