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00:00Patrol vehicles are deployed outside Argentina's embassy compound in Caracas.
00:07Venezuela's opposition says the embassy is under siege and the electricity supply has
00:11been cut off.
00:12Six Venezuelan opposition officials are sheltering in the embassy.
00:17In ongoing tension, Venezuela has revoked permission for Brazil to represent Argentina's
00:22interests in the country, saying,
00:24Venezuela was forced to take this decision motivated by the proof that the diplomatic
00:28missions venue is used by Venezuelan justice fugitives to plan terrorist activities and
00:34murder attempts against Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro Moros and Vice President
00:39Dulce Rodríguez Gómez.
00:43Brazil says it will continue to represent Argentina's interests in Venezuela and keep
00:47custody of the embassy until Buenos Aires names another country to do it that is acceptable
00:52to Venezuela.
00:55Venezuela said any attempt to invade or kidnap the asylum seekers would be harshly condemned
01:00by the international community.
01:02In March, six people sought asylum in the embassy in Caracas after a prosecutor ordered
01:07their arrest on charges including conspiracy.
01:12These latest actions by the Venezuelan government follow an announcement by Argentina's foreign
01:17ministry on Friday, saying it would ask the International Criminal Court to issue an arrest
01:22warrant against Maduro for events after July's disputed elections that gave him a third term.
01:31On Thursday, Maduro called Argentina's President Javier Mele and imbecile after Mele criticized
01:37Maduro's decree to bring Christmas forward to the first of October.
01:43Argentina is one of seven Latin American countries whose diplomatic staff were asked to leave
01:47Caracas following Maduro's election.