In addition to urging her colleagues to remember the spirit of the 1999 constitution and of the former President and leader of Venezuela’s Bolivarian Revolution Comandante Hugo Chávez, Rodríguez urged the country’s right wing to put an end to the fascistic street blockades which have led to over a hundred deaths while seeking to overthrow the democratically elected socialist government. Kuczynski said his primary concern with Venezuela was the regional fallout as thousands of Venezuelans flee the country's grinding poverty and hyperinflation every day and seek refuge in neighboring countries. Mexican Foreign Minister Luis Videgaray said the declaration “validates our position in favor of democracy and democratically elected institutions in Venezuela.”

This week, Videgaray called Maduro a “coward” who “uses the power of the State to dismantle democracy and lash out against his people.” He was responding to a taunt from Maduro that Mexico’s president was acting like an “abused employee of Donald Trump” for not offering more vigorous resistance to the American president’s plan for a wall on the southern border of the United States.
Shortly after Peruvian President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski called Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro a "dictator" in response to the Venezuelan constitutional crisis, Peru expels Venezuela's ambassador to Peru to protest Venezuela's recent formation of an all-powerful constituent assembly that has been widely condemned as a power grab by Maduro.