'This is crazy': Panic as Hegseth official endangers rights workers with 'venomous lie'

Summary

A top adviser to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has been accused of endangering human rights workers throughout the hemisphere with a “venomous lie” tying them to drug cartels, a civil rights advocate warned. Eric Geressy, Hegseth’s senior adviser for strategy, made the remarks linking nongovernmental organizations to cartels on Oct. 27 in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, to defense chiefs from 19 nations in a counter-cartel coalition, the Department of Defense said. Adam Isacson, director for defense oversight at the Washington Office on Latin America, expressed alarm over the statement on…

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