1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:03,860 When Joe Biden pressured Ukraine to fire its top prosecutor back in 2016, 2 00:00:04,460 --> 00:00:08,200 it was clear what his goal was. He wanted to take the heat off the Biden family's 3 00:00:08,200 --> 00:00:11,940 overseas influence peddling operation, which was caught up in that prosecutor's probe. 4 00:00:12,140 --> 00:00:16,400 Publicly, of course, Joe Biden didn't admit that, though. Instead, he claimed that Ukraine's 5 00:00:16,400 --> 00:00:21,220 prosecutor was just guilty of corruption. That was the cover story. Joe Biden was supposedly 6 00:00:21,220 --> 00:00:25,440 an international crime fighter determined to clean up the governments of foreign countries. 7 00:00:25,440 --> 00:00:30,420 And as part of this anti-corruption crusade, Ukraine's prosecutor just had to go. They 8 00:00:30,420 --> 00:00:35,540 had to be terminated. Less than a decade later, a similar narrative is now playing out once again, 9 00:00:35,680 --> 00:00:40,860 except this time it's happening much closer to home in Guatemala. The Biden administration has 10 00:00:40,860 --> 00:00:45,440 publicly declared that Guatemala's attorney general, as well as the secretary general of 11 00:00:45,440 --> 00:00:50,660 Guatemala's public ministry, are involved in, quote, significant corruption. They're so corrupt, 12 00:00:50,660 --> 00:00:55,340 in fact, that they're not even allowed to enter the United States or the European Union. 13 00:00:55,440 --> 00:01:00,500 These are very bad people, we're told. Just like that Ukrainian prosecutor. And just as we saw in 14 00:01:00,500 --> 00:01:06,000 Ukraine, there's clear signs this pressure campaign is working. Guatemala's public ministry has just 15 00:01:06,000 --> 00:01:11,060 issued a statement warning that the president of Guatemala may take imminent action to, quote, 16 00:01:11,240 --> 00:01:17,240 unconstitutionally remove the attorney general of Guatemala and the chief of the public ministry. 17 00:01:17,360 --> 00:01:21,560 Whatever's about to happen in Guatemala, it seems obvious that the Biden administration is 18 00:01:21,560 --> 00:01:26,140 involved in some way. This week, Secretary of State Tony Blinken traveled to Guatemala after this 19 00:01:26,620 --> 00:01:32,000 with senior officials. And just a few weeks ago, in late March, Joe Biden hosted the president of 20 00:01:32,000 --> 00:01:36,660 Guatemala at the White House. So at this point, there's really two possibilities. Either the Biden 21 00:01:36,660 --> 00:01:40,520 administration has taken a genuine good faith interest in rooting out corruption in Guatemala, 22 00:01:40,960 --> 00:01:45,160 and I'll give you all a second to laugh, or something else is going on. To understand what the second 23 00:01:45,160 --> 00:01:49,380 possibility entails, it's important to ask this question. What reasons could the Biden administration 24 00:01:51,560 --> 00:01:57,260 have either the attorney general or the secretary general done anything in recent months that might 25 00:01:57,260 --> 00:02:02,720 upset high-level figures in the Biden administration? Let's see. Just days ago, as part of an ongoing 26 00:02:02,720 --> 00:02:08,780 investigation, Guatemalan authorities raided the office of an international nonprofit called Save 27 00:02:08,780 --> 00:02:13,520 the Children. This is an extremely well-connected and well-funded organization. It's been operating in 28 00:02:13,520 --> 00:02:19,320 Guatemala for decades. In fact, the president's wife, Jill Biden, recently served as chair of the board. 29 00:02:19,320 --> 00:02:23,940 The purpose of this raid could not have been more serious. Guatemalan authorities say the raid 30 00:02:23,940 --> 00:02:28,200 concerns the, quote, treatment of Guatemalan children in Texas. And according to the letter 31 00:02:28,200 --> 00:02:32,880 from Guatemala's public ministry, there's a possibility that NGOs like Save the Children 32 00:02:32,880 --> 00:02:38,440 may be involved in child trafficking operations. The letter named several other NGOs is potentially 33 00:02:38,440 --> 00:02:42,600 involved in some way in these operations as well, including Changing the Way We Care, 34 00:02:42,920 --> 00:02:47,900 the World Childhood Foundation, Arise, and La Union de Puebla Entero. To be perfectly clear, 35 00:02:47,900 --> 00:02:52,520 nothing's been proven yet. For its part, Save the Children strenuously denies these allegations. 36 00:02:52,800 --> 00:02:57,020 But the probe remains ongoing. And if the attorney general and public ministry are shut down, 37 00:02:57,460 --> 00:03:00,920 the probe will be too. Of course, if there's any truth to this allegation whatsoever, 38 00:03:01,100 --> 00:03:05,020 it is the single largest untold scandal of the Biden administration. It would mean that an 39 00:03:05,020 --> 00:03:09,080 organization tied to the Biden family, one that was supposed to combat human trafficking, 40 00:03:09,320 --> 00:03:14,240 has been enabling it. But predictably, no mainstream media organizations have looked into this. 41 00:03:14,240 --> 00:03:19,040 So I decided to do it myself. The first thing I did was hire a research firm to track all U.S. 42 00:03:19,040 --> 00:03:23,840 government spending in Guatemala over the last three fiscal years, from 2021 to 2024. 43 00:03:24,200 --> 00:03:28,560 It turns out that in that period, the U.S. government has issued more than $21 million 44 00:03:28,560 --> 00:03:33,760 in grant money to save the children. That's your money. And the U.S. has spent well over $350 million 45 00:03:33,760 --> 00:03:39,420 in Guatemala more generally with our tax dollars. Where is all this money going? Are U.S. taxpayers in any way 46 00:03:39,420 --> 00:03:44,820 subsidizing child trafficking operations or funding organizations that should be doing more to prevent 47 00:03:44,820 --> 00:03:49,660 this kind of trafficking? I'll have more specifics on what I found in a moment. But first, to address 48 00:03:49,660 --> 00:03:53,780 the most important issues right away, I did what the Biden administration has essentially told media 49 00:03:53,780 --> 00:03:59,340 not to do. I decided to speak directly with the source, Secretary General Angel Pinay. Not to accuse 50 00:03:59,340 --> 00:04:04,200 him of corruption, but to hear what he has to say about child trafficking in Guatemala, the possible role 51 00:04:04,200 --> 00:04:08,960 of the U.S. government in enabling it. Or worse, this is an interview that, as you're about to hear, 52 00:04:09,140 --> 00:04:13,860 the U.S. Embassy apparently did not want me to conduct. Days before this conversation took place, 53 00:04:13,960 --> 00:04:18,580 the Secretary General says he was warned by someone connected to the U.S. Embassy that he was, quote, 54 00:04:18,920 --> 00:04:24,900 playing with fire by taking part in this interview. Angel Pinay joins me now. Secretary General Angel Pinay, 55 00:04:25,000 --> 00:04:29,880 thank you for joining us. And good to see you. I want to start with this. We've got this letter here 56 00:04:29,880 --> 00:04:36,600 that was recently sent from Ministerio Público to Ken Paxton, the Attorney General of Texas. 57 00:04:37,360 --> 00:04:42,360 And I want to read you a small section of this letter here in the English translation. 58 00:04:43,060 --> 00:04:48,400 As you know, deficiencies in security and diplomacy related to the border between the United States 59 00:04:48,400 --> 00:04:55,000 and Mexico have resulted in significant increases in drug trafficking, but also a devastating emergence 60 00:04:55,000 --> 00:04:59,820 of human trafficking. In relation to the new complaint that has been filed with this institution, 61 00:05:00,000 --> 00:05:05,300 a horrifying pattern of disappearance of children from Guatemala has been brought to our attention. 62 00:05:05,480 --> 00:05:11,500 And it has been reported to the public ministry that a complex network involving NGOs or non-governmental 63 00:05:11,500 --> 00:05:17,640 organizations operating within Guatemala who collaborate with specific entities in the state of Texas 64 00:05:17,640 --> 00:05:23,720 are implicated in the abuse of Guatemalan children when they are away from their parents and have no one 65 00:05:23,720 --> 00:05:29,260 to protect them. Can you expand on this? Tell me about the letter, why you sent it? What is the 66 00:05:29,260 --> 00:05:31,260 problem and what do people need to know about it? 67 00:05:31,360 --> 00:05:37,580 Ministerio Público of Guatemala is the Attorney General's office of this country. The claim was 68 00:05:37,580 --> 00:05:45,640 received and when it was assigned to a special unit, the special unit also gave information to the 69 00:05:45,640 --> 00:05:51,620 Attorney General's office. You know that what we are saying there is what the claim is stating. 