John Fernandez is the DEA's assistant special agent in charge of the Special Operations Division's Counter-Narcoterrorism Operations Center, in which role he oversees interagency support to field investigations concerning Hezbollah's global criminal support network. Previously, he worked for two years as a staff coordinator for the center. He has also worked for the DEA's San Jose, Madrid, and Los Angeles offices, and as an intelligence analyst with the CIA's Africa and Latin America division.