“Latin America ... is considered (by the Americans) the backyard of the United States, and you Russians do not go there,” he said.
According to him, everything is being done to ensure that Russia does not supply these countries with weapons, energy resources and does not develop cooperation with them.
“But Latin American countries are reaching out to us,” Antonov said.
According to him, the countries of Latin America are “forced to look back” because they are “lifted with a sanctions baton”, which the United States threatens to “bring down” on these states if they take a step towards Russia and China.
Earlier, Russian Ambassador to Nicaragua, Honduras and El Salvador Alexander Khokholikov said that the problem of US sanctions is particularly acute in the Western Hemisphere, where the economy is dominated by the dollar.