70 00:05:51,620 --> 00:05:58,200 The special thing here is that this is a letter that wants to have a beginning of interrelationship 71 00:05:58,200 --> 00:06:06,180 with the Attorney General's office in Texas. Why? Because the claim also says that many of the people 72 00:06:06,180 --> 00:06:11,300 that is going from Central America to the United States of America are going to Texas. 73 00:06:11,520 --> 00:06:13,660 I want to read you another part of this letter. It says, 74 00:06:13,660 --> 00:06:18,320 The public ministry obligated to protect the human rights and interests of the inhabitants of the Republic 75 00:06:18,320 --> 00:06:24,120 of Guatemala will spare no effort and exhaust all necessary efforts to locate and criminally 76 00:06:24,120 --> 00:06:29,240 prosecute those responsible for this enormous tragedy. And that's obviously referring to the 77 00:06:29,240 --> 00:06:35,820 child trafficking from Guatemala into the United States. So tell me, you know, with authority, 78 00:06:35,820 --> 00:06:41,220 you guys are going to leave no stone unturned. You are going to investigate this to the ends of the earth 79 00:06:41,220 --> 00:06:46,180 of necessary and hold everybody criminally accountable who's responsible for the trafficking of kids 80 00:06:46,180 --> 00:06:51,180 from Guatemala into the United States. Correct? Yes, correct. Correct. The last three years, 81 00:06:51,300 --> 00:06:56,880 we have we have had an increase of persons going from this region to the States of America. We also 82 00:06:56,880 --> 00:07:06,100 have had several claims about about different felonies being committed in the traveling. But we didn't 83 00:07:06,100 --> 00:07:14,840 have until now a claim with so many details as in as this this claim. And this involves sexual crimes 84 00:07:14,840 --> 00:07:19,160 against children. Correct? That's that's what I get from the letter. Yes. Yes. The letter says that the 85 00:07:19,160 --> 00:07:26,720 claims also says that I understand very recently you guys have raided an NGO by the name of Save the 86 00:07:26,720 --> 00:07:33,060 Children. Our researcher, Rando Land, they looked into the grants that are headed to some of these NGOs. 87 00:07:33,060 --> 00:07:38,040 And we found that over the last three years, Save the Children has received more than 21 million 88 00:07:38,040 --> 00:07:43,180 dollars in grant money. What can you tell us about Save the Children and these NGOs more broadly, 89 00:07:43,180 --> 00:07:48,780 if you can't talk specifically about Save the Children and the role that this complaint says they 90 00:07:48,780 --> 00:07:54,480 play in the trafficking of kids from Guatemala or Central America at large to the United States? 91 00:07:54,480 --> 00:08:00,820 Right now, we know that there is a black number that you cannot see it on the official numbers 92 00:08:00,820 --> 00:08:07,380 that are going from this region to the United States, and they are not getting record of it. 93 00:08:07,460 --> 00:08:15,700 Somebody told me about 85,000 children in the going to the United States that nobody knows what 94 00:08:15,700 --> 00:08:21,780 happened with them. This is why it is important that this claim has to be investigated. Because yes, 95 00:08:22,100 --> 00:08:29,000 yes, what you say is true. You know, that brings to mind something I think the public needs to know. 96 00:08:29,000 --> 00:08:35,640 And it's a very shocking fact. 70% of all unaccompanied minors, that means kids coming to America with no 97 00:08:35,640 --> 00:08:42,920 adult with them, 70% come from either Guatemala or Honduras. Those two countries, only 8% come from 98 00:08:42,920 --> 00:08:48,760 Mexico. And the rest is, you know, scattered among different countries in the world. For 70% to come from 99 00:08:48,760 --> 00:08:53,720 those two countries, and this is data from the U.S. government, how can it be anything but child 100 00:08:53,720 --> 00:08:58,840 trafficking? Do you have any explanation that makes rational sense for how Guatemala and Honduras 101 00:08:58,840 --> 00:09:04,680 could make up 70% of unaccompanied minors if there's not something criminal going on? 102 00:09:04,680 --> 00:09:11,000 Yeah, no, you know, this is a theme and an issue that we have to work together as a region, work 103 00:09:11,000 --> 00:09:17,240 together with the United States of America, because we have to know the truth. We cannot put our eyes 104 00:09:17,240 --> 00:09:22,600 shut, you know, and say that this is not happening. The claim here in Guatemala says 105 00:09:22,600 --> 00:09:28,840 that maybe there is participation of people in government, in both governments from the region 106 00:09:28,840 --> 00:09:36,280 and from the United States, allowing this kind of situation. And there is some NGOs from the region 107 00:09:36,280 --> 00:09:40,760 allowing this. And yes, they talk about the different countries of Central America. 108 00:09:40,760 --> 00:09:45,720 You know, you mentioned there that you're hoping for the cooperation of the U.S. government in this. 109 00:09:45,720 --> 00:09:50,920 However, you know, you guys just rated Save the Children. I'm wondering, are you aware of the 110 00:09:50,920 --> 00:09:56,920 position held by the president's wife in that organization previously at Save the Children, that 111 00:09:56,920 --> 00:10:03,400 she wasn't the chair? No, we didn't know that. We understand that information when it was 112 00:10:03,400 --> 00:10:09,640 put on the social media. Saying that, in the United States, we have had a lot of communication from 113 00:10:09,640 --> 00:10:16,360 different media in the United States of America. And now we are understanding many, many, many 114 00:10:16,920 --> 00:10:24,600 information about this matter. Saying that, I have to tell you that the State Department has got the 115 00:10:24,600 --> 00:10:29,960 communication with the Ministerio Público of Guatemala regarding some administrative decisions 116 00:10:29,960 --> 00:10:35,960 that our high authority has been taking by law, you know, because the Constitution gave her 117 00:10:35,960 --> 00:10:43,000 those faculties, but they didn't want her to take those decisions. We have been working with all the 118 00:10:43,000 --> 00:10:49,080 agencies from the United States of America, technical agencies, you know, DEA for the themes of 119 00:10:49,080 --> 00:10:57,400 drug traffic. We have been working with HSI. We have been working with FBI. But in the political 120 00:10:58,200 --> 00:11:03,720 manner of relationship, we have had some difficulties. They have put also 121 00:11:03,720 --> 00:11:09,800 our Attorney General in a list saying some things that they haven't proved. They don't have 122 00:11:09,800 --> 00:11:15,880 information. When we ask why they have put her in that list, they have put me also in that list. 123 00:11:15,880 --> 00:11:21,240 They don't respond to that. Why do you think the Biden administration is treating you guys like 124 00:11:21,240 --> 00:11:26,600 you're corrupt officials? They're treating you very similarly to the way Joe Biden treated a prosecutor 125 00:11:26,600 --> 00:11:33,000 in Ukraine that was investigating his family. And they made sure they got rid of that problem. It seems 126 00:11:33,000 --> 00:11:38,760 like they're treating you guys like a problem to get rid of. And like they're using the tools at 127 00:11:38,760 --> 00:11:42,840 their disposal within government to do it, which others would argue is very corrupt in itself. So 128 00:11:42,840 --> 00:11:49,480 how do you see it that they're doing this on the heels of you and the AG investigating child 129 00:11:49,480 --> 00:11:55,000 trafficking and all kinds of criminality that's happening coming in through our southern border here 130 00:11:55,000 --> 00:12:00,200 in the United States? You know, I have to be honest, we didn't know that the persons from the family of 131 00:12:00,200 --> 00:12:07,000 the president of the United States of America work in this kind of NGOs. We didn't know that. But we, 132 00:12:07,000 --> 00:12:14,520 as institution, take some decisions regarding 10, 15 people from different units in the in the 133 00:12:14,520 --> 00:12:21,000 Ministerio Público of Guatemala, that they were fired from this institution. And they didn't like that, 134 00:12:21,000 --> 00:12:25,880 you know, they didn't like that. We don't know what what they were working with them. But they didn't 135 00:12:25,880 --> 00:12:32,280 like that saying that because of that decisions, they started to cut cooperation to the to the 136 00:12:32,280 --> 00:12:38,840 institution, even though that will be very negative to the purposes of the United States of America, 137 00:12:38,840 --> 00:12:44,840 you know, because if they don't work with Ministerio Público Guatemala, everything that is a transnational 138 00:12:44,840 --> 00:12:50,040 felony cannot have a good purpose in the United States of America. But the thing of the family, 139 00:12:50,040 --> 00:12:55,480 we didn't know that. We didn't know why they were so focused on that matter, you know, because 140 00:12:55,480 --> 00:13:01,000 when you go to see the work that Maria Consuelo Porras Argueta, who is an attorney general here in 141 00:13:01,000 --> 00:13:08,440 Guatemala, if you compare the fight that she has put through the drug cartels, you know, is historic. 