Chile

June 6, 2024 | |

Amid Tensions With Israel, Spain Requests to Join ICJ Case Targeting Jewish State

Spain on June 6 became the first European country to request to join South Africa’s International Court of Justice (ICJ) case accusing Israel of genocide in its war against Hamas...

May 19, 2024 | Emanuele Ottolenghi |

Gustavo Petro’s Anti-Israel Fantasy Has a High Price for Colombia

The Colombian president's severing of diplomatic relations with Israel will terminate a budding bilateral partnership.

April 3, 2024 | |

Israel Retaliates for Rocket Fire From Lebanon

The Israeli military struck terrorist cells in southern Lebanon that had fired rockets at northern Israel, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) reported on April 2 and 3. The “Hezbollah...

April 1, 2024 | |

Explosion Wounds Three UN Military Observers Patrolling Lebanese Border

An explosion near the Israel-Lebanon border on March 30 wounded three unarmed United Nations peacekeeping observers and a Lebanese interpreter on a patrol. The observers from Chile,...

March 27, 2024 | Max Lesser, Ari Ben Am, Margot Fulde-Hardy, Saman Nazari, Paul J. Malcomb

Much Ado About ‘Somethings’

China-Linked Influence Operation Endures Despite Takedowns

February 27, 2024 | Elaine K. Dezenski, Josh Birenbaum

Tightening the Belt or End of the Road? China’s BRI at 10

November 17, 2023 | Emanuele Ottolenghi |

Telesur’s Pro-Iran Propaganda

Disinformation from the Maduro regime should draw just as much attention from the State Department as Russian disinformation does.

November 8, 2023 | |

Brazilian Authorities Disrupt Hezbollah Plot 

Two alleged Hezbollah agents were detained by Brazilian authorities for plotting to carry out terror attacks against Jewish targets in Brazil. The arrest of the Brazilian-Lebanese...

October 31, 2023 | Emanuele Ottolenghi, Marina Rosenberg

HispanTV Is Iran’s Propaganda Arm in Latin America; Why Is It Still Being Broadcast?

On October 7, Hamas terrorists breached the Gaza security fence, entered Israel, and massacred more than 1,400 people — raping, burning, mutilating, and torturing their victims, including infants, children, pregnant women, the elderly, and disabled people. They also took more than 220 hostages back to Gaza...

October 28, 2023 | Emanuele Ottolenghi |

Hezbollah’s Terror Threat In Latin America

In the land of symmetrical war, the asymmetrical warrior is king. The U.S. and Israeli governments are rightly concerned that Hezbollah – Iran’s oldest and best-armed proxy – could open a second front in the Israel-Hamas conflict. But who says Hezbollah would limit itself to striking U.S. or Israeli targets in the Middle East? 
For decades, Hezbollah has patiently built a global web of networks, engaged in illicit financial activities, and supported terrorist plots. Hezbollah and Iran have repeatedly struck at Israeli, Jewish, and other Western targets overseas. Latin America is a region of particular concern in this respect, for several reasons. 
Emanuele Ottolenghi is a Senior Fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies.

June 21, 2023 | Elaine K. Dezenski |

Countering Threats Posed by Nation-State Actors in Latin America to U.S. Homeland Security

Subcommittee on Counterterrorism, Law Enforcement, and Intelligence

June 11, 2023 | Emanuele Ottolenghi |

America’s Power Competition Goes Awry in Lula’s Brazil

When the dust settles, the consequences of Lula’s approach will serve neither American interests nor Brazil’s.

April 19, 2023 | Elaine K. Dezenski, John Austin

Domestic Investments Can Aid All Democracies

Last summer's Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) was a huge win for America's "green" game, but it also provoked worries among U.S. allies about the protectionism...

March 24, 2023 | Elaine K. Dezenski |

The United States’ Energy Future Needs Critical Minerals—and Latin America

Energy is a weapon in wartime and a key to prosperity in peacetime. As the world moves towards greater adoption of renewable energy sources and electric vehicles, we need to ensure that America’s...

January 18, 2023 | Toby Dershowitz |

A Prosecutor Was Murdered for Investigating Iran and Argentinian Corruption

Argentina has “serious corruption problems,” according to Transparency International’s Corruption Perception Index. Will this regrettable condition continue to conceal the truth behind the identity...

December 16, 2022 | David Adesnik, John Hardie

FDD’s Biden Administration Foreign Policy Tracker: The Year in Review

November 11, 2022 | Emanuele Ottolenghi |

Grounded: Why Biden Must Sanction Iranian Aviation

Iran’s airlift does not rely on a massive fleet. The Biden administration’s sanctions arsenal can make a difference.

November 1, 2022 | David Adesnik |

Biden Administration Foreign Policy Tracker: November

October 3, 2022 | David Adesnik, John Hardie

Biden Administration Foreign Policy Tracker: October

July 18, 2022 | Toby Dershowitz |

Iran Is Testing Us. So Far, We Are Failing

In February, a jet carrying Iran’s minister of the interior, Ahmad Vahidi, landed at Pakistan’s Nur Khan air base and he was not arrested. He should have been. Vahidi, and four other senior...