Could Iran — and Hezbollah — strike in Latin America?
by Kate Linthicum, Los Angeles Times
Jan 10, 2020
3 minutes
MEXICO CITY - After then-candidate Jair Bolsonaro was stabbed at a Brazilian presidential campaign rally in 2018, some of his allies advanced a perplexing theory.
Despite widespread evidence that a Brazilian man with a history of mental health problems had carried out the attack alone, they suggested it had actually been planned by Hezbollah, the Shiite Muslim Lebanese militant organization and political party that serves as a proxy for Iran and which the U.S. regards as a terrorist group.
Pundits and politicians in the U.S., particularly those on
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