Hezbollah’s influence in the region dates back several years. Click here to see the interactive timeline.‘Hell To Pay’ If Terrorists’ Link To Drug Cartels Isn’t Checked -- Washington Times
Collaboration between Latin American drug cartels and groups such as Iran's Quds Force and the Islamic terror group Hezbollah is growing “far faster than most policymakers in Washington, D.C., choose to admit,” a former U.S. intelligence official testified Tuesday.
Michael A. Braun, former chief of operations and intelligence for the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), told lawmakers that the operational capability of such groups is being “strengthened by the close relations that they are working hard to develop with very powerful organized criminal organizations in our neighborhood and throughout Latin America.”
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My Comment: Groups like Hezbollah need money to survive, and with sanctions against Iran being increased, I am sure that they are concerned on what impact this will have on their finances .... hence the need to diversify elsewhere. But are they collaborating with drug cartels to launch terror strikes against U.S. targets, I have yet to see any evidence that this is what is happening.