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The United States is punishing Latin American countries because they are moving towards China, Russia and other independent nations, an American political analyst says.
The United States is
punishing Latin American countries because they are moving towards
China, Russia and other independent nations, an American political
analyst says.
Keith Preston, chief editor of AttacktheSystem.com, made the remarks
in an interview with Press TV while commenting on a report which says
the Donald Trump administration is considering a full-scale oil embargo
against Venezuela.
The Trump administration is reviewing a plan to sanction a Venezuelan
military-run oil services company and restricting insurance coverage
for Venezuelan oil shipments, a US official said on Wednesday.
The possible new sanctions would target Venezuela’s vital oil sector
beyond what has been done before, including an eventual full-scale ban
on Venezuelan oil shipments to the United States, the US official told Reuters.
Preston said, “The United States seems to be initiating an oil
embargo or at least escalating these sanctions that have been imposed on
Venezuela in order, I think, to penalize the Venezuelans for their
defiance of the American foreign policy objectives in the region.”
“We have to understand that in recent decades there has been a
serious shift away from the American influence in the Latin American
nations and those nations, many of them, have started to pursue an
independent course of their own or they have developed trade relations
with the eastern nations. A lot of they are moving towards China,
towards Russia and nations of that type,” he stated.
“They are seeking autonomy for their own nations. You know this is in
conflict with the variety of the American foreign policy objectives in
the region,” the analyst noted.
