"I have taken the decision to close the border with Colombia for 72 hours," the leftist leader said in a nationally televised address, calling it a "hard" but "inevitable" choice.
"Esmu pieņēmis lēmumu uz 72 stundām slēgt robežu ar Kolumbiju," televīzijā paziņoja Maduro, saucot to par "grūtu", bet "neizbēgamu" izvēli.