MEXICO, September 11 (RAPSI) - Venezuela on Tuesday officially withdrew from the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, South American media reported.

Earlier, President Nicholas Maduro declared that the Inter-American legal system is tailored to serve US interests.

Formally, the intent to break away from the court was declared by Venezuela in July 2012. Then President Hugo Chavez stated that it was "an affront to dignity of the people of Venezuela."

The cause for this row was the verdict in the case of the organizer of explosions outside the Colombian and Spanish embassies, which took place in Caracas in 2003. The Inter-American Court of Human Rights ruled that Venezuelan authorities were responsible for inhuman treatment, and a violation of the privacy of the man behind the explosions, Raul Dias Penja.