Colombian migrants given hours to flee Venezuela

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The main border crossings between Venezuela and Colombia remain closed, days after Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro ordered a clampdown on smuggling and paramilitary operations in the frontier region.

More than a thousand Colombians living in Venezuela are being forced to go home. CCTV’s Stephen Gibbs filed this report from Caracas.

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  • Venezuela says this operation is essential to stop rampant smuggling and crime, which is destroying its economy and threatening its people. Others say it’s a political distraction – a ‘phony war’ – invented by a government in trouble.