(5 Mar 2019) Despite the closure of border bridges linking Venezuela and Colombia, thousands of people are finding alternative ways to cross between those nations on foot. With the Simon Bolivar bridge connecting Venezuela and Colombia still shut down, people are being forced to cut through parts of the Tachira River to find food and other goods in Colombia.
Some Venezuelan schoolchildren who receive subsidized education in the Colombian border city of Cucuta also have not been able to cross over.
Jorge Quintero, who is retired and travels twice a week from Venezuela to Colombia so his wife can receive eye treatments, says borders need to open so children can continue their education.
"The hope that we all have is for the borders to reopen so that children can return to study, to schools, and so one can continue to cross to bring merchandise, medicine," he said as he walked along the illegal pathways being used to cross between the two countries.
Meanwhile, some Venezuelans frustrated over their nation's crippling food and medical shortages are placing their hopes on opposition leader Juan Guaido.
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