Argentina’s Defence Minisiter Patricia Bullrich has publicly identified the head of Hezbollah operations
in Latin America as Hussein Ahmad Karaki. She also alleged that he was responsible for the 1992
Israeli Embassy and 1994 Argentine Israelite Mutual Association (AMIA) bombings in Buenos Aires,
which collectively killed over 100 and injured around 500.
The accusations indicate that Hezbollah operations in South America are facilitated by Venezuela and
that the Iranian-backed group had established direct ties to organised crime groups in the region,
especially the Brazilian cartels Primeiro Comando da Capital (PCC) and Comando Vermelho, which
have reportedly become narco-terrorist networks under Hezbollah’s influence and have been
responsible for much violence.