Hizballah’s Latin American Drug and Money-Laundering Empire Stretches into the U.S.
Producing hundreds of millions of dollars for funding terrorism.
January 12, 2021
Hizballah’s Latin American Drug and Money-Laundering Empire Stretches into the U.S.
Producing hundreds of millions of dollars for funding terrorism.
In 2007, a U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) wiretap of the notorious Medellín cartel picked up a conversation in Arabic. With further investigation, the DEA discovered that the Iran-backed terrorist group Hizballah was arranging shipments of cocaine from Colombia to the Middle East. This operation turned out to be only a small part of a sprawling network of criminal enterprises in South America, writes Emanuele Ottolenghi:
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