{"id":31197,"date":"2019-02-16T13:26:40","date_gmt":"2019-02-16T17:26:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cosmicconvergence.org\/?p=31197"},"modified":"2019-02-16T13:26:40","modified_gmt":"2019-02-16T17:26:40","slug":"illegal-alien-caravans-described-as-black-operations-by-guatemala-intelligence-minister-coordinated-by-brits-via-oxfam-ngos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cosmicconvergence.org\/?p=31197","title":{"rendered":"Illegal Alien Caravans Described as Black Operations by Guatemala Intelligence Minister, Coordinated by Brits via Oxfam NGOs"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Guatemala Intel Minister: Migrant Caravans Are \u2018Well-Planned,\u2019 Not Spontaneous<\/h1>\n<p><!--more--><div id=\"attachment_116577\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/New-Migrant-Caravan-640x480.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-116577\" class=\"size-full wp-image-116577\" src=\"http:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/New-Migrant-Caravan-640x480.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-116577\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">G. Arjas\/AFP\/Getty<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n<p>by Kristina WONG<br \/>\nBreitbart.com<\/p>\n<h3>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 \u201cwell-planned\u201d and \u201cwell-organized\u201d by those wanting to \u201cweaponize those in need.\u201d<\/h3>\n<p>\u201cThis was not a spontaneous event. It was well-planned. It was well-organized,\u201d Duarte, head of the Secretariat of Strategic Intelligence of\u00a0Guatemala, said\u00a0at an event hosted by the Center for a Free Secure Society\u00a0at the National Press Club.<\/p>\n<p>He said different intelligence, law enforcement, and military agencies found evidence that the October caravan from Honduras to the U.S. \u2014 which at one point contained about 40,000 migrants \u2014 was organized in advance.<\/p>\n<div id=\"powr_1\" class=\"a8d padok\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"powr_embed\" src=\"https:\/\/player.powr.com\/iframe.html?account=100010177&amp;player=743&amp;domain=breitbart.com&amp;terms=guatemala%20caravans%20intel%20planned%20not%20spontaneous%20minister%20migrant&amp;uri=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.breitbart.com%2Fpolitics%2F2019%2F02%2F13%2Fguatemala-intel-minister-migrant-caravans-are-well-planned-not-spontaneous%2F&amp;c=1550337387020\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>There was a call on October 5 in Honduras for citizens to join a \u201cmassive migration walk to the United States,\u201d he said. \u201cWe detected logistical preparation throughout Guatemala and Mexico, to be able to bring all these people to the U.S. southern border.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey started working with Honduran, Guatemalan, and Mexico counterparts,\u201d he said. \u201cThe organization was impressive to say the least. They used mainly [social media apps] WhatsApp and Facebook.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>He also gave details of the tactics the caravan used as it pushed into Guatemala.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe had a big, huge contingent of police officers protecting our border.\u00a0Unfortunately this migrant groups put women, the elderly and children as young as 40 days of age at the front, and started pushing and pressing against our police force,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe could not even use tear gas \u2026 because some of the smoke could hurt the small children,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt became an unsustainable situation. Children were being pressed against the fence. Some of them were actually were already suffocating because of all the pressure behind them. So we had to retreat our police forces and to allow these migrants to go through our border,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Duarte said Guatemala heeded the United States\u2019 call to try to stop the caravan from reaching the U.S. border. He said they set up 12 different roadblocks on the way to Mexico, to delay the migrants.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThrough that work, we also identified a total of ten operational leaders with the caravan,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Duarte said they also identified more than 100 migrants from the Middle East traveling in the caravan \u2014 a claim President Trump had alluded to in an October 22 tweet.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe also intercepted a total of 126 special interest aliens during these caravans, special interest aliens from countries and with probable links to Islamic extremists,\u201d Duarte said.<\/p>\n<p>Duarte warned that another big group of migrants coming from different countries in Africa, Asia and the Middle East, and from Cuba, is\u00a0<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.laprensa.hn\/mundo\/1258707-410\/caravana-migrantes-cubanos-panama-destino-eeuu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">headed<\/a>\u00a0to the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTheir intent is to make a 30,000 strong caravan to go all the way up through Central America, Mexico, and come to the U.S. open border,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Duarte assessed that the migrants traveling in the caravans were being used as pawns as a way to destabilize the U.S. and partners in the region.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis new way of doing politics, which is how we are actually analyzing this, we are calling it, and we are using this term, now it\u2019s weaponization of those in need,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>He did not blame the migrants, who he said were in search of economic opportunities, or trying to escape conflict, persecution, terrorism, human rights violations, and other things.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs human beings and societies, we cannot ignore \u2026 difficulties other face in life,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnfortunately cruel heartless manipulative political actors and radicals have taken advantage of those in need, and are utilizing them now as lethal weapons of invasion of political influence, and as their own private parties of picketing mobs. That\u2019s what this is,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet\u2019s not lose our real capacity of analysis. The migrant caravans are not spontaneous. They are being politically orchestrated and well-funded with a specific political objective.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2019\/02\/13\/guatemala-intel-minister-migrant-caravans-are-well-planned-not-spontaneous\/\">https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2019\/02\/13\/guatemala-intel-minister-migrant-caravans-are-well-planned-not-spontaneous\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guatemala Intel Minister: Migrant Caravans Are \u2018Well-Planned,\u2019 Not Spontaneous<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cosmicconvergence.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cosmicconvergence.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cosmicconvergence.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cosmicconvergence.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cosmicconvergence.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cosmicconvergence.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31197\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cosmicconvergence.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cosmicconvergence.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cosmicconvergence.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}