{"id":207803,"date":"2026-02-01T13:22:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T13:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=207803"},"modified":"2026-02-01T13:22:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T13:22:09","slug":"from-diaspora-to-drug-ring-how-hezbollah-built-its-colombian-base","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=207803","title":{"rendered":"From Diaspora to Drug Ring: How Hezbollah Built Its Colombian Base"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lebanon\u2019s brutal civil war triggered waves of emigration to South America, with large diasporas settling in Brazil, Argentina, Venezuela and Colombia. Hezbollah initially built networks in those communities to buttress recruitment and finances. The U.S.-designated terrorist group then expanded into South America\u2019s illicit economies, building relationships with transnational criminal syndicates and illegal armed structures to boost its finances&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/oilprice.com\/Energy\/Energy-General\/From-Diaspora-to-Drug-Ring-How-Hezbollah-Built-Its-Colombian-Base.html\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lebanon\u2019s brutal civil war triggered waves of emigration to South America, with large diasporas settling<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":207804,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-207803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-americas"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/207803-from-diaspora-to-drug-ring-how-hezbollah-built-its-colombian-base.jpg",718,300,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/207803-from-diaspora-to-drug-ring-how-hezbollah-built-its-colombian-base-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/207803-from-diaspora-to-drug-ring-how-hezbollah-built-its-colombian-base-300x125.jpg",300,125,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/207803-from-diaspora-to-drug-ring-how-hezbollah-built-its-colombian-base.jpg",640,267,false],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/207803-from-diaspora-to-drug-ring-how-hezbollah-built-its-colombian-base.jpg",640,267,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/207803-from-diaspora-to-drug-ring-how-hezbollah-built-its-colombian-base.jpg",718,300,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/207803-from-diaspora-to-drug-ring-how-hezbollah-built-its-colombian-base.jpg",718,300,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/207803-from-diaspora-to-drug-ring-how-hezbollah-built-its-colombian-base.jpg",718,300,false],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/207803-from-diaspora-to-drug-ring-how-hezbollah-built-its-colombian-base.jpg",718,300,false],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/207803-from-diaspora-to-drug-ring-how-hezbollah-built-its-colombian-base-590x300.jpg",590,300,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=41\" rel=\"category\">Americas<\/a>","tag_info":"Americas","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=207803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207803\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/207804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=207803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=207803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=207803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}