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Weekly Report - 24 September 2015 (WR-15-38)
VENEZUELA: Border normalisation will take six months
As widely anticipated, President Nicolás Maduro has moved to complete the closure of Venezuela’s frontier with Colombia by extending a state of emergency to the southern state of Amazonas. The full length of the roughly 2,200km-long border between Venezuela and Colombia - over five times the length of the Franco-German border - is now effectively closed and heavily-militarised, with the main border crossings intervened and civil liberties suspended in 23 municipalities in the states of Zulia, Táchira, Apure and Amazonas.
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