Bernie-bashing “Never Trump conservative” CNN pundit Ana Navarro lobbied for El
Salvador’s right-wing government, whose president was imprisoned for
corruption, and worked for a conservative Nicaraguan president imprisoned for
stealing from the public. In her free time, she lionizes Contra death squads.
By Ben Norton
In the era of President Donald Trump, a clique of neoconservative talking heads
have rebranded themselves as moderate voices of reason.
Among the most prominent self-declared “Never Trump conservatives” is Ana
Navarro, a Nicaraguan American Republican strategist who has become a prominent
commentator on CNN, a regular at Telemundo, and a weekly guest host of ABC’s
talk show The View.
Navarro’s sassy anti-Trump diatribes have earned her the adulation of the
liberal self-declared “Resistance.” And as Bernie Sanders leads the Democratic
primary campaign for president, Navarro has trained her fire on the independent
Vermont senator, demonizing the self-declared democratic socialist and the
progressive movement behind him.
While corporate media networks give Navarro a massive platform to attack
Sanders and rebrand her neoconservative politics before impressionable liberal
viewers who despise Trump, Navarro’s professional background has faced little
scrutiny.
Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) documents reviewed by The Grayzone
reveal that Ana Navarro and her Republican lobbyist husband, Al Cárdenas, have
worked with some of the most corrupt right-wing governments in recent Latin
American history, including leaders who have overseen egregious human rights
abuses and been convicted for serious criminal offenses.
One of the politicians whose government Navarro was contracted to lobby for,
former El Salvadoran President Tony Saca, is currently serving a 10-year prison
sentence for stealing more than $300 million in taxpayer money.
Navarro remains a staunch supporter of the Nicaraguan Contras, far-right death
squads the CIA armed and trained in the 1980s in a regime-change war targeting
the socialist Sandinista government. The Contras waged a relentless terrorist
campaign, massacring and torturing civilians in hopes of destabilizing the
country. And Navarro has celebrated them as freedom fighters.
Navarro’s father was a Contra himself; the CNN contributor has publicly boasted
of his involvement in the murderous US-backed insurgency. She has even offered
to help foreigners get in touch with former leaders of the Contra death squads.
In 1997, Navarro went to work for another right-wing government in Central
America, this one led by corrupt Nicaraguan President Arnoldo Alemán. In 2003,
he too was imprisoned on corruption charges stemming from his embezzlement of
$100 million in public funds.
Later, Navarro consulted for the GOP, helping advise Republican Florida
governor and failed presidential candidate Jeb Bush.
She was also a surrogate for neoconservative Republican John McCain in his 2008
presidential campaign, and served as the national co-chair of his Hispanic
Advisory Council.
Navarro’s husband, Cárdenas, is a powerful top GOP operative and the former
chair of the Florida Republican Party. Like his wife, Cárdenas and his firm
have worked with some of Latin America’s most notoriously corrupt right-wing
forces.
FARA records reviewed by The Grayzone show that the lobbying firm of Navarro’s
husband, Cardenas Partners, lobbied the US government on behalf of a
Salvadorean family company called Funes y Asociados, which was used by the Tony
Saca administration to embezzle millions of dollars of public money. The son of
the rich businessman who runs Funes y Asociados, César Funes, is a former
secretary and close ally of President Saca, and was himself imprisoned for five
years for his role in the corruption scandal.
What’s more, a law firm where Cárdenas is a partner, Squire Patton Boggs, once
lobbied for the Guatemalan General-turned-President Romeo Lucas García, who
killed thousands of people and carried out more than 300 massacres in a
scorched-earth counterinsurgency campaign.
Despite this sordid past, Navarro has tried to refashion herself as a sensible
moderate in the era of Trumpism. And the corporate media outlets she works for
have failed to disclose her links to heinously corrupt Latin American
governments.
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Ana Navarro on ABC News
Ana Navarro lobbied for El Salvador’s corruption-drenched right-wing government
Ana Navarro has become something of a celebrity among mainstream anti-Trump
liberals. Raw Story has lionized her with headlines like “Ana Navarro buries
‘little boy’ Donald Trump Jr. for his attacks on Mitt Romney” and “Ana Navarro
burns Trump to the ground.”
Liberal talk show hosts like Trevor Noah have eagerly hosted Navarro; Stephen
Colbert praised her as “one of the president’s fiercest critics,” even as she
proudly boasted on his program, “I have been a Republican since I was 8 years
old… so there’s no way in Hell I’m going to let that guy push me out of the
party where I have been for my entire life.”
