Did Ramirez create a phony group and list elected officials for show

Adelita S. Grijalva
President

Andres Ramirez listed Adelita S. Grijalva as a

board member for Two Countries One

Voice, but there is no record of Board

Member Grijalva participating in the

strategy sessions, so is what is going on?

Andres Ramirez makes up a phony group

There are no "coalition members" for Two Countries One Voice

We contacted several people that Andres Ramirez listed as leaders of "Two Countries, One Voice."

None of them confirmed that.

Ramirez just gleaned names from a phone book.

Stavan Corbett and others would not agree with our observation that they are board members of this non existent group.

The Phony Group

Latino Activist from Across U.S. to Protest Carlos Slim

Added by santiago on May 17, 2012.
Saved under Latinoamérica y Mundo

Nearly 1,000 Latino leaders, students, community activists and concerned citizens from across the United States will descend on the National Mall in Washington D.C. on Sunday, May 20^th, 2012 to protest the presentation of Carlos Slim – the richest man in the world – with an honorary degree from George Washington University during its graduation ceremony.  The coalition, Two Countries One Voice, is committed to exposing Slim’s monopolistic practices with which he has amassed his fortune.

The coalition sent a letter to George Washington University officials requesting that it sever all ties with Slim and refrain from honoring a man who made his billions on the backs of the Mexican poor. The University declined the request.

This action is just the first of many actions planned to bring attention to Slim’s predatory monopolistic actions and to call on American institutions and corporations to sever ties with Slim.

DATE:             Sunday, May 20, 2012

TIME:              9:00 am

WHERE:         15th Street Knoll (15th and Madison)

National Mall, Washington DC
WHO:              Juan Jose Gutiérrez – Vamos Unidos USA

Andres Ramirez – The Ramirez Group

1,000 Latino leaders, students, and community activists protesting Carlos Slim

BACKGROUND: Carlos Slim’s power and fortune is made up primarily from his monopoly on the Mexican telecommunications system.  According to the independent and highly respected Organization for Cooperation and Development (OECD), Slim’s company, America Movil, which controls nearly 80% of the total Mexican telecom, cell and internet industries, charges exorbitant prices and provides inadequate services. Their report also shows that Slim has price-gouged Mexican customers billions of dollars for basic telephone and Internet service.  They point out that those specifically and most profoundly affected by these business practices are rural and poor communities.

The impact of Carlos Slim’s monopoly has resulted in Mexico ranking LAST in public investment in telecommunications compared with the 33 other OECD countries while Slim’s company Telemex had a profit margin of 47% - one of the highest of the OECD countries.

The Coalition has 40 more leaders and organizations, and includes a mix of American and Latino community-based organizations. All groups are banding together to give a voice to all those who cannot speak out, and are working to defend them from the tactics being used to make the richest man in the world richer.

“We are honored to have received such solidarity from leaders across the country,” said Andres Ramirez, one of the coalition leaders. “The action taken by these organizations is a signal to Carlos Slim, and any others that may be prospering from the unfair treatment to Mexican citizens, that our communities will not stand by idle.”

Last week, Two Countries One Voice submitted a letter to Steven Knapp, president of George Washington University, requesting a meeting to discuss severing all ties with Slim. Specifically, the Coalition is asking that the University disinvite him from the graduation commencement ceremonies on the National Mall and revoke his honorary degree.

Coalition members include the following leaders who are affiliated with leading organizations:

Javier Trujillo

Chair, Latin Chamber of Commerce (Nevada)

Mario Cardenas
President, COFEM

MiguelBarrientos(NV)
Radio Host, Asi se Habla Radio

Vicenta Montoya (NV)
Founder, Si Se Puede Democratic Caucus

Edgar Flores
Familias de Juarez Project

Marco AntonioPacheco
President, Casa de la Cultura Maya

Adelita Grijalva (AZ)

