Latin American Program in the News: EE.UU, aguijoneado por el caso Snowden, amenaza con represalias a China, Rusia y países latinoamericanos
This article refers to comments made by Cynthia J. Arnson on the "direct consequences" of US relations with Latin American countries that aid Edward Snowden. This article is in Spanish.
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Pero Washington también lanzó advertencias a países latinoamericanos que pudieran ofrecer asilo político a Snowden, en particular a Ecuador, Venezuela o Cuba, campeones del "antiimperialismo" en la región.
"Ecuador o Venezuela tienen la voluntad, sino las ganas, de tirarle arena a la cara al Tío Sam", dice Cynthia Arnson, directora del programa América Latina en el Woodrow Wilson International Center.
A ojos de esta especialista, ambos países pagarían un "costo muy directo" en sus relaciones con Estados Unidos. Ecuador podría exponerse a "la expulsión de su embajador" en Washington, al tiempo que se pondría "un freno" al naciente proceso de "mejoría de las relaciones" del gobierno estadounidense con el presidente venezolano Nicolás Maduro, estimó.
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