Venezuela and Colombia will fully reopen their shared border today to allow passage of cargo and passenger transport via the cross-border Tienditas bridge, Colombia Migration said in a statement yesterday. The South American countries reopened in September their border crossing in the Tachira state, in western Venezuela, after political ties strengthened under Colombia's new president, Gustavo Petro. Petro and his Venezuelan counterpart, Nicolas Maduro, appointed ambassadors in Caracas and Bogota, respectively. Colombian authorities have said since September that the reopening of the shared 2,200 kilometres border between the two countries would be progressive.<br />