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Venezuela collects over 1 mln signatures of anti-U.S. petition

Xinhua, March 23, 2015 Adjust font size:

More than 1 million signatures have been collected by supporters of the Venezuelan government on Sunday to call for an "end to the U.S. aggression" against the South American country, an official said.

"We are going to gather 10 million signatures and hand them to the U.S. President," said Jorge Rodriguez, Mayor of Caracas, who leads the campaign.

Rodriguez also said the Venezuelan government had received more than 2.6 million supporting messages on Twitter.

The campaign began last Thursday and more than 13,000 spots were installed all over the country to collect the signatures, to demand that U.S. President Barack Obama repeal an order that declares Venezuela a "threat" to U.S. national security.

President Nicolas Maduro was the first one to sign before the supporters began gathering signatures across Venezuela.

Several Latin Amercian organizations including the Union of South American Nations (Unasur), the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America (ALBA), had condemed the U.S. measure.

The signature campaign is to last till April 9, a day before the opening of the Summit of the Americas in Panama, where Obama is set to meet with all the region's presidents including Maduro. Endi