Navarro has also earned anti-Trump adulation through cheap stunts like filing
her nails during a CNN debate on Trump’s pledge to build a border wall, eating
popcorn live on air, and making exaggerated faces and jokes.
The proud lifelong Republican and GOP strategist even admitted in a video essay
for CNN that she voted for Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential election,
in an act of protest against Trump.
But while she has sold herself on major corporate media platforms as a fun,
lighthearted renegade defending democracy from Trump, Navarro has made a small
fortune lobbying on behalf of right-wing Trumpian figures in Latin America.
While Navarro has boasted of her support for the mass-murdering extremist
Nicaraguan Contras, she has not publicly discussed her links to far-right
figures in El Salvador hailing from a party that emerged from the country’s
brutal military junta.
According to FARA documents filed with the US Department of Justice, Navarro
registered as a foreign agent for the conservative, notoriously corrupt
government of El Salvador in 2007.
Ana Navarro lobbying El Salvador FARA
Navarro was lobbying for El Salvador’s government when it was led by Tony Saca,
a Bush administration-backed right-winger who became the first president of the
country to be imprisoned for corruption.
In 2018, El Salvador’s supreme court convicted Saca to 10 years in prison for
funneling more than $300 million of state money to his own businesses and
friends.
When Navarro worked for the Salvadorean government, it was run by the
Nationalist Republican Alliance (ARENA), a hard-right party that allied with
the Ronald Reagan administration in the 1980s to wage a terrorist war on
leftists.
ARENA was founded by Roberto D’Aubuisson, a notorious commander of death
squads. Known affectionately as “Blowtorch Bob,” because of his preference for
burning socialist militants as he tortured them for information, D’Aubuisson
ordered assassinations of anyone who challenged the conservative regime,
including Catholic Archbishop (and now saint) Óscar Romero, who was murdered
while delivering mass in a CIA-backed operation Blowtorch Bob personally
oversaw.
D’Aubuisson helped to lead a Washington-backed terrorist war on socialist
guerrillas in El Salvador, in what became a brutal 12-year conflict, fueled by
up to $2 million per day of US government aid to the right-wing military
dictatorship.
A United Nations Truth Commission later found that some 85 percent of the
murders of civilians committed in this decade-long war were carried out by the
US-backed Salvadorean military junta and death squads it supported. The leftist
insurgents from the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN) had only
been responsible for 5 percent of civilian deaths.
Back in 1981, the Washington Post acknowledged that “Roberto d’Aubuisson, a
former Army major who is the darling of the reactionary right, has openly
talked of the need to kill 200,000 to 300,000 people to restore peace to El
Salvador.” The US government knew this at the time, but continued supporting
him.
ARENA, the party D’Aubuisson founded, has not strayed far from its extremist
right-wing origins. It held the presidency in El Salvador from 1989 until 2009,
thanks to Washington’s significant and steadfast backing.
The United States has repeatedly intervened in the presidential elections in El
Salvador to prevent leftists from the FMLN party from taking power. In the
lead-up to the election in 2004, top Republicans threatened to take action
against El Salvador, warning that they would cancel the Temporary Protected
Status (TPS) of more than 250,000 Salvadorean immigrants inside the US and
block remittances if their countrymen voted for the FMLN.
The US intervention vaulted ARENA politician Antonio “Tony” Saca to a
presidential victory in 2004. He maintained a strongly pro-US stance and pushed
neoliberal, pro-privatization policies. Saca was so indebted to his US patrons
that he sent Salvadorean troops to Iraq to support the George W. Bush
administration’s invasion.
El Salvador Tony Saca George Bush
George Bush meets in 2006 with right-wing president of El Salvador Tony Saca,
who was later imprisoned for 10 years for corruption
The ARENA party was known not just for hideous violence against its foes, but
also heinous corruption. Saca took the party’s system of graft to new heights
once he was in office.
In one of the most high-profile corruption cases of his administration,
President Saca requested a nearly $30 million loan from the World Bank’s
International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD). He claimed the
loan would help fund construction of a new maternity hospital, repair seven
hospitals that had been damaged in earthquakes in 2001, and expand health
coverage. In the end, however, $28 million of that medical funding simply
disappeared.
An investigation conducted by the leftist FMLN government that succeeded Saca
found that $28 million was diverted away from health care infrastructure, and
into resolving arbitration cases and lawsuits involving the private
corporations that built the hospitals damaged in the 2001 earthquakes. Saca and
his allies had a direct financial stake in some of these firms.