142 00:13:08,440 --> 00:13:14,600 If you see her predecessor, that was another attorney general who has claims here in Guatemala by 143 00:13:14,600 --> 00:13:20,840 corruption and other things. For the drug cartels in that time, for extraditions, they had in four 144 00:13:20,840 --> 00:13:30,360 years like 46. Only in 2021, our attorney general had 57. Only one year. Let me stop you there. Do 145 00:13:30,360 --> 00:13:34,840 you think that's the influence of the United States, that the United States influence results in less 146 00:13:34,840 --> 00:13:40,680 convictions, less prosecutions in Central American, South American countries where, you know, we're sort of, 147 00:13:40,680 --> 00:13:45,560 you know, getting in there and controlling and meddling in the situations and stopping justice 148 00:13:45,560 --> 00:13:49,560 from happening? Is that kind of how you see it? I can speak for Guatemala, you know, 149 00:13:49,560 --> 00:13:55,480 because I work here in Guatemala in attorney general's office. I don't know if in other countries, 150 00:13:55,480 --> 00:14:01,640 but having the experience that we have had here of this kind of behavior with us, 151 00:14:01,640 --> 00:14:07,320 I can assure that it is happening in other places. You know, when I started to talk with you, 152 00:14:07,320 --> 00:14:15,800 maybe like one week ago, I remember you put an ex post in your account and you said that you talk 153 00:14:15,800 --> 00:14:21,880 with me. And that was the beginning of an attack in different medias here in Guatemala because they 154 00:14:21,880 --> 00:14:27,960 say, I don't have the faculties to sign the letter that you have read right now, but I have the faculties 155 00:14:27,960 --> 00:14:34,200 and I was instructed by the attorney general to put that letter and send it to attorney general Paxton. 156 00:14:34,200 --> 00:14:40,680 And they have been putting in a pattern that we have been receiving for the last three years. 157 00:14:40,680 --> 00:14:44,600 When they don't like something that we are doing here in different investigations, 158 00:14:44,600 --> 00:14:51,880 they start an attack in different media, media actors. And they start a lot of reactions, you know, 159 00:14:51,880 --> 00:14:55,640 not in the, in the legal matter, but in the, in the media. 160 00:14:55,640 --> 00:15:00,440 They want to publicly influence people's perception of what's going on. You know, 161 00:15:00,440 --> 00:15:05,640 it's the same thing they do in the U S the good news is a lot of these big media outlets are losing 162 00:15:05,640 --> 00:15:10,440 their power because the media effectively has turned into people like myself and other people 163 00:15:10,440 --> 00:15:15,160 who are doing work like me online, who are able to just independently get the truth. We owe nothing 164 00:15:15,160 --> 00:15:20,600 to anybody except for the truth to our audience. You know, life is all about incentives. And I think the 165 00:15:20,600 --> 00:15:25,160 news business, their incentives are all messed up in general, big media organizations, their 166 00:15:25,160 --> 00:15:31,720 incentives are toward access and power. Whereas my incentive is always to give my audience the truth, 167 00:15:31,720 --> 00:15:35,640 whatever that is, because that's what my audience likes. They like to just know the truth and that's 168 00:15:35,640 --> 00:15:41,160 the public at large. So without fear or fervor, we search the truth out. And from what I gather, 169 00:15:41,160 --> 00:15:45,480 that's what you guys are going to do. Investigating this trafficking and criminality at the border is 170 00:15:45,480 --> 00:15:51,080 it doesn't matter if it involves the president's family or his wife previously being on the board 171 00:15:51,080 --> 00:15:55,320 or anybody. It doesn't matter who's involved. You guys are searching out the truth and you're 172 00:15:55,320 --> 00:15:59,320 going to hold the people accountable who are responsible for hurting children. Do I have that 173 00:15:59,320 --> 00:16:05,880 right? Yes, yes, that's correct. And you know, I don't want to put in a difficult position, 174 00:16:06,520 --> 00:16:11,640 the person who talked to, who told me this, but I have to tell you, I cannot be silent 175 00:16:11,640 --> 00:16:17,800 of this kind of behavior because, you know, like one week ago, a person that I know came to me and 176 00:16:17,800 --> 00:16:23,240 told me, you know, somebody from the U.S. embassy talked to me. She, he knew that he or she, I don't 177 00:16:23,240 --> 00:16:31,400 know if it was he or she knew that I know you. And he told me that tell Angel, tell Angel Pineda that 178 00:16:31,400 --> 00:16:37,960 maybe he's starting to play with fire. But just to have somebody to, to have the nerve to go to a, 179 00:16:37,960 --> 00:16:43,960 to a person that works in the government to say that, that is very, very, very dangerous, you know? 180 00:16:43,960 --> 00:16:50,200 It's wild. I mean, it's wild. Yes, it's wild. And you, I don't know why they are doing it. 181 00:16:50,200 --> 00:16:56,760 They have seen that we, we are not going to be bended. We're not going to, to, to put our work 182 00:16:56,760 --> 00:17:02,600 aside just because they say something, you know, they already have put us in a lot of lists because 183 00:17:02,600 --> 00:17:08,200 the, the attorney general of Guatemala and myself, the different persons that works in different 184 00:17:08,200 --> 00:17:14,680 units here or hearing in Guatemala that have several investigations that regards some interest 185 00:17:14,680 --> 00:17:19,880 of the United States of America. When, when they start to work, they have been put in this list. 186 00:17:19,880 --> 00:17:28,120 Also, we have been putting lists by 42 countries, I guess, you know? And I don't know how you can have 187 00:17:28,120 --> 00:17:36,680 this, this influence, you know, to, to put somebody in a list in another country, just by saying, 188 00:17:36,680 --> 00:17:42,040 just by saying, don't, doesn't having the proof to, or the evidence to support this, 189 00:17:43,320 --> 00:17:47,880 that we are corrupt and we are anti-democratic. They're, they're saying now that we are 190 00:17:47,880 --> 00:17:52,120 insurrectives because we are investigating the president here in Guatemala. 191 00:17:52,120 --> 00:17:56,280 Well, they use words they don't understand to be, to be completely frank with you. And that's 192 00:17:56,280 --> 00:18:00,120 happening in the United States as well. You know, they're saying that, you know, 193 00:18:00,120 --> 00:18:04,840 you need to save democracy in one hand. And then in the other hand, they're throwing people's names 194 00:18:04,840 --> 00:18:10,120 off the ballot, which doesn't seem very democratic to me. So, you know, this is happening all over 195 00:18:10,120 --> 00:18:14,600 the world where they use these buzzwords. They use these names like democracy to try to pull people 196 00:18:14,600 --> 00:18:18,760 in and say, Oh, we're saving this thing. When in fact, they're very anti-democratic. They're not 197 00:18:18,760 --> 00:18:23,880 looking for the will of the people. They're looking to influence people in a direction that they see fit, 198 00:18:23,880 --> 00:18:28,680 where they can get enough power to rule over the people. But I want to ask you, I want to go 199 00:18:28,680 --> 00:18:33,800 further down this question line. You reached out to the United States in good faith, asking for help, 200 00:18:33,800 --> 00:18:39,000 for cooperation. Has the Biden administration reached back out to Guatemala to the AG's office 201 00:18:39,000 --> 00:18:44,600 to say, Hey, you know, let's put everything aside. All these allegations in the past, 202 00:18:44,600 --> 00:18:50,360 let's take a look at this with fresh eyes together. Let's try to investigate why 70% of the 203 00:18:50,360 --> 00:18:55,480 unaccompanied minors coming to the border presenting themselves are coming from Honduras and Guatemala. 