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After Maduro: Challenges for Stabilizing Venezuela
- José Gustavo Arocha
- 01/30/2026
- Policy ReportsOpinion EditorialsIn the MediaPublications
Maduro’s capture opened a path toward Venezuela’s stabilization and recovery. Success requires dismantling Iran’s operational footprint, severing military–militia links, and cutting illicit revenue (drug trafficking, shadow fleets, illegal mining, money laundering).
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Neutralizing Iran’s Military Footprint in Venezuela
Iran has established a dangerous military arsenal in Venezuela, operational Mohajer-6 combat drones, Shahed-style loitering munitions, Nasr-1 anti-ship missiles, and fast-attack boats, with local assembly facilities and embedded Iranian personnel.
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U.S. operation in Venezuela: self-defense against a hybrid aggressor
The United States conducted a military operation on Venezuelan territory which, according to President Donald Trump, included a large-scale attack and resulted in the capture of Nicolás Maduro and his removal from the country.
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Venezuela as Bridgehead: Treasury Sanctions Expose Iran’s Drone Capability Moving Closer to the United States
The new U.S. Treasury designations underscore what SFS has documented for years: Venezuela is Iran’s Western Hemisphere bridgehead. The Tehran-Caracas drone pipeline is embedding capability closer to U.S. territory.
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Iran’s Latin American Strategy: Leveraging Asymmetric Warfare to Project Conflict into the Western Hemisphere
Through proxy networks, criminal convergence, and strategic alliances with authoritarian regimes, Tehran builds a Western platform for destabilization.
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The Center for a Secure Free Society Calls for Hemispheric Unity Against Iran’s Nuclear Threat and Its Terrorist Proxies
- Leonardo Coutinho
- 06/18/2025
- PublicationsIn the MediaOpinion Editorials
The Center for a Secure Free Society (SFS) proudly congratulates Joseph M. Humire on his appointment as the U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Homeland Defense Integration and Defense Support of Civil Authorities.
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The Center for a Secure Free Society (SFS) proudly congratulates Joseph M. Humire
- 06/09/2025
- PublicationsIn the MediaOpinion Editorials
The Center for a Secure Free Society (SFS) proudly congratulates Joseph M. Humire on his appointment as the U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Homeland Defense Integration and Defense Support of Civil Authorities.
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President Trump’s Counteroffensive Against the Tren de Aragua
- 05/01/2025
- PublicationsIn the MediaOpinion Editorials
The Tren de Aragua (TdA) represents a criminal system that was honed and perfected inside Venezuelan prison walls then exported throughout the Western Hemisphere.
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