Overview
- Officials plan to lift the preventive closure at 08:00 Saturday, restoring two-way transit for all vehicle types.
- The corridor was shut from 22:00 Thursday because of snowfall and strong winds, with barriers lowered from 20:00 in Uspallata and Guardia Vieja.
- Paso Pehuenche also remained closed on Friday, with reopening dependent on weather conditions.
- Heavy post-closure flows earlier in the week saturated the Los Libertadores complex, with 4,842 people exiting to Chile and 2,349 entering Argentina on Sept. 23.
- To prevent overflow into Chile’s facilities, Argentina’s Gendarmería ordered intermittent holds at Las Cuevas and Uspallata, while Chile later added staff to speed truck processing.