Thursday, March 13, 2008

Peru, Venezuelan Envoy Rejects Campaign

Lima, Mar 12 (Prensa Latina) Venezuelan Ambassador to Peru Armando Jose Laguna voiced rejection on Wednesday of a campaign against his country and urged those making allegations to show evidence on alleged interference by Caracas.

In remarks to a local radio station, Laguna refused to comment on what he termed suppositions (reports of "intelligence" pointing to Venezuelan interference cited by several conservative and pro-US papers).

He urged the media to make those notes public and said if such evidence really exists, his expulsion would be justified, and therefore "they must demand that I leave Peru." He also denied his country"s funding of the "houses of ALBA", considered a means of foreign penetration by government sectors, some legislators and conservatives involved in the campaign against Venezuela.

The Venezuelan Government is very respectful of the peoples" sovereignty and self-determination. There is no political interference of the Venezuelan government in the Republic of Peru," he reiterated.

1 comment:

  1. At some point, the socialist forces of América Latina are going to have to break completely with the bourgeois form of government and the state, from their need to expand democracy and workers' control of the means of production and society. And so then: where are we going to be with "respecting sovereignty" and "political non-interference"..? What is revolution, then? Especially an internationalist, socialist one..?

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