Venezuela detains tanker trucks with
gasoline heading to Colombia
Carcas - The Venezuelan
authorities have detained eight tanker
trucks loaded with gasoline heading to
Colombia at the border, Venezuelan
businessmen said on Wednesday.
Walter Chacon, president of the corporation
"General Fuel Transport Cipriano Castro"
which is in charge of transporting fuel to
Santander, Colombia, said that the tanker
trucks had been stopped at the border since
Monday.
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on Aug. 9
announced that his country would stop
selling fuel to Colombia.
But Chacon said the 280,000 liters of fuel
in the detained tanker trucks was a part of
an agreement between Venezuela and Colombia.
Venezuela supplies 19 million liters of fuel
per month to Colombia, according to the
agreement between the two countries signed
last August, which expires on Aug. 20 this
year. |
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