Donald Trump’s Concerns about Honduras Apply to Influential Neighbor
Your concern that “[Nicolás] Maduro and his narcoterrorists [might] take over another country like they have taken over Cuba, Nicaragua, and Venezuela” is spot on. I suggest you look closely at Guatemala, where your ambassador, Tobin Bradley, and his deputy chief of mission have been facilitating the Soles Cartel’s flow of narcotics by land while you blow up narco vessels.
The two Joe Biden holdover officials have been openly supporting an illegitimate president: Bernardo Arévalo, imposed by the Biden regime and State Department (DOS) in 2023.
Representative Maria Salazar (R-FL) on November 4 asked Secretary Marco Rubio to replace Bradley and Patrick Ventrell. The latter intervened in the election of Guatemala’s Supreme Court president. He was protecting Arévalo, who facilitates narco trafficking.
DOS traitors misinform Rubio. As Salazar highlighted Guatemala’s three critical appointments: the high court, attorney general, and electoral authority. These 2026 appointments will decide whether Guatemala remains a conservative US ally, as its people always have been, or a Soles Cartel member, as might continue on Sunday in Honduras.
Bradley and Ventrell have interfered often in Guatemala’s judiciary and Congress and continuously lie to their superiors and Guatemala’s public. A judge canceled Arévalo’s Semilla party for registration fraud. Arévalo would be judicially removed from office if the law were properly applied. He remains illegally in office because of the actions of Bradley and Ventrell, which betray you and our country.
If you replace these two Biden holdovers with non-DOS people committed to your agenda, Guatemala can avoid becoming part of Maduro’s axis of evil. That includes China, Iran, Russia, Venezuela, and Cuba, with its vast penetration of DOS and our intelligence community. With a government that applies the law, which Guatemalans want and will support, you will significantly reduce the flow of narcotics by land through Guatemala to our country. This will increase US effectiveness on the sea and in the air against narcotics trafficking.
Your best ally in Guatemala against transnational crime is Attorney General Consuelo Porras. DOS traitors have demonized her, as deep staters and their partners have done to you, to avoid being exposed. She properly applies the law and has incriminating information about them. You should investigate why your officials have not engaged with Porras, considering her excellent record on extraditions.
By changing course in Guatemala, you can expose egregious DOS criminality that will snowball to other countries and government agencies and increase support for dismantling the deep state. Traitors in our government have supported criminal socialist US enemies throughout our hemisphere. To protect the hemisphere, you must expose and rid your administration of these traitors. They keep people like Bradley and Ventrell actively working against you. Congressional investigations and hearings beginning with Guatemala will expose this treason to the public.
Steven Hecht
Steve Hecht is a businessman, writer, and film producer. Born and raised in New York, he has lived and worked in Guatemala since 1972. He holds a BA in economics and an MBA in banking and finance, both from Columbia University.