The corruption continued throughout Saca’s tenure as president, eventually
culminating in his arrest in 2016. Two years later, the supreme court of El
Salvador sentenced him to 10 years in prison. The former president pleaded
guilty to embezzlement and laundering more than $300 million in taxpayer money.
Salvadorean prosecutors said Saca stole the government money to fund himself,
his friends, and his right-wing ARENA party.
Several other officials from Saca’s administration were imprisoned for their
involvement in the graft scandal. And in 2019, while he was serving out his
10-year sentence, Saca was sentenced to two more years for bribery.
The Saca administration’s eye-popping corruption played a significant role in
the election of the FLMN for the first time ever in 2009. The leftist party
triumphed despite numerous acts of electoral fraud carried out by the
right-wing ARENA forces.
Lobbying through Rudy Giuliani’s former law firm
In 2007, the corrupt Tony Saca government signed a lobbying contract with the
Miami-based corporate law firm Greenberg Traurig. Ana Navarro was brought on as
a consultant to the firm.
Greenberg Traurig has been rocked by many controversies. President Trump’s
personal attorney and former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani held a position at
the firm until he resigned in 2018 after claiming that its lawyers regularly
paid hush money to silence critics of their clients.
The firm’s deal with the Salvadorean embassy paid for nine months of lobbying,
from the beginning of April to the end of December 2007. The price: $475,000,
plus associated expenses.
Greenberg Traurig Ana Navarro El Salvador lobbying FARA
According to FARA documents reviewed by The Grayzone, Navarro billed the
government of El Salvador $26,388.50 per month for six months, raking in a
total of $158,331 in compensation.
She charged an additional $15,000 to cover airline and hotel expenses from
travel to Washington, DC for monthly meetings with the Salvadorean government
and for a junket to El Salvador to participate in a government conference.
The minimum wage in El Salvador is currently $300 per month — and that is only
after a historic wage increase under the leftist FMLN government in 2016, which
was earned through years of struggle by the labor movement.
Ana Navarro invoice El Salvador lobbying 2007
According to US Department of Justice FARA documents, Navarro “helped develop
strategy” for the Tony Saca government, and “provide[d] govt. relations support
for Govt. of El Salvador, particularly affecting immigration legislation.”
Navarro said a key part of her work was influencing immigration legislation in
favor of Salvadoreans. This is particularly ironic because Navarro’s own
colleagues from the Republican Party were using immigration as a political
weapon to attack leftist forces inside El Salvador.
As noted above, in the months preceding Tony Saca’s victory in the 2004
presidential election, Republican Congressmen Dan Burton and Dana Rohrabacher
called for ending TPS protections for the more than 250,000 immigrants in the
United States and for ceasing US cooperation with El Salvador if the leftist
FMLN party won the election.
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At #NALEO With Mari Carmen Aponte, newly confirmed Ambassador to El Salvador.
You Go Girl!
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Working for corrupt right-wing Nicaraguan government
El Salvador’s ARENA administration is not the only corrupt right-wing
government in Central America that Ana Navarro has worked for.
A professional bio provided by the corporate law firm Greenberg Traurig notes
that, in 1997, Navarro served as special counsel to Nicaragua’s Foreign
Ministry.
At the time of Navarro’s work in Nicaragua, her native country was ruled by the
hopelessly corrupt administration of President Arnoldo Alemán.
A rich oligarch from a powerful family who owned a massive coffee plantation,
Alemán was the son of a former education minister for the US-backed military
dictatorship of Anastasio Somoza.
Alemán won the 1996 presidential election amid widespread accusations of fraud
and vote theft. He continued the neoliberal economic policies and austerity
measures that were imposed by the US-friendly administration that preceded him,
led by oligarch Violeta Chamorro.
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US President Bill Clinton with corrupt right-wing Nicaraguan President Arnoldo
Alemán in 1999
Navarro worked with Alemán’s neoliberal government in this period. As was the
case with the Tony Saca administration in El Salvador, her boss’s term was
marred by severe corruption.
After leaving office in 2002, Alemán was arrested and sentenced to 20 years in
prison on charges of money laundering, fraud, embezzlement, and electoral
crimes.
Alemán was convicted of channeling $100 million in public funds into his own
right-wing party’s election campaigns.
Following her work for Alemán’s corrupt administration, Navarro went to work
for Florida Republican Governor Jeb Bush. She advised his gubernatorial
campaign, was a member of his transition team, and served as director of his
immigration policy.
