Since his inauguration in 2021, Joe Biden and his administration have been trying to bully Guatemalan president Alejandro Giammattei – who’s a conservative – into running his country the way Biden and his cronies want. As an example, the administration did not like the actions that Guatemala’s Attorney General Maria Consuelo Porras was taking against institutional corruption, and when it came time for Porras to be reappointed Giammattei “received calls, threats and a visit from the ambassador of a ‘foreign power’ asking him not to re-appoint Porras” – and that foreign power was the United States. Giammattei did anyway, and the State Department refused to allow her to enter the United States for the Summit of the Americas, claiming that she was “involved in significant corruption.” (Sound familiar?) So, Giammattei refused to attend the summit, a slight Biden undoubtedly remembers.
Now Giammattei’s successor is ready to take office, and the Guatemalan Congress is preparing to elect a Speaker of the House. The Biden administration has a strong and specific opinion on who that Speaker should be – and that someone shares Biden’s leftist ideology. To ensure that their chosen candidate wins election, according to Congresswoman-elect Sandra Jovel says that U.S. Embassy personnel are intimidating current and elected members of the Guatemalan Congress and threatening them with “visa removals, business blockades, and other sanctions” if they don’t vote for the chosen candidate.
Current and elected members of the Guatemalan Congress have reported that they have been intimidated and are currently being preassured by US Embassy personnel with visa removals, business blockades and other sanctions if they do not vote to elect a specific candidate as Speaker of the House. They have gone as far as using an employee of UN-Women to communicate that the US knows where they and their families live.
Jovel made the same announcement to the press in Guatemala.
🇬🇹🚨 #URGENT 🚨
— Alex Molina 🇬🇹 (@alexmolinamgt) January 14, 2024
Former chancellor of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of #Guatemala and current congresswoman-elect Sandra Jovel, denounces to the press that the current ambassador of the United States of America 🇺🇸 in Guatemala summoned multiple congressmen of the Guatemalan… pic.twitter.com/HeUvptxUYw
Journalist Sara Carter then posted that she’d confirmed that this was happening.
It’s interesting that Jovel says “they have gone as far as using an employee of UN-Women to communicate that the US knows where they and their families live,” given that Attorney General Porras has been working to dismantle institutional corruption involving the UN. From a May, 2022 Reuters article:
After the 68-year-old lawyer fired the former head of the Guatemalan Special Prosecutor’s Office Against Impunity (FECI) last year, claims that Porras was obstructing investigations related to Giammattei grew.
During Porras’s first term her office also arrested several FECI officials as well as a lawyer from the United Nations-backed anti-corruption commission CICIG, which was expelled from Guatemala in 2018 after its probes led to convictions of former presidents and high-level businessmen.
Of course, once Porras arrested a lawyer connected to the United Nations, the U.S. decided that she was corrupt.
But would the United States really go after the children of these lawmakers? Judging by a post from Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) on Sunday night, they absolutely would. Lee says Customs and Border Protection is holding Giammattei’s son for questioning at the Miami airport.
Why is @CBP holding Alejandro Giammatei for questioning at the airport in Miami? Could it have anything to do with this administration’s chronic disdain for his father, the conservative former president of Guatemala, who completed his term of office today?
— Mike Lee (@BasedMikeLee) January 15, 2024
Former acting Director of National Intelligence Richard Grenell added that the younger Giammattei had an approved form to enter the United States when he left Guatemala.
He had an approved form. But today, his status changed when he landed in Miami. Did @PowerUSAID ask for his late denial? Did the U.S. Embassy? Did Todd Robinson?
Grenell asks if the late denial was at the behest of Samantha Power. Power is heading the U.S. delegation to the inauguration of Giammattei’s successor, Bernardo Arevalo, a leftist. Because of the uproar around the allegations of U.S. interference in Guatemala’s Speaker of the House election, the inauguration has been delayed. Power and her allies in the media apparatus have been working overtime to forward a narrative that conservative election deniers in Guatemala are causing the delay. From Yashar Ali:
Ambassador Power landed in Guatemala today to lead the US delegation attending Bernardo Arevalo’s inauguration.
The inauguration is now delayed due to unrest.
Last month, the United States imposed sanctions on hundreds of Guatemalans, including government officials, members of Congress, and others, for “undermining democracy and the rule of law” due to their attempts to prevent Arevalo from taking office after a landslide victory in August.
Other Latin American leaders joined the United States in condemning the attempt to undermine Arevalo.
The only countries joining the United States in “condemnation” are those with leftist governments.
At this moment it looks like Grenell’s words on Saturday night, immediately upon his return from Guatemala, were sadly prescient.
Guatemalan President @DrGiammattei leaves office tomorrow. Joe Biden’s Administration went after Giammattei politically because he didn’t share their terrible Left wing policies.
Remember when Giammattei refused to go to Los Angeles for Biden’s Summit of the Americas?! (Biden hasn’t forgotten)
Biden and his team wanted to control who was the Attorney General in Guatemala and Giammattei said NOPE.
Watch for the Biden team to *try* and weaponize the Justice system (again) against Giammattei this time when he leaves office.
The Regime in Washington, DC is corrupt and trying to intimidate and control foreign courts!
As both Grenell and Lee have said, these allegations are extremely serious and Congress must immediately investigate.
