In a letter delivered on Friday at the “Palacio de La Moneda,” the observers diverged from the president’s stand of disregarding Venezuelan institutions and insisting fraud has been committed.

“We witnessed a legitimate and democratic electoral process that granted the triumph at the ballot box to President Nicolas Maduro,” the text refers, adding that in spite of their public and formal request, they were not received by the Chilean Government authorities.

Esteban Silva, leader of the Socialist Allende Movement, recalled that Chile’s foreign policy is a policy of the State as a whole, reaching beyond the Government in office, and therefore the latter should be compelled to resort to careful, pondered and thoughtful approach.

“What the president has done stands in disregard of another country’ institutionality,” Silva said.

Physician and former union leader Esteban Maturana called for preserving the interests of Latin America and avoiding at all costs a foreign intervention in Venezuela.

“Chile must maintain relations of respect for the self-determination and sovereignty of all peoples and States of the world,” the letter underscores.

It recalls that Venezuela, like Chile, is a sister nation of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC).

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