[18] Besides the constant funding and revenue building, operations done by Hezbollah in Latin America are mostly minimal when it comes to terrorist attacks and other forms of paramilitary activity in order to keep a low profile.
[31] These search warrants included homes and storage facilities in São Paulo, the capital Brazil and all over the state of Minas Gerais.
[37] Through their operations in countries like Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Panama, and Peru, they participate in illegal mining for valuable resources to either resell or smuggle to Lebanon and Iran.
[38] According to a 2006 report by the United States Department of the Treasury that designated 9 entities in Paraguay, Hezbollah in Latin America established and owned shops and shopping malls that funded operations for Hezbollah, among the entities designated were Sobhi Mahmoud Fayad, who is involved in illegal activities ranging from drug trafficking to counterfeiting of US currency.
[39] In 2010 a Lebanese cleric based in Brazil, Bilal Mohsen Wehbe, would be added to the list, and in the months leading up to the 2016 Summer Olympics several members would be detained in Brazilian territory.
Frequently, without the broader Lebanese community's knowledge of these covert operations, a network of logistical experts—including entrepreneurs, lawyers, and accountants—has developed within the diaspora in Venezuela.
This network serves as a support system for Hezbollah, assisting in the raising, concealing, transferring, and laundering of illicit funds, some of which are used to finance its global terrorist activities.
[44] Not only do they have operative areas in Latin America, but they do operations involving illicit activities in areas of Mexico since the early 2000s, with the smuggling of illegal immigrants and Lebanese foreigners in Mexico to the United States to provide monetary support to Hezbollah in Latin America and the main Hezbollah operation in Lebanon, one case being when the Federal Bureau of Investigation arrested a Lebanese national by the name of Mahmoud Youssef Kourani in Dearborn, Michigan, in May of 2003 on the grounds of housing an illegal immigrant in which further investigation found he himself immigrated from Mexico to the United States in 2001 after he arrived in Mexico via an illegally obtained travel visa that he got after bribing a Mexican official in the Mexican embassy in Beirut where he funneled 40,000 USD to Hezbollah operatives.
[52] One of the major known supporters of Hezbollah in Latin America, besides Iran, is Venezuela which was tightened after the assassination of the Iranian General Qasem Soleimani from a United States airstrike, Venezuela under the rule of Nicolás Maduro is considered a "valued ally" of not only Hezbollah in Latin America but Iran as well since they are complicit in allowing Hezbollah in Latin America launder money and establish financial circuits in Venezuelan jurisdiction and allowing the shipment of illegal narcotics from Venezuela and Bolivia into areas of the United States and Europe.
[55] These sanctions also targeted a member of Hezbollah in Latin America by the name of Amer Mohamed Akil Rada who is considered the main operative behind the AMIA bombing.
[57] The of Argentina's Ministry of Security under a joint investigation with both Brazil and Paraguay stated that the leader of Hezbollah in Latin America is Hussein Ahmad Karaki.