This is the New World Report. I'm John Batch, who is my colleague, Ernesto Aruja, former

foreign minister of the Republic of Brazil, and Joseph Umar, the Executive Director of

Secure Free Society. We go to Peru where there is more trouble all the time. This is a question

of governance. The Castillo, the former president, has been jailed, and jailed for attempting

what appeared to be an illegitimate move to disenfranchise the Congress. Peru itself remains

under pressure from protests across the whole landscape, especially protests from the

region that was sponsoring Castillo, the region associated with indigenous people.

Joseph Umar is here to tell us about his experience in Peru and most recently how he identifies

the forces in Peru. Joseph, the story is not getting better. President Palarte, former

vice president, is now seeking peacemaking with the protesters. What is your mission, Joseph?

Yeah, so um, and all the turmoil and instability that's happening inside Peru, there are still

cases, judicial cases that need to advance the, even, you know, a lot of them they got delayed

because of the pandemic. I assume it didn't in many countries in the world. And one of the

most important trials, one of the most important, most important judicial cases inside Peru

is actually a case about an accused Hezbollah operative. Now we all know about Hezbollah as

an international terrorist organization. In terms of Latin America, there also a major transnational

criminal organization involved in major money laundering cases. But in this case of Peru,

this was an individual named Muhammad Ghalab-Hamdar, who is a Lebanese national that came to Peru

in 2014, immediately found the quote unquote love of his life, married and became a dual national.

Actually, he became a resident. I'm sorry, a Peru that stopped him from being deported.

And then he was arrested and he was found with fraudulent documentation. He changed his name

and he said that he was from a different country. He was from Liberians that 11 on. And he also

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