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Latin America vs Iranian Interference

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Latin America vs Iranian Interference


Posted on YouTube: October 30, 2024

Source: Iran’s terrorist expansion to Latin America
Dallas Morning News
by Dina Siegel Vann
November 23, 2024

Too few people realize the full extent of Iran’s role in backing terrorist groups across the Middle East, from Hamas in Gaza to Hezbollah in Lebanon and the Houthis in Yemen. Even fewer are aware of Iran’s expanding influence in the Western Hemisphere, threatening regional stability and U.S. security at an alarming level.

But we can’t afford to ignore the threat any longer. It’s time for the U.S. to act, forging a comprehensive plan with our allies to preempt Iran’s geopolitical ambitions in our own neighborhood.

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As this website has noted, many times, Iran has influence all over Latin America, not just through propaganda with HispanTV, but with smuggling and drug trafficking.

This, unfortunately, is nothing new. It has been going on for years.


Posted on YouTube: April 19, 2024

Hezbollah funds itself by drug trafficking.

Source: The Laundromat: Hezbollah’s Money-Laundering and Drug-Trafficking Networks in Latin America
The Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies
Bar Ilan University
by Dr. Emanuele Ottolenghi
July 14, 2021

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Over the past decades, Hezbollah has built a well-oiled, multibillion-dollar money-laundering and drug-trafficking machine in Latin America that cleans organized crime’s ill-gotten gains through multiple waypoints in the Western hemisphere, West Africa, Europe, and the Middle East. Traditionally, Hezbollah used the TBA’s illicit economy as a hub for money-laundering—less so for cocaine trafficking. For years, Hezbollah-linked drug traffickers in the TBA moved only relatively small quantities of cocaine. Multi-ton shipments are another story.
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Finally, this is from 2007


Posted on YouTube: January 24, 2007

This has been going on in Latin America for some time.

Latin Arabia has a post on the problem in 2012 (Click Here).

This post from 2020 has a blockquote from 2011 about the problem in Chile (Click Here).

Brazil Adopts Free Trade Arrangement with Palestine

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Brazil Adopts Free Trade Arrangement with Palestine

This is a few months old, and frankly, it is a bit of grandstanding, but I just found it, and thought it was worth mentioning.

Rightly or wrongly, Palestine is now being destroyed, even as we speak. Like it or not, that is fact. Yet, Lula of Brazil wants a FREE TRADE agreement with the Palestinians?


Posted on YouTube: July 8, 2024

Is he crazy? One-third of Brazil is Evangelical Christian and very pro-Israel. What was he thinking? Indeed, his election to office was suspicious. His opponent, Bolsonaro, was a strong Zionist.

Source: Brazil adopts free trade with Palestinian Authority in show of support
Updated July 09, 2024

BRASILIA – Brazil has put into effect a free trade agreement with the Palestinian Authority that has been waiting for ratification for more than decade, in a show of support for the Palestinian people.

“The agreement is a concrete contribution to an economically viable Palestinian state, which can live peacefully and harmoniously with its neighbours,” Brazil’s Foreign Ministry said on July 9 in a statement.

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Palestinian ambassador in Brasilia, Mr Ibrahim Al Zeben, called Brazil’s decision “courageous, supportive and timely”.

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Sometimes you just read things like this and cannot believe that such policies are enacted.

What will Palestine export to Brazil: Dust from cinderblocks shattered by Israeli munitions?

Will Brazil now enact free trade with the Confederacy?

Mexico Has a Jewish President

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Mexico Has a Jewish President


Posted on YouTube: November 1, 2024

In October of 2024, a Jewish woman was sworn in as the President of Mexico. But do not think that the Jewish community in Mexico is thrilled about her.

Source: Why Mexico’s center-right Jewish community didn’t vote for its first Jewish president
Times of Israel
bu Ariela Lopez
June 5, 2024

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After Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo emerged victorious in Sunday’s election to become Mexico’s first female president-elect, many focused on a second milestone – the scientist-turned-politician will be Mexico’s first Jewish president.

But, according to members of Mexico City’s Jewish community who spoke to The Times of Israel after her win, the president-elect has distanced herself from them, and her triumph does not engender much excitement among her fellow Jews.

“I think that the main issue in the election, even for the Jewish community, was not her Jewishness, but her political views,” Daniel Fainstein, the dean of Jewish Studies at the Hebraica University in Mexico City, told The Times of Israel.

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However, rather than being a strong supporter of Israel, President Sheinbaum pursues a more neutral policy. Her administration will probably not change Mexico’s policies towards the Mideast.

At this point, when the Israeli government has no intention of ever granting independence to the Palestinians (rightly or wrongly), Mexico’s position is not exactly welcome to pro-Israeli advocates. (This is merely an observation, not a critique.)

Source: Mexico calls for recognition of Palestinian state amid war
by Jerusalem Post Staff
Uodated October 12, 2024

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum has called for the recognition of the state of Palestine alongside Israel, reaffirming her country’s longstanding position on the matter.

In a statement on Saturday, reported by Revista Proceso, she declared, “We condemn the aggressions that are being experienced and also consider that the state of Palestine must be recognized in its entirety just like the State of Israel. This has been Mexico’s position for many years, and that is the position we have. We search for peace above all.”

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Sheinbaum, known for her leftist political stance and European Jewish ancestry, has declared her atheism, as reported by Sky News Arabia. She has a history of criticizing Israeli actions in Gaza, including a public letter in January 2009 where she criticized a previous Israeli operation in the coastal enclave.

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Diplomatic Row Over Lula’s Comments

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Diplomatic Row Over Lula’s Comments


Posted on YouTube: February 20, 2024

The President of Brazil, President Lula, has made some comments comparing the plight of Palestinians in Gaza to the Holocaust.

Well, the Israeli spin machine was furious.

Israel’s Netanyahu slams Brazilian president’s comparison of Gaza war to the Holocaust
February 18, 2024

TEL AVIV, ISRAEL (AP) — Israel on Sunday condemned Brazil’s president for comparing the war in Gaza to the Holocaust, accusing him of being antisemitic and trivializing the Nazi genocide of European Jews during World War II.

The outcry further strained relations between the countries, which have deteriorated since President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva returned to office last year. Lula has portrayed himself as a leader of the “ Global South,” a loosely defined group of developing countries.

Of course, Israel goes into attack mode with any comparison of its operations in Gaza to what the Nazis did to the Jews in Europe in World War II.

But Colombia and Brazil are standing by Brazil.

Colombia, Bolivia back Brazil’s Lula in Israel row over Gaza war comments
21 Feb 2024

Colombia and Bolivia are backing Brazil as its diplomatic row with Israel escalated after President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva accused Israel of committing genocide in Gaza, comparing its actions with the Holocaust.

Well, Brazil was wrong, to be sure. But was it wise for Israel to make this a bigger issue than it should be?

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