Due to the serious and arbitrary decisions made today by the Venezuelan regime, the Chancellor of the Republic, Dr. Javier González-Olaechea Franco, has instructed that Venezuelan diplomatic officials accredited in Peru be notified to leave the country within no more than 72 hours.

"The Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Venezuela (PCV) calls on genuinely democratic, popular, and patriotic forces to unite to defend the will of the Venezuelan people, which was expressed this Sunday, July 28, with a clear intention for political change in the country.

We alert international public opinion that just as Nicolás Maduro's government has stripped the Venezuelan people of their social and economic rights, it now seeks to deprive them of their democratic rights."

"It is not the first time we are facing what we are facing today. There is an attempt to impose a coup d'état in Venezuela, again, of a fascist and counter-revolutionary nature. I could call it a kind of Guaidó 2.0,"