The US asked several Latin American countries to donate their Russian equipment to ensure security in the region. (Portal)
“China and Russia are Washington’s great rivals in Latin America“He announced that on Thursday Chief of the United States Southern Commandwho suggested that Latin American countries “donate” Russian equipment to Ukraine to “replace” it with American material.
“This region is important and vital to our national security‘ the general assured Laura Richardson speaking to the Atlantic Council think tank in Washington, in response to criticism from Latin American countries that feel abandoned.
in the strategy of Homeland Security 2022the government of the President Joe Biden given priority China and identified Russia as a significant but localized challenge.
“The second greatest enemy of the United States in the region is Russia”said Richardson, the second woman to reach the rank of general in the US military.
A total of nine countries “have Russian equipment and we are working to replace that Russian equipment with equipment from the United States if those countries want to donate it to Ukraine or the ongoing cause,” he said, referring to the war that followed was led Russian invasion of Ukrainian territory almost a year ago.
A total of nine countries “have Russian equipment, and we are working to replace that Russian equipment with equipment from the United States if those countries want to donate it to Ukraine or the ongoing cause,” he said, referring to the war that followed Russia was invading the territory of the Ukrainians almost a year ago. (Portal)
The general did not specify which six countries with Russian military equipment are beyond Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua.
For them the othermalicious state actor” is ChinaWith which”we are in a strategic competition in the western hemisphere“.
“To see the invasion and tentacles of the PRC in the countries of the western hemisphere so close to the United States disturbs me greatly.”
Twenty-one of the 31 countries in the region have joined Belt and Road Initiativealso known as New Silk Roada global infrastructure development strategy launched by Beijing.
The Asian colossus is also investing in critical infrastructure, Richardson warned, for example in deep-sea ports, space travel and telecommunications 5G networks and multinational Huawei.
For what reason? Question. “If I had to guess, they’re probably being offered a discount.“, against a background of economic difficulties aggravated by the pandemic, which has hit the region at least badly 170 million people live in poverty.
“Seeing the invasion and tentacles of the PRC in the countries of the western hemisphere so close to the United States worries me a lot,” Richardson said. (AP)
The United States has a third opponent: the transnational criminal organizations injecting the “uncertainty and instability” that they say China and Russia are precisely exploiting to “settle and prosper.”
These networks are nourished by the human trafficking, drug smuggling, unregulated logging, illegal mining, because it is a region rich in resources and rare earths, with the so-called lithium triangle (Argentina, Bolivia, Chile), a very necessary metal for technology.
It also overflows with oil resources, copper, gold. That’s without the Amazon, the lungs of the world, and counting them 31% of the fresh water on earth.
An “extraordinary” area, she sums up, with “incredible” trade that China has benefited greatly from since becoming one Main trading partner of some Latin American countriesrelegating the United States to second place.
The value of trade between the Asian colossus and Latin America and the Caribbean has risen to about 18,000 million in 2002 450,000 up to date and on the way there 750,000 “In the near future,” predicts Richardson. “There’s a lot at stake,” he said.
(With information from AFP)
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