South America

Chile’s new president is a win for Iran

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

Iran’s Quest for Soleimani’s Revenge Goes to Latin America

Shortly after a U.S. strike killed Iran’s most senior general, Qassem Soleimani, in Baghdad in January 2020, both Iran and its terror proxy Hezbollah swore revenge. Nearly two years later, Iran and Hezbollah...

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...

Merkel needs to end support for terrorist Iran’s regime

Germany’s next government (elections are set for September) must break from its unsavory romance with Tehran and start to show a little more love towards Israel.

Hezbollah: Narco-Terror and Crime in Latin America

Will the Biden administration go after Hezbollah’s drug trafficking and money laundering networks? Hezbollah’s direct involvement in the drug trade is well documented, ongoing, and a threat to U.S national...

Is Iran Sending Weapons to Venezuela? And How Is the U.S. Responding?

An Iranian cargo plane gets stranded in Senegal on its way to Caracas.

Is Qatar lying about its COVID-19 outbreak to avoid jeopardizing its hosting of the World Cup?

According to John Hopkins University, Qatar has suffered at least 216 total deaths and 126,339 total cases

Hezbollah Finance in Lebanon

A Primary-Source Review

Modernize The National Guard’s State Partnership Program

Low-key deployments by citizen-soldiers have strengthened ties with 89 nations – but some crucial partners are missing.

Crisis in Lebanon

Anatomy of a Financial Collapse

Watch China’s actions, don’t listen to its words

Beijing’s parasitic model weakens the global economy, its traditional hosts are becoming poorer. Which is likely one of the reasons why Beijing is now so focused on leeching off of Africa, South America, and others. It’s also why being blocked from a market such as India could be a serious problem.

Argentina’s new leadership carries old baggage of corruption and conspiracy allegations

The baggage contains both economic and moral peril for the South American country, as well as danger for its tenuous relationship with the U.S.

It’s time to hold Iran accountable for terrorism in Argentina

Excerpt Twenty five years ago this month, the world watched in horror as rescuers in Buenos Aires picked through the rubble of a Jewish community center, searching for survivors of a su...

Pompeo Needs to Confront Paraguay’s Hezbollah Problem

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is headed to Paraguay this week to garner support for the Trump Administration’s policy of ma...

Paraguay Is a Fiscal Paradise for Terrorists

The South American country needs to do a better job patrolling its financial system—or face the consequences.

Midterm Assessment: Hezbollah

Is Bibi ready to samba?

There are three key areas in which greater Israeli support could help Brazil crack down on Hezbollah and fight organized crime: Border controls, criminal investigations and money laundering.

Hezbollah on Trial in Europe

Fifteen Hezbollah-linked defendants accused of laundering millions of euros in South American drug money to Europe and Lebanon...

Congress Again Puts Hezbollah and Its Partners in Its Crosshairs

Despite Congressional measures to push Hezbollah out of the formal banking sector in Lebanon, Hezbollah has continued to ...

Kim Jong Un’s ‘All-Purpose Sword’

North Korean Cyber-Enabled Economic Warfare