Guatemalan Authorities Investigate Biden-linked NGO Suspected of Child-Trafficking Crimes

A Biden-linked Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) that has been active on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border is being investigated in Guatemala for child trafficking.

Guatemalan authorities raided the offices of Save the Children on April 25, citing complaints of sexual abuse of Guatemalan children in Texas shelters. The raid was reportedly carried out by officers from the Special Public Prosecutor Against Impunity and the Civil Police.

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The Special Prosecutor’s Office against Impunity (FECI), in coordination with the @PNCdeGuatemala, is conducting a raid, inspection, search, and seizure of evidence at the headquarters pic.twitter.com/W9r6iRlUfE

— MP de Guatemala (@MPGuatemala_EN) April 25, 2024

Rafael Curruchiche, the Guatemalan Prosecutor for Impunity, said the case is “transnational and of great transcendence,” involving several organizations. Save the Children Guatemala has denied all allegations of misconduct.

Save the Children operates in more than 120 countries, with U.S. operations headquartered in Fairfield, Connecticut. Jill Biden was named board chair of the organization in February of 2017, a position from which she has reportedly since resigned.

Since Joe Biden came to office, the NGO has reportedly received over $21 million in grant money for its work in Guatemala, most of the funding coming from USAID and the U.S. State Department.

The raid of Save the Children came a week after the Secretary-General of the Public Ministry wrote a letter to Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton informing him about “devastating” allegations against multiple taxpayer-funded NGOs active in Texas.

“As the Public Ministry, we have received a complaint as a criminal report about a very important and sensitive issue: Our beloved children,” Secretary-General Angel Pineda wrote.

The public prosecutor noted that a “horrifying pattern of disappearance of children” in Guatemala had coincided with the allegations.

Pineda said the complaint describes a complex network of NGOs operating within Guatemala that has been “collaborating with specific entities in the State of Texas.” This network of NGOs, Pineda said, is “implicated in the abuse of Guatemalan children when they are away from their parents and do not have someone to protect them.”

“These Guatemalan children have reportedly been placed in shelters and organizations throughout Texas under the guise of providing them with a family environment,” Pineda continued. “Disturbingly, there have been reports and documented situations of sexual abuse in these shelters, which is a huge violation of the rights and dignity of these children.”

In addition to Save the Children, Pineda listed four other NGOs operating in Guatemala and the State of Texas that is suspected of being involved in child trafficking operations:  Changing the Way We Care, the World Childhood Foundation, Arise, and La Unión del Pueblo Entero.

“What could be particularly alarming about these organizations is that some of them receive federal funds from American taxpayers,” Pineda noted in the letter. “I have been informed that other non-governmental organizations operating in Guatemala and Texas could be accomplices to child trafficking, possibly supporting this trafficking and other issues with unaccompanied children and adolescents traveling, but they have proven unsuccessful in protecting children in Guatemala.”

Pineda said “the State of Texas bears much of the responsibility for these lost children,” as they were transferred to the border and processed there.

The prosecutor said his office would “spare no effort and exhaust all necessary efforts to locate and criminally prosecute those responsible for this enormous tragedy.”

“Be assured that the Attorney General and Chief of the Public Ministry of the Republic of Guatemala will zealously execute her legal mandate to eradicate this epidemic of child trafficking and to hold those who commit these crimes against humanity accountable,” Pineda concluded.

Independent journalist Robbie Starbuck interviewed Pineda on Monday about his investigation into the NGOs and the Biden regime’s attempts to shut him down. The Secretary General told him in broken English that several days before the interview, he was warned by someone connected to the US Embassy that he was “playing with fire” if he went through with it.

Pineda said it was “wild” that the individual thought he or she could threaten a public official in that way.

“We are not going to put our work aside just because they have said something,” Pineda declared. “They have already put us on a lot of lists,” he added, “because the attorney general of Guatemala, and myself and the different persons that work in different units here in Guatemala have several investigations that regard some interests of the United States.”

Pineda expanded on this claim, saying that due to U.S. influence, 42 countries had put him on a “list.”

“I don’t know how you can have this influence—you know—to put somebody on a list in another country just by saying something, not by having the proof or evidence to support that we are corrupt and we are anti-Democratic,” he complained.

He said that the U.S. State Department had cut communications with his office because it objected to the “administrative decisions that our high authority has been taking.”

US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, put Pineda and other Guatemalan officials on a list of “corrupt and undemocratic actors” in a 2021 report on “foreign persons who have participated in actions that undermine democratic processes or institutions, significant acts of corruption, or obstruction of investigations into such corruption in El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras.”

Curruchiche was sanctioned by the European Council for allegedly “undermining democracy and the rule of law” and “raising spurious claims against other officials.”

“They are saying now we are insurrectionists because we are investigating the president here in Guatemala,” Pineda told Starbuck.

César Bernardo Arévalo de León, was sworn in as president of Guatemala in January of 2024 amid contested election results. Initial polling in April 2023 showed Arévalo ranked next to last among the candidates, with only 0.7 percent of people polled stating an intention to vote for him. Subsequent polls showed weak  support for Arévalo at around 2 percent in May and June 2023.

Arévalo, however, won in a landslide on August 20, 2023.

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