Ana Navarro-Cárdenas
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Leaving Nicaragua w/a heavy heart. Ortega refuses to go. Nicas want him out.
Seems no end in sight to the bloodshed & downward spiral. Painful to see a
beautiful country held hostage by a corrupt dictator. A poignant reminder that
defending Democracy matters. #SOSNicaragua 🇳🇮
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Praising the CIA’s mass-murdering Nicaraguan Contras
Like many of the right-wing Cuban and Venezuelan exiles in Florida, whose
wealthy oligarchic families fled after socialist revolutions in their home
countries, Ana Navarro’s family came to the United States in 1980, just months
after the leftist Sandinista Revolution, when she was 8 years old.
Navarro frequently flaunts her Nicaraguan background to push for the
continuation of US intervention against leftist forces in Latin America. She
has aggressively lobbied for sanctions on her home country, as well as on
Venezuela and Cuba. These sanctions already killed at least 40,000 Venezuelan
civilians in 2018 alone.
Navarro has also flaunted her support for the Nicaraguan Contras, right-wing
death squads backed by the Ronald Reagan administration in the 1980s.
In June 2013, a Twitter user told Navarro, “You’re kind of young to be a true
Reaganite.” She responded writing, “My dad was a Contra. I’m grateful to RR
[Ronald Reagan] for his support of freedom.”
Ana Navarro-Cárdenas
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@ananavarro
My dad was a Contra. I'm grateful to RR for his support of freedom “@house8o8:
@ananavarro You're kind of young to be a true Reaganite..."
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In January 2014, Navarro piled on the pro-Contra PR, offering to help people
get in touch with former death squad commanders: “To my friends in New York, I
still have some connections w/old Contra leaders…if needed.”
Ana Navarro-Cárdenas
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@ananavarro
To my friends in New York, I still have some connections w/old Contra
leaders...if needed.
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In 2016, Navarro reiterated that her father joined the Contras after the 1979
Sandinista Revolution.
The atrocities carried out by these CIA-backed death squads are well documented.
Edgar Chamorro, a former leader of the Contras who hailed from the most
powerful oligarchic family in Nicaragua, published an article in the New York
Times in 1986 titled, “Terror Is the Most Effective Weapon of Nicaragua’s
‘Contras’.” The piece provides a glimpse into the murderous tactics used by
these right-wing death squads.
“During my four years as a ‘contra’ director, it was premeditated policy to
terrorize civilian noncombatants to prevent them from cooperating with the
Government,” Chamorro wrote. “Hundreds of civilian murders, mutilations,
tortures and rapes were committed in pursuit of this policy, of which the
‘contra’ leaders and their C.I.A. superiors were well aware.”
He said the Contras were led not by freedom-loving democrats, but by elites
“directed and controlled by officers of” the National Guard of the former
US-backed Somoza dictatorship.
The ex-commander noted that when Contras occupied towns, they “gathered the
residents in the town square, selected those civilians they suspected of
sympathizing with the Government and shot them in cold blood as a lesson.”
“The Sandinistas, for all their faults, have made enormous advances in
education, housing and health care, issues of vital importance to Nicaragua’s
poor majority. Unfortunately, the ‘contras’ burn down schools, homes and health
centers as fast as the Sandinistas build them,” Chamorro wrote.
His personal testimony is backed up by mountains of documentary evidence. Even
the Washington Post acknowledged in 1984 that the CIA had prepared a so-called
“Murder Manual” for the Contras, which taught the “Nicaraguan guerrillas how to
kidnap, assassinate, blackmail and dupe civilians.”
The CIA Murder Manual advised the death squads to assassinate government
officials, including judges, security officers, and Sandinista Party leaders;
to destroy and sabotage civilian infrastructure; to blackmail people and hire
criminals to help in their efforts; and to even create “martyrs” by killing
civilians and blaming the FSLN government in false flag operations.
With rhetoric reminiscent of the Spanish conquistadores, the CIA Murder Manual
described the Contra war against the Sandinistas as a “Christian and democratic
crusade being conducted in Nicaragua by the Freedom Commandos.”
Ana Navarro has not only heaped praise on the death squads that slaughtered
untold numbers of fellow Nicaraguans, she has exploited that history as a
talking point to demonize Bernie Sanders. Together with the New York Times, New
York Post, and neoliberal pundits like Jonathan Chait and Michael Moynihan, she
has depicted the Vermont senator’s past support for the Sandinistas as a fatal
weakness.
