2024-04-25 21:44:04
This Thursday, details of the report that the Minister of Security of Argentina, Patricia Bullrich, gave to the Minister of the Interior, Carolina Tohá, were revealed. regarding the presence of Hezbollah in the region.
Let us remember that the trans-Andean authority assured that in the north, specifically in Iquique, there is a presence of the terrorist organization. He then apologized and even called Tohá.
Now, within the framework of Enade 2024, the ministers met and addressed the issue. Regarding that, the head of the Interior said that the meeting with Bullrich was “positive.”
Meanwhile, El Clarín had access to the document, which states that “Hezbollah’s activity can be identified in the area of the Triple Border between Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay, with a neural center in Ciudad del Este. This axis would have been rotating or at least diversified. Today the “triple Andean border” made up of Chile, Peru and Bolivia is also taken into account; and the “triple maritime border” composed of the points of Colón (Panama), Maicao (Colombia) and Punto Fijo (Venezuela).”
The report also indicates that there are “indications” that “both Iran” due to its “political-commercial interference” and the Hezbollah group, through “illicit activities”, “have increased their capacity for action in different strategic points in Latin America”, citing cases in Chile, Bolivia, Paraguay, Brazil and Colombia.
It was last April 15 when Bullrich said in an interview with Todo Noticias that Hezbollah is present on the border between Paraguay, Brazil and Argentina, adding that “recently” its presence has been reported in Iquique, Tarapacá region.
Clan Barakat
Other data extracted from the document is related to the presence of the Barakat clan in the countries of the region. One of them, Hatem Ahmad Barakat, was designated by the United States as an alleged financier of Hezbollah, who was linked to the 1994 AMIA terrorist attack.
Here it is said that Barakat “traveled to Chile to collect funds for Hezbollah, and in early 2003, he was reported to be a major shareholder in at least two businesses in Iquique, Chile.”
Adding that his son, Ali Hatem Barakat, would legally reside in the trans-Andean country with the RUT number 22735459-3 (document), despite registering him in Fox do Iguaçu.
Even, according to the report, Hatem Ali’s sister, Maysaa, would also live in Iquique, revealing that in Chile, Alí ”owned two businesses: Importadora Dakotas Limitada and Importadora y Exportadora Montreal Limitada until June 2015, when he liquidated both.” .
He also reports that during his tenure at both companies, their co-owner was a man named Ahmad Droubi. “Through Droubi, it was possible to identify another network of contacts sympathetic to Hezbollah, from the Rachid clan, who would reside in Santiago and Arica,” the document details.
These groups are expected to establish themselves, especially in Iquique, through import and export companies, “which would serve as front organizations or ghost companies,” such as Saleh Trading Ltd.
And even through Barakat Import Export Ltda., where “they would have carried out money laundering operations to finance the extremist group,” as detailed in Bullrich’s report to Tohá.
It also reveals Barakat’s business activities in Venezuela and Paraguay.
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