Although the Gendarmerie began an intense effort to arrive with their own vehicles, Vialidad was needed to clear the road. from midnight the special machines began to arrive to clear the snow and allow access to the High Mountain area where the route collapsed with the number of stranded vehicles.
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For more than 12 hours, the people who tried to cross that point of the border have been living a nightmare. The adverse weather conditions, with snow storms as a result of the frontal system that affects the central-southern area of the country, caused the Los Libertadores border crossing to be blocked.
According to the stories, there would be about 250 trucks that could not continue advancing due to the intense snow that fell in the area. To this would be added a significant number of private cars and buses.
Among them, Leonel, an Argentine tourist who is stranded there, spoke with C5N this Sunday: “It is a complicated situation, there are children and problems with the cell phone signal to communicate with the authorities,” he said.
