Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez and Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos will meet on Friday in Cartagena with the challenge of working on a new agreement to energize bilateral trade at the height of Venezuela-Colombia political relations.

Chávez will land in Cartagena at the end of a tour started on Monday in Buenos Aires, followed by Montevideo, the capital city of Uruguay, and the Bolivian city of Cochabamba.

This time, the presidents should review a draft agreement which will set new rules on bilateral trade following Venezuela's pullout on April 22 of the Andean Community of Nations (CAN). For 40 years Venezuela belonged to the integration scheme including Peru, Bolivia and Ecuador.

"What has happened with Venezuela in these eight months has been net worth in everything," Santos said this week when recalling the reestablishment of bilateral relations on August 10, 2010, three days after his inauguration as the Colombian president.