Identifier
Created
Classification
Origin
07PORTAUPRINCE693
2007-04-17 13:05:00
UNCLASSIFIED
Embassy Port Au Prince
Cable title:
AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES SPANISH JOURNALIST KILLED IN
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UNCLAS PORT AU PRINCE 000693
SIPDIS
SIPDIS
STATE FOR WHA/CAR
DRL
SOUTHCOM ALSO FOR POLAD
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: PREL MOPS HA SP
SUBJECT: AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES SPANISH JOURNALIST KILLED IN
HAITI
UNCLAS PORT AU PRINCE 000693
SIPDIS
SIPDIS
STATE FOR WHA/CAR
DRL
SOUTHCOM ALSO FOR POLAD
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: PREL MOPS HA SP
SUBJECT: AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES SPANISH JOURNALIST KILLED IN
HAITI
1. (U) This message is sensitive but unclassified -- please
protect accordingly.
2. (SBU) On April 13, Ambassador Sanderson met with the
Spanish Ambassador to Haiti, Paulino Gonzalez Fernandez
Corugedo, and his colleague, Ambassador Luis Garcia Cerezo,
here from Madrid on a special investigative mission to
discuss the 2004 death of Spanish journalist Ricardo Ortega.
The journalist was caught in the middle of an anti-Aristide
demonstration in Port-au-Prince on March 7, 2004, during
which pro-Aristide gangsters opened fire. (Note: U.S.
Marines were also involved in the fire fight, and some human
rights groups have claimed that the Marines killed Ortega.
No concrete evidence has ever emerged to substantiate this
charge. End note.) Cerezo was in Haiti to demarche the
Haitian government to re-open the investigation and said that
the GoH seemed more determined than during his last visit to
follow up on the case. He requested informally that the
Ambassador mention the case during one of her meetings with
Prime Minister Jacques Edouard Alexis and/or Justice Minister
Rene Magloire. The Ambassador agreed, assuring him that the
Embassy would cooperate with Spanish efforts to resolve the
case.
SANDERSON
SIPDIS
SIPDIS
STATE FOR WHA/CAR
DRL
SOUTHCOM ALSO FOR POLAD
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: PREL MOPS HA SP
SUBJECT: AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES SPANISH JOURNALIST KILLED IN
HAITI
1. (U) This message is sensitive but unclassified -- please
protect accordingly.
2. (SBU) On April 13, Ambassador Sanderson met with the
Spanish Ambassador to Haiti, Paulino Gonzalez Fernandez
Corugedo, and his colleague, Ambassador Luis Garcia Cerezo,
here from Madrid on a special investigative mission to
discuss the 2004 death of Spanish journalist Ricardo Ortega.
The journalist was caught in the middle of an anti-Aristide
demonstration in Port-au-Prince on March 7, 2004, during
which pro-Aristide gangsters opened fire. (Note: U.S.
Marines were also involved in the fire fight, and some human
rights groups have claimed that the Marines killed Ortega.
No concrete evidence has ever emerged to substantiate this
charge. End note.) Cerezo was in Haiti to demarche the
Haitian government to re-open the investigation and said that
the GoH seemed more determined than during his last visit to
follow up on the case. He requested informally that the
Ambassador mention the case during one of her meetings with
Prime Minister Jacques Edouard Alexis and/or Justice Minister
Rene Magloire. The Ambassador agreed, assuring him that the
Embassy would cooperate with Spanish efforts to resolve the
case.
SANDERSON