
The United States Southern Command Chief General Laura Richardson has urged the country's leaders to create a "Marshall Plan" for Latin America to reduce Chinese and Russian influence in the region.
At the Aspen Security Forum last week, Richardson pointed out that not all countries have recovered from the COVID-19 pandemic, making them vulnerable to help from Moscow and Beijing, who were "taking advantage" of the situation, Merco Press reported. The Aspen Security Forum is the leading conference on national security and foreign policy in the U.S.