204 00:18:55,480 --> 00:18:59,720 Has that happened at all? They don't talk with us. But for the last three years, 205 00:18:59,720 --> 00:19:04,520 they haven't had communication with us in a political and in a high level matter. There is 206 00:19:04,520 --> 00:19:09,880 a special thing, you know, United States of America used to work with us in the political 207 00:19:09,880 --> 00:19:15,320 matter, also in the high level in this model for drug. But they have been retiring from this, 208 00:19:15,320 --> 00:19:20,120 not by the agencies, but just by the political matter. We have been reaching 209 00:19:21,080 --> 00:19:26,520 by letters to the US embassy here in Guatemala regarding to they to help us in this matter, 210 00:19:26,520 --> 00:19:32,440 but we haven't had a response. That was before the claim. Now that we have the claim, 211 00:19:32,440 --> 00:19:39,000 they are trying to reach us because in the message that I told you that I was received, 212 00:19:39,000 --> 00:19:44,760 they already told me that they can help us in the investigation, but this is not official communication. 213 00:19:44,760 --> 00:19:50,680 In the threat that you received from somebody who says that they were told this at a US embassy, 214 00:19:50,680 --> 00:19:54,840 that you were, you know, playing with fire. Did they not want you to do this interview? 215 00:19:54,840 --> 00:19:58,840 Is that what it was about? They don't want you to do this interview. They want you to back off 216 00:19:58,840 --> 00:20:05,720 and they want this to go away. And is there any sort of unspoken exchange, some sort of quid pro quo, 217 00:20:05,720 --> 00:20:11,000 if you will, that they want something or will give you something for your silence or for you, 218 00:20:11,000 --> 00:20:15,960 you know, not not going and investigating these matters. You have, you can interpret it in any 219 00:20:15,960 --> 00:20:23,160 matter. Anyway, I don't took serious these kind of things in the way that stopped to work to being 220 00:20:23,160 --> 00:20:28,760 working here in Guatemala. But yes, I have to take some some actions, you know, to protect me, 221 00:20:28,760 --> 00:20:32,920 protect my family and anything, because I don't know what they are trying to say with that. 222 00:20:32,920 --> 00:20:40,360 Yeah. Again, our researcher Rando Land at Oilfield Rando, he looked into this for us and we were 223 00:20:40,360 --> 00:20:44,440 very interested in some of the money flowing from the United States into Guatemala. And we're going 224 00:20:44,440 --> 00:20:49,560 to talk about a number of it here. I've got a lot of grants sitting with us. And there's one thing 225 00:20:49,560 --> 00:20:55,400 that really stood out to me and I want to get this exact. So I'm going to read it to you. Between 2021 and 226 00:20:55,400 --> 00:21:01,720 in 2024, there were individual awards on a regular basis, about over 80 of them. And they ranged anywhere 227 00:21:01,720 --> 00:21:06,280 from, you know, a few hundred bucks to forty four thousand dollars. You know, it was generally 228 00:21:06,280 --> 00:21:10,920 somewhere between twenty thousand and forty thousand dollars that was being paid to individuals from 229 00:21:10,920 --> 00:21:17,160 the United States to individuals in Guatemala. These names were redacted in every one of these cases. 230 00:21:17,160 --> 00:21:23,080 So they are not telling us who this money was paid to. So I want to ask you, how much money is forty 231 00:21:23,080 --> 00:21:27,800 thousand dollars in Guatemala or twenty thousand dollars a month in Guatemala? Is that a lot of money? 232 00:21:27,800 --> 00:21:34,040 Yes, it is. It is a lot of money. You know, forty thousand dollars is like three hundred and 233 00:21:35,880 --> 00:21:41,720 three hundred twenty thousand quetzales. And the minimum wage here in Guatemala is three thousand 234 00:21:41,720 --> 00:21:48,600 quetzales. So it's it's one hundred times the minimum wage. And so what type of person would 235 00:21:48,600 --> 00:21:53,480 the United States be paying and redacting their names for that amount of money on a monthly basis 236 00:21:53,480 --> 00:21:59,400 or on a regular basis, seemingly where they redact these names? They spent, you know, on these obligated 237 00:21:59,400 --> 00:22:03,240 awards, almost seven hundred thousand dollars to individuals where they redact the names. Again, 238 00:22:03,240 --> 00:22:08,920 these are U.S. tax dollars. So we're not allowed to know who these people are and they're refusing to 239 00:22:08,920 --> 00:22:13,720 identify that. Is that something that you've looked at yourself in terms of investigating 240 00:22:13,720 --> 00:22:19,160 why Guatemalans are taking this type of money from the U.S. government and exactly what it's for? 241 00:22:19,160 --> 00:22:23,960 Is this some sort of political thing? Are they infiltrating in some way into the government? 242 00:22:23,960 --> 00:22:28,840 I mean, what what do you sense this money is for? When I talk with the person who is in charge 243 00:22:28,840 --> 00:22:34,600 on the investigation right now, the law here in Guatemala says that only this person can allow 244 00:22:35,160 --> 00:22:41,080 to talk about some things of the investigation. Saying that he told me that I can tell if I was 245 00:22:41,080 --> 00:22:48,680 asked this kind of information, I can tell that he went to the judge to make the raid the last week 246 00:22:48,680 --> 00:22:56,680 by three felonies, laundry money, influence traffic. That is it's like some that you are not allowed here 247 00:22:56,680 --> 00:23:02,600 to go to talk to two persons in the government and regard and get the benefit of that. You know that 248 00:23:02,600 --> 00:23:08,840 that's a traffic influence. And the other felony was child abuse. He and she, because there is a lot 249 00:23:08,840 --> 00:23:15,080 of people right now attending this, they are working in this matter to to get information 250 00:23:15,080 --> 00:23:20,600 about this thing. But the claim, yes, they are telling that there is coming money from 251 00:23:20,600 --> 00:23:24,680 the United States of America and even from the government of the United States of America to these 252 00:23:24,680 --> 00:23:31,240 NGOs. And maybe they are not using the money to the purposes that they are they are intended to use 253 00:23:31,240 --> 00:23:36,360 it. Well, on that point, it's not just the United States of America. We've also identified Bill Gates 254 00:23:36,360 --> 00:23:41,080 has given, you know, around 50 million dollars to save the children. George Soros has also given 255 00:23:41,080 --> 00:23:47,000 money to that organization and to various NGOs. You know, I want to ask you, what is the impact of these 256 00:23:47,000 --> 00:23:53,000 mega billionaires like George Soros going and throwing around millions of dollars or Bill Gates throwing 257 00:23:53,000 --> 00:23:57,560 around 50 million dollars and more? I mean, the amounts of money we're talking about are just 258 00:23:57,560 --> 00:24:05,080 ludicrous into these NGOs that then are, you know, really seemingly sort of influencing these countries, 259 00:24:05,080 --> 00:24:10,840 the directions of them, migration patterns and what happens at the United States border, which includes, 260 00:24:10,840 --> 00:24:15,800 you know, really how permissive we are when it comes to illegal, illicit criminal activity. 