Sentences with phrase «venezuelan border»

Initially I was going to combine the above footage with my Cartagena video to make one «Colombia Caribbean Coast» video, but I ultimately decided to let Cartagena have its own video and to make a short about the few days I spent near the Venezuelan border at some of Colombia's most renowned beach spots.

During the late 1950s and 1960s, a group of Yanomami living near the Venezuelan border were nearly wiped out by measles and another contagious disease after they made contact with the outside world.

However, in his absence, Venezuela's influence on the FARC fronts along the Colombian - Venezuelan border diminishes.

These groups are particularly strong near the Venezuelan border.

Not exact matches

Last week, Brazil declared a «social emergency» after 70,000 Venezuelan migrants crossed its borders.

Officials have previously accused criminal networks of smuggling Venezuelan bolivars across the border to manipulate the black market exchange rate.

In Houston's more temperate climes the 6» 6», 210 - pound Torres is a border - breaking sensation — the first native Venezuelan in NBA history.

At one point he even ordered his defence minister to send Venezuelan forces to the Colombian border while in front of camera.

While the crisis wreaks havoc in Caracas and other Venezuelan cities, the illicitly governed border territories have become convenient places for these groups to retreat, reorganize, strengthen and eventually cross back to Colombia.

In the Colombian border town of Cúcuta, for example, Venezuelans take buses to move on to Ecuador and Peru.

So far, the FARC have mostly kept a low profile on Venezuelan territory which helped avoid bi-national troubles (similar issues have arisen at the Colombian - Ecuadorian border, see my article in St Antony's International Review).

The exhibition also brought artists from all over the world to the border region, with a major focus on performance work, including One Flew Over the Void (Balla Perdida)(2005), in which the Venezuelan artist Javier Téllez recruited patients of Tijuana's CESAM mental institution to wear animal masks and carry handmade signs in a carnivalesque event that culminated in a human cannonball being launched over the border fence.

The windows of the building are smudged using shirts stained by the soil and sweat of over one - hundred Venezuelan men that Margolles hired in Cúcuta, a border town between Venezuela and Colombia)

The human rights group Survival International says it has received reports, not yet independently verified, of a July massacre of a Yanomami Indian community by Brazilian gold miners in the Venezuelan portion of the Amazon rain forest along the border with Brazil.