They went ahead with Marinello's nomination and paid all her expenses:

EB members from Americas:

Mrs. Margaret Murphy, U.S. Virgin Islands
Mr. Guy Bendana, Nicaragua
Mr. Uvencio Blanco, Venezuela
Mr. Silvino Garcia, Cuba

Zone Presidents:

Zone 2.1 will be nominated by USA
Zone 2.2 will be nominated by CAN
Zone 2.3 Mr. Erick Hernandez, ESA
Zone 2.4 will be nominated during the meeting (BRA, PER, BOL) later
Zone 2.5 Mr. Ramon Nicolas Barrera, ARG

Americas General Assembly Board

President: Mr. Jorge Vega, Costa Rica
Deputy President: Mr. Silvino Garcia, Cuba
Treasurer: Mr. Allan Herbert, Barbados
**** General Secretary: Ms. Beatriz Marinello, USA
Board Member: Mr. Oswaldo Ceballos, Colombia
Board Member: Mr. Eduardo Mieles, Ecuador
Board Member: c/o Brazilian Chess Federation President

Ray Gordon wrote:
They went ahead with Marinello's nomination and paid all her expenses:

EB members from Americas:

Mrs. Margaret Murphy, U.S. Virgin Islands
Mr. Guy Bendana, Nicaragua
Mr. Uvencio Blanco, Venezuela
Mr. Silvino Garcia, Cuba

Zone Presidents:

Zone 2.1 will be nominated by USA
Zone 2.2 will be nominated by CAN
Zone 2.3 Mr. Erick Hernandez, ESA
Zone 2.4 will be nominated during the meeting (BRA, PER, BOL) later
Zone 2.5 Mr. Ramon Nicolas Barrera, ARG

Americas General Assembly Board

President: Mr. Jorge Vega, Costa Rica
Deputy President: Mr. Silvino Garcia, Cuba
Treasurer: Mr. Allan Herbert, Barbados
**** General Secretary: Ms. Beatriz Marinello, USA
Board Member: Mr. Oswaldo Ceballos, Colombia
Board Member: Mr. Eduardo Mieles, Ecuador
Board Member: c/o Brazilian Chess Federation President

What is your source for this?

This is very disturbing and a violation of FIDE Rules but we need to
have it confirmed.

Sam Sloan

What is your source for this?

http://www.fide.com/news.asp?id=1029

- Tom Martinak

Needless crossposts removed.

"Tom Martinak" writes:

What is your source for this?

http://www.fide.com/news.asp?id=1029

I believe the General Assembly chose to defer the matter of the election
of the Continental offices to the Continents, effectively circumventing
the rule that requires a nominee's home federation to approve of the
nomination. Beatriz obviously had the votes at the Americas Continent
meeting.

My understanding is that Beatriz has already repaid the USCF for the
plane ticket and other expenses related to the FIDE Congress that had
been previously paid to her, in compliance with the Board motion from
last month.
--
Mike Nolan

Mike Nolan wrote:

My understanding is that Beatriz has already repaid the USCF for the
plane ticket and other expenses related to the FIDE Congress that had
been previously paid to her, in compliance with the Board motion from
last month.

And my understanding is that part of the price for her selling out
the United States was to rid Chess Life of FIDE's greatest critic.

So Beatriz got her payoff from Kirsan. It doesn't always take the
form of a gold Rolex or cash in a brown envelope.

MIKE NOLAN AT USCF FORUM

Tue Jun 13, 2006 3:39 pm

According to the report on the election and the new FIDE Board on the
FIDE website, Beatriz is (still) the General Secretary for the Americas
Continent and Bill Kelleher is now a FIDE Vice-President. The USCF
Executive Board will have to appoint a new FIDE Delegate, but there's
probably no hurry on that.

I believe the way the General Secretary issue was handled by the
General Assembly was to defer the entire issue to the Continents, which
circumvented the rules requiring that the nominee's home federation
must approve of the nomination.

But it has long been true that rules for FIDE are largely a matter of
what the people in power want to do and Torino was a tour de force
demonstration of that.

wrote:

MIKE NOLAN AT USCF FORUM

Tue Jun 13, 2006 3:39 pm

According to the report on the election and the new FIDE Board on the
FIDE website, Beatriz is (still) the General Secretary for the Americas
Continent and Bill Kelleher is now a FIDE Vice-President. The USCF
Executive Board will have to appoint a new FIDE Delegate, but there's
probably no hurry on that.

I believe the way the General Secretary issue was handled by the
General Assembly was to defer the entire issue to the Continents, which
circumvented the rules requiring that the nominee's home federation
must approve of the nomination.

But it has long been true that rules for FIDE are largely a matter of
what the people in power want to do and Torino was a tour de force
demonstration of that.

This is very bad news. The 3 musketeers (Goichberg, Channing, Schultz)
can't stop Marinello. They're useless and helpless. She's now in bed
with all the Spics down south. Now we all know that she's all about her
own political ambition and she doesn't give a **** about the USCF. I
guess they got what they deserve because they thought they can convert
her. Welcome to the Beatchess Federation!

BEATCHESS FEDERATION

The position that Beatriz got from FIDE is largely ceremonial
and meaningless.

Word from Turin is she didn't get the post she really wanted.