«Venezuela has never invaded any territory. When we left our borders it was to give freedom, as in the case of Peru – with Simón Bolívar and Antonio José de Sucre – to give it freedom, to democratically organize the Peruvian state and to give a sense to the Peruvian Republic (…) «, expressed the Constitutionalist lawyer, Hermann Escarrá in response to recent statements by Peruvian Foreign Minister, Cayetana Aljovín.
In recent statements to the international press, the official said that the assistance of President Nicolás Maduro to the VIII Summit of the Americas, to be held in April in Lima, would represent an invasion of Peruvian territory.
He went on to point out that the reasons given by the official to prevent the Venezuelan delegation’s entry are totally wrong, referring to a fact that has not yet happened, the presidential elections on April 22, so he clarified that President Maduro » it has legitimacy of origin and legitimacy of functioning and development, therefore its argument is wrong «.
Escarrá described the statements by the head of Peruvian diplomacy as a serious forgetting of history and international law, by ignoring that «the author of the democratic clause that gave rise to the Inter-American Democratic Charter, in Quebec, was Commander Hugo Chávez and it was from the democratic clause that developed first in Costa Rica and finally in Peru, what we now know as the Inter-American Democratic Charter».
He reiterated that within the framework of international norms and of international coexistence, there is no impediment for Venezuela to participate in the 8th Summit of the Americas, assuring that the president of Peru, Pedro Pablo Kuczynski, who serves as host of the meeting, does not have any power to prevent a dignitary from participating in the event.
The constitutional lawyer blamed the US administration for having influenced the position assumed by the Peruvian government, which, in his opinion: «Will have a very high cost in the history of inter-American relations».
He lamented what he called «international blunder and foolishness» and said: «The liberators should have tears in their hearts when they see how countries like Peru and Colombia have behaved with whom they were given freedom and in some cases like Colombia with whom they promoted the birth of the republic».
