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This was stated by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Venezuela, Ivan Gil. severance of diplomatic relations with Peru, after Dina Boluarte’s government ignored the official results of Venezuela’s presidential election, which declared Nicolás Maduro the winner, and instead recognized opposition candidate Edmundo González Urrutia as president-elect.

“The Government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela has decided to sever diplomatic relations with the Republic of Peru on the basis of Article 45 of the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations of 1961. We are forced to take this decision after the reckless statements of the Chancellor of Peru “They are ignoring the will of the Venezuelan people and our Constitution.”He reported this on his profile on the social network X.

The day before, Peruvian Foreign Minister Javier González-Olaechea emphasized in an interview that Peru does not recognize Maduro’s victory and that “the permanence of the regime is unacceptable” At the same time, he claimed that the main opposition candidate, Edmundo González, “is the legitimately elected president” of the South American country.

Following these statements, Maduro criticized the position of Lima and the Boluarte government itself: “An unelected government, rejected by its people, issued a statement recognizing the new Guaido as president of Venezuela.“We have seen this movie, but it has a surprise and it will have a beautiful and happy ending for you.” he said, referring to Juan Guaido, an opponent who declared himself president of Venezuela in 2019.

On Monday, the Venezuelan government demanded that Argentina, Chile, Costa Rica, Peru, Panama, the Dominican Republic and Uruguay “immediately” recall their representatives from Venezuelan territory, in retaliation for expressing concern about the progress of the presidential election.

Yesterday, US President Joe Biden and Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva spoke on the phone about Venezuela and agreed that the Venezuelan electoral body must publish the voting protocol as soon as possible.

Venezuelan historian Margarita Lopez Maya, former president of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA), assured: Aristegui Live What ‘Venezuela is on the brink of a bomb’ and violence ‘could erupt at any moment’ if the government of Nicolás Maduro and the electoral authorities do not provide a clear response to the social discontent generated by the results of the presidential elections, which have been called into question by the political opposition and a number of countries around the world.