Hizballah has been operating in Venezuela for several years. In 2021, Venezuela hosted Hizballah and Fatah cells involved in money laundering, drug dealing, and jihad activity. Thanks to Hizballah, Venezuela has rapidly turned into “a hub for the convergence of transnational organized crime and international terrorism.” The expansion of Hizballah’s network in Venezuela has aided Iran, as Iran increases its influence in Venezuela, with an eye on South America as a whole.
Last year, Israeli intelligence foiled a secret Hizballah drug smuggling operation in South America.
“How Hezbollah Is Exploiting Cocaine, Corruption, and Chaos in Venezuela,” by Matthew Smith, Oil Price News, August 10, 2024:
After Hamas’ savage October 2023 assault on Israel which claimed 1,200 lives, mostly civilians, Hezbollah ramped up its confrontational posture, sparking fears of further terror attacks. The militant Lebanese political group, for decades, has acted as a powerful proxy actor for Iran’s theocratic regime. Hezbollah, which the U.S. designated as a foreign terrorist organization in 1997, earned a menacing reputation for bombing civilian targets and involvement in a host of criminal activities, notably narcotics and arms trafficking as well as money laundering. Hezbollah’s sizable but overlooked presence in Latin America poses significant risks. It gives the militants access to lucrative illicit economies along with the ability to strike soft targets in a region lacking robust counter-terrorism capabilities. In the wake of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro’s fraudulent electoral victory, Hezbollah will expand its South American presence as Iran ramps up support for the murderous regime to counter stricter U.S. sanctions.
Hezbollah participates in a host of criminal and terrorist activities across Latin America. Among the Shiite militant’s most notorious terrorist attacks in the region is the 1992 suicide bombing of Israel’s Embassy in Buenos Aires Argentina, where nine embassy personnel and scores of civilians were killed. Then there was the 1994 attack on Buenos Aires’s AMIA Jewish community center …
Peacelover says
so that it all can be transported north and continue to bring ruin to this country
Walter Sieruk says
The reason why the Muslim terrorists of Hezbollah are engaging in the totally unconscionably wicked activities of drug trafficking to finance the jihad against Israel is because those jihadists of are putting into practice Islamic doctrine of “Muruna.”
Muruna is the dogma of Islam that teaches it’s a righteous thing to commit evil for the greater good which is the furtherance jihad for Islam. This is, in essence, the same type of “philosophy” that the communists had gone by in the twentieth century. That it’s a “good thing “ to commit many evils to obtain a “worker’s paradise.” Likewise, during World War II even the Nazis had this line of thinking.”
To express, as in to illustrate this idea, even more, is by using a twenty-first century movie. Near the end of this movie, just before the final defeat of the super-arch –villain General Zod , that super villain said “No matter how brutal and deadly I was I did it for the greater good.” That is the common mindset of many villains, including those jihadists of Hezbollah.
Donna says
Iran and Venezuela has had a relationship for decades. The Obama crew strengthened their bond. Iranians have been “latinized”
there for 20 years at least. They go to Venezuela, learn Spanish, get documented as Venezuelans and begin their way north. With help from cartels there are more than thousands entering thru the Arizona border alone. I live 40 miles north of the border in a small town. I’ve waited on CBP agents for years on golf courses and bars, since 2001. Agents have been steam rolled into silence. In the beginning, border patrol vehicles came back into town on tow trucks sprayed with bullet holes end to end. After a couple beers I’d hear them discuss shootouts with the ” Mexican federales”, dirty cops for cartels. Gun battles were common, territory shuffles and such. At one point it went from gunfights to decapitation regularly in mexico. After this period I overheard about prayer rugs, Qurans and Arabic documents found scattered in the desert. Then I heard talk of orders to stand down whenever encountering camouflaged armed groups of men! Given orders to allow ARMED MEN TO PASS INTO OUR DESERT UNAPPROACHED FREE AS THEY PLEASE IN THE DARKNESS OF NIGHT. This happened throughout the obama/Biden years. All agents spoke of the betrayal they felt. Some left their positions, a couple by suicide.It was demeaning and against the law they swore to defend with their heart and soul . Sometimes I cried on my way home from work for our border patrol and my children….OUR COUNTRY IS BEING TAKEN OVER!!!!
Hope brightened with President Trump! BOOM He shut it down. Sweet relief!
Then came the steal, made possible by California’s blue refugees buying twice as many houses anyone needs. I couldn’t believe how fast the new population flipped our races. Many signs of deliberate tampering and Intimdation among officials. Gov Hobbs and her crew will do everything, everything and more to keep the power stolen from Arizona.
Our enemies have planned,infiltrated and have been waiting for the opportunity that is before us. It’s Trump or Death to America. Please vote for freedom!
Donna says
Sorry for being so long there.
James Lincoln says
Donna,
On the contrary, your post was very informative – and well worth the read.
OLD GUY says
Islam’s great leaders involved in the drug trade, go figure.