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Brazil recalls diplomats, officials from Venezuela
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/03/brazil-recalls-diplomats-officials-venezuela-200306061159301.htmlBrazil's right-wing government has started pulling its diplomats out of the embassy and consulate in Caracas as it moves to downgrade relations with Venezuela's leftist government.
Instructions published on Thursday in the official gazette removed five diplomats and 11 members of consular staff in Caracas, including Consul General Elza de Castro and two minister counsellors at the embassy.
It marks a new level of tension between Brazil's far-right President Jair Bolsonaro and Venezuela's socialist leader Nicolas Maduro.
Roughly 10,000 Brazilians are living in Venezuela, and Brazilian authorities say more than half a million Venezuelans have fled the country's economic and political crisis into Brazil, with many of them continuing to other South American nations.