Lima, Feb 5 (Prensa Latina) Three Peruvian analysts criticized the new declaration of the so-called Lima Group against Venezuela, for its attachment to US policy, and distanced themselves from the media chorus that applauds it.

While most conventional media outlets clap for the statement issued on Monday by 11 members of the bloc, analysts Gustavo Espinoza, Nicolas Lynch, and Ernesto Toledo severely questioned it, in statements to Prensa Latina.

The pronouncement, which tacitly promotes a military coup against President Nicolas Maduro, confirms that the group of governments is 'a band of puppets that move in the light of the empire,' said former senator and journalist Espinoza.

'When the United States talks about the need to attack Venezuela to the end, the countries of the Lima Group close ranks with the White House, and when Washington says it does not intend to attack Maduro militarily, they affirm that the exit 'must not be military',' he asserted.

The aforementioned bloc of governments, lacks suitability, self-determination, and initiative and 'is simply the echo of the White House' and its foreign ministers speak on behalf of their peoples without having consulted them and do not want a war in the region, he added.

Ernesto Toledo, a journalist and academic, noted that the statement issued Monday in Ottawa, Canada, calling on the Venezuelan armed forces to submit to the authority of the self-proclaimed temporary president, Juan Guaido, and incorporating the Lima Group into this, deepens the interference in Venezuela.

'What we see today, there is no doubt, is the result of a concerted plan that comes from outside Venezuela,' said the former Minister of Education and political commentator Nicolas Lynch, as part of a broad analysis of the Venezuelan situation.

'The history of interventions of the northern empire in the region indicates that nothing good can be expected from a new intervention, but a bloodbath that would inevitably splash throughout Latin America.'

Lynch believes the intervention can only be stopped by a political turn of the democratic and left forces that put forward national sovereignty and the validity of an inclusive democracy.

'We must, therefore, redouble efforts, although it seems very difficult, for a negotiated solution to the Venezuelan crisis, defined by the citizens of that country, above the interests of any power and the avidity of the large multinationals for the Venezuelan natural resources,' he added.