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In 48 hours, @BernieSanders said crap alienating 2 crucial voting blocs in
FL, the biggest swing state. His comments against AIPAC and in favor of Castro,
make it very hard for him to win FL + hurt down-ballot Dems.
Why, Dear Jesus. Why?🤦🏻♀️
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/24/us/bernie-sanders-fidel-castro-florida.html …
After Senator Bernie Sanders highlighted a literacy program in Cuba under the
leadership of Fidel Castro, several of his Democratic presidential rivals
pounced.
Sanders’s Comments on Fidel Castro Provoke Anger in Florida
Bernie Sanders told “60 Minutes” that it would be “unfair” to say “everything
is bad” about Cuba’s Communist revolution.
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@ananavarro
FLA is home to many victims of Castros, Sandinistas, Maduro. I have friends
whose dads were jailed, tortured, killed. I know Political Prisoners carrying
physical & emotional scars. It’s an open wound for many of us.@BernieSanders
should meet w/victims to understand the pain.
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Despite being a veteran Republican operative who has worked extensively with
corrupt right-wing governments in Latin America, Navarro has taken to corporate
networks and social media to advise Democrats on whom they should nominate for
president.
“If @BernieSanders is the nominee, all we’ll hear is ‘Democrats want to turn
America into Venezuela,'” Navarro tweeted. “Democrats, I plead w/you, think
hard about the big picture and who can win.”
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@ananavarro
If @BernieSanders is the nominee, all we’ll hear is “Democrats want to turn
America into Venezuela”. It won’t affect outcome in NY or VT, but it will
affect Florida. It’ll cripple down-ballot candidates. Democrats, I plead w/you,
think hard about the big picture and who can win.
https://twitter.com/lindyli/status/1228717543105454089 …
Lindy Li
@lindyli
#BernieSanders lavishes praise on Communist Russia, preferring the Soviet Union
to the American way of life#NevadaCaucus
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Firm of Ana Navarro’s Republican husband Al Cárdenas lobbied for corrupt
Salvadorean figures
Given her deep immersion in the seedy world of K Street lobbying, it is not
surprising that Ana Navarro is married to a top Republican lobbyist.
Her husband, Alberto “Al” Cárdenas, is a conservative Cuban-American consultant
who worked in the administrations of Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H.W.
Bush. He served twice as the chair of the Florida Republican Party, and spent
some time on the GOP’s executive committee.
Cárdenas frequently boasts in his professional bios that he was “named as one
of Washington, D.C.’s top lobbyists by The Hill newspaper.” He is a senior
partner at the Advocacy Group at Cardenas Partners.
FARA documents reviewed by The Grayzone show that Cardenas Partners signed a
contract in 2011 to lobby the US government on behalf of the Salvadorean
publicity firm Funes y Asociados.
Funes y Asociados is a family company run by a powerful Salvadorean businessman
named César Daniel Funes Cruz. The boss’s son, César Daniel Funes Durán, is a
close friend and key political ally of former President Tony Saca, and was part
of the ring of officials imprisoned for corruption.
In fact, before it became a client of Cardenas Partners, Funes y Asociados was
used to embezzle millions of dollars of public money under President Saca.
Cardenas Partners Funes y Asociados El Salvador lobbying FARA document
In Saca’s administration, César Funes Durán served as the secretary of the
youth and the director of the public water utility, ANDA.
After sentencing Saca to 10 years in prison for stealing $300 million of
taxpayer money, El Salvador’s supreme court convicted a dozen other members of
his administration who had been implicated in his corruption ring. Funes Durán
was one of the co-defendants charged with corruption.
Salvadorean police arrested him and the other corrupt former Saca
administration officials while they were attending the wedding of Saca’s son in
2016.
According to the supreme court’s case, Funes Durán and other secretaries in the
ARENA government helped Saca create a structure to funnel $246 million of
taxpayer money into private accounts that they controlled. Next, Funes Durán
helped oversee the operation to withdraw $116 million of those public funds in
cash.
The court sentenced Funes Durán to five years in prison and ordered him to
return the public money he helped steal.
The defendant admitted that he had received more than $2 million directly from
Saca’s presidential office. He used that taxpayer money to pay off his own
credit cards, then he wrote checks to his father, César Funes Cruz; to his
mother, Rosa Durán de Funes; and to their family firm, Funes y Asociados.
