BRASILIA, May 3 — A Supreme Court judge issued an injunction yesterday suspending for 10 days a decision by Brazil’s right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro to expel Venezuela’s 30 diplomats and consular staff. Bolsonaro and Brazil’s Foreign Ministry had given Venezuela until yesterday to...
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Bolsonaro and Brazil’s Foreign Ministry had given Venezuela until yesterday to remove its diplomats in the latest chapter of worsening relations between the ideologically opposed neighbours. “This lawmaker is a staunch defender of the Chavez/Maduro regime,” he tweeted, in reference to Venezuela’s late leftist leader Hugo Chavez and his successor President Nicolas Maduro.
But Venezuela’s leftist government said in a statement on Thursday that there had been no such negotiation and that its diplomats would stay put. Venezuelan Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza accused Brazil in a Twitter post of violating international law by forcing its diplomatic personnel to leave.
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