What was Joe Biden’s son’s business in Colombia?

On October 27, the Daily Caller portal, an American right-wing news site, published an article in which it assures that Juan Manuel Santos’s proximity to Joe Biden was the basis for a business proposal that the current candidate’s son for the US presidency Hunter Biden developed in 2017. This news, which has not yet been replicated by any recognized American media, caused a stir among Colombians on social networks.

According to the report signed by journalist Chuck Ross, in May 2017 Hunter Biden and his company, SinoHawk, presented an investment proposal for an initial amount of 10 million dollars to the company CEFC China Energy. According to Ross, the company’s president, Ye Jianming, is said to have close ties to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).

According to the article, the business consortium would be made up of James Biden, brother of the presidential candidate; the candidate’s son, Hunter Biden, and an associate named Tony Bobulinski, who allegedly provided evidence to the United States Senate to investigate the affairs of the Democratic candidate’s son. According to Bobulinski, the Bidens would have benefited from the vice-presidency of the now candidate to carry out international negotiations, a matter that the Democratic candidate has always denied, claiming that he was not involved in the negotiations of his son.

The alleged international operations of the investment agreement between the Biden consortium and CEFC include the countries of Oman, Romania, Luxembourg and Colombia. In the proposal document, there is a section called “Colombia – Gateway to Latin America” ​​which immediately begins with a photo of Juan Manuel Santos and Joe Biden shaking hands.

“With this in mind, the EEIG [empresa asociada a los Biden] It has built its association framework between CEFC China and local partners in Colombia, with a solid foundation that begins right at the very foundation of the country’s administration ”, reads the document, presumably linked to the negotiation of oil extraction in South America.

He also speaks of the importance of peace agreed in Havana in the prevalence of the investment to be negotiated. “Mr. Biden pledged his strong personal support for the peace process and congratulated Mr. Santos. At the same time, he stressed” the importance of maintaining bipartisan support for Colombia in the US Congress. “

In the offer document, the company mentions a relationship with Rattan Holding, a company with oil fields in Colombia, and also describes the locations where the operations would take place. The main one, El Remanso, is located in the departments of Antioquia and Boyacá and covers the territory of the municipalities of Puerto Berrío, Puerto Triunfo, Puerto Nare and Puerto Boyacá. The GEIE company offered the Chinese multinational 192,000,000 barrels of oil in the transaction. In addition, he made the port of Buenaventura available and anticipated “a major project to bring an oil pipeline from Venezuela to this port to fill huge reservoirs that cannot pass through the Panama Canal”.

In addition, an alleged tour of Colombia and meetings with senators, businessmen and governors have been planned.

“We are close to the consul here. Zang Jiunjun of CEFC China will be honored by the senators of the fifth commission. This commission is the one that deals with oil issues and the energy sector in the country. After the ceremony, there will be a dinner at Club Nogal, where 15 senators and business leaders will meet and greet the guests of honor. The next day the delegation will fly to Barranquilla, where all the governors of the Colombian coast will hand over the keys of the cities to the CEFC members on tour ”, reads the document, made public by Chuck Ross.

What is The Daily Caller?

The portal that published the article belongs to the far right and was founded in 2010 by Tucker Carlson, now a reporter for Fox News, a US news channel identified as a supporter of the Republican Party. The portal, launched as a conservative response to The Huffington Post portal, has been accused of publishing fake news on multiple occasions.

It has even published opinion columns of self-confessed neo-Nazi activists such as Jason Kessler, who calls himself a member of the so-called “alternative right”. The Politifact portal, a recognized US data verification unit, identifies publications it has verified on the portal as fake.