| Amid UN Sex
Scandal No Answer on Colombia Hiring of
Girlfriend as HR, Bogus Photog Wang
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon Maxwell
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
July 13 – In the UN system run
by Antonio Guterres, high
ranking officials can get away
with physical sexual abuse -
witness the "hands down the
pants" audio Inner City Press
exclusively first published
here - and with
inappropriate sexual
relationships with
subordinates.
Inner City Press received many
such complaints. On the
morning of June 30, Inner City
Press asked Guterres and his
spokespeople Stephane Dujarric
and Melissa Fleming to answer,
on deadline, a question
regarding the head of the UN's
Colombia mission, below. They
did not answer, and still have
not, two weeks later.
On the morning of
July 13, Inner City Press
wrote to the above-named and
more, including July's UNSC
Presidency at the Brazil
Mission:
"On Colombia, on
which each of you previously
refused to answer Inner City
Press' written questions
triggered by UN
whistleblowers, what now on
deadline are the comments and
actions if any of SG Guterres
on this:
"Dear Mr.
Lee,
We read an article in the
inner city press of 30 June
about the affair between the
SRSG Carlos Ruiz Massieu and
local staff Daniela
Vargas. This is
not the only abuse happening
in the mission as the SRSG is
leading by his wonderful
example treating the mission
as if it were his own
company. He approved the
recruitment for Chief of HR
Mar Brusola, whose main virtue
is being a girlfriend of
Federico Silva Ledesma, the
Chief of Conduct and
Discipline irrespective of the
fact that the conflict of
interest is written all over
the process. It
makes mission staff who know
about it extremely
uncomfortable especially us,
local staff. As far as
Federico Silva himself, his
weak knowledge of the subject
can compare only to his bad
English. As if this is not
enough, Federico is a crony of
Erich Ball, Chief, Mission
Support, a person whose
actions quite differ from his
preaching and Yang Wang, Chief
resources management infamous
for his limitless incompetence
except in photography.
Also Mar Brusola is from
Spain, the same country as
Erich Ball´s wife. The
mission is abundant in Spanish
nationals. The mission
leadership apparently thinks
that Latin America lacks
talent. We will feel
even more afraid than before
to go to the Conduct and
Discipline Section for advice
on our complaints especially
against people whom the CMS
favors and he does have strong
favorites! Because of
these abuses and the fact that
nothing has been done about
them, we do not trust the
internal system. We saw
from your articles that you
are the only one who dares
publish about controversial
issues and you are our only
hope that this issue will be
disclosed to the world.' On
deadline."
No answer
at all, even as Guterres
pontificated at the stakeout
to friendly correspondents who
do not (dare?) ask him about
UN corruption. We'll have more
on this - keep it coming.
The earlier,
still unanswered questions:
"Dear Matthew, I
work in the United Nations
Verification Mission in
Colombia and would like to
give an account of another
cover-up of abuse by a senior
UN official in the UN. Mr.
Carlos Ruiz Massieu, Special
Representative of the
Secretary General in the
mission has been having an
affair with Ms. Daniela
Vargas, a local staff member,
since at least 2020.
After anonymous
reporting in early 2022 to the
Office of Internal Oversight
Services, he rushed to New
York to “voluntarily” declare
the affair. What a
coincidence!
After that, Ms.
Vargas got a job in the
Executive Office of the
Secretary General. A P-3 or
P-4 would have been
investigated for an affair
with a subordinate, but senior
officials get away with
anything. If
you decide to report it, I
would appreciate if you do not
show the email address."
Done.
Dujarric did not answer in
writing, nor at the subsequent
noon briefing he, Guterres and
Fleming ban
Inner City Press from, while
not answering this
pro bono letter from a
law firm. Watch this
site.
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