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Guterres Stole UNSG Election with
CEFC & Ghislaine Maxwell Links
by
Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book
Substack
UN GATE,
Dec 27 –
As inside the increasingly
marginal United Nations a
process begins to select a
successor to Antonio Guterres
who stole the post from female
candidates in 2016 and drove
the UN into the ground
including through censorship,
it is time to review the
history. Part 2
Inner City Press, which
Guterres banned
from the UN as it reported on
his links
with briber CEFC China Energy
and to sex trafficker
Ghislaine Maxwell, both
convicted in the SDNY Federal
court, closely covered
Guterres' dubious selection,
and after. A book is
forthcoming, soon - but here's
from Chapter Two, in which
Guterres refused to disclose
who funded his campaign. There
are no reforms for 2026...
During the
2016 UNSC (s)election,
Guterres refused to disclose
who was funding his campaign,
his travel and more. Inner
City Press asked; candidate Luksic
said he would disclose,
as did some others.
But with
no minimal campaign finance
disclosure requirement, the
most opaque - Guterres - had
the
advantage.
Later
Inner City Press asked about
Guterres' links not only with
convicted bribery firm CEFC
China Energy but also other
oily funds like Angola. By
then Guterres' spokesman
Stephane Dujarric was refusing
to answer Inner City Press,
and Melissa Fleming ignoring
its MALU applications,
then letters from pro bono law
firms Quinn
Emanuel and Duane
Morris.
The 2016 UNSG
election was stolen - and as
of 2026 there have been no
reforms. Who killed the UN?
Antonio Gueterres.
After Guterres' (s)election on
October 11, 2016, Inner City
Press asked
him about Yemen, and about
South Sudan. (Both would turn
out to be among his biggest
failures, with a no-show
Special Representative of the
Secretary General in Nicholas
Haysom and big checks taken
from Saudi Arabia's MBS).
Guterres blathered
even then about being an
"honest broker." Nothing would
be further from the
truth.
Not even on
Burundi. On November 29, 2016,
still before Guterres formally
took office, Inner City Press
asked France's
then-Ambassador Francois
Delattre, who did a fundraiser
with Ghislaine Maxwell on
whose Terramar Project board
of directors Guterres would
control one of only five
seats, through Amir Dossal,
about Burundi. Delattre said
Guterres had brought the
country up during Guterres'
(lobbying) trip to
Paris.
But Guterres, who
have the top UN Peacekeeping
job to France's Jean-Pierre
Lacroix, continued deploying
Burundian soldiers credibly
accused of rape for
well-paying deployments in the
Central African Republic, just
as they could continue to use
Sri Lankan soldiers implicated
in that country's Bloodbath on
the Beach. Guterres who hit a
new low in Cameroon, as we'll
see below.
On
January 4, 2017, just after
quietly taking office,
Guterres called
the US' then-incoming 45th
President Donald Trump. Inner
City Press asked longtime UN
Deputy Spokesperson Farhan Haq
- who had pointedly called it
a "liar" when it sought to
cover the UN exclusively
giving over its UN Briefing
Room to the UN Correspondents
Association with China state
media on its board and no
members from Taiwan - about
the call. Haq, typically, lied
and called it productive.
Even as 47th
President, Trump and his
Ambassador Mike Waltz have yet to
hold censor Guterres
accountable.
More on this
UNgutted 2 on X for
Subscribers here
and on Substack here
More on UNgutted
1 on X for Subscribers here
and on Substack here
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