‘I live in fear’: can Colombia’s new president ease violence at the border?

A Venezuelan couple use the Francisco De Paula Santander Bridge to cross between Ureña, Venezuela, and Cúcuta, Colombia. Photograph: Matias Delacroix/AP

The trucks roar along the smuggling routes as if they were highways.

This network of dirt roads zigzagging through thickets of reeds sits just blocks from the main bridge connecting Colombia with its neighbour Venezuela – but it lies far out of the reach of the law.