Media Reaction Sao Paulo January 28 2009

UNCLAS SAO PAULO 000062 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 January 28 2009 Media Reaction: New Administration's foreign policy Title- Obama's calculated gestures Main Editorial in center-right O Estado de S. Paulo (1-28) states: "For now, the actual results of the dialogue matter less....than the pursuit of an approximation with a country as important as Brazil, implicit in the initiative of the call [from President Barack Obama to Lula]...The gesture from the American president of choosing an Arab TV station to give his first formal interview since he taking office...is also a statement of intention....if [Iran does not open its fists to Washington] the perspectives of peace in the Middle East will remain frozen: there is no hypothesis where Hamas renounces violence while the U.S. keeps treating Iran, its protector, as a pariah State." Media Reaction: Western Hemisphere; Bolivia; Sao Paulo Title- New Constitution keeps atmosphere of conflict in Bolivia Main editorial in business oriented Valor Economico (1-28) states:"....The main difficulties with the new regulations [in the new Constitution] are where property is concentrated in the hands of the State....and the rights that indigenous communities, which are Bolivia's majority, will enjoy....this [is a path that] ratifies the division in the country between indigenous communities and the rest, it weakens the State and makes it much more difficult to handle conflicts that were not pacified by the new legal mark [standards]." WHITE