[3AngelaD]

Geez, yet another problem situation that we won't do anything about until it has developed into a crisis.... ISNA - TEHRAN, Dec. 21 -- Iranian films and television shows will be soon broadcasted in Latin American countries. Iran's chief of Radio and Television Organization Ezatollah Zarghami ending his trip to Caracas, Venezuela, said the trip strengthened Iran's cultural cooperation with Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua.

[Dogbert41]

Not very much has been done about our neighbors South of us since Ronald Maximus, other than giving up our canal - thanks Jimmie.

I had hoped Bush would save my children from having to fight in the years to come. That didn't happen.

When we finally wake up to the fact that we are in a world war, and it’s to the last man standing, I just hope that we have enough of us left to really start fighting.

[BnBlFlag]

Iran in Central America. I guess we can forget about the Monroe Doctrine.

[Patriot Babe]

All the good reason to BUILD THAT DAM FENCE and block everyone from the south from entering illegally.

Also we shouldn’t be doing any business there or any other place that help and abeit terrorist.

Now with Iran planting their seeds in Latin America, I hope that those who are Jewish or of Jewish Ancestry get the hell out of there. I have a feeling it won’t be safe place for them - I hope I’m wrong.

[3AngelaD]

I posted this as a companion piece to your most excellent article: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1943259/posts

[Regulator]

Diplomats or terrorists

"T Word"

[piasa]

bttt

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Aug 13, 2012 - Venezuela as Iranian Terror Route Worries US "WASHINGTON -- Ever since Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad struck a deal with Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez for weekly air service between the nations' capitals, American officials have worried that Iranian-backed terrorists could reach to the rim of Latin America, pick up fake Venezuelan passports and sneak into the United States.

Now, with growing talk of a pre-emptive Israeli attack to slow Iran's suspected nuclear arms program, Iran has threatened that it would retaliate across the globe. And its easy access to the Western Hemisphere has the U.S. particularly concerned.

..........."There's pretty much of a general consensus within the intelligence community that Iranian-backed cells providing financial support to Hezbollah could easily convert to operational cells and light up the place," says U.S. Rep. Mike McCaul, a Republican whose district stretches from Austin to Houston.

McCaul, chairman of investigations for the House Committee on Homeland Security, led a seven-day fact-finding mission across Latin America last week. "From our observations on this trip, the Iranian threat to the United States is very real and it would be difficult to defend against all of these operatives..................."