Thanks to General Pinochet, free-market economics is indelibly associated with authoritarianism in the Latin American public mind (a link reinforced by Mexico's Carlos Salinas and Peru's Alberto Fujimori).
Seven years later, Argentinian prosecutor Alberto Nisman indicted Iranian President Rafsanjani and seven other Iranian officials in absentia for masterminding the attacks, reinforcing the link between Iran and Hezbollah in Latin America.
And it's apparently because policing especially in Guinea-Bissau, which is the weakest link, is so poor that these Latin American, South American drug cartels are using this region as a major transit hub to especially traffic cocaine as the drug of choice, and that's on to Europe.