Caracas – Venezuelan President, Nicolas Maduro, has warned that Washington is developing a plan to restore dominance in Latin America.
“The U.S. has an imperialist strategy to reconquer Latin America and the Caribbean.
“U.S. President Barack Obama heads the plan, and he believes he can reconquer economic, cultural, political and social dominance through the oligarchies of the Latin American countries, ,’’ Maduro told a cabinet meeting on Thursday.
He said that the mushrooming of left-leaning governments such as Venezuela, Argentina, Brazil, Ecuador and Bolivia haD sparked regional integration and autonomy, which were now threatened by renewed U.S. interest in the region.
“Washington aims to eliminate the region’s progressive governments by discrediting their leaders,’’ Maduro said.
U.S. President, Barack Obama, earlier this month renewed sanctions on several top Venezuelan officials over human rights violations.
Maduro’s remarks also came in the context of Obama’s Latin America visit.
Obama made a historic visit to Cuba from Sunday to Tuesday, the first one by a sitting U.S. president in 88 years.
He then flew to Argentina for a state visit, the first by a U.S. president in nearly 20 years. (Xinhua/NAN)