In a post on his Telegram profile, the minister described the text as “rude and insolent” and considered unacceptable “the construction of a new Lima Group and a new Guaidó”.

The statement, signed by the governments of Argentina, Costa Rica, Chile, Ecuador, the United States, Guatemala, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, the Dominican Republic and Uruguay, ignores the verdict of the TSJ.

The Venezuelan foreign minister considered that countries issuing the document are seeking to reenact the Group of Lima), born in 2017, which he described as nefarious, failed and defeated.

In his words, these government’s stand makes them accomplices of criminal violence, as they give chart blanche to attacks on health centers, schools, universities, transportation means and national symbols.

The acts of violence that followed the presidential elections in Venezuela left a significant number of murdered and wounded, “with the use of transnational criminal gangs hired for this purpose,” he noted.

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