Identifier
Created
Classification
Origin
09SAOPAULO233
2009-04-21 16:41:00
UNCLASSIFIED
Consulate Sao Paulo
Cable title:
MEDIA REACTION SAO PAULO: Cuba-Castro, Iran, and Mercosul
how-toVZCZCXYZ0042 OO RUEHWEB DE RUEHSO #0233 1111641 ZNR UUUUU ZZH O 211641Z APR 09 FM AMCONSUL SAO PAULO TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC IMMEDIATE 9118 INFO RHEHNSC/NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL WASHDC IMMEDIATE RUEHBR/AMEMBASSY BRASILIA PRIORITY 0268 RUEHRI/AMCONSUL RIO DE JANEIRO PRIORITY 9119
UNCLAS SAO PAULO 000233
SIPDIS
STATE INR/R/MR; IIP/R/MR; WHA/PD
DEPT PASS USTR
USDOC 4322/MAC/OLAC/JAFEE
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: KMDR OPRC OIIP XM XR XF BR
SUBJECT: MEDIA REACTION SAO PAULO: Cuba-Castro, Iran, and Mercosul
04-18-2009 and 04-19-2009
Media Reaction - Western Hemisphere: Summit of Americas; Venezuela,
Cuba, governance, easing of restrictions; South and Central Asia:
Iran; Sao Paulo
Saturday, April 18
Title- Castro answers Obama
Main editorial in center-right O Estado de S. Paulo (4-18) states:
"....For the first time in decades, the battered old expression
["times have changed"] have now sounded to Latin American ears like
a new password [opening the door] to an effective partnership in the
Hemisphere. The problem is the irregularity of expectations that
involve the.....end of the economic embargo to Cuba.....Even so, one
cannot deny that a wheel was put in motion for what will necessarily
be a longer route - and subject to accidents - than what
participants of the 5th Summit of the Americas in Port of Spain
would like it to be."
Title-Brazil and Iran, dangerous relations
Op-Ed in center-right O Estado de S. Paulo (4-18) by Unicamp
Professor Roberto Romano states: "Brazil is preparing itself to host
Iran's President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad....in May....We walk through a
route opposed to that of Iran....What can we learn from this regime?
Brazil and other emerging democratic countries do not have reasons
to get closer to authoritarian governments like Iran....Brazil
should get closer to responsible leaders in the Middle East, never
demagogue tyrants."
Title- Cuba and Ipanema
Op-Ed in liberal Folha de S. Paulo (4-18) by columnist Clovis Rossi
notes: "It is evident that a countdown to the end of the U.S.
Embargo to Cuba has started...or by extension to the reintegration
of the island to the Inter-American system, from which it has been
suspended for 50 years.....There is no reason for the two
countries....not to resume relations, once they were interrupted due
to a phenomena, the Cold War, which ended two decades ago."
Sunday, April 19
Title- A meeting in the Caribbean
Op-Ed in liberal Folha de S. Paulo (4-18) by columnist Clovis Rossi
says: "I don't know, and nobody does, if the future that Obama
promises will really be one of prosperity for all. But what I do
know is that the capitalism won the ideological battle, whether you
like the result or not. I also know that now what it is missing is
to demonstrate whether [capitalism] is capable of winning the other
and more important war, the one to be able to improve the national
gross happiness index, which is more important than that of the
Gross Domestic Product, which it knows, almost always, how to make
it grow."
Title- Mercosul, Venezuela and the democratic clause
Op-Ed in center-right O Estado de S. Paulo (4-18) by former Foreign
Minister Celso Lafer states: "[Brazil's] Senate is evaluating
Venezuela's Admission to Mercosul Protocols....The entrance of Hugo
Chavez's Venezuela in the trade bloc does not fit because it will
represent not only the presence of a normal conflict of interests in
the integration process, but a significant conflict of conception
about the purpses of the integration....This type of conflict wil
add new tensions to Mercosul, which has alreadybeen compromised by
significant conflicts of interests between its curren
members.....To keep god economic and political cooperation with a
neigbor like Venezuela is in Brazil's interest....Noneheless,
incorporate, at this moment, Chavez' Venezuela into Mercosul is to
contribute and condemn a innovative integration project to
irrelevance and dissolution."
WHITE
SIPDIS
STATE INR/R/MR; IIP/R/MR; WHA/PD
DEPT PASS USTR
USDOC 4322/MAC/OLAC/JAFEE
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: KMDR OPRC OIIP XM XR XF BR
SUBJECT: MEDIA REACTION SAO PAULO: Cuba-Castro, Iran, and Mercosul
04-18-2009 and 04-19-2009
Media Reaction - Western Hemisphere: Summit of Americas; Venezuela,
Cuba, governance, easing of restrictions; South and Central Asia:
Iran; Sao Paulo
Saturday, April 18
Title- Castro answers Obama
Main editorial in center-right O Estado de S. Paulo (4-18) states:
"....For the first time in decades, the battered old expression
["times have changed"] have now sounded to Latin American ears like
a new password [opening the door] to an effective partnership in the
Hemisphere. The problem is the irregularity of expectations that
involve the.....end of the economic embargo to Cuba.....Even so, one
cannot deny that a wheel was put in motion for what will necessarily
be a longer route - and subject to accidents - than what
participants of the 5th Summit of the Americas in Port of Spain
would like it to be."
Title-Brazil and Iran, dangerous relations
Op-Ed in center-right O Estado de S. Paulo (4-18) by Unicamp
Professor Roberto Romano states: "Brazil is preparing itself to host
Iran's President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad....in May....We walk through a
route opposed to that of Iran....What can we learn from this regime?
Brazil and other emerging democratic countries do not have reasons
to get closer to authoritarian governments like Iran....Brazil
should get closer to responsible leaders in the Middle East, never
demagogue tyrants."
Title- Cuba and Ipanema
Op-Ed in liberal Folha de S. Paulo (4-18) by columnist Clovis Rossi
notes: "It is evident that a countdown to the end of the U.S.
Embargo to Cuba has started...or by extension to the reintegration
of the island to the Inter-American system, from which it has been
suspended for 50 years.....There is no reason for the two
countries....not to resume relations, once they were interrupted due
to a phenomena, the Cold War, which ended two decades ago."
Sunday, April 19
Title- A meeting in the Caribbean
Op-Ed in liberal Folha de S. Paulo (4-18) by columnist Clovis Rossi
says: "I don't know, and nobody does, if the future that Obama
promises will really be one of prosperity for all. But what I do
know is that the capitalism won the ideological battle, whether you
like the result or not. I also know that now what it is missing is
to demonstrate whether [capitalism] is capable of winning the other
and more important war, the one to be able to improve the national
gross happiness index, which is more important than that of the
Gross Domestic Product, which it knows, almost always, how to make
it grow."
Title- Mercosul, Venezuela and the democratic clause
Op-Ed in center-right O Estado de S. Paulo (4-18) by former Foreign
Minister Celso Lafer states: "[Brazil's] Senate is evaluating
Venezuela's Admission to Mercosul Protocols....The entrance of Hugo
Chavez's Venezuela in the trade bloc does not fit because it will
represent not only the presence of a normal conflict of interests in
the integration process, but a significant conflict of conception
about the purpses of the integration....This type of conflict wil
add new tensions to Mercosul, which has alreadybeen compromised by
significant conflicts of interests between its curren
members.....To keep god economic and political cooperation with a
neigbor like Venezuela is in Brazil's interest....Noneheless,
incorporate, at this moment, Chavez' Venezuela into Mercosul is to
contribute and condemn a innovative integration project to
irrelevance and dissolution."
WHITE