The Argentine Security Minister, Patricia Bullrich, declared this Thursday in Chile that the Lebanese Shiite movement Hezbollah operates on the triple border of Brazil, Paraguay and Argentina, a territory where “it is installed and launders money”.
“[Os membros do Hezbollah] they use the Brazilian PCC, Primeiro Comando Capital, they use Argentine and Paraguayan organizations that carry out kidnappings, robberies or drug trafficking. And they buy and launder money”, maintained Bullrich at the National Company Meeting (ENADE) 2024, in Santiago de Chile.
Bullrich maintained that “they use these organizations as front organizations, and present themselves as traders or businessmen from the region”, although he did not insist on the presence of Hezbollah in Chile, as he stated last week.
“And this is perhaps why we, Argentines, have a special sensitivity, because last week our highest criminal court just issued a ruling saying that Iran acted in Argentina as a terrorist state. And that its instrument was Hezbollah “, he commented.
“But the same may be happening with other organizations, which are appearing with a level of sophistication and planning typical of those linked to the Armed Forces,” he added.
It is recalled that Chile presented a note of protest against the statements made by the Argentine Minister of Security regarding the alleged presence of Hezbollah in the city of Iquique, in the north of the country.
This action was added to the letter that the Chilean ambassador to the United States, Juan Gabriel Valdés, sent to the US Congress to express his discomfort with the statements made by Republican Senator Marco Rubio, who also suggested that there is a Hezbollah presence in Chile. and links to that movement, one of Iran’s main allies.
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