261 00:24:15,800 --> 00:24:21,480 Well, let me tell you, we have to investigate that. We have had protests here in Guatemala 262 00:24:21,480 --> 00:24:26,120 from October through through January against Ministerio Público of Guatemala because we 263 00:24:26,120 --> 00:24:31,640 were investigating the maybe the fraud in the elections in Guatemala. Regarding that, the 264 00:24:31,640 --> 00:24:39,000 investigations have have have permit us to see that there is a lot of NGOs also that were working 265 00:24:39,000 --> 00:24:47,000 with the protesters and trying to give them money to to be in those protests. But we are working 266 00:24:47,000 --> 00:24:53,960 in the investigation. I can tell you. That was in Guatemala. You had basically these NGOs paying 267 00:24:54,520 --> 00:25:01,160 different people to show up at protests. Exactly. So I will not be surprised that that can also is 268 00:25:01,160 --> 00:25:07,560 going to be the same thing in this investigation. I've got another item here from looking into these 269 00:25:07,560 --> 00:25:14,440 grants. I mean, we added it up. We're not far from 500 million dollars flowing in three years from the 270 00:25:14,440 --> 00:25:20,840 Biden administration into Guatemala for various purposes and through these NGOs. And that's that's 271 00:25:20,840 --> 00:25:26,440 specific to Guatemala. If you go broadly to these NGOs, which operate within Guatemala, that number will 272 00:25:26,440 --> 00:25:32,440 go up even more. You know, I want to ask you, have you uncovered any connection that leads you to believe 273 00:25:33,080 --> 00:25:38,920 any sort of indication that the cartels are working with some NGOs? Now, I'm not going to name any 274 00:25:38,920 --> 00:25:44,680 specifically, but the cartels are working with some NGOs and those NGOs are funded by the Biden 275 00:25:44,680 --> 00:25:51,560 administration with U.S. taxpayer dollars. We cannot put aside anything and everything is possible. 276 00:25:51,560 --> 00:25:57,320 So our investigator, Rando Land, he also looked into something really troubling, and that was 277 00:25:57,320 --> 00:26:03,480 extensive U.S. payments to Guatemala that apparently are designed to export left wing ideology to your 278 00:26:03,480 --> 00:26:07,240 country. These are some of the grants. And I'm going to read you just a little piece of these. 279 00:26:08,120 --> 00:26:14,360 In one case, we were paying four hundred sixty eight thousand dollars to, quote, improve the 280 00:26:14,360 --> 00:26:20,600 livelihoods of marginalized groups by providing technical assistance to community groups on 281 00:26:20,600 --> 00:26:27,800 management, government leadership and entrepreneurship skills. OK, it's a very broad grant. And we've got 282 00:26:27,800 --> 00:26:35,080 another one giving one hundred twenty five thousand dollars to indigenous Maya healers. And I just want 283 00:26:35,080 --> 00:26:41,800 to ask you a couple of things. Is this money reaching the people? And why do you think the U.S. government 284 00:26:41,800 --> 00:26:45,560 is doing this? Is this appropriate that the U.S. government is spending one hundred twenty five 285 00:26:45,560 --> 00:26:52,760 thousand dollars on indigenous healers? I'm gathering that shamans or, you know, things along those lines. 286 00:26:52,760 --> 00:26:56,840 Is that something you think is, number one, the place of the United States to be doing? But number two, 287 00:26:57,400 --> 00:27:01,320 is that actually where the money is going in some of these cases? And you don't have to speak to this 288 00:27:01,320 --> 00:27:05,480 specific grant. But in general, does this make sense to you, the amount of money I'm talking about 289 00:27:05,480 --> 00:27:10,760 in these grants? Are you seeing this type of money infused into the economy in Guatemala? 290 00:27:10,760 --> 00:27:17,320 Or does something seem very fishy to you? In every school, in every government school that works with 291 00:27:18,280 --> 00:27:23,480 the judicial branch, the Ministerio Público, who is attorney general's office, police that works in 292 00:27:23,480 --> 00:27:29,240 investigations, the person that works in the attorneys that gives help to the people that 293 00:27:29,240 --> 00:27:36,360 cannot pay an attorney. Everybody works with USAID with different capacities and giving information 294 00:27:36,360 --> 00:27:42,760 in those schools, you know. So it makes a lot of sense. And saying that, when we started to make 295 00:27:42,760 --> 00:27:47,800 some investigations here in Guatemala or took as an institution the decisions that I told you, 296 00:27:47,800 --> 00:27:53,880 they didn't work with us anymore. But we know that that is happening. There are some claims about 297 00:27:53,880 --> 00:28:00,360 that matter we are investigating. And I know that when the investigations get results, we are going to 298 00:28:00,360 --> 00:28:06,440 we are going to be able to ask your question. But I guess that is going to be positive. 299 00:28:06,440 --> 00:28:11,160 Well, that'll be part two. You know, I do want to dive in a little bit further on this because, 300 00:28:11,720 --> 00:28:17,160 you know, we found it was almost half a million dollars grant to the Inter-American Foundation 301 00:28:17,160 --> 00:28:23,000 to benefit excluded populations of young people with non-traditional gender identities and sexual 302 00:28:23,000 --> 00:28:28,440 orientation. So this brings me to a broader point. The United States, the State Department, USAID, 303 00:28:28,440 --> 00:28:35,800 they've been accused by many different countries of using grant money to influence other countries 304 00:28:35,800 --> 00:28:42,200 where the social culture is not friendly to all of these crazy new gender identity, you know, sort of 305 00:28:42,200 --> 00:28:48,200 ideologies and saying, hey, you want this money over here? Here's the carrot. Well, you're going to have 306 00:28:48,200 --> 00:28:53,880 to bring in the education that accepts these new gender ideologies, the transitioning of children 307 00:28:53,880 --> 00:29:00,520 sexually and things along those lines. There's also the allegation that they are going and re-educating 308 00:29:00,520 --> 00:29:05,320 government employees. So I want to ask you a two part question here. Are they doing this to children 309 00:29:05,320 --> 00:29:12,200 in Guatemala where the U.S. influence and grant dollars results in kids being taught these left-wing 310 00:29:12,200 --> 00:29:19,480 ideologies about sex and gender, which is totally inappropriate? And secondly, are we seeing the mass 311 00:29:19,480 --> 00:29:25,640 re-education of government officials in Guatemala to fit the ideological needs or desires of the 312 00:29:25,640 --> 00:29:29,800 Biden administration and Democrats more broadly who are in charge of this money via the State 313 00:29:29,800 --> 00:29:33,720 Department and other places? Because the amount of money we're talking about going into Guatemala is 314 00:29:33,720 --> 00:29:38,040 not a small amount. And there are some very unusual payments from the State Department specific to 315 00:29:38,040 --> 00:29:40,760 Guatemala. So what can you tell us about those two questions? 316 00:29:40,760 --> 00:29:47,320 To give a response to both questions is yes, you know, because I'm going to tell you an experience 317 00:29:47,320 --> 00:29:51,800 that we have here in the Ministerio Público of Guatemala in the Attorney General's office. When 318 00:29:51,800 --> 00:29:57,400 the Attorney General started the project to help the child that were abused here, it is called MAINA, 319 00:29:57,400 --> 00:30:04,600 we started to talk to all the cooperation by the different countries that were friendly with us 320 00:30:04,600 --> 00:30:11,880 and started to work together. When we started to see the different themes that were put in the 321 00:30:11,880 --> 00:30:20,440 capacities for psychologists and for social workers, we saw that there was a theme in the list that was 322 00:30:20,440 --> 00:30:33,080 called Pink Boys, Light Blue Girls. So they were making a use of words, you know, 323 00:30:33,080 --> 00:30:41,320 because in the Latin America countries, the pink is usually put for girls and the light blue is 324 00:30:41,320 --> 00:30:49,960 usually put for boys. But they were interacting, you know, the words. So they were trying to put the 325 00:30:49,960 --> 00:30:56,200 psychologists and the social workers to take these themes into their capacitations. So we told them, 326 00:30:56,200 --> 00:31:02,600 you know, maybe these kind of things are not good to talk when a child has been abused. 