By Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Podcast
BBC - Guardian UK - Honduras - ESPN
SDNY COURTHOUSE, July 21 – After a one-man election campaign, with at least seven opposition candidates entirely blocked, Antonio Guterres was coronated to another term as UN Secretary General on June 18.
Inner City Press, banned from the UN by Guterres for 1215 days and counting, live tweeted it here and podcast here)
Now on July 21, Guterres is doling out 25 posts, on taxation ironic since he pays no taxes himself and concealed money he received from Lisbon-based Gulbenkian Foundation, omitting it from his financial disclosure covering 2016. Hypocrisy; here are the 25 for United Nations Committee of Experts on International Cooperation in Tax Matters for the 2021 to 2025 term. Muhammad Ashfaq Ahmed (Pakistan) Rasmi Ranjan Das (India) Matthew Olusanya Gbonjubola (Nigeria) Liselott Kana (Chile) YoungJoo Lee (South Korea) Waziona Ligomeka (Malawi) Nana Akua Achiaa Amoako Mensah (Ghana) Enrique Bolado Muñoz (Mexico) Kapembwa Elizabeth Namuyemba-Sikombe (Zambia) Marlene Patricia Nembhard-Parker (Jamaica) Eamonn O’Dea (Ireland) Pande Putu Oka Kusumawardani (Indonesia) Mya Mya Oo (Myanmar) El Hadramy Oubeid (Mauritania) Carlos Protto (Argentina) Elisângela Rita (Angola) Aart Roelofsen (Netherlands) Alexander Smirnov (Russia) Stephanie Smith (Canada) Trude Steinnes Sønvisen (Norway) Titia Stolte-Detring (Germany) José Troya (Ecuador) Mario Visco (Italy) Ingela Willfors (Sweden) Yan Xiong (China).
Will any of them stand up to Guterres' censorship and corruption? It is doubtful - since he gave them the job(s)
After in coronation in June, Guterres took five hand-picked questions, one in Portuguese (a second answer, he started in Portuguese), then concluded claiming he is committed to press freedom - this while banning critical Inner City Press from the UN and its briefings for 1215 days and counting. This cannot stand. Watch this site
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