Caracas, August 28 (teleSUR-RHC)-- The presidents of Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro, and Colombia, Juan Manuel Santos, recalled their respective ambassadors for consultations regarding the border crisis between both countries due to the massive smuggling into Colombia and Colombian paramilitaries crossing over into Venezuela.

Santos met with the Colombian Ambassador to Venezuela Ricardo Lozano over the tense situation unfolding in the border region of the two countries.  No further details of the meeting were made public.

Following Santos’ meeting with Lozano, Venezuelan Foreign Minister Delcy Rodriguez announced she had called for a meeting with the country’s ambassador to Colombia, Ivan Rincon.

The Venezuelan foreign minister said the relations with Colombia would be revised given “the aggressions our people suffer due to paramilitary activities and the economic war.”

El Tiempo reported that Santos was responding to the deportation of several Colombians by Venezuela, which he considered “unacceptable behavior.”       
       
Furthermore, the Colombian president ordered his Foreign Minister, Maria Angela Holguin, to call a special meeting of foreign ministers of Unasur to “tell the world what is happening.”