The US Southern Command may be the least important overall to the Pentagon right now. But this is a system that develops in parallel in the five regions into which it has divided the world.
Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean concentrate more attention than South America. The Chinese presence in Argentina denounced by General Richardson and the possibility of Venezuela militarily occupying Essequibo would be the two problems of strategic-military scope that today are observed by Washington as relevant in South America, says Hernández.