UN Colombia Corruption Detailed Anew Amid New Book UN Betrayals and Next SG Elex
| UN Colombia Corruption
Detailed Anew Amid New Book UN
Betrayals and Next SG Elex
By Matthew Russell Lee
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Substack NEW YORK,
July 24 â As the UN
moves in 2026 to pick a new
Secretary General, as its last
one Antonio Guterres fails on
Ukraine, Gaza and basic
transparency, a book has been
published. It is "United
Nations Betrayals: From
Election Stolen by Guterres to
Bribes and Banning of the
Press," by Matthew Russell Lee
(who quickly discloses that he
has been ousted and banned
from the UN by Guterres, for
his reporting). Now on July 24,
from Colombia to Inner City
Press: Dear Matthew, We
want to share another
disturbing development at
UNVMC. The mission has
advertised the position of
Chief, Operations and Resource
Management (P-5). Instead of
filling the post through the
established UN roster, where
many qualified candidates are
already available following a
competitive UN Headquarters
process, the vacancy has been
issued as a Position-Specific
Job Opening (PSJO). PSJO makes it
very easy to manipulate the
recruitment process and this
is designed to select the
corrupted Mar Brusola Chief
Human Resources. Mar started
as a UN Volunteer and in just
few years she rose to the P-5
level with no experience and
no skills. During her time in
UNVMC, there have been many
reports regarding the
integrity of recruitment
processes under Yang Wang and
Mar. What is
particularly troubling is that
Mar has been the subject of
several complaints and
investigations, yet instead of
ensuring a transparent and
merit-based process, Yang is
rewarding that loyalty by
giving her the promotion. To insure the
selection of Mar, Yang has
decided to put Spanish level 3
(which is her language) for a
post Yang had until last year
without knowing a word of
Spanish! Why all of a sudden
Spanish is required? Oh yes to
eliminate all experienced
candidates including those
already in that position or
losing their job in missions
which are closing. Below: from the
HR file where one can see that
Yang who has never passed a
test, did pass the CMS test
but the funny thing is that in
the spanish question (Q3) Yang
got the highest score (16.5)
among the 23 candidates in a
language he does not
know.
A noted
by New York Magazine on Lee's
Maximum Maxwell book,
at times here he uses the
character Kurt Wheelock, who
first appeared in his
Predatory Bender.
The book
begins with Guterres beating
out female candidates for the
UNSG post, after a murky year
being paid by Lisbon-based
Gulbenkian Foundation. The
book digs into the bid by the
China Energy Fund Committee,
convicted of UN bribery, for
Gulbenkian's oil company.
Readers can draw their own
conclusion, including on the
need for SG campaign finance
disclosure in 2026. Part of
the book in italics delves
into the UN Correspondents
Association and its efforts to
throw Lee out. They appear
again in the afterword /
novella, "Whacking Qaddafi,"
which was first mentioned in
the New Yorker magazine's Talk of
the Town piece about
Lee. It addresses more
countries: from India to
Pakistan, Guinea to Guinea
Bissau. The main text addresses UN failures in Sri Lanka - including the UNCA connection - Cameroon, Western Sahara, Syria, North Korea, Sudan, Gaza and elsewhere. UN Betrayals indeed - this should be the first of a series.
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