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Tres décadas desde el atentado en Panamá: la conexión con Hezbolá y la extradición de Ali Zaki

Tres décadas desde el atentado en Panamá: la conexión con Hezbolá y la extradición de Ali Zaki

El 20 de abril de 2026, Ali Zaki Hage Jalil llegó a Panamá para responder por los cargos relacionados con el atentado con bomba perpetrado en 1994 contra el vuelo 901 de Alas Chiricanas, un ataque vinculado a Hezbolá que causó la muerte de las 21 personas a bordo, un día después del atentado contra la AMIA en Buenos Aires. Durante 30 años, vivió abiertamente en Venezuela. Su extradición supone el avance más significativo en el caso desde 1994 y una posible prueba de la cooperación en materia de lucha contra el terrorismo tras la era Maduro.

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After Maduro: Challenges for Stabilizing Venezuela

After Maduro: Challenges for Stabilizing Venezuela

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

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

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

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

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?

Bolivia on the Brink of Economic Collapse, a Deliberate Strategy?

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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Narco-Culture Is a Weapon

Narco-Culture Is a Weapon

Narcoterrorism is not new. The delivery system is. The term dates to Peru in the early 1980s, and Pablo Escobar was bombing airliners decades ago. What has changed is the convergence of the crime-terror playbook with a digital cultural apparatus of narcocorridos, TikTok aesthetics, and influencer-style propaganda that industrializes recruitment and legitimization.

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