Board Member, Tucson University School District

Juan Ortega
President, Dream Big Vegas

Art Terrazas
New Mexico State University / Hispano Chamber of Commerce

Lorenzo Castillo
Dominicanos Unidos

Antonio Garcia
Organizacion Duranguense

Francisco Morales
Hispanic Student Union – UNLV

Cynthia Vazquez
MeCHA – UNLV

Luz Mosquera
Executive Director, Hermandad Mexicana

StavanCorbett
President of the Board, Luz Coalition

Margarita Rebollal
Executive Director, Community Services of Nevada

Jose Melendrez
Co-Founder, Nevada Alliance for Latino Education and Justice

Leo Murietta
President and Co-Founder,Nevada Youth Alliance

Fernando Romero
President, Hispanics in Politics

Michael Flores
Southern Nevada Director,Nevada Reform Immigration for America

Francisco Pacheco
Day Labor program (East coast coordinator)

Bessy Blanco
President, Association ofSalvadoran Attorney from DC.

Camilo J. Quila
Legal Aid Justice Center

Rafael Herrera
Community activist, Washington D.C.

Jose Artiga
Director, SHARE EL SALVADOR

Reveriano Sanchez
Las Americas News

Gil Lopez
SOL – UNLV

Loamy Diaz
MeCHA – CSN

Carmen Martinez
Hispanic Student Union – CSN

Juan Jose Gutierrez
President, Vamos Unidos USA

Roberto Bravo
Director, CBO Comunitarias (Asociacion de Puebla)

Rosa Posadas
Director, Union de Emigrantes Guatemaltecos (UGE)

Francisco Rivera
President, Mesa Redonda Centroamericana

Leoncio Velasquez
President Hondurenos Unidos (HULA)

Daniel Morales
Director, Collective Space

Josefina Herrera
President, Club Juarez, Chihuaha

Baldomero Capiz
President, Asociacion deex-braceros de Los Angeles

Sonia Zaldivar
Treasurer, Salvadoran Corridor

Ricardo Amado Castillo
GeorgeWashington University Student Alumni Association

Juan Garcia – California

Sandra Ramos — Texas

Ramona Houston — Texas

Alejandra Lopez
Federacion Jalisciense DeNevada

Source: Two Countries One Voice

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Open Letter to the Attorney General of Nevada, Attorney General of California, Attorney General of New York, and US Attorney, Washington

To Attorney General Catherine Cortez Masto

To Attorney General Eric Schneiderman

To Attorney General Kamala Harris



To US Attorney for Washington, D.C., Ronald Machen,Jr.

A full scale investigation needs to be conducted concerning a fraud.  Two Countries One Voice is a non existent group who staged rallies across state lines

GWU

New York

California

There protests were the work of two people with fraudulent intentions

Andres Ramirez

Juan Jose Guttierez

The organization does not exist.  It collected money as an organization and never filed documentation.

Time to investigate

Should the FBI Probe Two Countries One Voice and Andres Ramirez? FBI-Public Corruption

It is called the Octopus Conspiracy

This was done in 2012

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Mexican Tycoon Carlos Slim's TracFone Accuses Activist Group Of Orchestrating A Corporate-Backed Smear Campaign

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TV AZTECA GAVE CONSIDERATION TO deLeon, Nunez, and Gutierrez years ago.  All of One Stop Immigration rallies were paid for with money from TV Azteca in the 1980s and 1990s

TV Azteca made the news and covered the news

2012

Slim was a competitor who had to be punished

TWO COUNTRIES ONE VOICE WAS BORN IN THE OFFICE OF ANDRES RAMIREZ

RAMIREZ THROUGH ROGER SALAZAR CALLED CALIFORNIA, HE NEEDED ALLIES

As our analysts probe and probe the action in 2012 to harass and humiliate Carlos Slim

a vast network of tentacles

COMES FORWARD

Das Williams

Ricardo Lara

Nancy Skinner

Kevin deLeon

Andres Ramirez

Juan Gitierrez

Two Countries One Voice

Roger Salazar formerly of Mercury Public Affairs

Fabian Nunez

CORRUPTION IS NOT JUST ABOUT MONEY

RAMIREZ GETS SELECTED FOR PANELS

SALAZAR AND NUNEZ GET TOP CHANCES FOR MEXICAN PUBLIC CONTRACTS

SALAZAR WORKS FOR LATINO CAUCUS, AND THEN THE LATINO CAUCUS WORKS FOR RAMIREZ

ACROSS STATES

ACROSS NATIONS

ACROSS THE PHONE AND INTERNET LINES POWER BROKERING

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WHERE, OR WHERE CAN THERE BE AN INQUIRY ABOUT THE PHONY, ASTRO TURFED GROUP??

