Brazil

Biden Administration Foreign Policy Tracker: May

The Kremlin’s Latin American Echo Chamber

A trio of Spanish language media networks controlled by Iran, Russia, and Venezuela push out propaganda and disinformation to demonize the West.

How to Include Far More Lawfare Ammunition in Next UN General Assembly Resolution on Russian Invasion

On March 24, the UN General Assembly (UNGA) adopted its second resolution addressing Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.   Both this and the first resolution, adopted on March 2, symbolically demonstrated...

Cult of the Cossack Helps Explain Ukraine’s Resistance

Since Ukraine’s independence in 1991, a whole generation has grown up studying how their ancestors were starved to death on orders from Moscow.

Iran Approaches the Nuclear Threshold

Washington’s Narrowing Policy Options

Biden Administration Foreign Policy Tracker: March

Turkey Could Become the Middle East’s Next Narco-State

If Turkey joins Syria and Lebanon as the third narco-state in the Eastern Mediterranean, this will only compound the region’s trafficking and money laundering problems, while also presenting illicit non-state actors greater opportunities to exploit.

Taiwan 194

Emulating the Palestinians to Advocate Internationally for Taiwan and to Counter China

Biden Administration Foreign Policy Tracker: February

Chile’s new president is a win for Iran

Last Sunday, Chileans elected Gabriel Boric, a young, former social justice student activist, as president.

Biden’s defense of democracy

It left a lot to be desired

Paraguayan Raids Further Expose U.S. Intermediaries’ Role in TBA Money Laundering Schemes

Paraguayan authorities last week raided the offices of a dozen U.S.-linked companies and their accountants tied to suspected Paraguayan drug kingpin Reinaldo Javier Cabaña Santacruz, alias Cucho. Asunción’s...

Florida Businessman Indicted in Nader Mohamad Farhat’s Money Laundering Case

Florida’s Southern District Court in Miami indicted Florida businessman Elias Daher last week on money laundering charges, making him a co-defendant in the Mohamad Nader Farhat money laundering case....

AUKUS is a big deal, for everyone

In India, the already entrenched and active French lobby in Delhi will likely use this to try drive a wedge between the US and India (something they already work on) in part to protect/promote their sales. The catastrophic US withdrawal from Afghanistan may also be used as an example of US ‘unreliability.’

Coordinated Law Enforcement and Treasury Action Against Money Launderers in the Tri-Border Area

The U.S. and Paraguayan governments took coordinated action yesterday against the money laundering network of Kassem Mohamad Hijazi, a Brazilian citizen of Lebanese descent implicated in government corruption...

How American Weapons Find Their Way to International Criminal Organizations

It’s a complex problem that won’t be solved by Mexico’s lawsuit against U.S. manufacturers.

What the U.S. Competition and Innovation Act Gets Right About Standards

International technical standards set the foundation for the billions of digital devices that people worldwide rely on. The standards ensure that mobile devices produced in China can connect to Swedish...

Hangman-in-chief

Iranian presidential elections have rarely mattered. Both the past victory of the so-called reformists and now the restoration of a tailor made presidency to consolidate the regime, portray something similar...

The Laundromat: Hezbollah’s Money-Laundering and Drug-Trafficking Networks in Latin America

Executive Summary On January 6, 2021, the Gulf news network Al Arabiya published an explosive revelation. In late 2016, a high-placed Hezbollah operative named Nasser Abbas Bahmad came to what is known...

Biden Administration Foreign Policy Tracker: Early June