Laura Richardson, the head of the US Southern Command, suggested that Latin American countries donate Russian equipment to Ukraine and thus replace it with material from their country.
“This region matters and matters a lot for our national security,” he said during a conversation with the Atlantic Council think tank in Washington, aware of the criticism from Latin American countries that feel abandoned.
China and Russia are pointed out as Washington’s great rivals in Latin America. This is how Richardson said that 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.”
The general did not specify which are the six countries with Russian military equipment, beyond Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua.
The United States has a third adversary: transnational criminal organizations that inject “insecurity and instability”, which China and Russia precisely take advantage of, according to her, to “install themselves and prosper”.
These networks are nourished by 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 much-needed metal for technology. (YO)
Source: Eluniverso
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