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Guatemala Intel Minister: Migrant Caravans Are Chicago NGO ‘Well-Planned events,' Not Spontaneous
2019-02-14
[Breitbart] Guatemalan head of intelligence Mario Duarte said during a visit to Washington Tuesday that the migrant caravans heading to the U.S. southern border are "well-planned" and "well-organized" by those wanting to "weaponize those in need."
Doing the politically incorrect work our own IC has no intention of doing, and we know why. Thank you Mario.
"This was not a spontaneous event. It was well-planned. It was well-organized," Duarte, head of the Secretariat of Strategic Intelligence of Guatemala, said at an event hosted by the Center for a Free Secure Society at the National Press Club.

He said different intelligence, law enforcement, and military agencies found evidence that the October caravan from Honduras to the U.S. ‐ which at one point contained about 40,000 migrants ‐ was organized in advance.

There was a call on October 5 in Honduras for citizens to join a "massive migration walk to the United States," he said. "We detected logistical preparation throughout Guatemala and Mexico, to be able to bring all these people to the U.S. southern border."

He said the main organization behind the caravans was a non-governmental organization based out of Chicago, called Pueblos Sin Fronteras, led by organizer and pastor Emma Lozano.
"Hope and Change" people? Could there be a connection ?
"They started working with Honduran, Guatemalan, and Mexico counterparts," he said. "The organization was impressive to say the least. They used mainly [social media apps] WhatsApp and Facebook."
Any chance we could possibly learn who is funding these people ?
He said Bartolo Fuentes, a Honduran activist, was the main leader of the caravan on the ground, and that he came into Guatemala beforehand to scout and send money to places migrants could stay as they moved through Guatemala towards Mexico. Duarte said the group also connected with international NGOs like Oxfam.
Posted by:Besoeker

#13  The American Military is not allowed to operate in the USA.

Ah, contraire. The Army and the Air Force (its spinoff) can not act in police capacity IAW Posse Comitatus Act*. It can be used in suppressing rebellion and insurrection. See - LA riots. The usual procedure is to detain till a federal or local law enforcement agents takes possession of any miscreants. We won't go into martial law (New Orleans 1814, the Hawaiian Islands December 1942) .

* they sort of skipped the Navy and its men's department, the Marines. Back then there were few Marines, mainly on ship duty. Now they're nearly an entire small army in and of themselves.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2019-02-14 13:49  

#12  Organizing bodies of foreigners to enter the US without permission is raising a private militia to commit war against the US. She should be hanged.

Yes, it is war. These people should be punished for their treasonous activities and if the American military can't be used to defend our border we're gonna lose.
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2019-02-14 12:18  

#11  Silent Brick, I concur
Posted by: 746   2019-02-14 12:07  

#10  bombing Chicago may be unpopular.

Which part of Chicago are we talking about exactly?
Posted by: SteveS   2019-02-14 11:52  

#9  Organizing bodies of foreigners to enter the US without permission is raising a private militia to commit war against the US. She should be hanged.
Posted by: Rob Crawford   2019-02-14 11:41  

#8  The American Military is not allowed to operate in the USA.

bombing Chicago may be unpopular.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2019-02-14 10:49  

#7  One B-52 arclight strike would put an end to this nonsense once and for all.
Posted by: Silentbrick   2019-02-14 09:39  

#6  You may have also noticed how quiet Obama has been regarding the caravans. Of course his silence could simply be the result of lingering methadone or buprenorphine side effects.
Posted by: Besoeker   2019-02-14 08:20  

#5  Excellent find, Besoeker. As soon as I saw 'Chicago' in the title, I was thinking 'how is that traitorous prick Obama involved'? Thanks for connecting the dots.
Posted by: Raj   2019-02-14 07:57  

#4  BTW, Chicago falls in the old French colonial boundaries, there is no 'reconquesta' claim there. This is just an invasion in slow motion. See - Romans, Goths, Rhine
Posted by: Procopius2k   2019-02-14 06:47  

#3  Curious about the late Rudy Lazano? Here's the link, bet you knew or suspected all of this already:

Like President Obama, Rudy Lozano, the other namesake of the award, was also a community organizer in Chicago. He was credited with bringing Latino voters to support the former mayor of Chicago, Harold Washington. Lozano was later shot to death in his home by Gregory Escobar for allegedly failing to pay off a $7,000 drug debt.

According to the Chicago Tribune, at a tribute event held at the University of Chicago for Lozano, “Richard Barnett, an aide on Washington’s mayoral campaign, said it was people like Lozano who built the foundation for Barack Obama’s historic run for the presidency.

It seems the groundwork of Lozano and Davis that Barnett spoke of did indeed play a role in advancing Barack Obama’s political career. And in 1996, New Party News lists both Obama and Davis as members of the far left-wing branch of the Democrat Party, the “New Party.” After working within the New Party, Davis had won his Democratic primary for U.S. Congress in the Illinois 7th District and Barack Obama had won his primary for Illinois State Senate.
Posted by: Besoeker   2019-02-14 06:46  

#2  Link to #1 above.

Posted by: Besoeker   2019-02-14 06:37  

#1   Emma Lozano is a left-wing activist, founder and president of the illegal immigration advocacy group Centro Sin Fronteras (“Center Without Borders”), executive director of migrant caravan organizing group Pueblo Sin Fronteras, and a pastor at the Lincoln United Methodist Church in Chicago, Illinois. Along with her husband, co-pastor Walter “Slim” Coleman, Lozano is involved in two other advocacy organizations closely connected with caravans of migrants in Central America seeking to enter the U.S. illegally.

Lozano is the sister of the late Rudy Lozano, a left-wing activist and community organizer in Chicago noted as a “fighter for immigrant [and] worker rights.”[1] She has called for “a moratorium to stop deportations” of illegal immigrants in the United States, saying that “We need to change America, we are all America.”
Posted by: Besoeker   2019-02-14 06:24  

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