In an interview with Prensa Latina, Pablo Sepulveda Allende warned that Washington attacked the South American country not out of interest in democracy or the fight against drug trafficking, but to seize the world’s largest oil reserves.

He remembered that, in the new National Security Strategy recently released, the White House proposes a revival of the Monroe Doctrine of “America for the Americans,” which views the region as its backyard.

“Latin America is extremely rich in natural resources. The United States intends to drive away investments from China and other powers because they want everything for themselves,” he said.

The doctor, who also works in medicine, warned that Chile has significant lithium and gold reserves and that if it were to reclaim these resources for the national interest, it could face intervention.

“The fundamental cause of the 1973 coup against Salvador Allende’s government was his nationalization of copper, which was the country’s main reserve and a strategic mineral,” he asserted.

Our interviewee drew a parallel between the measures implemented by the United States to strangle the Venezuelan economy and those implemented in Chile.

Washington blocked the country’s energy sector, seized its assets, including the Citgo company, and recently confiscated oil tankers.

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