Venezuelan President and never-shutter-upper Hugo Chávez summoned Pavel Rondón, the country’s ambassador to Colombia, back to Caracas, exacerbating the existing rift between the two countries and their leaders. Duh-rama!:

Chavez turned on [Colombian] President Alvaro Uribe Nov. 25, calling him a “liar” after the Colombian leader rescinded permission for Chavez to negotiate with Colombia’s biggest guerrilla group in a bid to free 45 hostages. Since then, the two leaders have traded insults, with Uribe accusing Chavez of attempting to spread an “expansionist” socialist agenda across the continent.

“The attacks are very personal and will be very hard to come back from,” said Adam Isacson, director of the Colombia program at the Center for International Policy in Washington. “This will require international intervention to get them to sit down and work this out.”

Ok, so, you know, also, Uribe told us, like, that Kirchner told him that, like, Chávez had a crush on us, but, like, hello, what would Castro say and also, like, sorry, but we’re kind of maybe sort of seeing King Juan Carlos.

Chavez Recalls Venezuela’s Ambassador to Colombia [Bloomberg]