Hezbollah is a designated terrorist organization that operates primarily in Lebanon, but of course has also established some small presence in southern Syria. It's become a leverage card and a pressure tactic that they have mounted against some of their regional neighbors. If they say, oh, you don't like the cap to gone trade, well how about we armed smugglers and we increased the risk of violence and agitation along your border? it's a really great tool for them.
New Lines Institute's Caroline Rose explains how captagon, a drug you may have never heard of, is propping up genocidal regimes in the Middle East.
What We Discuss with Caroline Rose:
- What is captagon? Where did it originate, what are its effects, and why don't we hear about it in the United States?
- How captagon — with a potential trade value of over $5.7 billion annually — has transformed Assad's Syria into a Mediterranean narco-state.
- Who uses captagon on such a massive scale, and how is it manufactured and smuggled across borders?
- Why is Syria allowed a seat at INTERPOL, the organization established to reign in international crime — like the captagon trade?
- What can be done to stem the tide of captagon and prevent it from expanding its range and influence even further?
- And much more...
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