Identifier
Created
Classification
Origin
06SANSALVADOR77
2006-01-11 14:47:00
CONFIDENTIAL
Embassy San Salvador
Cable title:
AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES MIGRATION, MORALES, AND FMLN
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C O N F I D E N T I A L SAN SALVADOR 000077
SIPDIS
E.O. 12958: DECL: 01/10/2016
TAGS: SMIG PREL PGOV ES MX VE BL IMMIGRATION
SUBJECT: AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES MIGRATION, MORALES, AND FMLN
WITH FOREIGN MINISTER LAINEZ
REF: MEXICO 2995
Classified By: Ambassador H. Douglas Barclay for reasons 1.4(b) and (d)
C O N F I D E N T I A L SAN SALVADOR 000077
SIPDIS
E.O. 12958: DECL: 01/10/2016
TAGS: SMIG PREL PGOV ES MX VE BL IMMIGRATION
SUBJECT: AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES MIGRATION, MORALES, AND FMLN
WITH FOREIGN MINISTER LAINEZ
REF: MEXICO 2995
Classified By: Ambassador H. Douglas Barclay for reasons 1.4(b) and (d)
1. (C) Ambassador Barclay spoke for 45 minutes on January 10 with
Foreign Minister Francisco Lainez regarding the January 9 regional
meeting on migration held in Mexico. (Note: The meetings had been
originally scheduled to treat both energy and migration issues, but in
response to Lainez's suggestion, energy issues were set aside for
separate meeting concentrated on immigration. End note.) Lainez was
pleased with the climate of the discussions and the overall outcome of
the meeting. Mexican Foreign Minister Derbez and the Mexican delegatio
moderated their position on migration to more closely track
with that proposed by the Salvadorans, who have publicly supported the
United States' right to determine its own policies on immigration.
However, El Salvador advocates the creation of additional work visa
programs, and does not support the criminalization of illegal
immigration.
2. (C) Lainez and Derbez also discussed President-elect Evo Morales of
Bolivia; the Mexican government has decided not to attend Morales's
inauguration because of his support of Zapatista forces of Mexico.
Lainez believes that Morales may also support the Sandinistas in
Nicaragua, and El Salvador's Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front
(FMLN); support would be on a party-to-party, rather than official,
basis.
3. (C) Lainez noted that the FMLN had recently sent a youth group to
Venezuela for unspecified training, during which a female member of the
group died. The cause of death remains unknown, and Salvadoran consula
officials were prevented from examining the remains for more than a
week. Lainez believes that the body was withheld for such a length of
time to conceal evidence that the young woman may have been involved in
explosives training. Lainez went on to report that he has appointed a
trusted Chief of Mission to Venezuela.
Barclay
SIPDIS
E.O. 12958: DECL: 01/10/2016
TAGS: SMIG PREL PGOV ES MX VE BL IMMIGRATION
SUBJECT: AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES MIGRATION, MORALES, AND FMLN
WITH FOREIGN MINISTER LAINEZ
REF: MEXICO 2995
Classified By: Ambassador H. Douglas Barclay for reasons 1.4(b) and (d)
1. (C) Ambassador Barclay spoke for 45 minutes on January 10 with
Foreign Minister Francisco Lainez regarding the January 9 regional
meeting on migration held in Mexico. (Note: The meetings had been
originally scheduled to treat both energy and migration issues, but in
response to Lainez's suggestion, energy issues were set aside for
separate meeting concentrated on immigration. End note.) Lainez was
pleased with the climate of the discussions and the overall outcome of
the meeting. Mexican Foreign Minister Derbez and the Mexican delegatio
moderated their position on migration to more closely track
with that proposed by the Salvadorans, who have publicly supported the
United States' right to determine its own policies on immigration.
However, El Salvador advocates the creation of additional work visa
programs, and does not support the criminalization of illegal
immigration.
2. (C) Lainez and Derbez also discussed President-elect Evo Morales of
Bolivia; the Mexican government has decided not to attend Morales's
inauguration because of his support of Zapatista forces of Mexico.
Lainez believes that Morales may also support the Sandinistas in
Nicaragua, and El Salvador's Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front
(FMLN); support would be on a party-to-party, rather than official,
basis.
3. (C) Lainez noted that the FMLN had recently sent a youth group to
Venezuela for unspecified training, during which a female member of the
group died. The cause of death remains unknown, and Salvadoran consula
officials were prevented from examining the remains for more than a
week. Lainez believes that the body was withheld for such a length of
time to conceal evidence that the young woman may have been involved in
explosives training. Lainez went on to report that he has appointed a
trusted Chief of Mission to Venezuela.
Barclay