CARACAS: Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro on Monday ordered the border with Colombia sealed for 72 hours, accusing US-backed “mafias” of conspiring to destabilize his country’s economy by hoarding bank notes.
“I have taken the decision to close the border with Colombia for 72 hours,” the leftist leader said in a nationally televised address, calling it a “hard” but “inevitable” choice.
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