Colombie - Venezuela : la frontière sous haute tension

In Venezuela, criminal networks are thriving in an unexpected trade: not drugs, but fuel. A prime oil-producing country, Venezuela alone holds a colossal share of the world's reserves. But the collapse in prices has plunged the economy into chaos, leaving the population deprived of essentials. Gasoline has become a currency of survival. Thousands of Venezuelans have turned to smuggling: buying fuel almost for free and reselling it for up to thirty times the price on the other side of the border in Colombia. Every day, they walk for hours, laden with heavy 50-liter jerrycans. It's a perilous trade: military patrols don't hesitate to open fire. For the first time, cameras have managed to film these new, shadowy smugglers—an intrusion no one wanted.