Round 13: Tossup 2

DEA agents posed as members of the Sinaloa Cartel after alleged operatives of this organization planned to traffic cocaine with Virgin Islands Premier Andrew Fahie. Dino Bouterse offered (10[1])a Surinamese base to this group, (10[1])which is funded by Margarita Island’s matāwila. John Curtis’s bill opposing this group “in our hemisphere” targets its alleged bases in the Triple Frontier’s Ciudad del Este. (10[1])During a 2011 to 2024 civil war [emphasize] north of its homeland, this paramilitary group and Unit 840 guarded drug labs (10[1])in a border city dubbed “Little Venezuela,” (10[1])Suwaydā. (-5[1])Alex Saab and (10[1])Ghazi Nasr Al-Din laundered money for this member of the “Axis of Resistance,” (10[3])which (10[1])was charged with bombing Panama’s Flight 901 and Argentina’s (10[1])AMIA Jewish Community Center. (10[1])For 10 points, Israel assassinated (-5[1])Hassan (10[2])Nasrallah, (10[3])the head (10[2])of (10[2])what Shia Islamist (10[1])party from Lebanon? (10[1])■END■ (10[1])

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