The Argentine Minister of Security, Patricia Bullrich, mentioned this Thursday in Chile that the Lebanese Shiite celebration Hezbollah operates on the triple border of Brazil, Paraguay and Argentinaterritory through which “they’re put in and launder cash.”
“They use the PCC of Brazil, First Capital Command, they use Argentine and Paraguayan organizations thatand they kidnap, rob or site visitors medication. And they purchase and launder cash,” Bullrich mentioned in a discussion board at the National Business Meeting (Enade) 2024, in Santiago, Chile.
The Argentine Secretary of State has additionally identified that “they use these organizations as a display screen, whereas they seem as retailers, or as businessmen in the space,” though she didn’t insist on the presence of Hezbollah in Chile, as she said final week. .
“And that is maybe why we, Argentines, have a particular sensitivity, as a result of, final week, our highest legal court docket in Argentina simply gave an opinion saying that Iran acted in Argentina as a terrorist state. And that his software was Hezbollah,” he commented.
“But the identical factor could also be occurring with different organizations, that are showing with a degree of sophistication and planning typical of linked backgrounds to the Armed Forces,” added Bullrich.
It is value remembering that Chile introduced a be aware of protest towards the statements of the Argentine Minister of Security about the alleged presence of Hezbollah in the metropolis of Iquique (north).
This motion was added to the letter that the Chilean ambassador to the United States, Juan Gabriel Valdés, despatched to the Congress of that nation to precise his annoyance at the statements of Republican Senator Marco Rubiowho additionally recommended that there’s a presence and hyperlinks in Chile of Hezbollah, one of Iran’s important allies.
