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This is the New World Report. I'm John Batch with my colleagues, Joseph Humair,

Ernesto Arruzio, a new YouTube broadcast I highly recommend.

A conversation between Joseph and a manually autolingue of the foundation for the defensive democracy

who specializes in Latin America affairs, especially when it comes to Iran's malign influence.

We go now to a capital that's really darkness visible.

You don't see in, you don't see out, the US has no conversation whatsoever with the dictators.

And Joseph tells me that Managua is another stopping place for Iran.

How so, Joseph? What do we know?

So, this is interesting, John, because I think in Managua, Nicaragua is kind of the project on part

and that becoming another base for Iran and the Western Hemisphere,

much like Venezuela and Bolivia have become. In fact, in the podcast,

and the one that you're referring to, the Border Wars podcast with Immanuel,

I specifically talk a lot about this model that I've used to kind of conceptualize Iran's growth in Latin America,

called the pattern of penetration. And what that is is basically that's a step-by-step systematic method

that the Iranians have used to grow its influence in a macro level in all of Latin America,

or you can look it on a case-by-case country-by-country basis.

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