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By Xavier Montalvo and Daniela Brik
Tulcan, Ecuador, Apr 17 (EFE).- Every morning at 6:00, Valentina Arellano sets out with her mother on an arduous hike across the Carchi River into neighboring Colombia to the home of a relative who has a computer and internet so the 9-year-old can continue her education with schools shut down by the Covid-19 pandemic.
Though Valentina is a Colombian citizen, she and her widowed mother live with a family member next to a rather grand abandoned customs post on the Ecuadorian side of the border.
The border has been closed for more than a year because of coronavirus, forcing the youngster and her mom to make their way along a treacherous path to evade the official crossing and reach the Colombian side of the Rumichacha International Bridge.