Venezuela's Clans Usher Hezbollah in Through the Front Door

Iran Wire ^ | 15.Feb.2021 | XIMENA HERRERA

[Marinario]

Abdala Rada Ramel has close ties to Salman Raouf Salman, who has been also accused of an important role in the AMIA bombing attack

 The "clans" consist of groups of Lebanese origin who exert control over given territories in South America - and enable Hezbollah

 All three clans are strategically positioned close to the most important ports of Venezuela, from which they doubtless oversee the trade and handling of goods that in turn allows Hezbollah to profit

 Assad Ahmad Barakat is accused of having been involved in the AMIA bomb attack and operating call centers and shell companies on behalf of Hezbollah

After the fall of the Ottoman Empire, thousands of Arab refugees fleeing the ensuing war found refuge in Latin America, beginning a new chapter in their lives. This wave of migration has led today to a community of more than 10 million Lebanese now living on the continent.

Back then, open immigration policy allowed many Lebanese arrivals to move mainly to Venezuela and Colombia. In Venezuela alone, more than one million citizens today are of Lebanese origin. Significantly many of these immigrants also settled in the Tri-Border Area: a 200 square-kilometre zone at the intersection of Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay that comprises one city from each country:  Puerto Iguazú in Argentina, Foz de Iguazú in Brazil, and Ciudad del Este in Paraguay....

Venezuela is also the base of operations of choice for three other three infamous clans: Saleh, Rada and Nasr al-Din. Each of these groups, Humire says, has control of a different section of the clandestine route between Margarita Island, a tax-free shopping enclave in Venezuela used as a meeting point by Hezbollah, and Maicao city in Colombia.

[Marinario]

Article states that Lebanese immigrants there themselves are victims of Hezbollah...

[Liaison]

It’s been known for years that Arab and Muslim terrorist groups have been controlling drug trade and black market smuggling in South America. They have been known the train there also. I would not put it past them to conduct slavery in SA like they do in Africa and the Middle East. The corruption in Venezuela just makes it easier for them to conduct their business.

[caww]

Yep...Pompeo and Trump had addressed this ....Mike Pompeo confirmed, “People don’t recognize that Hezbollah has active cells. The Iranians are impacting the people of Venezuela and throughout South America ... We have an obligation to take down that risk for America,” he said.

[caww]

U.S. Navy Admiral Craig S. Faller, commander of U.S. Southern Command, testified in 2019 before a U.S. Senate panel that Iran’s “proxy Lebanese Hezbollah maintains facilitation networks throughout the [Americas] that cache weapons and raise funds, often via drug trafficking and money laundering.”

So imagine what they're doing now with Bidens open border!

[Marinario]

Indeed.

[caww]

Venzezula is a huge money washing machine agent which involves Turkey and many middle east countries.....that's one of the ways maduro keeps himself in power. They're robbing the country of it's gold send it overseas to ‘clean’ and then funnel cash back to maduro.......the people never see any of it..same for their other resources.

[Pajamajan]

bttt

[SJackson]

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