MIAMI – On Friday, July 27, the Counter Extremism Project (CEP) and Asymmetrica will host a discussion in Miami on a new report about transnational organized crime in Latin America’s Tri-Border Area in Paraguay, Brazil and Argentina, commonly known as the Golden Hydra. The report, which includes extensive field research, concludes that organized crime in this region nets an estimated $43 billion a year for terrorist and criminal activities. Such illicit financial flows contravene mandates by the United States (including Hizballah International Financing Prevention Amendments Act of 2017), the European Union, United Nations, International Monetary Fund, Organization of American States and Financial Action Task Force on counter-threat finance and anti-corruption. The report was recently featured in the Wall Street Journal.

This event will include remarks from Asymmetrica Founder and CEO Dr. Vanessa Neumann, author of Blood Profits: How American Consumers Unwittingly Fund Terrorists and an advocate for the restoration of human and economic rights in her native Venezuela; Stuart Page, former Assistant Secretary, DFAT, Australia, and Special Advisor to Peruvian government; and David Daoud, Research Analyst at the Counter Extremism Project.

This event is open press, and media should RSVP to [email protected].

FRIDAY, JULY 27
8:00 AM
Miami Golden Hydra Report Launch
Americas Society/Council of the Americas
2655 LeJeune Road
Suite PH-1D
Coral Gables, FL 33134