Caracas, March 9 (RHC-teleSUR)-- President Nicolas Maduro has called on grassroots and social movements to join a national march against a decree that was recently renewed by U.S. President Barack Obama referring to Venezuela as "a threat."

The Venezuelan president called the march for this Saturday, March 12, in response to an executive order renewed by Obama last week, first issued last March, that declared Venezuela “an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States.”

Maduro also referred to a campaign launched by the opposition on Tuesday to try to remove him from the presidency this year.  The plan includes street protests to demand his resignation, along with plans to hold a presidential recall referendum and to change the constitution so that there are immediate elections.