Is there a credible Islamist threat in Latin America?

At the same time, there is credible evidence that Venezuela’s recently appointed Vice President El Aissami, son of a Lebanese mother and a Syrian father, was active in Hezbollah in his youth and has maintained his ties to terrorist groups both while he was in the Interior Ministry and now in the vice presidency. Sources have confirmed his youthful ties to Hezbollah and raised serious concerns about the nexus between narcotics trafficking and Hezbollah while he was in the Interior Ministry. More…