I don’t really understand the problem with a couple of playstations and digital cameras going out of the country. what is so “prohibited” about them—that can’t be gotten anywhere?? We are not talking about pulse-neutron tubes or Krytrons, after all. THOSE WOULD be something to worry about.
Here's your answer:
"...announced the indictment of four individuals and three Miami businesses on charges involving the export of electronics to a U.S. designated terrorist entity in Paraguay."
You can’t ship anything to a designated terrorist entity.
Whether it’s peanuts or playstations.
Play Stations and similar electronics can be adapted to perform tasks that are military related. One of the US armed services actually figured out a similar assembly of such “toys” was cheaper than buying a specially built unit for a certain weapons related task.
Paraguay has a region that is notorious for its Islamic related denizens. The bombing of a Jewish Center in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in the 1990s (resulting in the largest number of Jews murdered outside of Israel) was traced back the the Cuidad del Este, or “City of the East” in Paraguay. Paraguayans are great folks, for the most part. The Islamists, not so much. This is a real threat, not a silly imagining of “toys for terrorists.”
You missed another point. There have been articles about PLO and Hamas/Hezbullah towns in the border areas of Paraguay and possibly Venezuela or Bolivia, etc.
No real concrete documentation has come out of this but the presence of a terrorist front operation in Paraguay might open up this whole can of worms.
Hope someone follows this story.