#NewWorldReport: Tren de Arigua narco terror transnational with connections to Hezbollah and IRGC. Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. @revanellis #NewWorldReportEllis
The John Batchelor Show
John Batchelor
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🗓️ 23 October 2024
⏱️ 10 minutes
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| 0:33.4 | CBS I on the world. I'm John Batsch for visiting with Professor Evan Ellis who's traveling. He's on the island of Bonaire |
| 0:40.4 | looks gorgeous. It's off the coast of Venezuela which is not attractive. |
| 0:44.8 | Venezuela is a rogue state under the administration of a dictator Maduro. |
| 0:51.3 | However, importantly there are conditions in Venezuela that are |
| 0:56.7 | alarming for transnational threats, not only its coordination with the axis, that powers, that would be Moscow, Beijing, Tehran, Pyongyang, |
| 1:09.2 | but domestic threats that are now transnational. |
| 1:13.8 | I'm thinking of the suddenly spectacular story of the trendy Aragwa. |
| 1:19.8 | This is a gang that has penetrated the United States in major cities. |
| 1:25.9 | I'm looking at, according to the Daily Mail, New York, Chicago, and parts of Texas, |
| 1:32.3 | Houston is mentioned. |
| 1:34.0 | Miami is under threat. |
| 1:36.5 | Different cities across the country. |
| 1:38.3 | Trendy Aragua, the reputation is that it was born in a prison in Aragua province which the professor has |
| 1:44.4 | guided me to understand is outside of Caracas. Professor is this new? I've just |
| 1:49.3 | discovered the scale of this or have the authorities been working with local authorities for |
| 1:56.2 | some time to suss out these gangsters who have crossed into the United States with |
| 2:01.2 | apparently without vetting is it new |
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