page_title: Foreign policy of the Ollanta Humala administration
section_title: 2006 presidential candidacy
hierarchical_section_title: Foreign policy of the Ollanta Humala administration / 2006 presidential candidacy
caption_attribution_description: Español: Santiago.- El Presidente de la República, Sebastián Piñera, acompañado del ministro de Relaciones Exteriores, Alfredo Moreno, recibió este mediodía en el Palacio de La Moneda, al Presidente electo del Perú, Ollanta Humala, quien realiza una gira de trabajo por distintos países de América Latina. El futuro Mandatario peruano llegó acompañado de su esposa, Nadine Heredia, y tras su encuentro de trabajo realizarán una declaración a la prensa, para posteriormente almorzar en la sede de Gobierno junto a los principales representantes de los poderes Ejecutivo y Legislativo.
context_page_description: The foreign policy of the Ollanta Humala concerns the policy initiatives made towards other states by the former President of Peru, in difference to past, or future, Peruvian foreign policy as represented by his Foreign Minister Rafael Roncagliolo. Humala's foreign policy was based on relations with other states of the Americas.
context_section_description: Questioned by the media, Humala denied any ties to Venezuela's president Hugo Chávez, but said he would welcome Chávez's support in the 2006 presidential election. On January 3, 2006, Evo Morales made his first official visit to Venezuela as President-Elect of Bolivia. Humala attended the official ceremonies held in the Miraflores presidential palace in Caracas where both Morales and Chávez pledged their support to Humala in his bid for the 2006 presidential race in Peru. In objection to this, Peru recalled its ambassador to Venezuela, Carlos Urrutia, in protest against Venezuela's alleged interference in the election.
  In March 2006, Humala also met with President Néstor Kirchner of Argentina in Buenos Aires. During the meeting, Humala stated that regional integration took priority over bilateral agreements with the United States and called Kirchner a "brother" in the cause to integrate Latin America. Humala also travelled to meet with Brazilian President Lula da Silva and officials of his government to discuss regional integration.
  On May 8, 2006 Humala met with Bolivian President Evo Morales in Copacabana, Bolivia on the Bolivian border with Peru. While meeting with Morales Humala stated that he stood in "solidarity with the historical and legitimate demand of the Bolivian Republic" of access to the Pacific Ocean which Bolivia lost after the War of the Pacific when Chile annexed what is now the Antofagasta Region of Chile. Humala also explicitly stated that he was not opposed to a free trade agreement with the United States but said that any free trade agreement with the United States would have to be negotiated through the Andean Community (CAN) and signed with approval of all members of CAN. During the meeting Humala emphasised the need to maintain CAN as a bloc to negotiate with the United States and asked Morales to work to help maintain the CAN, referring to the CAN's recent troubles with Venezuela removing itself as a member in protest to the signing of trade agreements with the U.S. by Peru and Colombia.
caption: Humala with Chile's president Sebastián Piñera in 2011
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