The Venezuelan authorities have detained eight tanker trucks loaded with gasoline heading to Colombia at the border, Venezuelan businessmen said on Wednesday, Xinhua reported.
Walter Chacon, president of the corporation "General Fuel Transport Cipriano Castro" which is in charge of transporting fuel to Santander, Colombia, said that the tanker trucks had been stopped at the border since Monday.
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on August 9 announced that his country would stop selling fuel to Colombia.
But Chacon said the 280,000 liters of fuel in the detained tanker trucks was a part of an agreement between Venezuela and Colombia.
Venezuela supplies 19 million liters of fuel per month to Colombia, according to the agreement between the two countries signed last August, which expires on August 20 this year.