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VENEZUELA and Colombia’s foreign ministers will meet today to discuss the closure of a major border crossing after three soldiers were shot dead.
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro extended the closure on Monday, vowing to tighten security along the 1,400-mile frontier between the two South American countries.
“We are seeking to build a new border. The current border is rotten,” he said.
Mr Maduro added that, in the coming days, Venezuela would hand over more than 30 major Colombian drug barons it had arrested on its territory during a week-long crackdown on organised crime.
He added that a suspect in in the wounding of three soldiers while they hunting smugglers along the border last week — the incident that prompted the border closure — had been arrested. She was named as Erika Moncada Higuita.
Mr Maduro displayed photos of other suspects and said that Venezuela was working with Colombia to find them.
