Identifier
Created
Classification
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06NEWDELHI223
2006-01-10 13:32:00
CONFIDENTIAL
Embassy New Delhi
Cable title:
NO IMMEDIATE MORALES VISIT PLANS, BUT LEFT WOULD
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C O N F I D E N T I A L NEW DELHI 000223
SIPDIS
SIPDIS
E.O. 12958: DECL: 01/09/2016
TAGS: PREL PGOV IN BO
SUBJECT: NO IMMEDIATE MORALES VISIT PLANS, BUT LEFT WOULD
WELCOME IT
REF: A. STATE 3416
B. STATE 1353
Classified By: D/PolCouns Atul Keshap for Reasons 1.4 (B, D)
C O N F I D E N T I A L NEW DELHI 000223
SIPDIS
SIPDIS
E.O. 12958: DECL: 01/09/2016
TAGS: PREL PGOV IN BO
SUBJECT: NO IMMEDIATE MORALES VISIT PLANS, BUT LEFT WOULD
WELCOME IT
REF: A. STATE 3416
B. STATE 1353
Classified By: D/PolCouns Atul Keshap for Reasons 1.4 (B, D)
1. (C) Summary: D/PolCouns and Poloff delivered reftel
talking points on January 10 to Director (Latin America
Countries) Anwar Haleem, who commented that he knew of no
immediate plans for the Bolivian President-elect to visit
India. We note that Indian Left parties would welcome a
Morales visit as an opportunity to trumpet their
anti-American sympathies, and raise their comrades' hopes for
the progress of "the glorious anti-imperialist people's
revolution." End Summary.
No Visit Planned Yet
--------------
2. (C) Haleem told us that he knew of no plans for Morales
to visit India, but promised to raise our concerns about
Morales with his division's Joint Secretary. Morales' recent
public statements were a "serious matter," Haleem allowed,
adding that New Delhi was "still in the process of evaluating
him."
COMMENT: Possible Opportunity for Left Solidarity
-------------- --------------
3. (C) India's leftists and left parties are closely
following events in Latin America and would extend a warm
welcome to Morales. In current Indian left ideology, the US
globalization agenda is an attempt to dress up old-fashioned
capitalism and imperialism in new clothes and pawn them off
to developing countries as something new. They argue that
only a strong government sector committed to redistribution
of wealth can lift the desperately poor out of poverty and
that private enterprise, foreign investment, and
"trickle-down economics" will ultimately make the rich richer
and the poor poorer. India's left argues that this is
particularly true in India, where two thirds of the
population lives on less than two dollars per day.
4. (C) Of India's three national coalitions, the NDA and UPA
support economic liberalization, free trade and foreign
investment. This leaves the Left Front as the sole national
grouping espousing populist socialism and a strong public
sector. The left sees events in Latin America as indicative
of a historic shift. It expects the Latin American
phenomenon to spread to Africa and Asia, and wants India to
form "ties of solidarity" with Venezuela, Cuba, Bolivia and
other Latin American countries espousing a socialist/populist
development model. It would welcome possible visits by these
Latin American heads of state as opportunities to demonstrate
rejection of neoliberalism and cultivate close ties with
friendly socialist countries. Such visits also enable the
Left to demonstrate publicly that it has carved out a
separate and distinct political/economic space that provides
an alternative to the other two groupings and rouse the
committed party cadre by reminding them that "history is on
their side." That such coziness with communist dictators and
their supporters infuriates the US is cream on the top.
5. (U) Visit New Delhi's Classified Website:
(http://www.state.sgov.gov/p/sa/newdelhi/)
MULFORD
SIPDIS
SIPDIS
E.O. 12958: DECL: 01/09/2016
TAGS: PREL PGOV IN BO
SUBJECT: NO IMMEDIATE MORALES VISIT PLANS, BUT LEFT WOULD
WELCOME IT
REF: A. STATE 3416
B. STATE 1353
Classified By: D/PolCouns Atul Keshap for Reasons 1.4 (B, D)
1. (C) Summary: D/PolCouns and Poloff delivered reftel
talking points on January 10 to Director (Latin America
Countries) Anwar Haleem, who commented that he knew of no
immediate plans for the Bolivian President-elect to visit
India. We note that Indian Left parties would welcome a
Morales visit as an opportunity to trumpet their
anti-American sympathies, and raise their comrades' hopes for
the progress of "the glorious anti-imperialist people's
revolution." End Summary.
No Visit Planned Yet
--------------
2. (C) Haleem told us that he knew of no plans for Morales
to visit India, but promised to raise our concerns about
Morales with his division's Joint Secretary. Morales' recent
public statements were a "serious matter," Haleem allowed,
adding that New Delhi was "still in the process of evaluating
him."
COMMENT: Possible Opportunity for Left Solidarity
-------------- --------------
3. (C) India's leftists and left parties are closely
following events in Latin America and would extend a warm
welcome to Morales. In current Indian left ideology, the US
globalization agenda is an attempt to dress up old-fashioned
capitalism and imperialism in new clothes and pawn them off
to developing countries as something new. They argue that
only a strong government sector committed to redistribution
of wealth can lift the desperately poor out of poverty and
that private enterprise, foreign investment, and
"trickle-down economics" will ultimately make the rich richer
and the poor poorer. India's left argues that this is
particularly true in India, where two thirds of the
population lives on less than two dollars per day.
4. (C) Of India's three national coalitions, the NDA and UPA
support economic liberalization, free trade and foreign
investment. This leaves the Left Front as the sole national
grouping espousing populist socialism and a strong public
sector. The left sees events in Latin America as indicative
of a historic shift. It expects the Latin American
phenomenon to spread to Africa and Asia, and wants India to
form "ties of solidarity" with Venezuela, Cuba, Bolivia and
other Latin American countries espousing a socialist/populist
development model. It would welcome possible visits by these
Latin American heads of state as opportunities to demonstrate
rejection of neoliberalism and cultivate close ties with
friendly socialist countries. Such visits also enable the
Left to demonstrate publicly that it has carved out a
separate and distinct political/economic space that provides
an alternative to the other two groupings and rouse the
committed party cadre by reminding them that "history is on
their side." That such coziness with communist dictators and
their supporters infuriates the US is cream on the top.
5. (U) Visit New Delhi's Classified Website:
(http://www.state.sgov.gov/p/sa/newdelhi/)
MULFORD