Thousands suffered in the leftist rampage that precipitated the 1976 military coup. Those who control the past, control the future: who controls the present controls the past. -Big Brother's party slogan, "1984," by George Orwell Justice is not easily secured anywhere in the world. But in Argentina today it is off limits to even mention in public the victims of the country's left-wing terrorism in the 1970s, let alone make an effort to win them or their surviving kin a day in...

LIMA, Peru - Her parole restored, political activist Lori Berenson slipped out a prison's side door and back to freedom after serving three-quarters of a 20-year sentence for collaborating with leftist rebels in Peru. The 40 year-old New York woman's legal troubles are not over, however, as Peru's top anti-terrorism prosecutor is trying to revoke her parole. Berenson and her lawyer and husband, Anibal Apari, arrived by taxi at her apartment just after dark Monday. "I will not be making...

We are publishing this article to warn our readers of the dire consequences of having Hezbollah stay accepted and active in South America. This article gives some background on the formation of Hezbollah. E.g., it was modeled by Iran in the 1970s after the 1920s model of the communist parties founded in many countries around the world. If the latest reports are correct, within the next few weeks the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague will reveal the names of nine members of the...

Last week's Mexico car bomb in the border town of Cuidad Juarez killed three. It is the first known use of a car bomb against authorities and marks a troubling new level of violence in the country's brutal drug war. For years drug experts, security officials, and political analysts have questioned the “Colombianization” of Mexico. Mexico had already overtaken Colombia in terms of kidnappings. The public has long gotten accustomed to a censored press, threats to politicians, and...

Last week Lebanese commentator Tony Badran published an article on the Now Lebanon Web site discussing the Iranian way of war. In "The shape of things to come," he discussed the significance of the breakup of a Hizbullah cell in Kuwait and the deportation of Hizbullah agents from Bahrain. Badran explained that like the Hizbullah ring arrested last year in Egypt, the Hizbullah cells in Persian Gulf states demonstrate how Iran uses Hizbullah to extend its regional power. Badran...

This tiny, palm-fringed island off the Atlantic coast seems like an idyllic Caribbean paradise. Duty-free shops, resort hotels and rustic snack bars line streets filled with European scuba divers on holiday. But a powerful Arab presence here has led to claims that San Andres is becoming a hotbed of Hezbollah terrorist activity. Ely Karmon, director of Israel's Institute for Counter-Terrorism in Herzliya, says that since the 1980s Hezbollah has been recruiting and raising money from...

In recent years, U.S. concerns have increased over activities of Hezbollah and the Sunni Muslim Palestinian group Hamas (Islamic Resistance Movement) in the tri-border area (TBA) of Argentina, Brazil, and Paraguay, which has a large Muslim population. The TBA has long been used for arms and drug trafficking, contraband smuggling, document and currency fraud, money laundering, and the manufacture and movement of pirated goods. A 2009 RAND study examines how Hezbollah has benefitted from...

Where Pacific coast State, Michoacan, Mexico Who 1 Ostensibly, China,, Hugo Chavez -Venezuela, USA, Carlos Slim, Salinas Pliego, Kansas City Southern Mexico, Drug Cartels - La Familia Michoacana - Los Zetas, EZLN. Who 2 Iran - Islam What Destabilize, proselytize - convert - ideological social, political and religious loyalties Objectives - Geopolitical General Reinforce existing Mexican popular sentiment to support Hugo Chavez, Evo Morales and Cuba against the US....

Five years after March 11th, which made Spain a target of the Islamist terror, Interior Minister has stated that Spain is now a source of Human Resources for future terrorists"..."situated in the 1st place in the ranking of their preferred recruitement's places for Al-Qaeda's recruitment in Europe, and, at the same time, it continues to be a target of international terrorism. Since March 11th, State Security Forces have detained 384 alleged Islamist terrorists. Some of the them had...

Thank you for the opportunity to discuss the issue of Iran in Latin America with you today. I believe the growing influence of Iran is a significant threat to the United States and is an under-reported part of the equation that is driving the instability and uncertainty in Latin America, from the crisis in Honduras to the rapidly-closing space for democratic freedoms in Venezuela, Bolivia, Ecuador, Nicaragua and elsewhere where the Bolivarian revolution has gained a foothold. There is broad...