Joe Biden’s nomination of Todd Robinson to career ambassador confirms the two men’s criminal nexus. As US ambassador to Guatemala, Robinson helped send 17 innocent people to prison so Biden could get a contract for his client.
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee (SFRC) should use Robinson’s nomination to expose his crimes. The Papal Nuncio accused then–Ambassador Robinson of meddling in Guatemala’s internal affairs. He infamously replied that for him sovereignty came last.
This alone disqualifies him from the State Department’s (DOS) highest title, but there is much more.
The Biden regime’s border policy has been to flood the country with illegal immigrants and drugs. As assistant secretary for international narcotics and law enforcement (INL) since 2021, the SFRC should grill Robinson about his role in executing this regime policy.
On June 7, 2023, Representative Keith Self (R-TX) asked Robinson in a hearing if Mexico was a failed state. Robinson replied Mexico is not a failed state and that INL was working against the cartels. This answer turned a blind eye to the Mexican government not controlling its notorious criminal cartels and the Biden regime enriching them with many billions of dollars.
As vice president, Biden visited Guatemala three times in 12 months in 2014 and 2015. He pressured President Otto Pérez to extend the mandate of the International Commission against Impunity in Guatemala (CICIG) and give Baxter International a medical-care contract.
The CICIG was created by the United Nations and Guatemala’s government in 2007, but the CICIG was in reality an autonomous non-UN organ. It simply depended on US and European governments’ taxpayer funding. Unsupervised and with diplomatic immunity, the CICIG did anything it wanted to anyone without accountability.
US donations accounted for most of the CICIG budget. Barack Obama’s agenda, led by Biden and executed by DOS, was to co-opt Guatemala’s justice system and eventually control its government. Biden tied US aid to Guatemala to extending the CICIG mandate.
One month after the extension, the CICIG made accusations and saw to the jailing of 17 people. This resulted in Baxter recovering the contract it had lost five months earlier. Pérez detailed how Biden had lobbied him on Baxter’s behalf and said Biden had an interest in Baxter.
The illegally jailed victims were directors and employees of Guatemala’s national health care institute and the company to which it had awarded the contract Baxter wanted. Guatemala’s national auditors ruled two years later the contract had been properly awarded to Baxter’s competitor. Two years after that, some having spent nearly four years in prison, the defendants were all acquitted.
Robinson teamed with CICIG Commissioner Iván Velásquez, a Colombian who has sympathies for narcoterrorists, as documented in an Impunity Observer investigation. Together, Robinson and Velásquez jailed innocent victims and took over Guatemala’s justice system. Robinson threatened congressional leaders with US visa cancellations and CICIG investigations to get them to appoint his choice to Guatemala’s court of last resort. A former US federal prosecutor told me Robinson could be sent to jail in the United States if this were proved in court.
INL officials met with Guatemala’s electoral authorities prior to the country’s 2023 elections. INL has no authority regarding elections and was interfering.
The Attorney General’s Office (AGO) investigated electoral fraud after receiving more than 1,000 complaints. Pursuant to a high-court order, the AGO presented the electoral authority with evidence of fraud on December 12, 2023. The SFRC should question Robinson regarding his role before, during, and after the elections.
To avoid a confirmation hearing after Robinson left Guatemala in 2017, his DOS comrades arranged to send him to Venezuela as deputy chief of mission. Robinson was effectively in charge because there was no ambassador in protest of Nicholas Maduro’s illegitimacy.
Senator Marco Rubio said Robinson should be removed from his Venezuela post after he validated the 2018 presidential election President Donald Trump had declared illegitimate. Maduro later expelled Robinson supposedly because of his intervention in Venezuela’s internal affairs.
Four-time Guatemalan presidential candidate Gloria Porras is Robinson’s and Maduro’s mutual friend. As Hugo Chavez’s finance minister in 2011, Maduro delivered money to Porras in Managua for her presidential campaign. Running again in 2015, Porras was Robinson’s candidate for Guatemala’s presidency.
Guatemala’s congress defeated a resolution that would have condemned Venezuela’s 2018 election as illegitimate The largest congressional block, Gloria Porras’s party, voted unanimously against the resolution. After being expelled, Robinson was treated as a DOS hero and assigned as special advisor for Central America, and he returned to intervening in Guatemala. The SFRC should ask Robinson if he arranged for Maduro to expel him to return to his obsession with conquering Guatemala.
The House Oversight Committee identified Hunter Biden’s involvement in Mexico, where Baxter obtained more than 1,000 contracts, most without competitive bidding. Biden’s pardon of his son Hunter prevents him from invoking the Fifth Amendment if called to testify. Members of the SFRC should subpoena Hunter and ask him about his and his father’s involvement with Baxter in Guatemala and Robinson’s role in the sordid affair.
This article first appeared in the BizPac Review.
