Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov praised the struggle of the peoples of Venezuela, Cuba and Nicaragua that, despite the harassment of the United States Government (US) with the imposition of coercive actions, the US administration could not concrete its pretensions of a military invasion.
«Despite a strong drowning with sanctions and methods of ‘color revolutions’, they fail to achieve a ‘blitzkrieg’ – military tactics of attack – in Venezuela, Cuba, Nicaragua», said Lavrov in an interview with the TASS agency, as reviewed by RT News.
«Parts of this course have been efforts to change undesirable regimes and redirect the undecided in the right direction, dissociate regional integration processes, impose rigid neoliberal patterns,» said the Russian Foreign Minister, who has compared the ideological basis of these processes with the Monroe doctrine.
Lavrov expressed concern about the US administration’s attempts to «reformat Latin America» in accordance with its geopolitical interests, in reference to the internal processes that occurred in several countries.
«For us, Latin America and the Caribbean is a foreign policy area that is valuable in its own way. We do not look at the region through the prism of geopolitical interests, and we do not want it to become a scenario of confrontation between anyone», he said.
He also noted that the administration of Donald Trump tries to blame the «hostile external forces», including those of Russia, for its policy failures around Latin America:
«Something happened that the US government did not count on: its plans began to fail, as the region turned out to be more complex and diverse than Washington’s simplistic calculations», he said.
In the interview, Lavrov denounced the political campaign against Russia through the so-called «secondary sanctions»:
«A vigorous political and informative campaign against us is being carried out, the mechanism of ‘secondary sanctions’ is being used, first and foremost financial», he reiterated.
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