Will ISIS strike in Latin America?

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Few in Latin America are even thinking about the possibility of an ISIS terrorist attack in the region, but — following the recent attacks in Brussels, Paris and Tunisia — it may be time to do so.

It’s not a matter of academic speculation. Latin America had two major Middle East-sourced terrorist attacks in the 1990s, when suspected Iranian terrorists blew up the AMIA Jewish community center and the Israeli Embassy in Buenos Aires.

And, judging from what I heard in an interview last week with Luis Almagro, secretary general of the 34-country Organization of American States, there are good reasons to start preparing for a possible new Middle Eastern terrorist strike in the region.

Almagro, whose organization presides over the Inter-American Committee against Terrorism, told me that an undisclosed number of Latin American youths have been recruited by ISIS on the Internet, and have joined the terrorist group in Syria.

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