Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s lack of attention to Guatemala will produce a dictatorship aligned with Venezuela and other anti-US countries. This will contradict Rubio’s image as an anticommunist advocate and undermine his likely campaign for president.
On December 12, 2023, Rubio joined Democrats, Senator Bill Cassidy (R-LA), and international organizations in criticizing Guatemalan prosecutors for moving to strip then–President-Elect Bernardo Arévalo’s immunity. Claiming this threatened Guatemala’s democracy, Rubio and his allies implored Attorney General Consuelo Porras to “uphold the rule of law and … peaceful transfer of power.”
Four days earlier, acting under court order, Porras had published details of the 2023 electoral fraud that favored Arévalo. Original electoral materials were not where they legally had to be stored. Porras’s office found some of it at the electoral authority’s office—a crime—and 2 million votes out of a 5.6 million total were missing.
Arévalo’s Semilla party had been canceled by a judge after more than one-third of its registration sheets were found to be fraudulent. Arévalo could not legally have been inaugurated when the senators issued their statement.
The request to remove Arévalo’s immunity was related to a criminal case against him. Invaders had occupied the state university for more than a year. After discovering vandalism, its authorities asked Porras’s office to investigate. Documentary proof implicates Arévalo.
The group of Democrats Rubio joined claimed to stand for “the defense of the rule of law and democracy” regarding Arévalo. Democrats screamed nobody is above the law when they persecuted Donald Trump.
As we are seeing now, Democrat leaders care only about power, not the United States. They want to impose one-party rule. They do the same in Guatemala. Rubio should have known better than to join them.
Rubio was the first Republican Senator to campaign in 2020 for the two Georgia Senate runoff elections. His Cuban heritage gives him insights into communism. He recognized the stakes, calling the elections “the showdown of showdowns.” Rubio said in 2021: “If we don’t confront [Marxism] now, call it for what it is and defeat it, it will destroy this country and everything that has made it special.”
Rubio’s support for Arévalo despite the indications of criminality is puzzling. The Semilla party’s obvious communism makes the alignment even more puzzling. Its website refers to “odious inequalities generated by uncontrolled capitalism.”
As secretary of state, Rubio has visited Guatemala, where he legitimized Arévalo and praised his “commitment to democracy.” Meanwhile, Rubio shunned Porras. The latter stands out, considering Rubio said the Trump administration had a list of transnational criminals it wanted extradited. Only Porras has that authority in Guatemala.
The March DOS “International Narcotics Control Strategy Report,” under Rubio’s name, falsely portrays Arévalo’s regime as a US ally. A separate March DOS certification falsely portrays Guatemala as a counternarcotics partner. This is despite cocaine shipped from Guatemala being discovered in the Dominican Republic and Spain. Almost certainly, Guatemalan officials were involved.
On June 8, Guatemalan army and police took no action as presumed narcotraffickers fired on Mexican authorities who had chased them into Guatemala. A Guatemalan NGO filed criminal charges for dereliction of duty and other crimes against the ministers of defense and interior. The Foundation against Terrorism president said Arévalo defended the two ministers because the three are partners in crime.
Another NGO that promotes the rule of law stated: “Arévalo is systematically converting Guatemala from a republic to a Puebla Group one-party state.” He and his Democrat and State Department (DOS) holdover masters are undermining—including through violence—Porras’s law enforcement activities and intimidating judges to not apply the law to Arévalo.
Arévalo is keeping the defense minister in his post past his legal deadline. This undermines military cohesion and effectiveness and changes the army’s loyalty from the Constitution to the president, as in Cuba and Venezuela.
Most likely, Rubio is unaware of all this, because it is so disastrous for his political career. DOS permanent bureaucrats and his staff could be undermining him.
Rubio’s Senate staff failed him regarding his misplaced support for Arévalo in 2023. Rubio brought with him to DOS a former congressional staffer—Ana Quintana—who helped enemies within DOS fraudulently make Arévalo president. On July 14, 2023, the staffer issued for her boss, who likely ignored its harm, a press release parroting DOS traitors’ bogus claims against Porras. Acting as a gatekeeper, the staffer later kept her boss from learning the truth.
Unless the law is applied to Arévalo, he will consolidate power in 2026 and steal the 2027 election for his globalist masters. The US ambassador to Guatemala and his number two are working hard toward this end, betraying their oaths. If Arévalo and his DOS traitor allies succeed, Rubio will fail himself, Trump, the MAGA coalition, and the United States.
Rubio has twenty odd years to be a candidate for president. He can help our country, Trump, and himself by correcting his mistake with Arévalo. That would restore Guatemala as a US ally, rather than a lackey of the Puebla Group.
The article first appeared in BizPac Review.
