The Mexican army seized a shoulder-fired missile, a rocket launcher and three grenades in an operation against drug trafficking in the Gulf of Mexico state of Veracruz, the Defence Department said Tuesday. Soldiers also found four rifles, 2,870 rounds of ammunition, a bulletproof vehicle, and packages of cocaine and marijuana in a raid in the ranch town of El Guayabal. Unidentified men fled the ranch when the troops arrived Monday and couldn't be captured. The Zetas drug cartel controls drug...

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Wednesday expressed concern about allegations that some Latin American drug trafficking organizations are linked with Hezbollah and Iran. "We are concerned about the activities of Iran and Hezbollah in the Western Hemisphere," the top U.S. envoy told the House Committee on Foreign Affairs at a hearing. Washington brands Hezbollah, a Shiite militant group in Lebanon, as a terrorist organization, while Iran's disputed nuclear program is...

Argentina has captured a three-man Iranian-Hizballah cell and is hunting for the rest of the network, according to exclusive debkafile sources. Its counter-terror police were a step ahead of attacks plotted against several of the 10 Habad centers in the country, part of a worldwide joint terrorist offensive against Israeli and Jewish targets. Two strikes were thwarted earlier this month in . The three-man cell was captured in the Argentine resort town of San Carlos de Bariloche, 1,680...

Univision, the largest TV broadcaster in Spanish of the United States, recently presented a report showing that Iran is actively preparing an attack against the US to be carried out from bases in Latin America. The documentary, "La Amenaza Irani" (" "), illustrated, though undercover footage, how the growing economic, political and military ties Iran has developed in South American countries are rapidly evolving into a tangible threat for the security of the US. The...

Caracas - The Venezuelan Government released an official communication yesterday denouncing accusations made against Venezuela by Israeli Vice Prime Minister Moshe Yaalon as “slanderous” and “abusive”. Yaalon accused Venezuela of working with Iran to create a “terrorist infrastructure” in Latin America that could “attack the interests of the United States or in the United States,” during his visit to Uruguay this week. The Venezuelan Government...

Israeli Vice Prime Minister Moshe Ya'alon declared on Monday in an interview that Iran is framing, with the little help of Venezuela, a "terrorist infrastructure" in Latin America against the United States, Israel and their allies. "The idea is framing a terrorist infrastructure to be underlying for a while and in due time be able to attack the interests of the United States or in the United States," as well as "Israeli or Jewish interests or of any other country...

A group of Venezuelans opposed to the Venezuelan government said at a press conference that their e-mails and social networks accounts in Twitter or Facebook have been hacked. On the occasion of the Summit of Latin American and Caribbean States (Celac), the well-known figures said that the vandalistic acts against their personal accounts have been due to the "policy of computer terrorism promoted by the government of Hugo Chávez Frías." Among the people affected...

Amid last night's Republican presidential debate on foreign policy, one of the more obscure references made by candidates was to the threat of Islamic terrorist groups like Hamas and Hezbollah operating in Latin America. Both Texas Gov. Rick Perry and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney cited Islamist threats in Latin America. Governor Perry claimed that "Hamas and Hezbollah are working in Mexico, as well as Iran, with their ploy to come into the United States," and warned of...

Anonymous IberoAmerica, the Latin American collective within the Anonymous hacktivist group, has called off its operation to expose members of the Zetas narcotics cartel after announcing that a kidnapped Anonymous member was released. The released hostage also reportedly delivered a message: that the Zetas would kill ten people for every name of a Zeta associate released by Anonymous. Anonymous members launched an effort called OpCartel last week after claiming a member had been kidnapped...

After successfully taking out a child porn ring, Anonymous is threatening war on November 5th with Mexico's Zetas drug cartel, after the kidnapping of an Anonymous member from Veracruz. The video states that if the Mexican drug cartel doesn't free the kidnapped Anonymous member unharmed, the hacking group will release the names, addresses and photos of taxi drivers, journalists and police officers on the payroll of the criminal gang. The video ends with an ultimatum that simply states...