BRASïLIA, Federal District: Brazil’s foreign minister resigned on Monday over rising tensions with La Paz after Brazilian diplomats spirited away a Bolivian opposition senator wanted for corruption.

“President Dilma Rousseff has accepted minister (Antonio) Patriota’s resignation,” a government spokesman told Agence France-Presse, adding that he would be replaced by Luis Alberto Figueiredo, Brazil’s ambassador to the United Nations in New York.

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