According to the Salvadorean prosecutors, Saca’s presidential office sent $6.5
million in public funds to Funes y Asociados. The firm then transferred $5.2
million of this money to the Grupo Radial Samix, a company owned by President
Saca himself. Funes y Asociados was thus left with $1.3 million in taxpayer
money.
The Salvadorean Justice Department ordered the father of the family, Funes
Cruz, then the legal representative of Funes y Asociados, to pay back the
government $1.3 million. Funes Cruz, who was 87 at the time of the 2019 ruling
and was in poor health, offered to give the government three of his properties
to pay back the sum and to avoid going to prison on a three-year sentence.
César Funes personally inked the 2011 contract with Cardenas Partners, the
lobbying firm where Ana Navarro’s husband, Al Cárdenas, is a senior partner.
Cardenas Partners Funes y Asociados Cesar Funes FARA
According to the contract, Cardenas Partners was retained in order “to monitor
developments and actions of the Administration and Congress relating to US
relations with El Salvador; to provide analysis of the same; and to arrange
meetings with Members of Congresss [sic] and/ or staff and/or Administration
officials to obtain information and views about such relations.”
The contract was three months long and cost $30,000 per month, totallng $90,000.
Although Al Cárdenas did not sign the contract with Funes y Asociados, he did
file FARA paperwork making it clear that, as a partner Cardenas Partners, he
was representing Funes y Asociados in its efforts.
Al Cardenas Funes y Asociados El Salvador FARA
And this is not Cárdenas’ only link to highly questionable lobbying. He is also
a partner at Squire Patton Boggs, the third-largest lobbying firm in the United
States.
The Intercept has noted that one of Patton Boggs’ past clients was
authoritarian Guatemalan military leader Romeo Lucas García. An obituary
published in The Guardian pointed out that Lucas oversaw more than 300
massacres, and killed or disappeared an average of 200 people every month for
the four years he was was president.
“He obliterated the urban political opposition with a policy of selective
assassination,” The Guardian reported, and “also sought to wipe out the rural
base of the country’s leftist guerrilla organisations by slaughtering the
mainly indigenous Mayan peasantry.”
Republican lobbyists bring bipartisan US elites together for lavish wedding
The two lobbyists and GOP operatives, Ana Navarro and Al Cárdenas, wed in 2019.
They celebrated with an ultra-expensive, lavish wedding featuring some very
powerful figures in US politics and culture, including Republican Senator Mitt
Romney, Democratic Senator Bob Menendez, and CNN anchors Wolf Blitzer, Don
Lemon, and Anderson Cooper.
Wolf Blitzer
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@wolfblitzer
So happy for my friends @ananavarro and @AlCardenasFL_DC and it was so special
to attend their beautiful wedding. #navarrocardenasatlast
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The Navarro-Cárdenas wedding was another exhibition of rich Republican and
Democratic elites rubbing shoulders and enjoying shared values outside the view
of the proles who lap up their televised commentary.
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@wolfblitzer
I like @TheView and so nice to catch up with @sunny Hostin and @joyvbehar at
the beautiful #navarrocardenasatlast wedding
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Navarro and her husband are also close friends with Fox News host Geraldo
Rivera.
Geraldo Rivera
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@GeraldoRivera
Érica and me outside after over indulging at @Joesstonecrab with Miami’s newly
wed power couple @ananavarro & @AlCardenasFL_DC It was great. During dinner,
we had a power blackout. Ana and Érica blamed @realDonaldTrump
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On Twitter, she and Rivera flatter each other non-stop.
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· Dec 13, 2019
Replying to @GeraldoRivera @KellyannePolls
Love me some Erica!
Geraldo Rivera
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Miss you Hope to see you in Miami xxx
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@GeraldoRivera, amigo, everything in life is relative. Relative to Trump, Cruz
becomes less loathsome to some of us.
https://twitter.com/geraldorivera/status/710523779265368064 …
Geraldo Rivera
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@GeraldoRivera
Watching @LindseyGrahamSC endorse @SenTedCruz a man he professes to loath is
kind of sad.
Geraldo Rivera
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@GeraldoRivera
@ananavarro @LindseyGrahamSC @SenTedCruz What is not relative is my boundless
admiration for you the Rivera familys favorite political salsa
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While Ana Navarro brands herself as a sassy but sensible voice of resistance in
the age of Donald Trump, she and her Republican lobbyist husband cannot erase
the decades of work they have done with some of the most corrupt right-wing
governments on the planet. The Trumps of Central America bear their legacy, and
a Bernie Sanders presidency represents their worst fear.
