Colombia’s Navy loses three heavily armed patrol boats after the unmanned vessels come unmoored from their Orinoco River base in Puerto Carreño, Vichada, and drift to the Venezuelan side of the border. Venezuelan authorities announce that they will “investigate” the incident.
Timeline for entries tagged “Colombia-Venezuela border”
A chronology of events related to peace, security, and human rights in Colombia.
March 14, 2020
For public health reasons, President Iván Duque orders the closure of all seven official Colombia-Venezuela border crossings, and deploys 5,000 security-force personnel to guard unofficial crossings.