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Peru calls on OAS to rule on
Venezuela's interference in
election
Peruvian President Alejandro
Toledo asked the Organization of
American States (OAS) on Monday
to give a ruling on Venezuela's
interference in Peru's election,
local media reported.
Toledo called on Lloyd Axworthy,
head of the OAS's observer
mission in Peru and former
Canadian foreign minister, to
rule on statements made by
Venezuelan President Hugo
Chavez.
The Peru-Venezuela diplomatic
crisis flared up in March, when
Chavez spoke out in favor of
Ollanta Humala, who leads the
Peru Nationalist Union Party,
and against Alan Garcia from the
Peru Aprist Party. The two are
now the final two candidates for
the Peruvian presidency, and due
for their final round on June 4.
The two presidents' relationship
reached its lowest point when
Chavez announced he was
resigning from the Andean
Community of Nations (CAN),
because of free trade deals
signed by Peru and Colombia,
further claiming that the United
States had killed the CAN.
Later, amid an escalating war of
words, Peru withdrew its
ambassador from Caracas and
Venezuela recalled its
ambassador from Lima.
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