Posted on YouTube: October 30, 2024
Source: Iran’s terrorist expansion to Latin America
Dallas Morning News
by Dina Siegel Vann
November 23, 2024Too 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…
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).