HMJ at Western Hemisphere Policy Watch brings us disturbing news regarding the supposed Latin American Hezbollah branch which seems to be primarily active on the MSN web service. Hezbollah Latin America has announced that it will be attacking American and “Jewish” interests in response to one of their members being assassinated.

HMJ rightly points out that this wing of Hezbollah often strains credibility, and this new story of one of its members being assassinated by a CIA/Mossad operation is likely fantasy. But this fiction could be used to rally supporters to action, and if they’re linked to Hezbollah it’s possible (though maybe not likely) that they’ve got their hands on some of those Iranian munitions that Hezbollah used to bloody Israel’s nose.

Even if they don’t have the stroke to get their hands on a few long range rockets, Latin America has no shortage of small arms and explosives for sale on the black market. The group may or may not have branches in other South American countries, but all it takes is one or two hard core members with a couple of suicide vests going through a border check point for this branch to score points with the anti-American movements, and increase their recruiting power.

Iran’s already proved England is a paper tiger. Could Venezuela and their Iranian allies be plotting to use the Latin American Hezbollah to show the world America’s as incapable of action against them as the English?