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Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has invited all countries to participate in the World Summit in Solidarity with Venezuela to be held Sept. 16-17, amid new sanctions and threats from the United States.
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"The whole world is invited to the day of solidarity and support with Venezuela, for peace, for sovereignty," Maduro said during a preparatory meeting with representatives from social and political organizations from various countries.
The meeting was held in the capital city of Caracas, led by Vice-President for Social Development Elias Jaua with 23 social activists from 17 nations and representatives of 22 social movements as well as Venezuelan intellectuals.
Maduro was accompanied by Vice President Tareck El Aissami, a Constituent Assembly member Tania Diaz, among other leaders who met with activists and representatives of social movements.
Maduro said the Bolivarian Republic will not yield to the interests of Washington. "We are being threatened like never before, we have only one destiny: solidarity and victory," in a video published on social networks.
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This week Bolivia also expressed its willingness to help organize the World Summit in Solidarity with Venezuela, with the objective of rejecting international aggression against the country.
The latest sanctions ban the trading of Venezuelan debt and prevents the country's state-run oil company, Petroleos de Venezuela SA, or PDVSA, from selling new bonds to U.S. citizens or financial groups.
The sanctions also come just weeks after the U.S. President Donald Trump issued a military threat against Venezuela.
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