By Lisandra Paraguassu
BRASILIA (Reuters) – Venezuela informed Brazil that it revoked an authorization to represent Argentine interests in the country, including administering the embassy where six opposition figures are sheltering, a Brazilian diplomatic source said on Saturday.
The information was formally conveyed by Venezuela in a diplomatic note on Saturday morning, the source said.
Brazil responded that it would continue to represent Argentine interests unless another country is designated, with Argentina’s authorization, the source added.
Venezuela and Argentina government representatives did not immediately reply to a request for comment.
On Friday night, some opposition members in the Argentine residence reported on their X accounts that the building was under surveillance and had no electricity. They posted videos showing men dressed in black and patrols from the government intelligence agency, SEBIN.
In March, six people sought asylum in the Argentine embassy in Caracas after a prosecutor ordered their arrest on charges including conspiracy. Opposition leader Maria Corina Machado has denied the allegations against her collaborators.
On Friday, Argentina’s Foreign Ministry asked the International Criminal Court (ICC) to issue an arrest warrant against Nicolas Maduro and other senior government officials for events that occurred after the July elections.
Venezuela broke relations with Argentina following its disputed presidential election on July 28. Brazil, like Colombia and Mexico, has asked the Venezuelan government to publish the full results of the vote.
The government has not done so and the country’s electoral authority proclaimed that President Nicolas Maduro won re-election for a third term.
(Report by Lisandra Paraguassu in Brasilia; Additional reporting by Jorge Otaola in Buenos Aires Written by Vivian Sequera and Alexander Villegas, Editing by Franklin Paul)
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