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This is John Batcher, a conversation with my good colleague, Joseph Umar, of executive director

of Secure Free Society, about Hezbollah, Syria, in Latin America.

Joseph is explicit about how the connection in the diaspora to the homeland in Syria and Lebanon is very, very strong.

In addition, there is what he entitles the criminal element.

Here's Joseph Umar to describe how Hezbollah feeds on its connections, especially

in Caracas. It empowers itself with Latin American money and drugs. More of this tonight.

Good evening, John. Well, first let me say that Syria has a very big connection with Venezuela. They have a connection with diaspora's. They have a criminal connection and they have a terrorist connection. So I'll unpack that very quickly. Those three. The diaspora is, along with Lebanese, Syrians are one of the bigger migrant communities inside Venezuela going back 150 years.

In fact, some of that migration ended up going reverse back to Syria during the economic crisis in Venezuela.

There's reported upwards of 300,000 dual national Venezuelan Syrians that live in one part of Syria called Aswaiyra in the southwestern province of the country.

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