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The commentary discusses the support of the Latin America narcoterrorist organization to Hezbollah, Iran and Russia. While Chávez has said that he is arming his citizen militias, known as Bolivarian Circles, rumor has it that the weapons may also be going to agents and fighters from the Colombian FARC, the Iranian-backed terrorist group Hezbollah and Cuban security and intelligence services, whose numbers, according to many think tanks and U.S. security sources, have swelled in Venezuela. Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez and Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad publicly call each other “brothers” and last year signed 11 memoranda of understanding for, among other initiatives, joint oil and gas exploration, as well as the construction of tanker ships and petrochemical plants, circumventing UN sanctions and strengthen the countries’ strategic relationship on nuclear program. It has also been argued that that Venezuela provided Hezbollah operatives with Venezuelan national identity cards.