A man with his son remain on the Simon Bolivar bridge in Cucuta, on the Colombian border with Venezuela, on December 12, 2016. V
enezuelan President Nicolas Maduro on Monday ordered the border with Colombia sealed for 72 hours, accusing US-backed "mafias" of conspiring to destabilize his country's economy by hoarding bank notes. The closure came a day after Maduro signed an emergency decree removing Venezuela's largest bank note, the 100 bolivar bill, from circulation because of what he called a Washington-sponsored plot against his country's troubled economy. / AFP PHOTO / SCHNEYDER MENDOZA
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