- White House insiders report that an influential
group of extreme right-wing gay Latino power brokers has been given almost
total control over U.S. foreign and business policy decisions affecting
Latin America. A number of members of the Young Hispanic Republican Association
report that they have been sexually preyed upon by members of the influential
Latino power brokers after accepting administration appointments, including
positions on the White House staff.
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- The gay Latino group, led by an individual
nicknamed "El Padrino" (the godfather) and which has close ties,
including gay relationships, with top GOP officials in the Republican National
Committee, Small Business Administration, the Department of State, State
of Texas, and Executive Office of the President, has been tasked with ensuring
that Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez does not successfully bid on the
sale of Univision, the largest Spanish language TV network in North America.
Senior White House officials have provided hundreds of millions of dollars,
through CIA and State Department conduits, to the Latino group to ensure
that Chavez does not gain control of Univision.
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- The group has also prevailed upon the
government of Panama and particularly senior gay members of the Panamanian
government, to ensure that President Martin Torrijos backs out of a regional
energy treaty signed between Panama, Venezuela, and Colombia. The deal
would see Panama's transisthmian Petroterminales de Panama (PTP) pipeline
between Puerto Armuelles on the Pacific to Chiriqui Grande on the Caribbean
reverse its flow from east to west to permit the export of Venezuelan oil
to China. However, since the Panamanian government only owns a 30 percent
stake in the pipeline, the GOP Latino power brokers have applied pressure
on a New York-based family-owned firm that owns 60 percent of the pipeline
to sink the deal. The law firm that represents the interests of the New
York family is reportedly owned by the family of the Panamanian ambassador
to the United States and Panama's ambassador to the United Nations. Ten
percent of the pipeline is owned by a shadowy Swiss-based firm, the shares
of which are held by anonymous parties, that is reportedly connected to
the CIA and senior members of the Panamanian government.
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- White House sources: Bush Latin American
policy in the hands of gay Latino GOP powerbrokers
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- The other part of the Venezuelan-Colombian-Panamanian
deal that is being targeted by the GOP Latino group for cancellation is
a natural gas pipeline from Colombia through Panama and Central America
to southern Mexico.
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- Katin Vasquez, Panama's Economy and Finance
Minister and a former Panama Canal Commissioner, is also being lobbied
heavily by GOP-connected Wachovia to ensure the bank gets the contract
to handle the funding for the $7 billion Panama Canal Expansion Project.
The canal expansion is tied to the fact that with the increased use of
supertankers, which cannot currently transit the canal, the canal must
be quickly expanded to handle what are known as "Post-Panamax"
vessels. "Panamax" is standard code for the maximum size vessel
that can currently transit the canal. With the thirty-day advance payment
requirement, Panama could easily issue bonds to finance the expansion.
However, the gay Latino group tied to the Bush administration is using
its influence with senior Panamanian government officials, sweetened with
cash payments, to ensure that Wachovia gets the financing and Halliburton/Kellogg,
Brown & Root gets the lion's share of construction contracts for the
canal's expansion.
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- Vasquez has reportedly been flown to
North Carolina in Wachovia's private corporate jet for golf outings. However,
observers point out that Panama does not require Wachovia's involvement
in the canal expansion project since the canal is a virtual cash cow. Ships
are required to pay thirty days in advance prior to transiting the canal.
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- The gay Latino group reportedly has particularly
close ties to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and her public diplomacy
assistant Karen Hughes. Interestingly, Hughes is the daughter of Maj. Gen.
Harold Parfitt, the last U.S. Governor of the Panama Canal Zone.
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- The GOP group has also been tasked by
the White House to work on reversing the leftist tide that is sweeping
Latin America. Currently, the Bush administration can only count on three
Latin American nations to fully carry out U.S. policy: El Salvador, Panama,
and Colombia. With pro-Chavez leftist victories likely in Mexico, Nicaragua,
Ecuador, and Peru, the GOP Latino powerbrokers are expected to use their
influence to generate support for pro-U.S. right-wing political leaders
and parties.
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