Identifier
Created
Classification
Origin
07SANTIAGO177
2007-02-01 20:04:00
UNCLASSIFIED
Embassy Santiago
Cable title:
MEDIA REACTION - LULA, KIRCHNER, AND CHAVEZ
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UNCLAS SANTIAGO 000177
SIPDIS
SIPDIS
STATE FOR IIP/G/WHA, INR/R/MR, WHA/BSC, WHA/PDA, INR/IAA
AMEMBASSIES POR PAO, IO
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: OPRC KMDR KPAO PGOV PREL VE BL NU CU EC CI
SUBJECT: MEDIA REACTION - LULA, KIRCHNER, AND CHAVEZ
UNCLAS SANTIAGO 000177
SIPDIS
SIPDIS
STATE FOR IIP/G/WHA, INR/R/MR, WHA/BSC, WHA/PDA, INR/IAA
AMEMBASSIES POR PAO, IO
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: OPRC KMDR KPAO PGOV PREL VE BL NU CU EC CI
SUBJECT: MEDIA REACTION - LULA, KIRCHNER, AND CHAVEZ
1. On January 31, Chile's conservative, independent "La Tercera"
(circ. 101,000) carried a column by Venezuelan political analyst
Alberto Garrido entitled, "Lula and Kirchner's 'Warning' to Chavez."
2. "The leak to the press of an alleged warning from Lula (da Silva)
and (Nestor) Kirchner to Chavez 'not to take steps that could weaken
Venezuela's democracy' is only a summer night's dream for political
sectors and public opinion in Latin America and the world.... The
array of economic integration agreements signed by Chavez with Lula
and Kirchner...can solely be explained in the framework of Chavez'
intent to promote the creation of a Latin American and Caribbean
Unified Nation (Patria Grande Latinoamericana y Caribea),for which
there is already an embryo, which is the Bolivarian Confederation of
Nations (Venezuela, Cuba, Bolivia, Ecuador, and Nicaragua)....
Withdrawing from a relationship with Chavez could be costly for Lula
and Kirchner. In addition to fragmenting Mercosur, Brazil would
lose a commercial partner that in 2006 generated a US$ 3 billion
trade surplus and Argentina would upset its most important
creditor.
3. "As if this were not enough, Lula and Kirchner are looking at the
Southern Gas Pipeline, a mid-term project largely financed by
Chavez, as a strategic solution to the gas supply problem.
Therefore, the 'warning'- if there ever was one -- is just words
blowing in the wind."
KELLY
SIPDIS
SIPDIS
STATE FOR IIP/G/WHA, INR/R/MR, WHA/BSC, WHA/PDA, INR/IAA
AMEMBASSIES POR PAO, IO
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: OPRC KMDR KPAO PGOV PREL VE BL NU CU EC CI
SUBJECT: MEDIA REACTION - LULA, KIRCHNER, AND CHAVEZ
1. On January 31, Chile's conservative, independent "La Tercera"
(circ. 101,000) carried a column by Venezuelan political analyst
Alberto Garrido entitled, "Lula and Kirchner's 'Warning' to Chavez."
2. "The leak to the press of an alleged warning from Lula (da Silva)
and (Nestor) Kirchner to Chavez 'not to take steps that could weaken
Venezuela's democracy' is only a summer night's dream for political
sectors and public opinion in Latin America and the world.... The
array of economic integration agreements signed by Chavez with Lula
and Kirchner...can solely be explained in the framework of Chavez'
intent to promote the creation of a Latin American and Caribbean
Unified Nation (Patria Grande Latinoamericana y Caribea),for which
there is already an embryo, which is the Bolivarian Confederation of
Nations (Venezuela, Cuba, Bolivia, Ecuador, and Nicaragua)....
Withdrawing from a relationship with Chavez could be costly for Lula
and Kirchner. In addition to fragmenting Mercosur, Brazil would
lose a commercial partner that in 2006 generated a US$ 3 billion
trade surplus and Argentina would upset its most important
creditor.
3. "As if this were not enough, Lula and Kirchner are looking at the
Southern Gas Pipeline, a mid-term project largely financed by
Chavez, as a strategic solution to the gas supply problem.
Therefore, the 'warning'- if there ever was one -- is just words
blowing in the wind."
KELLY