Venezuela suffers from shortages but its products are plentiful in Cucuta, Colombia

Street stalls in downtown Cucuta, Colombia, are packed with smuggled Venezuelan shampoo

Smuggled Venezuelan shampoo is cheaper for customers than Colombian shampoo. That's because in Venezuela a shampoo bottle sells for less than 50 cents of a dollar.

Street stalls in downtown Cucuta also specialize in powdered milk and baby formula smuggled from Venezuela.

A tin of Venezuelan baby formula smuggled into Cucuta, Colombia

While powdered milk cannot be found in supermarkets across the border, Venezuelan brands like "La Campiña" are easily found in Colombia

Supermarket shelves in Venezuela lack powdered milk and baby formula but in Colombia it can easily be found.

This Colombian shop owner says that she sells powdered milk, flour, toothpaste and butter smuggled from Venezuela.

Powedered milk can sell for ten times as much in Colombia than what it sells for in Venezuela

A pack of smuggled Venezuelan corn flour costs about 20 percent less in Colombia than a pack of locally made corn flour.

A shop in Cucuta, Colombia displays Venezuelan products including the well-known Mavesa butter brand