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The TBA has for years drawn attention as a center for contraband smuggling, drug trafficking and large-scale money laundering, in part because all of the countries whose borders are involved profit from the illicit trade. It is also an easy place to hide and move money. Estimates of the amount of drug money alone laundered through the two main urban centers in the TBA, Foz do Iguacu and Ciudad del Este, range as high as $12 billion a year.
The TBA has for years drawn attention as a center for contraband smuggling, drug trafficking and large-scale money laundering, in part because all of the countries whose borders are involved profit from the illicit trade. It is also an easy place to hide and move money. Estimates of the amount of drug money alone laundered through the two main urban centers in the TBA, Foz do Iguacu and Ciudad del Este, range as high as $12 billion a year.
<ref>http://www.strategycenter.net/research/pubID.118/pub_detail.asp</ref>
<ref>http://www.strategycenter.net/research/pubID.118/pub_detail.asp</ref>
In Sep 2023, ''US Treasury sanctions Hezbollah supporters in South America.''<ref>[https://www.jns.org/us-news/hezbollah/23/9/15/319331/ US Treasury sanctions Hezbollah supporters in South America], ''JNS'', Sep 15, 2023.</ref><blockquote>
“I applaud the decision of U.S. Treasury to sanction Amer Mohamed Akil Rada, one of the operational members of Hezbollah who carried out the terrorist attack against the Asociación Mutual Israelita Argentina (AMIA) in Argentina in 1994 that killed 85 people,” said Ambassador Deborah Lipstadt.</blockquote>
From a 2003 research on Hezbollah "Hezbollah: A Case Study of Global Reach":
From a 2003 research on Hezbollah "Hezbollah: A Case Study of Global Reach":