France challenged to play its position on the Guiana plateau after Trump’s coup | EUROtoday

Faced with Donald Trump’s new predatory coverage in South America, can France rely on its presence in Guyana to affect the continent? It would want to equip itself with rather more severe means if it needs to hope to claim itself as “a key regional player”estimates the Senate Foreign Affairs, Defense and Armed Forces Committee, which opportunely made public a mission report within the area, Wednesday January 7, in Paris.

Beyond Venezuela, the American president has not acknowledged his targets on the Guiana plateau which additionally covers Guyana, Suriname and Guyana. But the mixed results of the Monroe Doctrine (invoked to justify the domination of the United States on this hemisphere) and the emergence of latest oil states with immense reserves – Guyana and Suriname – are sufficient to destabilize French territory.

After the seize of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro by American particular forces on January 3 and the White House’s plans for Greenland, an autonomous Danish territory, “We have very serious concerns. What strengths do we have to be able to exist? If the Monroe Doctrine of the Americans spreads tomorrow, anything is possible”estimates Cédric Perrin, president of the fee and senator (Les Républicains) from the Territoire de Belfort.

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