Peruvian presidential candidate Alan García called Tuesday Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez a "satrap" and put the blame on him for encouraging a "coup-oriented, dire and rightist" global strategy to deprive the Peruvian people of their rights, DPA reported.

"At the time of his separation, this man was accused by his wife of beating her everyday. He is unmanly. A man who abused physically of his wife cannot claim the moral high ground to launch any attack as he is doing now," the central-leftist ex president said.

Last weekend the Venezuelan ruler railed on García again. He called the candidate a liar and demagogue in reply to the responsibility attributed in recent armed clashes between supporters of candidate Ollanta Humala and members of political APRA party in Cuzco.

Chávez continued expressions of support to Humala, a retired lieutenant colonel with whom he shares ideological stances, and his attacks on García are considered in Lima as "permanent, unacceptable" meddling in the electoral process.