Iran In Latin America!

In this article, Obama has just signed a bill, passed by congress, to counter Iranian influence in Latin America. Although the official text of the bill is secret, one piece of this article sums up the validity and aim of this bill: "senior State Department and intelligence officials have indicated there is no apparent indication of illicit activities by Iran". That quote, along with the bills aim of bolstering security and surveillance at the Mexican and Canadian borders, and within Latin American countries, the text provides for a multi-agency action plan to provide security in those countries, along with a "counterterrorism and counter-radicalisation plan to isolate Iran and its allies", gives the impression that this bill is simply more veiled attempts at increasing domestic surveillance and spying in the American homeland, and increasing militarisation of Latin America under the auspices of global security. We should be reminded by the lessons of history that this is simply not the case, as the decades-long drug war and it's legacy of death, destruction, and rampant human rights violations has taught us.