Connecting a few dots: Last week, “Anthony Joseph Tracy, 35, was set free after pleading guilty to human smuggling charges … Tracy, a former informant two U.S. intelligence agencies, was collared at JFK Airport last January. He copped to helping 272 Somalis illegally enter the U.S. from Kenya through Cuba. … Tracy allegedly helped the Somalis get travel visas to Cuba. After traveling from Kenya to Dubai to Moscow to Cuba, they then went to South America before entering the United States through the border in Mexico.”
Archive for Category: "South America"
June 10, 2010 05:36
State Dept: Hezbollah Raising Funds Through Drug Cartels in South America But ‘No Credible Information’ of Terrorist Operations There
Huh? However, as CNSNews.com has reported, the non-partisan Congressional Research Service (CRS) says the U.S.-designated terrorist group Hezbollah is linked to drug traffickers in South America’s tri-border region, which includes Paraguay, Argentina, and Brazil, and is using the proceeds from trafficking cocaine into Europe and the Middle East to finance its operations.
June 9, 2010 06:33
Florida senator wants Venezuela on terrorist supporting list
Florida Senator George LeMieux calls on Congress to add Venezuela to the list of terrorist supporting countries. LeMieux and ten other senators sent a letter to Hillary Clinton in May warning of the danger growing in Venezuela and its close ties to Iran. There has been no response to the letter.
June 9, 2010 05:42
Hillary to World: Raise Your Taxes!
In her Latin American tour Secretary of State Hillary Clinton misstated facts about Brazil’s economy as she pushes countries to raise taxes. Did Hugo Chavez write her speech?
June 7, 2010 07:41
About time: Clinton Backs Return of Honduras to Full OAS Role
Although Clinton refuses to admit the Obama administration’s mistake in condemning Honduras’ legal ouster of Chavez supported Zelaya, she at least says Honduras should be readmitted to the OAS.
June 3, 2010 06:54
China drills deeper into Latin America
Venezuela, Argentina and Brazil all have deals with China to supply oil in exchange for loans. While it remains unknown at what cost to US interests China’s strategic partnerships with Latin America will have in the long-term, it behooves Washington to engage Latin America and maintain friendships throughout the region as the power gravity slowly shifts east.
June 1, 2010 09:47
Hope for Colombia – Santos leads Chavez backed Mockus 2 to 1
The lead vote-getter, Juan Manuel Santos, the architect of crushing blows against guerrillas as a defense minister under President Álvaro Uribe, took 46.6 percent, against 21.5 percent for his main rival, Antanas Mockus
June 1, 2010 05:33
Venezuela’s Chavez backing leftist guerrillas in Mexico
“Chavez has been funding groups like these in Mexico and throughout Latin America,” said a U.S. official with knowledge of the group and its operations. “These groups are nothing more than terrorist organizations and members have connected to other narco-trafficking organizations in Mexico, creating a very dangerous matrix.”
June 1, 2010 04:13
Cuba-Venezuela Ties Deepen with Military Training
It’s no longer just doctors, nurses and teachers. Cuba now sends Venezuela troops to train its military, and computer experts to work on its passport and identification-card systems.
May 28, 2010 04:30
Totalitarianism and anarchy; authoritarianism and chaos – future of Latin America?
Today, a large part of the Latin American continent is in danger of collapsing into a situation that fluctuates between totalitarianism and anarchy; between authoritarianism and chaos. The region is also in danger of falling under the strange influence of insurgent and terrorist groups, drug cartels and distant countries that historically have been poles apart from the region’s culture and civilization (mainly Iran, China, and perhaps Russia). Soon, we will wake up to the day where we will find the nightmare not in Iraq or in Central Asia, but right here in our own backyard.
