The elected president of Venezuela, Edmundo Gonzales Urrutiawill visit Peru on January 29 at the invitation of the president Dina Boluarte, according to the Foreign Ministry in her social networks.
“During her visit, she will meet with the president of the Republic and will also maintain a series of other activities, among which a meeting with the Venezuelan community residing in our country is,” reads in the statement published by the Ministry of foreign relations.
Peru is the second country in the world with the greatest number of Venezuelan migrants, only behind Colombia. It is estimated that the number of llaneros citizens, migrants or refugees, in national lands amounts to 1.7 million.
“Peru reiterates its firm commitment to the promotion and recovery of democracy in Venezuela, respect and protection of human rights, as well as ensuring a peaceful institutional transition in that country, which guarantees respect for the popular will expressed in The elections held on July 28, 2024 “, culminates the pronouncement.
International tour
Edmundo Gonzales Urrutia began an international tour before January 10, date on which he had to swear as president of Venezuela. His arrival was truncated after the arbitrary detention of his son -in -law, Rafael Tudares, on January 7 to the hands of the dictatorship.
Two days later, María Corina Machadothe maximum leader of the Venezuelan opposition, who was disabled to prevent his participation in the electoral contest, was also kidnapped and subsequently released. As he denounced, he was “violently intercepted” in a Caracas street, while members of the law enforcement of the Maduro regime “shot at motorcycles that transferred her.”
Gonzales visited the Dominican Republic, Panama, Argentina, Uruguay, and also participated in the presidential investiture ceremony of Donald Trump, in the United States, on January 20. He will arrive in our country from Ecuador, where he will also hold a conclave with the president of that country, Daniel Noboa.
Peru vs. RIPE
On July 31 of last year, the Government of Venezuela announced the breakdown of diplomatic relations with Peru, after Boluarte recognized Edmundo Gonzales Urrutia as elected president.
“The Government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela has decided to break diplomatic relations with the Republic of Peru, based on article 45 of the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations of 1961,” said Venezuelan Chancellor Yván Gil, in his X account
The Venezuelan regime considered that Peru “ignores the will” of the Venezuelan people and that they were “forced” to make this decision after the “reckless” statements of Javier Gonzales Olaechea, then Minister of Foreign Affairs of Peru, who had mentioned that there were A “perpetrated fraud” after the elections of July 28.
According to the Human and Social Capital (CHS) NGO (CHS), towards the end of December 2024 there were 1,662,889 Venezuelans, a figure smaller than Colombia (2’808,968) but much higher than the third in the list, which is Brazil with 626,885.
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