AdvertisementVenezuela's Fuel Shortage Upends Longtime Colombian Border Gas Smuggling TradeSeptember 10, 2020John OtisfacebookEmailContraband fuel sits on the side of a road in Puerto Santander, Colombia, on May 31, 2019. The Venezuelan government's lack of cash to import gasoline combined with U.S. sanctions targeting the oil sector have led to chronic fuel shortages in Venezuela. That has upended a long-running, lucrative contraband gas trade. (Bloomberg via Getty Images)