Members of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America (ALBA) have expressed their support for Venezuela.

At an emergency summit meeting on Tuesday, Latin American left-wing leaders urged the U.S. to repeal an executive order which declared Venezuela to be a threat to the national security of the U.S.

Venezuelan President Nicolas, who has recently initiated military exercises to prepare for any U.S.-based hostility, has stressed that his socialist country was no threat.

On March 9, the U.S. published an Executive Order that described how sanctions were to be placed upon seven Venezuelan officials suspected of committing human rights abuses.

As reported in a BBC article, President Barack Obama stated that the situation in Venezuela, which included an erosion of human rights guarantees, “constitutes an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States."

Officials in the Venezuelan government, along with their regional allies, expressed outrage at the way the statement was worded.

At the ALBA summit, which was held in the Venezuelan capital of Caracas, Maduro said: "Venezuela has no plans, did not have, nor will it ever have plans to attack the United States or hurt anyone."

As reported by Telesur, the representatives of the member countries of ALBA rejected the Executive Order issued by the U.S. “on the basis that this Executive Order is unjustified and unjust, which constitutes a threat of interference that runs counter to the principle of sovereignty and the principle of non-intervention in the internal affairs of states.”

Linking the plight of his own country with that of Venezuela’s, Raul Castro said, as reported by the BBC, that "the U.S. needs to understand once and for all that it cannot seduce or buy Cuba, just as it cannot intimidate Venezuela."