Edith Barrera person
also: Barrera, Barrero
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Kevin Rojas embezzled
Edith Barrera book_quoted
“had in fact embezzled funding earmarked for the defectors. The investigation, authored by the site's Anto Maduro editor, Orlando Avendano, explained that defecting soldiers had been lured across the border with promises of stays in hotels, …”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 7 @ 46:24
Kevin Rojas laundered_money_for
Edith Barrera book_quoted
“But the assistance never materialized. And this is coming from a Maduro hater. And dozens of families were ultimately evicted from the hotels and dumped out on the streets with nowhere to go. According to the report, Rojas and Barrera had s…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 7 @ 46:52
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coup regime had effectively abandoned them all. As their presence in the Colombian border town became increasingly impossible to ignore, Spanish language media noted their plight received little attention from anyone, especially the members…
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and Edith Barrera, failures to carry out their duties went far beyond just neglecting these people who had believed them and left Venezuela. In June of 2019, the Miami-based Pan Am Post published an explosive story revealing that those two …
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had in fact embezzled funding earmarked for the defectors. The investigation, authored by the site's Anto Maduro editor, Orlando Avendano, explained that defecting soldiers had been lured across the border with promises of stays in hotels, …
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But the assistance never materialized. And this is coming from a Maduro hater. And dozens of families were ultimately evicted from the hotels and dumped out on the streets with nowhere to go. According to the report, Rojas and Barrera had s…
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He based his investigation on information from multiple sources, including Colombian intelligence, which he said caught wind of the fraud when Barrero and Rojas began to lead lives that didn't correspond to their former life. They gave me a…
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of more than $800 in Colombian hotels and nightclubs per night for themselves, not the Venezuelans that they were supposed to be spending the money on. They would spend thousands of dollars on food and drinks. They spent money on clothing i…
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Rojas and Barrera kept the cash flowing by inflating the numbers of defectors under their care. Though they officially reported to be managing 1,450 people, Colombian intelligence independently determined there were only about 700 total def…
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According to itemized receipts, Rojas and Barrera ran expenses totaling roughly $47,000. What's more, the investigator alleged that 60% of the food donated by pro-Guido government on February 23rd had rotted at the border, stating his sourc…
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to Bogota for a government he doesn't have to request that Colombian authorities formally investigate the allegations. For its part, Venezuela's government announced a criminal inquiry into Guaido's role in the scheme, claiming he personall…