''Four Latin American countries withdraw from defense treaty''

From NTN24

''Venezuela, Bolivia, Ecuador and Nicaragua announced they are withdrawing from a regional defense treaty dating back to the Cold War.

"Our countries have made the decision to bury what deserves to be buried, to throw into the trash what is no longer useful," Ricardo Patino, Ecuador's foreign minister, said in reference to the Inter-American Treaty of Reciprocal Assistance.

 

The treaty, created in 1947, came into being under US leadership at the start of the Cold War and was considered an important tool with which Washington was able to exert influence on Latin America until the 1980s.''

 

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