327 00:31:02,600 --> 00:31:08,520 We have to help them in another way. Maybe later we have, we can talk about this kind of matters, 328 00:31:08,520 --> 00:31:12,520 but we have to talk with their parents, you know, because the parents have to give the consent 329 00:31:12,520 --> 00:31:19,400 to the different themes that are put in the knowledge of the children. But because of that, 330 00:31:19,400 --> 00:31:27,640 that agency of cooperation didn't work with us anymore since 2018, you know. So, yes, it happens. I live that. 331 00:31:27,640 --> 00:31:32,840 They cut off communication with you when you went to them and said, hey, we need to get the consent of 332 00:31:32,840 --> 00:31:38,840 parents. We need to not teach this to abused children. We need to pull this back a little 333 00:31:38,840 --> 00:31:43,640 bit. Talking with them about sex and gender and transitioning is not appropriate. They just cut 334 00:31:43,640 --> 00:31:47,560 off communication with you. Yes, yes, they cut off communication. 335 00:31:47,560 --> 00:31:53,720 If you subscribe to this and I do, the idea is that we're using this money to basically bully 336 00:31:53,720 --> 00:31:57,960 other countries into accepting an ideology that does not match with them. You know, myself being 337 00:31:57,960 --> 00:32:03,560 Cuban, I know Latino culture is very gendered and we are a very respectful culture to the different 338 00:32:03,560 --> 00:32:08,680 gender roles and the things that make us wonderful as men and women, because we all have strengths 339 00:32:08,680 --> 00:32:13,320 and we complement each other's strengths and weaknesses perfectly. I mean, I think that's 340 00:32:13,320 --> 00:32:18,360 ordained by God in itself. It's the reason for being, you know, we're supposed to be with each 341 00:32:18,360 --> 00:32:24,680 other and make families and things along those lines. But yes, these concepts, they explicitly attack 342 00:32:24,680 --> 00:32:30,200 the nuclear family as well. And I'm wondering, you know, what effect are you seeing socially, 343 00:32:30,200 --> 00:32:37,000 culturally when it comes to the family and social identity in Guatemala? Is this export of U.S. 344 00:32:37,000 --> 00:32:41,720 far left ideology influencing or damaging the family in Guatemala? 345 00:32:42,440 --> 00:32:50,920 Yes, there is a special focus, principal actions here in Guatemala coming from different other 346 00:32:50,920 --> 00:32:56,680 countries around the world, trying to help us in different, many cooperation ways. But they put, 347 00:32:56,680 --> 00:33:03,240 yes, they put these kind of themes on every cooperation. I used to work, before I was a general 348 00:33:03,240 --> 00:33:09,080 secretary, I used to work here in Ministerio Polico as secretary of international affairs. So I have, 349 00:33:09,080 --> 00:33:14,600 I have the communication with everybody regarding these matters. So I can tell you that they put these 350 00:33:14,600 --> 00:33:20,760 kind of themes in every cooperation, they put it. Is this also happening within the government where 351 00:33:20,760 --> 00:33:26,360 in government agencies, government employees are being reeducated in Guatemala to believe this far 352 00:33:26,360 --> 00:33:30,200 left ideology coming from the United States that we're exporting out there? 353 00:33:30,200 --> 00:33:35,560 We have seen in the in the news that the president of the executive branch have put an 354 00:33:37,400 --> 00:33:43,240 which is a document that he he puts giving instructions to all his units saying that they 355 00:33:43,240 --> 00:33:48,680 have to create the gender unit in every office in the in the executive branch. 356 00:33:48,680 --> 00:33:52,840 So this is happening in the executive branch where people are sort of being reeducated into this 357 00:33:52,840 --> 00:33:56,920 far left ideology, including pronouns and gender and everything else. I just want to make sure I'm 358 00:33:56,920 --> 00:34:01,880 getting that right. Yes, yes, exactly. So the Heritage Foundation here in the United States, 359 00:34:01,880 --> 00:34:07,240 they discovered at an NGO in Mexico flyers that were being spread about saying that they needed four 360 00:34:07,240 --> 00:34:13,560 more years of Joe Biden and that they needed to remind everybody there to vote for Joe Biden when they 361 00:34:13,560 --> 00:34:17,800 got to the United States. OK, these are people who are immigrating illegally. Does it surprise you at 362 00:34:17,800 --> 00:34:22,680 all that they found that there is some persons I know is not all the country. I know all the people 363 00:34:22,680 --> 00:34:27,480 in the United States of America don't maybe don't think that way. But there are some persons that are 364 00:34:27,480 --> 00:34:34,840 acting beyond the law, you know, and I will want I will not be surprised that if this is happening in 365 00:34:34,840 --> 00:34:40,760 Mexico and it could be happening in Guatemala. I will not be surprised if that I will see some flyer here 366 00:34:40,760 --> 00:34:47,080 in Guatemala. You know, sometimes when the information is delivered by someone like me and I say there's 367 00:34:47,080 --> 00:34:52,200 truly dangerous criminals that are able to come through right now because of the permissiveness 368 00:34:52,200 --> 00:34:57,000 at our border where we're seeing millions of people come in under Joe Biden. It's it's it's a degree 369 00:34:57,000 --> 00:35:03,080 we've never seen. I mean, it is historic. There's nothing that comes close. Can you tell me as somebody 370 00:35:03,080 --> 00:35:09,480 in Guatemala, you know, are there really seriously dangerous criminal elements that are coming from 371 00:35:09,480 --> 00:35:14,840 Central America, South America into the United States of America through our southern border? 372 00:35:14,840 --> 00:35:20,440 And from an outsider perspective, do you just scratch your head and wonder why is the United 373 00:35:20,440 --> 00:35:25,160 States letting some very dangerous people in? That is happening. We have to fight together. 374 00:35:25,160 --> 00:35:30,520 Obviously, you guys have gotten communication from the United States borders are Kamala Harris, 375 00:35:30,520 --> 00:35:36,520 right? She's been named the borders are by Joe Biden. So I'm sure she's reached out to try to lessen 376 00:35:36,520 --> 00:35:43,880 the criminal element that's coming into our country or, you know, maybe assist in in ensuring that 377 00:35:43,880 --> 00:35:49,800 felonist individuals, cartels, criminal syndicates, child traffickers, drug traffickers are being dealt 378 00:35:49,800 --> 00:35:56,040 with, right? No, she she came here to Guatemala. She didn't talk with with the attorney general. 379 00:35:56,040 --> 00:36:03,640 When she came here, we talked with Samantha Power. She was she's she works with the USA. She started 380 00:36:03,640 --> 00:36:09,640 talking with our attorney general saying to her, tell me, what are you going to to say to me 381 00:36:09,640 --> 00:36:17,560 to convince me to give cooperation to you? And the attorney general, I respond to her. I don't have 382 00:36:17,560 --> 00:36:24,280 to do anything to convince you for anything. You know, I have a constitutional faculty to work for 383 00:36:24,280 --> 00:36:30,120 my country and I'm working for my country. So maybe you are not aware of what we are working 384 00:36:30,120 --> 00:36:35,480 together with the United States of America. But I don't have to convince you of anything, you know? 385 00:36:35,480 --> 00:36:43,000 Wow. Samantha Power went in basically saying, hey, well, what can you guys do for me here? 386 00:36:43,000 --> 00:36:47,480 What are you going to tell me to convince me we should cooperate to stop criminals? Is that 387 00:36:47,480 --> 00:36:52,680 essentially the pitch? Yes, that's that was essentially the pitch. Are you aware of any 388 00:36:52,680 --> 00:36:56,920 countries in South America, Central America? You don't have to name them because I know that puts 389 00:36:56,920 --> 00:37:01,960 you in a weird position. But are you aware of any countries there that are explicitly sending 390 00:37:01,960 --> 00:37:06,920 their criminals to the United States, you know, like get release them from prison? Let them go 391 00:37:06,920 --> 00:37:11,480 to the United States. We don't want them. Yes, I know that with these kind of claims that we have 392 00:37:11,480 --> 00:37:16,280 been receiving now, I know that we are going to investigate a lot of things and I know that we 393 00:37:16,280 --> 00:37:21,240 are going to find some things, you know, some American media outlets have given numbers as high 394 00:37:21,240 --> 00:37:28,120 as 80 percent of all