The United States is undermining the Latin American consensus as a zone of peace – Escambray

The interventional naval maneuvers that the Southern Command will launch in cooperation with 19 other countries aim to maintain control over their backyard and gain supporters against countries that do not succumb to hegemonic designs.

The 64th edition of the US Navy Southern Command’s UNITAS naval exercise, which takes place between July 11 and 21 and is based in Colombia, is another example of the northern power’s intervention and its policy of maintaining control. Latin America and the Caribbean, which he considers his backyard.

However, these war maneuvers, which they are trying to present as something routine, also indicate the great danger that involves several countries in the region and some European countries, because this represents a clear strategy to unite forces, even outside NATO, to dominate the region. For the so-called red danger, which is represented according to the geopolitical criteria of the rulers of North America, by the governments of countries that do not succumb to it, such as Venezuela, Nicaragua and Cuba.

It also has another behind-the-scenes reading, which is to convey a message to the peoples who have gradually rejected the neoliberal and sell-out policies of the right-wing parties, by electing candidates in the ballot boxes from the so-called Latin America. Left and progressive nature, who have a political strategy to implement popular benefit programs is common.

The war game in question has its center in the waters off the coast of Cartagena, with exercises on land in the cities of Covinias and Barranquilla. The Colombian Navy announced that warships from different countries will anchor in Cartagena Bay with the aim of participating in exercises to “increase the level of interoperability”. About 4,500 men and women are expected to participate in “sea, air, submarine and land scenarios” with the aim of improving combat capability and enhancing “humanitarian aid and disaster response” work, according to information from Russia Today.

The event, which has been held annually since 1959, this time will include the deployment of 23 warships, three submarines and 29 aircraft from 19 partner countries. In addition to the US Marines, Marines from Belize, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico, Panama, Peru, Uruguay, France, Germany, Spain, South Korea, and the United Kingdom.

Among the goals announced by Admiral Jim Aiken, Commander of Southern Command, he emphasized that the countries participating in the exercise “dedicated much time, effort and effort to the months of planning for the launch of what he described as one of the most complex UNITAS to date” in history.

For his part, Lieutenant General David J. Bellon, the commander of the US Marine Corps, noted that the participating naval forces will travel to Colombia not only to train with allied forces, “but also to improve the skills needed to operate as part of a larger naval force,” without a doubt, against countries Certain opposition. As something new, UNITAS unmanned systems will be integrated for the first time in this release.