Bolivia is the latest Latin American country to condemn the United States for imposing sanctions on Venezuela.
The U.S. should "abandon its interventionist practices," Bolivia's Foreign Ministry said in a document released Thursday, reported RT.
President Barack Obama issued an executive order on Monday declaring a national emergency related to supposed threats posed by Venezuela's political turmoil, calling the country a "national security threat." The order imposed sanctions on a number of democratically elected government officials due to "human rights violations."
The Bolivian Foreign Ministry said it "rejects these interventionist actions of the U.S. government to violate the sovereignty and self-determination of the Venezuelan people. These undemocratic actions of President Barack Obama threaten the peace and security of all countries in Latin American and the Caribbean," according to RT.
"Bolivia reiterates its full support for the legitimate government of brother Nicolas Maduro, a president democratically elected by his people, and pledge our solidarity to the Venezuelan people in this unfair and difficult time in which democracy is again trying to be sacrificed to serve foreign interests," the document says.
Bolivian President Evo Morales offered his "full support" to Venezuelan President Maduro, reaffirming that Latin America will not tolerate such actions "in the 21 century."
In its first public confrontation with the U.S. since the two countries began normalizing relations, Cuba also criticized Obama's executive order in a statement, saying the actions were "arbitrary and aggressive," according to AFP.
"No one has the right to intervene in the internal affairs of a sovereign state or to declare, without foundation, someone a threat to national security," the Cuban statement said.
"How is Venezuela a threat to America? A thousand miles away, without strategic weapons or having the means or staff to plot against the American constitutional order, the declaration sounds barely credible."
TelesurTV reported that Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa took to Facebook to express his frustrations.
"It must be a bad joke, which reminds us of the darkest hours of our America, when we received invasions and dictatorships imposed by imperialism," Correa wrote. "Will they understand that Latin America has changed?"
The 12 nations belonging to the Union of South American Nations have agreed to hold a high-level meeting on March 14 in Quito, Ecuador to discuss how to respond to the new measures against Venezuela.
The secretary general of that union, Ernesto Samper, said this week that the group rejects "any attempt at internal or external interference that attempts to disrupt the democratic process in Venezuela," TelesurTV reported.
On Thursday, Venezuelan President Maduro said that he may decide to travel to Washington to challenge Obama on his executive actions, reported Reuters.
"We demand, via all global diplomatic channels, that President Obama rectify and repeal the immoral decree declaring Venezuela a threat to the United States," Maduro said.
"Maybe I'll appear in Washington at that exhibition, to show my face for my country and tell the government in Washington they are committing grave mistakes."
Glenn Greenwald, the journalist who first published documents leaked by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden, noted that Venezuela is "one of the very few countries with significant oil reserves which does not submit to U.S. dictates."
"Such countries are always at the top of the U.S. government and media list of 'Countries To Be Demonized'," he wrote on The Intercept.
