Venezuela's top opposition leader Manuel Rosales gestures during a press conference organized by opposition governors and mayors to claim their pacific resistance against President Hugo Chavez, in Caracas, on March 25, 2009. (Thomas Coex/AFP/Getty Images)
Peruvian Foreign Minister Jose Antonio Garcia on Tuesday told CNN the former presidential candidate and fierce critic had arrived in Peru on a tourist visa.
Rosales' party said on Monday that Rosales was seeking foreign asylum because he did not believe he would receive a fair trial in Venezuela.
Garcia said the former presidential candidate and current mayor of Venezuela's second city Maracaibo had not yet asked for asylum in Peru.
Rosales had gone into hiding in Venezuela and refused to turn himself in when corruption charges were filed against him.
