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05BOGOTA5564
2005-06-10 13:17:00
CONFIDENTIAL
Embassy Bogota
Cable title:  

CUBA: NSC-DIRECTED REVIEW REGARDING SUSPENSION OF

Tags:  ETRD ETTC PREL CO UN 
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C O N F I D E N T I A L BOGOTA 005564 

SIPDIS

E.O. 12958: DECL: 06/09/2015
TAGS: ETRD ETTC PREL CO UN
SUBJECT: CUBA: NSC-DIRECTED REVIEW REGARDING SUSPENSION OF
TITLE III OF THE LIBERTAD ACT

REF: STATE 96300

Classified By: Charge d Affairs Milton K. Drucker for reasons 1.5(b&d).

C O N F I D E N T I A L BOGOTA 005564

SIPDIS

E.O. 12958: DECL: 06/09/2015
TAGS: ETRD ETTC PREL CO UN
SUBJECT: CUBA: NSC-DIRECTED REVIEW REGARDING SUSPENSION OF
TITLE III OF THE LIBERTAD ACT

REF: STATE 96300

Classified By: Charge d Affairs Milton K. Drucker for reasons 1.5(b&d).


1. (C) Concern over potential Cuban support for armed
guerrilla groups affects Colombia's cautious Cuba policy.
Cuban influence is assumed in the recently failed
Mexican-brokered peace talks between the GOC and the National
Liberation Army (ELN). Rumors of Cuban-sponsored campaign
financing for sympathetic Colombian politicians have
increased in the run-up to the 2006 March Congressional
elections. While Colombia has cut off and reestablished
diplomatic relations with Cuba multiple times in the past,
the bilateral relationship is currently stable, with Colombia
generally exercising a "hand's off" policy.


2. (U) Colombia has not been a member of the United Nations
Commission on Human Rights (UNHCR) since 2001. Colombia
abstained on the Cuba Resolution in 2001.


3. (C) Post is not aware of significant new investments in
Cuba over the past six months.
DRUCKER