I'm sure a few people will have some interesting things to write now that this story is on BBC. What I find amazing, however, is that the story that six people were arrested in Ecuador and one in Colombia in connection with using drug trafficking to finance Hezbollah originally came out in the Spanish media on June 15, nearly one week ago. AFP ran the story in English on June 16 (I saw it come across Nexis) and not a single media outlet covered it.
Sometimes I'm amazed by what the media covers and what it doesn't. The reason this came around a second time is that Ecuadorian police held a press conference to release more evidence and Brazil admitted to arresting a few people as well.
This wasn't the biggest or most surprising story, but it was one of the first times that Latin American officials have publicly acknowledged that drug trafficking in their region is financing terrorist groups in the Middle East. It wasn't exactly front page news, but you'd have thought it would have gotten more coverage earlier.
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