CARACAS: Venezuela announced Wednesday it was withdrawing its ambassador from Brazil and freezing ties with its neighbor in response to president Dilma Rousseff's removal from office.

The foreign ministry condemned Rousseff's being stripped of office after an impeachment trial in the Brazilian Senate as a "parliamentary coup d'etat."

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