For years, Hamas, Hezbollah and Islamic Jihad have been raising funds through extortion and blackmail from Arab residents of the Latin countries and processing the funds through the tri-border area where Brazil, Argentina and Paraguay meet as well as, in more recent years, the Islamic “Cultural” Center on Margarita Island, Venezuela.
[Hugo Chavez] has formed a group of so-called “Bolivarian” regimes in other Latin countries, particularly Nicaragua, Ecuador and Bolivia. All of these countries, led by Venezuela, have facilitated the activities of the terrorists and have established friendly relations with Iran, enabling that country to use their financial institutions to evade financial sanctions, hosting dozens of Iranian agents in bloated embassies, supplying identity documents to Iranians and signing dozens of agreements covering military, intelligence, diplomatic, economic and financial cooperation.
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