US EditionSenate hearing targets Hezbollah's 'Global Gangsters' and Latin American drug trade
The Senate hearing highlighted Venezuela as Latin America's narcoterrorism hub and noted Hezbollah’s shift to drug trafficking as Iran’s funding declined to 30%, experts said.
- On Tuesday, the bipartisan Senate International Narcotics Control Caucus held a hearing called Global Gangsters to examine Hezbollah's drug trafficking in Latin America, marking the first congressional review in a decade and highlighting Venezuela's ties to Iran and Nicolás Maduro's narcoterrorism push.
- Amid reduced Iranian support, witnesses described Hezbollah turning to new revenue sources as until 2023 about 70% of its finances came from Iran, prompting shifts to narcotics trafficking.
- Evidence presented described extensive illicit finance and trade networks linking Hezbollah and cartels, with witnesses saying Hezbollah relies on diaspora channels and operates like corporate conglomerates.
- Experts recommended more Latin American governments designate Hezbollah fully as a terrorist group, while some witnesses and senators said Venezuela meets the legal standard for state‑sponsor designation and urged targeting financial networks.
- Targeting Hezbollah's financing can deny the group the chance to rebuild, witnesses argued, as setbacks to Iran and Hezbollah increase the value of choking their funding.
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Senate Hezbollah hearing spotlights Venezuela’s strategic partnership with Iran and terror ties
The first congressional hearing on Hezbollah’s malign activities in the Western hemisphere in a decade took place this week, highlighting Venezuela’s embrace of Iran as a geopolitical partner and the Maduro regime’s efforts to transform the country into a regional hub for narcoterrorism. The bipartisan Senate International Narcotics Control Caucus convened the hearing, titled “Global Gangsters: Hezbollah’s Latin American Drug Trafficking Operat…
A group of experts held a hearing in the U.S. Senate this Tuesday on the role of Hezbollah in Latin America and denounced, among other things, the increase in its presence in Venezuela since the arrival in power of President Nicolás Maduro. “I have seen documentation showing that the Venezuelan government awarded contracts to Hezbollah cover companies as early as 2001, and when Maduro took control, the extent and depth of Hezbollah’s presence in…
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