“And that’s why those evil empires like Russia, China and Iran are invading our territory,” Salazar told Fox News Digital. “So we, the United States, want to wake up and perceive that this is our territory and no other country will. “”Treat Latin Americans better than the United States. “
“Before, two hundred years ago, when Monroe signed it, Spain, France and England. They didn’t have the same kind of malware as the Chinese, the Russians, and the Iranians. That’s why we want to protect America for Americans. ” he added. declared the deputy. ” Because the United States is in the Western Hemisphere, it is the most generous country or superpower in the world. And we are very lucky, or blessed, to be America’s neighbors. And that’s why we have to keep our appointments very close. “
President James Monroe formulated what is known as the “Monroe Doctrine” on December 2, 1823, telling members of Congress in his seventh annual message that “a precept in which the rights and interests of the United States are involved, that the American continents, through the distinctive feature of the lax and independent condition which they have assumed and maintained, From now on they will no longer have to be considered subjects of long-term colonization through foreign powers.
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To mark his 200th birthday, Salazar will present a solution on Saturday asking the House to reaffirm “the rights and interests of the United States, consistent with the Monroe Doctrine, to oppose a foreign force that would exert a greater malign influence that could simply endanger or undermine the democracies of the Western Hemisphere” and recognize “the principles of hemispheric liberty and independence, enshrined in the Monroe Doctrine, as an enduring cornerstone of U. S. foreign policy. “
Rep. Maria Salazar, R-Fla. , told Fox News Digital that she will present a solution on the 200th anniversary of the Monroe Doctrine. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
In its early days, the Monroe Doctrine “affirmed a spirit of solidarity with the newly independent republics of Latin America” and the United States at a time when the Russian Empire was attempting to reclaim and colonize parts of Alaska and the Pacific Northwest. The U. S. government also invoked the Monroe Doctrine in 1865 to exert “diplomatic and military pressure” to help the then-Mexican president effectively lead a revolt against the French Empire.
Most notably, President John F. Kennedy invoked the Monroe Doctrine nearly a century later, when the Soviet Union built missile launch sites in Cuba in 1962, and as part of his administration’s successful initiatives to remove Soviet missiles from decommissioned missile launch sites. . In Cuba.
Two centuries after the doctrine’s creation, Salazar told Fox News Digital that countries like China and Russia sell influence seamlessly on global social media.
“All they have to do is enter China and then enslave those countries like they did with the Uyghurs,” Salazar said. “The Chinese: the way they treat their own citizens, how do you think they’re going to treat them?” Peruvians or Ecuadorians better?. . . The United States has had a lot of influence in the Western Hemisphere since the Spanish crown was expelled in 1810. So let’s keep it up.
A Chinese knot-shaped facility for the 3rd Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation in Beijing. (VCG/VCG Getty Images/File)
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Salazar told Fox News Digital that he believes the large influx of illegal immigrants undertaking the dangerous adventure through Latin America and toward the US-Mexico border makes it clear which global superpower believes it cares about its people.
“That’s why all of Latin America needs to cross the southern border and come to the United States because they know that the United States is the most productive of all the superpowers. “I see the Chinese looking to come to the United States through Central America,” Salazar said. “Unfortunately, the challenge is that because we’ve been so absent from Latin America, we’ve been very separated. That’s why the Chinese figured out a way. But as soon as Latin America understands that the U. S. is back with them and that it can fund and bring a little prosperity through U. S. companies, those doors will be closed to China and Russia. »
Biden’s administration has come under scrutiny from congressional Republicans for his handling of the border crisis.
Chilean President Michelle Bachelet meets with Chinese President Xi Jinping ahead of the Belt and Road Forum in Beijing. (Jason Lee/Pool/Getty Images/File)
U. S. Undersecretary of State for Energy Resources Geoffrey Pyatt testified before the House Foreign Affairs Committee in June about the Biden administration’s efforts “to achieve global energy security and counter efforts by the People’s Republic China to create economic dependencies and coerce others through its Belt and Road. ” initiatives.
“In Latin America and the Caribbean, the United States remains the chosen spouse, a message I heard continually during my recent vacations in Guyana and Trinidad and Tobago,” Pyatt confided to lawmakers earlier this year. “But we also see the People’s Republic of China targeting Latin America. ” invest in critical minerals, electrical grids and renewable energy.
According to a draft solution previously received via Fox News Digital, Salazar notes that the 2023 position of the US military’s Southern Command, which is responsible for security when making plans and operations in South America, Central America and the Caribbean, “recognizes that” Attacks” Actors such as the People’s Republic of China and the Russian Federation exert competitive influence over neighboring countries in Latin America and the Caribbean and raise considerations about Iran’s intelligence and security activities. “
The Southern Command “also notes that the People’s Republic of China is encroaching on critical and delicate infrastructure in the Western Hemisphere through investments, adding deep-water ports, cyber services, and area services that would possibly have a potential dual use for malvertising and military purposes,” noting that “the Russian Federation is conducting extensive disinformation campaigns in Latin America, supporting authoritarian regimes such as the Republic of Cuba, the Republic of Nicaragua and the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, and carrying out their military engagement and grey activities. zone operations in this region. “
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The Northern Command, responsible for coordinating the defenses of Canada, Mexico and the Bahamas, warned in its position for 2023: “Our competition and potential adversaries, namely the People’s Republic of China and Russia, continue to defy calls to question the norms based on rules. foreign order. ” and ” seek to advance their interests and obtain global benefits through political intimidation, economic coercion, cybersecurity and data operations, asymmetric attacks on infrastructure, and the direct risk or actual employment of military force “, affirms Salazar’s solution.
Danielle Wallace is a reporter for Fox News Digital covering politics, crime, surveillance, and more. Tips can be sent to danielle. wallace@fox. com and on Twitter: @danimwallace.