Security & Strategic Review - July 2005

Just as US instructors were arriving in Paraguay to train their local counterparts in antiterrorist techniques, the local media was briefed about the 'discovery' that the Triple Border had become the source of almost a fifth of the military budget of Hezbollah, and an important proportion of the resources of Hamas. Separately, a public prosecutor announced that definitive proof had been found of the Farc guerrillas' involvement in the kidnapping of Cecilia Cubas, a recent cause célí¨bre.