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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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Bolivia on the Brink of Economic Collapse, a Deliberate Strategy?
- Dardo López-Dolz
- 04/13/2023
- Policy Reports
Bolivia is experiencing one of its worst financial crises in modern history. Its international reserves are the lowest they’ve been in 15 years and government bonds have the worst yields in 5 years.
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A conquista esplêndida
- Leonardo Coutinho
- 10/07/2019
- Policy Reports
SFS Special Report, "A Splendid Conquest," shows Chinese companies expand their access to Brazil’s strategic data and information.
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A Conquista Esplêndida (The Splendid Conquest) Executive Summary
- Leonardo Coutinho
- 10/07/2019
- Policy Reports
Executive Summary of SFS Special Report, "A Splendid Conquest," shows Chinese companies expand their access to Brazil’s strategic data and information.
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The Dragon and the Condor: Beyond China’s Economic Influence in the Americas
- Ricardo Neeb
- 02/21/2018
- Policy Reports
Mainstream analysis of China’s presence in Latin America almost exclusively concentrates on economics rather than politics, and often disregards military or security issues entirely.
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