Kerri Hannan, a US State Department official, issued a warning Thursday Russia is threatening to export the conflict in Ukraine to Latin America through military cooperation with the regimes of Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua.
“Commitment to democracy in the hemisphere has never seemed more urgent than now Russia is trampling on Ukrainian democracy and threatening to export the Ukrainian crisis to Americato expand its military cooperation with Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela,” Hannan said at a hearing of the US Senate Foreign Affairs Committee, Argentinian media Infobae reported.
According to the official The majority of the region opposes the Russian invasion. “Our allies have seen the stark contrast between our position on the Russian invasion and that of China, whose diplomats have stepped up Kremlin propaganda and sought to shield Russia from condemnation in international fora.”
To this topic, Cuban-American Senator Marco RubioCommittee member said: “Russia is an acute problem and a current challenge. But it’s a problem of five or ten years. China is a 100-year problem, both regionally and internationally.”
On the first day of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the President of the Duma (lower house of the Russian Parliament), Vyacheslav Volodin, paid a visit to Cuba, where he received political support in the face of what the regime described as “meddling”. and “propaganda hysteria” by the US and Western powers over the crisis.
hours before Russia extended until 2027 the return of more than $2,000 million in loans it granted to its Cuban allyo Between 2006 and 2019 to finance projects in the fields of energy, metallurgy, transport and economic development.
All this after the Kremlin itself used Havana, Caracas and Managua as instruments of political blackmail. while negotiations with the West over Ukraine took place after Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Riabkov indicated that among Moscow’s possible responses to United States warnings about the crisis in Ukraine, he did not rule out the deployment of infrastructure military forces in Cuba and Venezuela. Neither of Moscow’s two allies denied this possibility.
After, The US warned that it would prevent any action by Russia that would “destabilize the conflict” or “carry the conflict from Ukraine to Latin America”.noting that he will not accept “provocations”.
As for Venezuela, Delcy Rodríguez, vice-president of Nicolás Maduro’s government, met with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on March 11 during a meeting they were holding in Turkey, a country where the foreign minister had arrived to meet with his Ukrainian counterpart Dimitri Kuleba.
The Russian Foreign Ministry reported on the meeting, but only to report that it was about “Russian-Venezuelan talks in Turkey”.
Havana, Caracas and Managua have defended Russia’s right to “self-defense”.how the Cuban regime described the invasion, and they have abstained or voted against resolutions condemning the aggression that were adopted by large majorities in the United Nations General Assembly and the UN Human Rights Council.