Manuel Rueda
Manuel Rueda is a correspondent for Fusion, covering Mexico and South America. He travels from donkey festivals, to salsa clubs to steamy places with cartel activity.
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Street stalls in downtown Cucuta, Colombia, are packed with smuggled Venezuelan shampoo
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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.
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Street stalls in downtown Cucuta also specialize in powdered milk and baby formula smuggled from Venezuela.
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A tin of Venezuelan baby formula smuggled into Cucuta, Colombia
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While powdered milk cannot be found in supermarkets across the border, Venezuelan brands like "La Campiña" are easily found in Colombia
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Supermarket shelves in Venezuela lack powdered milk and baby formula but in Colombia it can easily be found.
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This Colombian shop owner says that she sells powdered milk, flour, toothpaste and butter smuggled from Venezuela.
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Powedered milk can sell for ten times as much in Colombia than what it sells for in Venezuela
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A pack of smuggled Venezuelan corn flour costs about 20 percent less in Colombia than a pack of locally made corn flour.
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A shop in Cucuta, Colombia displays Venezuelan products including the well-known Mavesa butter brand
Manuel Rueda is a correspondent for Fusion, covering Mexico and South America. He travels from donkey festivals, to salsa clubs to steamy places with cartel activity.
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