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Secretary of State Antony Blinken has admitted to Congress that the State Department (DOS) committed a crime in Guatemala. He tried to justify it by falsely claiming Guatemalan Attorney General Consuelo Porras was corrupt, but this was projecting DOS corruption onto her.
Representative Warren Davidson (R-OH) told Blinken in a House Foreign Affairs Committee (HFAC) May 22 hearing that the US embassy had threatened members of Guatemala’s Congress. They were supposed to support Porras’s removal or suffer consequences.
The threat was delivered on May 5 at the US ambassador’s residence. Davidson said the stick consisted of canceling US visas, including those of congressmen’s children studying in the United States.
Davidson asked Blinken if “the United States should be manipulating members of a foreign congress in this manner.” Blinken replied, “It’s not a question of manipulating members of a foreign congress; it is the fact that in the recent election in Guatemala there was a very strong attempt made to prevent the democratically elected president from taking office.”
The Fraudulent Justification
That claim is not true. Even if it were, it would not justify US extortion of another country’s congressmen. Blinken lied to Congress by saying President Bernardo Arévalo was democratically elected. Without DOS-directed electoral fraud, DOS puppet Arévalo would not be president.
More than 1,000 complaints of electoral fraud were filed after Arévalo’s anomalous second-place finish in the June 25 election. The Attorney General’s Office (AGO) was legally obligated to investigate.
DOS claims the AGO has no role in elections, but DOS attorneys know this is not true. Guatemala’s Electoral Law specifies electoral crimes are subject to the penal code. Guatemala’s constitution assigns to the attorney general (1) criminal prosecution and (2) supervision of legislative implementation.
Despite aggressive Joe Biden regime resistance, a judge ordered the seizure by the AGO of the original ballots. The official tally sheets were not in the electoral operations center where by law they must be. Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE) magistrates are responsible for the associated crimes. When the AGO eventually found the original documents, it discovered, among other anomalies, about 2 million out of 5.6 million votes had no legal support.
The AGO on December 11, complying with a high-court order, delivered the results of its investigation to the TSE. However, the TSE could not convene because four of its magistrates had illegally left the country with a bogus excuse. They fled because the National Auditing Institute had filed embezzlement charges against them.
Per law, the Supreme Court sent the complaint to the Guatemalan Congress. Out of 160 congressmen, 108 voted to lift the magistrates’ immunity, making them subject to criminal processes. DOS canceled the US visas of all 108 members and their spouses.
Former Guatemalan Secretary of Intelligence (2016–2020) Mario Duarte told Tucker Carlson the Biden regime “tried to block the investigations of the fraudulent electoral process.” He added that DOS summoned Guatemalans to the US embassy and threatened them and their businesses if they did not push for the investigations to stop, which is a felony.
DOS Covering Its Tracks
US Congressman Davidson asked Blinken if his opposition to Porras was related to her “investigations to determine if the Biden administration is complicit in trafficking children.” Blinken said that is absurd. Robby Starbuck had reported that the embassy warned Pineda “he was playing with fire” by granting Starbuck an interview. At a minimum, DOS crimes in Guatemala have facilitated child trafficking.
AGO General Secretary Angel Pineda told Starbuck that the AGO had been investigating the financing of violent protests from October to January. The Association Liga Pro-Patria (a rule-of-law society) linked the violent protests to DOS.
The Liga also said: “DOS must squash Porras’s investigations to hide its personnel’s and its agents’ crimes and commit new crimes to promote its agenda.” The Biden regime purposefully promotes illegal immigration, betraying the United States. Faithful to her oath, Porras fights illegal human and narco trafficking despite the Biden regime’s campaign against her.
Consuelo Porras Skating on Thin Ice
On May 5, Porras petitioned Guatemala’s highest court for an injunction against Arévalo for unconstitutionally trying to remove her. She told the court there was a “real, certain, and imminent threat” that Arévalo’s unlawful measures could result in attacks against her physical integrity and life. The court granted the injunction on May 7.
On May 6, Arévalo presented legislation aimed at removing Porras. Its new criteria for removing an attorney general would not retroactively apply to Porras. She would be ousted only if the Biden regime were to intimidate the judiciary into validating the illegal act, as it has done in other instances.
DOS’s betrayal of the United States in Guatemala happened because DOS believed there would be no HFAC oversight. Unfortunately, HFAC has aided the fraud, and Davidson’s question was an exception to the pattern. The House Oversight Committee also has jurisdiction and should conduct investigations and hearings into Biden regime and DOS treason in Guatemala.
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Author: Steve Hecht
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