Speaker Blames Latin American Left for Economic Damage and Narco Alliances

Neither. The, the question was whether I was worried about left-wing groups or left-wing movements rising in, in, as a result of US policy.

Left-wing groups have already been here, and they've destroyed the hemisphere.

The left wing destroyed Venezuela. The left wing destroyed Cuba.

The left wing destroyed Nicaragua. The left wing has basically destroyed every country they've gotten a hold of in the hemisphere. Not only have they done that here in Ecuador as well, not only have they done that in Bolivia, look what Bolivia has suffered for twenty-five years because of left-wing governance.

Um, and in fact, not only did these groups destroy these countries because of bad economic policies in places like Ecuador and, and in Colombia over the last four years, these left-wing groups are actually in alliance with these criminal narco-trafficking organizations. They are aligned with them.

They are allied with them. They permit them to conduct these activities in, in, in, in a nefarious, uh, alliance between them.

So I'm glad that's being confronted. And by the way, these groups are not just threats to these countries.

They ultimately become threats to the United States.

I work for the United States of America, and if a threat in this region is emerging to the national security and national interest of our country, we are going to address it. And what we're very happy about is that we can now address it in partnership with other presidents and other leaders in this region that feel the same way