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Reuters
LIMA
Venezuela's opposition is asking other Latin American countries to pressure President Nicolas Maduro's government into implementing a"democratic agenda,"opposition leader Julio Borges said on Thursday.
Borges, the president of Venezuela's opposition-led National Assembly, traveled to Lima to meet with Peruvian legislators and President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski, who has been one of Maduro's most vocal critics among Latin American leaders. He said the humanitarian crisis and strong protests against Maduro's socialist government had crossed Venezuela's borders because of a wave of refugees across the region.
"It's important - fundamental - that we get several governments in the region to unite in the short term to make sure in Venezuela there exists nothing other than a popular and democratic agenda,"said. Venezuela has suffered through more than five weeks of violent anti-government protests in which 39 people have died.
The opposition has decried Maduro as an autocrat who has wrecked the OPEC member's economy, and demanded elections to resolve the political crisis.
Peru recalled its ambassador to Caracas in late March.
Appearing together with Borges in the Presidential Palace later on Thursday, Kuczynski said he had"no desire to interfere in the internal matters of other countries"but that countries in the region must support the wellbeing of Venezuela's people and provide"humanitarian assistance."
