After the detention of Venezuela's authoritarian leader by the United States, Lithuanian Foreign Minister Kęstutis Budrys says that Washington's attention to the region is a signal for states like Russia and China to move away from South America.
"One of the important reasons, when talking about the security direction of the United States towards the Western Hemisphere (...), is that other states that exert harmful influence there, interfere in political processes, seize entire sectors of the economy, thereby affecting security and stability in the region, will have to retreat in one form or another," said the head of Lithuanian diplomacy on Monday in the LRT program 'Topic of the Day.'
"We are talking about Russia, China, Iran, and their influence in South and Central America. America is saying: 'That's it, enough,'" he stated.
According to Budrys, the events in Venezuela are a signal for other authoritarian leaders supported by Russia and China.
"If we count, this is already what number of dictators who have placed their certain security guarantees in the Russian basket and lost all of it," the minister said.
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