Alejandro Aguinaga, chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee, Peruvian Congress, joined a number of people rejecting the alleged intervention of Venezuelan and Nicaraguan presidents Hugo Chávez and Daniel Ortega, respectively, who claimed that Peruvian nationalist leader Ollanta Humala is the target of a "persecution."

"This is an unacceptable foreign interference with the domestic affairs of this country. It seems to me that Chávez and Ortega have gone too far away," said Aguinaga, a member of rightwing Alianza por el Futuro, DPA reported.

Earlier, the Peruvian government, through the head of the ministers' cabinet Jorge del Castillo, rejected the statements made by the two presidents.

"This is interference in an issue of domestic politics. Perhaps they are trying to call the attention in their countries, but in Peru we have independence of powers," del Castillo stressed.

Last Saturday in Caracas, during the Sixth Summit of the Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas (ALBA), Chávez and Ortega branded as a "persecution" the fact that a Peruvian attorney requested a 15-year jail sentence and the subsequent expatriation of Humala, for his alleged role in the armed takeover of a police station in the town of Andahuaylas, which was executed by his brother Antauro in 2005.

Ollanta Humala denies any role in the events, where six people were killed.