Venezuelans sign a petition to submit to the IACHR the consulate affair

Venezuelan umbrella group Unified Democratic Panel (MUD), the opposition alliance, collected signatures to request from the Inter-American Commission of Human Rights (IACHR), a permanent body of the Organization of American States (OAS), the reopening of Venezuelan consulate in Miami, which was closed in January following instructions by President Hugo Chávez.

The opposition alliance took advantage of primary elections to request voters to sign a document granting the MUD to "to seek "in accordance with the Constitution and Venezuelan laws at any Venezuelan or multilateral authority or otherwise, the reopening of said consulate" in Miami, Efe reported.
On January 13, 2012, President Chávez instructed the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to enforce the administrative closing of the Consulate after the US Department of State declared Livia Acosta Noguera, Venezuelan Consul General to Miami, as persona non grata.