Rewritten from a CNN summary...
Negotiators for the Venezuelan government are awaiting the decision from prison inmates to end their stand off, now in its seventh day.
The prison riot began June 12th in two prisons when two rival prison gangs attacked each the using weapons. The death toll in the riots stands at 22.
The Rodeo I prison riot ended a few days ago, while at Rodeo II a core group of about 50 inmates refuse to surrender to authorities, but are in contact and negotiations.
Both prisons are in Guatire, which is about 50 kilometers from Caracas,the capital of Venezuela.
So far Venezuelan National Guard troops have seized seven rifles, five shotguns, three carbines, one submachine gun, 20 guns and four revolvers, 91 weapons magazines and eight hand grenades.
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