Venezuela Expands Anti-smuggling Crackdown with New Closure

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has expanded an anti-smuggling offensive along the country's frontier with Colombia and ordered the closure of the main border crossing in the country's biggest state.   The announcement late Monday night is bound to deepen an ongoing diplomatic crisis with Colombia, which is struggling to absorb thousands of migrants who've fled the socialist government's crackdown.   In little more than two weeks Maduro has closed six border...

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