WillBrink
11-03-18, 08:42
While people focus on a caravan of people trying to make our borders, which while needs to be dealt with, is low priority from a national security threat, many continue to ignore what's happening in Venezuela in particular (which I have posted about in prior threads), and the region. I think that constitutes a legit national security threat that may leave us little choice but to do a Panama on the place:
Under the Radar: Hezbollah and Iran find new strength in Latin America
Pay attention to your neighbours
One might not immediately associate Hezbollah and Iran with Latin America. Nevertheless, both have been active there since the 1980s – taking advantage of corrupt governments, porous borders and occasionally collaborating with certain administrations particularly ripe with anti-American sentiment. Hezbollah, with Iran’s guidance, has used the region as a marketplace, selling drugs and laundering money back to Lebanon. Such activities pose serious risks and demand renewed international attention.
Overall, Latin America, Central America, and the Caribbean offer Iran and Hezbollah fertile territory to build relations, bolster economic development and spread their ideology. Their efforts are made easier by governments such as Bolivia, Nicaragua, and Ecuador, whose hostility to U.S. interests manifest as non-cooperation on U.S. counterterror and defense partnerships. The Iranian regime also associates with the Bolivarian Alliance of the Countries of Our America (ALBA), a group created by Fidel Castro and Hugo Chavez, which resists the United States through political and economic means.
Cont:
https://globalriskinsights.com/2017/12/hezbollah-iran-find-new-strength-latin-america/?fbclid=IwAR3sKR9Wo9eTPriOOekrRI0mYNghEcpdnKlWf4HXLDoKSdQQCXl9Ud3UDbI
Under the Radar: Hezbollah and Iran find new strength in Latin America
Pay attention to your neighbours
One might not immediately associate Hezbollah and Iran with Latin America. Nevertheless, both have been active there since the 1980s – taking advantage of corrupt governments, porous borders and occasionally collaborating with certain administrations particularly ripe with anti-American sentiment. Hezbollah, with Iran’s guidance, has used the region as a marketplace, selling drugs and laundering money back to Lebanon. Such activities pose serious risks and demand renewed international attention.
Overall, Latin America, Central America, and the Caribbean offer Iran and Hezbollah fertile territory to build relations, bolster economic development and spread their ideology. Their efforts are made easier by governments such as Bolivia, Nicaragua, and Ecuador, whose hostility to U.S. interests manifest as non-cooperation on U.S. counterterror and defense partnerships. The Iranian regime also associates with the Bolivarian Alliance of the Countries of Our America (ALBA), a group created by Fidel Castro and Hugo Chavez, which resists the United States through political and economic means.
Cont:
https://globalriskinsights.com/2017/12/hezbollah-iran-find-new-strength-latin-america/?fbclid=IwAR3sKR9Wo9eTPriOOekrRI0mYNghEcpdnKlWf4HXLDoKSdQQCXl9Ud3UDbI