women and girls who cross the southern border illegally. They find themselves raped 395 00:37:28,120 --> 00:37:33,800 and sexually assaulted along the way. Do you think the U.S. government bears any responsibility for 396 00:37:33,800 --> 00:37:38,920 encouraging this migration pattern, you know, these illegal immigration patterns from Central 397 00:37:38,920 --> 00:37:45,640 America, South America to the U.S.? Because I don't think that most people understand just how dangerous 398 00:37:45,640 --> 00:37:50,760 the trip is. Can you explain on that? How dangerous is that trip? Are people aware of the sexual 399 00:37:50,760 --> 00:37:55,080 assaults happening? And does the U.S. have some culpability or responsibility for encouraging this? 400 00:37:55,080 --> 00:38:02,120 Because I'll remind people all the way back in the 2020 elections, we saw every single candidate 401 00:38:02,120 --> 00:38:07,400 on the DNC stage raise their hands that essentially they would give free health care and all kinds of 402 00:38:07,400 --> 00:38:12,520 benefits to people who come here illegally, which obviously encourages them. So if you can, 403 00:38:12,520 --> 00:38:16,840 please expand and let us know, you know, how do you feel about that? Is there culpability for the 404 00:38:16,840 --> 00:38:24,760 United States and how bad is this problem? Okay, let me tell you, here in Guatemala and I guess that in all 405 00:38:24,760 --> 00:38:32,200 the Central American countries, there is the same effort to talk to everybody that this trip is very 406 00:38:32,200 --> 00:38:38,760 dangerous, you know. But even though, and even there is a lot of information on that, people still 407 00:38:38,760 --> 00:38:45,720 is going to the United States of America. Saying that, there is also an increase of numbers since 408 00:38:47,000 --> 00:38:51,960 these administrations took the government of the United States of America. And not only in Central 409 00:38:51,960 --> 00:38:59,800 America, I went like two or three years ago to Panama, to a meeting of Attorney General's offices, 410 00:38:59,800 --> 00:39:05,240 and in there they were talking about the Darien Pass, passing, you know. And they were saying that 411 00:39:05,240 --> 00:39:10,840 besides the information that they were giving from the United States to the people on the region, 412 00:39:10,840 --> 00:39:16,040 that they can go to the United States of America, there started to be an increase of persons, 413 00:39:16,040 --> 00:39:25,400 regarding from 10,000 people to 100,000 people in a several amount of months. So there is having an 414 00:39:25,400 --> 00:39:30,600 increase on people going to the United States of America the last three years. We have people here 415 00:39:30,600 --> 00:39:37,480 that are dying in the path and people that is being abused in the path, you know. And so we have to work 416 00:39:37,480 --> 00:39:42,440 together. But yes, that is happening. I want to make people aware of something because it is particularly 417 00:39:42,440 --> 00:39:46,840 shocking at the border for people who don't know. You know, I was talking with some border patrol 418 00:39:46,840 --> 00:39:53,320 officers and I asked about a bunch of underwear that were hanging on trees. I didn't understand 419 00:39:53,320 --> 00:39:57,320 why underwear would be hanging on trees. And they said, well, those are rape trees. 420 00:39:57,320 --> 00:40:01,480 Have you heard of these? Have you heard of rape trees and what's happening at the at the southern border? 421 00:40:02,360 --> 00:40:08,280 We have heard of that, you know, as I told you, there is a lot of information that usually you hear in 422 00:40:08,280 --> 00:40:17,880 the society. But to have the opportunity to get a claim with information, giving us information for 423 00:40:17,880 --> 00:40:25,160 this kind of things, we didn't have that opportunity until now, you know. So that's why this claim that 424 00:40:25,160 --> 00:40:29,960 we have received is very important. And we have to take it seriously. Everybody, we have to take it 425 00:40:29,960 --> 00:40:35,720 seriously. Here in Guatemala, in Honduras, in El Salvador, in Mexico, in the United States of America, 426 00:40:35,720 --> 00:40:40,280 we have to work together because, yes, we have heard that. But we didn't have the opportunity 427 00:40:40,280 --> 00:40:46,920 to put it in a in a in a document way like we have now. Well, I know Mexico is very aware of it 428 00:40:46,920 --> 00:40:52,600 because these these have happened at many different spots along the southern border where, you know, 429 00:40:52,600 --> 00:40:58,520 basically these people who are committing the rapes, they're then collecting the undergarments 430 00:40:58,520 --> 00:41:04,680 of the victims, of the survivors. In many cases, many are killed along the way. But unfortunately, 431 00:41:04,680 --> 00:41:10,040 you know, these these women go through horrific, horrific abuse. Their undergarments are stolen, 432 00:41:10,040 --> 00:41:16,120 put on trees as trophies to essentially, you know, message out there to everybody else that they got 433 00:41:16,120 --> 00:41:23,000 this prize. And it's just horrifying to think about. But, you know, I just wonder, I mean, 434 00:41:23,000 --> 00:41:29,320 are we culpable? The United States were encouraging this to continue happening by encouraging people to 435 00:41:29,320 --> 00:41:35,720 come over knowing what these very perilous situations are. So, I mean, how do you see 436 00:41:35,720 --> 00:41:40,760 that? Is there some responsibility on the United States to stop encouraging this? 437 00:41:41,560 --> 00:41:44,600 Okay. I'm going to give you a personal opinion. You know, 438 00:41:44,600 --> 00:41:55,000 the law is created to put order in a society. When you put different things in a law, it's because 439 00:41:55,000 --> 00:42:02,120 you have to fulfill those requirements. If you don't fulfill these requirements and get a requirement 440 00:42:02,120 --> 00:42:09,000 done, you don't have order. Yeah. Does this strike you as odd? I mean, I'm just looking over everything, 441 00:42:09,000 --> 00:42:13,320 all these grants here, and we're going to have to do a separate episode to really go through the 442 00:42:13,320 --> 00:42:20,440 hundreds of millions of dollars in grants because what I noticed very strangely is the labeling on 443 00:42:20,440 --> 00:42:27,720 a lot of these grants is bizarre, very bizarre or redacted. And I have looked at grants like this and 444 00:42:27,720 --> 00:42:32,360 money flowing from the US to other countries before. And there's some very unique, strange 445 00:42:32,360 --> 00:42:36,520 stuff in these documents. I mean, especially the redacted individual payments I thought were very 446 00:42:36,520 --> 00:42:42,440 bizarre. Does all of this seem weird to you that the United States is getting so involved in one 447 00:42:42,440 --> 00:42:48,280 country? And why, if it does strike you as odd, why do you think they're doing it? What do you think 448 00:42:48,280 --> 00:42:52,920 the intention is in the long run? Because the way I see it, it looks like the United States is trying 449 00:42:52,920 --> 00:42:58,760 to make Guatemala sort of a satellite state that they control. And it's not very different in my 450 00:42:58,760 --> 00:43:03,240 mind from sort of what they're doing in Ukraine, where we spend billions and billions on billions of 451 00:43:03,240 --> 00:43:08,120 dollars to try to control another country and influence foreign policy in a direction where 452 00:43:08,120 --> 00:43:13,080 we get what we want. And we spread our ideology to countries where traditionally there are a lot 453 00:43:13,080 --> 00:43:19,560 more conservative socially than, you know, the left in the United States is. That's how it comes off to me. 454 00:43:19,560 --> 00:43:23,080 But I want to ask you to you, does it look the same way? 455 00:43:23,800 --> 00:43:29,000 Yes, yes, I'm not surprised on this information. You know, we don't understand how, why they have put 456 00:43:29,000 --> 00:43:36,200 this focus and principle focus on this institution, you know, and in the country also. Maybe the answer 457 00:43:36,200 --> 00:43:42,440 is going to be in the information that has been given us in this claim, you know, because maybe we are 458 00:43:42,440 --> 00:43:49,880 going to find that there is happening something here that is, has been giving a lot of persons a lot of 459 00:43:49,880 --> 00:43:56,760 