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Ecuador’s New Intelligence Law: Shield or Sword?

1. Executive Summary In early 2025, Ecuador passed a controversial new intelligence law aimed at restructuring the country’s security architecture amid rising violence and narcotrafficking. Marketed as a tool for…

June 16, 2025Ecuador

Drug trafficking Intelligence ops

How the Kremlin uses Italian organized crime groups to sponsor pro-Russian forces in Slovakia

The Slovak politicians-Italian mafia business links were discovered following the killing of Slovak journalist Ján Kuciak in 2018. The authorities believe Kuciak was murdered in relation to his work. He…

February 5, 2024cocaine, mafia, Orban, Russia, Slovakia

Drug trafficking Geopolitics

Why does Saudi Arabia seek rapprochement with Bashar al-Assad?

The era of isolation for the President Bashar al-Assad's Syria seems to have ended even from Saudi Arabia, one of the countries that in 2011 took the initiative to break…

April 17, 2023captagon, China, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Syria

Coup Drug trafficking

Guinea-Bissau’s foiled coup: linked to drug or against French-friendly President

According to various accounts, gunmen entered the government palace complex – which houses the various ministries on the outskirts of Bissau, the capital, near the airport – in the early…

February 4, 2022Guinea-Bissau

Drug trafficking

Hezbollah’s involvement in cocaine trafficking

Hezbollah involved in the drug trade. American law enforcement discovered Hezbollah’s drug activity by chance in 2006, when Colombian wiretaps monitoring a Medellin- based drug cartel known as the Oficina del Envigado picked up…

July 16, 2021cocaine, Hezbollah, Latin America

Democracy Drug trafficking Governance

Drug gangs along with local power brokers allegedly linked to assassination of Haitian president

Haitian president assassination was orchestrated by drug gangs, backed by some Haiti’s power brokers, as the attackers tried to indict the U.S. government of murder. Colombian and Venezuelan citizens, with drug…

July 9, 2021Colombia, Haiti, Venezuela

Drug trafficking

Pro-Iranian proxies export Captagon as hybrid war weapon

Tehran and Damascus use the drug trafficking both as a source to finance their activities and as hybrid war weapon. In order to weaken the West the Soviet Union has…

June 29, 2021captagon, Hezbollah, Iran

Corruption Drug trafficking National Security

Maduro regime to shield Alex Saab from extradition

Venezuelan regime of Nicolas Maduro has launched a campaign to save Alex Saab, his Alleged financier, from extradition to the USA. Maduro fears that investigation of Saab’s case may expose his connections with…

June 23, 2021Alex Saab, Venezuela

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The USSR and Illicit Drugs: facing Up to the Problem, 1986

The lansinginstitute.org would like to highlight the CIA research paper “The USSR and Illicit Drugs: facing Up to the Problem” published in November 1986. We want to point out on…

July 10, 2020drugs

Drug trafficking

Assad regime ramping up facilities for drug smuggling

Assad regime in Syria and its backers from Hezbollah are involved in drug trafficking to supply the Middle East market and run into Europe. The scope and geography of amphetamine…

July 8, 2020captagon, drugs, Lebanon, Syria

Drug trafficking

Ecuador’s New Intelligence Law: Shield or Sword?

How the Kremlin uses Italian organized crime groups to sponsor pro-Russian forces in Slovakia

Why does Saudi Arabia seek rapprochement with Bashar al-Assad?

Guinea-Bissau’s foiled coup: linked to drug or against French-friendly President

Hezbollah’s involvement in cocaine trafficking

Drug gangs along with local power brokers allegedly linked to assassination of Haitian president

Pro-Iranian proxies export Captagon as hybrid war weapon

Maduro regime to shield Alex Saab from extradition

The USSR and Illicit Drugs: facing Up to the Problem, 1986

Assad regime ramping up facilities for drug smuggling

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