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Paraguay: Is Israel's latest 'best friend' also a Hezbollah haven?

Lebanese residents of Ciudad del Este, a smuggling and shopping hub on Paraguay's border with Brazil, say they live under 'constant surveillance'
Assad Barakat, pictured on his way to court in Asuncion in 2003, was identified by the US as Hassan Nasrallah's "primary liaison in South America" (AFP)
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