money, you know, and everything goes to money. That's what I'm seeing in a speculative way. Now, 460 00:43:56,760 --> 00:44:04,760 I have to expect that the investigation is going to go further. We have to get a lot of information, 461 00:44:04,760 --> 00:44:09,560 put it in an official way through a judge, and then we are going to have a conclusion on that. 462 00:44:09,560 --> 00:44:15,480 There's been an uptick here in the United States of people claiming asylum for very official and very 463 00:44:15,480 --> 00:44:22,280 suspect reasons where they're trying to come here in numbers we've never seen before and claim asylum 464 00:44:22,280 --> 00:44:26,840 from violence and things like that. And a lot of these NGOs are training them on how to do it. 465 00:44:26,840 --> 00:44:30,680 They'll say you need to say this if you want to be able to stay in the United States. Have you heard 466 00:44:30,680 --> 00:44:35,880 of that? Yes, yes, we have heard of that. We don't have claims on that, you know, but we have heard 467 00:44:35,880 --> 00:44:43,160 that. Yes, we also as institutions have a lot of cases that a judge have allowed to put some arrests 468 00:44:43,160 --> 00:44:49,240 on some people. People have gone from Guatemala to the United States, and they are now there, 469 00:44:49,240 --> 00:44:53,320 and they are not facing the law here. So you've got criminals on the run, 470 00:44:53,320 --> 00:44:58,920 running away from justice in Guatemala, living here in the United States, and probably benefiting, 471 00:44:58,920 --> 00:45:02,840 getting public benefits, because in many cases, you know, we're not vetting anybody, 472 00:45:02,840 --> 00:45:08,680 and then we've got places like New York handing out gift cards to them, and people giving all types 473 00:45:08,680 --> 00:45:13,640 of public benefit coming from U.S. taxpayer dollars. So we're paying for criminals that you guys would 474 00:45:13,640 --> 00:45:17,800 like to lock up in prison, but you can't because the United States is harboring them, correct? 475 00:45:17,800 --> 00:45:23,800 Yes, yes, correct. And I'm going to give you an example. In a case here in Guatemala, 476 00:45:23,800 --> 00:45:29,960 the unit in the attorney general's office asked to the judge for an arrest. So the person here in 477 00:45:29,960 --> 00:45:37,160 Ministerio Público asked for a red alert to be executed in Interpol. So we sent it to Interpol, 478 00:45:37,160 --> 00:45:43,800 and Interpol told us that they have information that this must be a political persecution, 479 00:45:43,800 --> 00:45:51,320 and they were not going to execute the red alert. So we don't know in which law they support this, 480 00:45:51,320 --> 00:45:56,840 because the Interpol, they only execute. They don't analyze anything, you know, because here in Guatemala, 481 00:45:56,840 --> 00:46:04,920 a judge has already been given a legal analysis on that and put the instruction on that. So it's very, 482 00:46:04,920 --> 00:46:12,280 very interesting and very unbelievable. Are there murderers and child rapists and things like that 483 00:46:12,280 --> 00:46:18,520 who have fled your country, and they're escaping justice, and they're living in the United States, 484 00:46:18,520 --> 00:46:25,800 being harbored here? Yes, and from corruption also. Wow. That's unbelievable. I think people should 485 00:46:25,800 --> 00:46:30,200 be very concerned and upset about that, and we should be helping Guatemala to bring these people 486 00:46:30,200 --> 00:46:37,880 to justice. Final thing, I want to press in on this one thing. The 70%, okay, so 70% of all unaccompanied 487 00:46:37,880 --> 00:46:43,800 minors coming from Guatemala and Honduras, the vast majority coming from Guatemala. Do you have any 488 00:46:43,800 --> 00:46:51,960 reasonable explanation for that that does not involve massive crime? No, I don't have explanation. 489 00:46:51,960 --> 00:46:55,960 Well, thank you. Thank you for your time. I think listeners who have watched this interview are 490 00:46:55,960 --> 00:46:59,960 definitely a lot more informed on what's going on down there and maybe a lot more informed about 491 00:46:59,960 --> 00:47:04,680 their own government and how we're spending our money and how we're intervening in other countries 492 00:47:04,680 --> 00:47:09,160 in ways that I think are totally inappropriate and then refusing to cooperate in the ways that 493 00:47:09,160 --> 00:47:15,400 are appropriate to protect our own citizens and the interests of our country. I think what's been done 494 00:47:15,400 --> 00:47:20,360 here is shameful, and I'm sorry on a personal level that you and the Attorney General have been drug 495 00:47:20,360 --> 00:47:26,520 through the mud the way you have been, and I would like to see a day where we can cooperate, and I 496 00:47:26,520 --> 00:47:32,040 think that maybe as a result of this interview, maybe some AGs on a state level will cooperate 497 00:47:32,040 --> 00:47:39,240 appropriately with you guys in these investigations to get justice, to arrest the criminals as appropriate, 498 00:47:39,240 --> 00:47:43,800 who have done crimes that are truly heinous. I mean, when you go to the border, and I think a lot of 499 00:47:43,800 --> 00:47:48,520 Americans are disconnected from this, they don't understand that a vast majority of the women and 500 00:47:48,520 --> 00:47:53,880 girls who are brought over here, they are raped along the way. There's nothing empathetic or kind 501 00:47:53,880 --> 00:47:59,000 or compassionate about allowing this to continue. We need order. We need law and order specifically. 502 00:47:59,000 --> 00:48:04,440 So I thank you for joining us, and this won't be the last time we talk to you. I expect we'll talk again 503 00:48:04,440 --> 00:48:09,960 as this develops and we're able to give more information to people about exactly what's going on so that 504 00:48:09,960 --> 00:48:13,800 all questions can be answered and the truth can be aired because ultimately that's what the world 505 00:48:13,800 --> 00:48:18,920 deserves. We live in a world where I think people want the truth, and so we're going to give it to 506 00:48:18,920 --> 00:48:25,320 them. Thank you very much to you because you gave us a special space to talk about these kind of issues. 507 00:48:26,040 --> 00:48:33,720 We don't understand the different ways that God works, but we know that there is a purpose in 508 00:48:33,720 --> 00:48:40,040 this and these are divine connections that we have to use to say to the people that something is 509 00:48:40,040 --> 00:48:44,920 happening here. What you just heard is an interview that's guaranteed to enrage the highest levels of 510 00:48:44,920 --> 00:48:51,000 government in both Guatemala and the United States, but someone had to conduct it. One of the hallmarks of 511 00:48:51,000 --> 00:48:56,360 a dictatorship is politicized law enforcement. If the Biden administration gets what it wants, that's 512 00:48:56,360 --> 00:49:01,560 exactly what Guatemala is going to have. The attorney general and the public ministry will be replaced by 513 00:49:01,560 --> 00:49:06,200 loyalists who are favorable to the Biden administration and we might never learn what's 514 00:49:06,200 --> 00:49:11,400 actually going on with these NGOs and specifically what's happening to the children in their care. 515 00:49:11,400 --> 00:49:16,520 As of now, the investigation into Save the Children and other international NGOs in Guatemala 516 00:49:16,520 --> 00:49:22,280 remains unclear. What's clear already from our conversation with these officials and our own research 517 00:49:22,280 --> 00:49:27,480 is that a comprehensive probe into U.S. spending in Guatemala is badly needed and millions of dollars of 518 00:49:27,480 --> 00:49:33,640 this funding should be terminated immediately. We should not be funding shamans or gender activism 519 00:49:33,640 --> 00:49:39,080 anywhere, much less in Central America. And even the possibility that U.S. taxpayer dollars could be 520 00:49:39,080 --> 00:49:45,000 facilitating human trafficking is simply intolerable. We'll have an update soon including a deeper dive into 521 00:49:45,000 --> 00:49:50,520 both the allegations of child trafficking concerning NGOs in Guatemala and the extraordinary waste of 522 00:49:50,520 --> 00:49:57,000 taxpayer dollars in this country. This kind of misconduct only thrives when people don't pay attention to it, 523 00:49:57,000 --> 00:49:58,120 and that's about to change.