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International Business Times
International Business Times
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Esteban ROJAS

Curacao Floating Market Reborn After Venezuela Border Reopened

The market first opened in 1918 (Credit: AFP)

For four generations, the Cordero family traveled regularly from Venezuela to the island of Curacao to sell their fruit and vegetables at the picturesque "floating" market of Willemstad.

Their source of income was abruptly taken away when Caracas shuttered its maritime and air border with Curacao in 2019 in a diplomatic dispute. Reopened last year, the market is slowly coming back to life, and the Corderos' hopes with it.

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