BATTLE FOR WORLD / RT | April 3, 2019: The article highlights that tensions over Venezuela won’t escalate into a new Caribbean Crisis or turn the country into “a second Syria,” Russia’s FM Sergey Lavrov has assured, bashing the US for treating the Western Hemisphere as its backyard.

“We don’t accept the methods, with which the US is trying to improve the life of the Venezuelan people,” said Lavrov in an interview with Russia's Moskovsky Komsomolets newspaper.

That Washington [DC] has outright backed opposition leader, Juan Guaido, who declared himself interim president of Venezuela in January (2019). The US geopolitical drama has introduced hash economic sanctions against the struggling country, preventing it from importing food and medical supplies. And top US officials have threatened with so-called “humanitarian intervention” of Venezuela in order to remove the unwanted socialist leader, Nicolas Maduro, from power.

Lavrov noted that even those countries on the continent of South America that oppose Maduro and want a snap election in Venezuela got “really stressed out” when the Americans mentioned the use of force.

“I guarantee you that if there’ll be an attempt of a military intervention, the vast majority of Latin American states will outright reject it,” said Lavrov.

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