COMING SOON TO THE RAMIREZ GROUP, COMING SOON

For Consideration, the same as money-----------Destroy Carlos Slim

December 2012 San Francisco

Delenda est Carlos Slim

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Mexican Tycoon Carlos Slim's TracFone Accuses Activist Group Of Orchestrating A Corporate-Backed Smear Campaign

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 Carlos Slim  (Image credit: AFP/Getty Images via @daylife)

TracFone, a telephone company owned by Mexican telecom tycoon Carlos Slim’s America Movil (NYSE:AMX) filed a complaint on Monday accusing activist group Two Countries One Voice  and its campaign against Slim in the United States of being a corporate smear campaign as opposed to a grassroots  movement against the Mexican billionaire’s  “monopolistic practices”, as the group claimed.

In a complaint filed Monday with the California Fair Political Practices Commission,  TracFone accuses Two Countries One Voice (TCOV), a self-described Latino grassroots group, of organizing protests “with the apparent goal of generating  adverse legislation and/or negatively influence regulatory decisions affecting” companies owned by Slim.  It claims that there is ample public information to indicate that TCOV “is not an authentic grassroots organization and is, in fact, engaged in an ‘Astroturf’ campaign with hidden sponsors and funding to influence California state officials and lawmakers for political and ultimately commercial ends,” the 11-page complaint states.

 

Early this month,  TCOV organized its most successful protest so far against Slim when 60 activists interrupted Slim with loud laughs and guffaws during a public event  at the New York Public Library.  Contrary to previous  demonstrations in Washington, D.C. and Los Angeles, this time TCOV’s theatrics received significant press coverage in the United States and Mexico.

The legal document alleges that TCOV lobbied against Slim’s acquisition of TracFone and SimpleMobile, which are recipients of U.S. government mobile-phone subsidies for the poor,  despite not being registered as a lobbyist or other type of political committee. “TCOV is heavily engaged in advocating for regulatory and legislative action in California,” the complaint states.  It also states that multiple California  politicians, including State Senators Kevin De Leon and Ricardo Lara, and State Assembly members Das Williams and Nancy Skinner, either participated in TCOV’s events or were engaged in other activities against Slim’s companies in California.

One strong indication that TCOV has undisclosed outside funding is that despite over a year of operations by the group, TracFone has been unable to locate confirmation that the group has registered in California or with the federal government as a corporate entity or ever solicited funds from their supporters or the public at large. To the best of our knowledge, the complaint says, there are no registration filings for “Two Countries, One Voice,”  in the public databases maintained by the California Secretary of State and the California Fair Political Practices Commission.

Slim’s complaint called on the Commission to investigate if Juan Jose Gutierrez,  the group’s founder, is financing TCOV from his business activities or whether he and his associates at TCOV have received outside funding and other assistance from corporate lobbying.  Gutierrez is identified as the founder of another politically active group called Vamos Unidos USA, which the complaint says is a fictitious business name for a company called Vamos EUA, which has been the subject of several State of California tax liens filed with the Los Angeles County recorder of deeds in 2011 and 2012.

The complaint suggests that Mercury Public Affairs,  a California-registered lobbying firm led by individuals with deep political roots in California and whose primary offering is grassroots mobilization and messaging,  may be behind TCOV’s anti Slim campaign. It does not say who hired Mercury on behalf of TCOV, but believes  that only well-heeled corporate clients or non-profits have the wherewithal to hire a firm like Mercury, a subsidiary of an NYSE-listed conglomerate called Omnicon.  TCOV asserts that it is entirely self-funded and specifically denies that they are tied to Slim’s business competitors in Mexico. However, according to Bloomberg, Andres Ramirez, also a TCOV founder, has participated in events sponsored by Azteca America SAB  (AZTECA.MX), a U.S. television network owned by Mexican billionaire Ricardo Salinas Pliego, a fierce competitor of Slim. In paid ads published May 20 in Mexican newspapers, TV Azteca,  Salinas Pliego’s Mexican TV network,  denied any connections to Ramirez.