Paraguay has joined Argentina and the United States and has designated Hezbollah as a terrorist organization

Paraguay has joined Argentina and has declared Hezbollah an "international terrorist organization". The president of this country, Mario Abdo Benítez, included the armed wing of the "Party of God" and other groups in a decree in which he described them as "terrorists", to whom he had access TN.com.ar by an official source in Buenos Aires.

Abdo Benítez designated by decree 2307 Hezbollah and also to "Hamas militias" as international terrorist organizations and al-Qaeda and the Islamic State (ISIS) as global terrorist organizations.

Among the fundamental principles, the President of Paraguay stressed that "the recognition and respect of the lists of persons and entities designated by the United Nations Security Council are of the utmost importance, because of their links with Terrorism and its Financing: Lists of Persons and Entities Designated by the United Nations Security Council for their Link to Financing the Proliferation of Weapons of Mbad Destruction. "

"What the Paraguayan State cooperates decisively in the global fight against terrorism in all its forms"reiterated Abdo Benítez in particular about the Hezbollah cells installed in the Western Hemisphere.

One of the first to congratulate Abdo Benítez was the Israeli Prime Minister, Benajmin Netanyahu, while warning that he was working "with other countries to take this important step." The relationship was tense since Asunción had decided to move its embbady from Jerusalem to Tel Aviv, but this decision could minimize the differences between the two.

Thus, in August, Paraguay joined the struggle of Argentina against terrorism and its financing in the region. In July, on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the AMIA attack, The government has launched the public register of persons and entities related to acts of terrorism and its financing (Repeat)

In the Repet case, Federal Judge Rodolfo Canicoba Corral included the seven Iranian citizens accused of the attack of 18 July 1994; the head of the Financial Information Unit (FIU) added Hezbollah members for his alleged participation in material fatherhood; and the magistrate of El Dorado, Miguel Guerrero, did the same with the "Barakat clan" which, from the triple frontier, would finance Hezbollah.

The first to face the arm of the "Party of God" was the United States when he joined the Foreign Assets Control Office (OFAC) in 1997, created by former President Bill Clinton. President Donald Trump joined Hezbollah's head in 2018, Hbadan Nasrallahbecause he ordered his soldiers to train Syrian government forces to "violently repress the civilian population."