{"id":506559,"date":"2026-05-03T19:17:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T23:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/venezuela-reports-the-total-closure-of-the-border-bridge-with-colombia-for-15-days\/"},"modified":"2026-05-03T19:17:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T23:17:08","slug":"venezuela-reports-the-total-closure-of-the-border-bridge-with-colombia-for-15-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/venezuela-reports-the-total-closure-of-the-border-bridge-with-colombia-for-15-days\/","title":{"rendered":"Venezuela reports the total closure of the border bridge with Colombia for 15 days"},"content":{"rendered":"<strong>Caracas.-<\/strong> The Venezuelan Government reported this Sunday on the total closure for 15 days of the Francisco de Paula Santander international bridge, which connects C\u00facuta, capital of the department of Norte de Santander, Colombia, with Pedro Mar\u00eda Ure\u00f1a, in the Venezuelan state of T\u00e1chira, due to rehabilitation work.\n\n\"We urge drivers and the general population to take precautions, given the work being carried out by the workforce for the well-being of everyone,\" indicated the Ministry of Transportation in a statement published on its social media.\n\nThe State portfolio indicated that the measure took effect from this Sunday, although it did not specify the type of rehabilitation being carried out on the bridge.\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-los-problemas-en-el-puente-en-la-frontera-entre-colombia-y-venezuela\"><strong>The Problems on the Bridge at the Border Between Colombia and Venezuela<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\nOn Saturday, after a technical inspection motivated by the recent floods of the T\u00e1chira River, the Disaster Risk Management Secretariat of C\u00facuta reported a failure in the bases of the structure that seriously affects the Venezuelan side and compromises both the foundations and the upper part.\n\nThe Risk Management Secretary, Fabi\u00e1n Prato, assured that the section corresponding to Colombia has no damage that represents an imminent risk, but the evaluations carried out jointly with Civil Protection of the state of T\u00e1chira revealed considerable problems on the Venezuelan side.\n\n\"As a security measure to guarantee the integrity of users, the Venezuelan authorities have prohibited the passage of heavy vehicles and limited vehicular traffic to a single lane. Citizens are advised to use alternative border crossings or to travel with extreme caution,\" Prato assured after the inspection.\n\nThe Francisco de Paula Santander bridge, built 57 years ago, and through which more than 8,000 vehicles travel daily, is the second busiest on the Norte de Santander-T\u00e1chira border axis, surpassed only by the Sim\u00f3n Bol\u00edvar bridge, which connects C\u00facuta with San Antonio del T\u00e1chira.\n\nDuring a tour of the area, a Venezuelan guard told EFE that the deterioration is not new, but worsened with the recent rains, because the flow of the T\u00e1chira River mainly hits the Venezuelan side in that sector.\n\nOfficials from the National Roads Institute also inspected the bridge bases on the Colombian side on Saturday and confirmed that they are in good condition, although they confirmed that they are aware of the structural damage in the neighboring country's sector.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Caracas.- The Venezuelan Government reported this Sunday on the total closure for 15 days of the Francisco de Paula Santander international bridge, which connects C\u00facuta, capital of the department of Norte de Santander, Colombia, with Pedro Mar\u00eda Ure\u00f1a, in the Venezuelan state of T\u00e1chira, due to rehabilitation work. &#8220;We urge drivers and the general population [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":133556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-506559","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized"},"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","dum_api":{"author_name":"Yerandi Santana","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/cropped-WhatsApp-Image-2026-02-13-at-5.35.07-PM-96x96.jpeg","categories_name":["Uncategorized"],"featured_media_url":null},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/133556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=506559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506559\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=506559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=506559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=506559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}