Concern about the increasing violence on the border between Colombia and Venezuela
There is concern about the increase in violence in the Department of Norte de Santander, on the border between Colombia and Venezuela. The murder rate has increased in one year by 44%, local authorities claim that this increase is due to the war between local gangs, who fight to control the illegal trade of drugs especially, but nache by the presence of many Venezuelan criminal gangs they operate in Colombian territory due to the low control exercised by the venezuelan security forces on the border.