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09BUDAPEST463 | ROMA AND JEWISH LEADERS RESPOND TO FAR RIGHT GAINS [...] (C) Summary: In the wake of the far right Jobbik party's success in the June 7 European Parliament elections, the Charge and EmbOffs met with Jewish and Roma leaders to assess their communities' reactions. Contrary to expectations, the leaders expressed only moderate concern and revealed no cl [...] | 2009-06-29 14:05:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM PINS SOCI HU |
09BUDAPEST475 | STRUCTURAL REFORM COMES TO HUNGARY: GOVERNMENT [...] (SBU) Summary. As Parliament wraps up its spring legislative session, the 75-day old "crisis management" government of Prime Minister Gordon Bajnai has secured passage of the major elements of the PM's economic recovery plan. Although the Bajnai government and its austerity package remain ex [...] | 2009-07-02 07:31:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN PREL HU |
09BUDAPEST477 | WATCHING THE WATCHDOG: REFORMING HUNGARY'S [...] (C) Summary. Amidst a sea of criticism and disagreement over the restructuring of the Hungarian Financial Supervisory Authority (HFSA),HFSA Supervisory Council Chairman Istvan Farkas resigned on June 18. Ministry of Finance officials and National Bank Governor Andras Simor favor the Nationa [...] | 2009-07-02 08:44:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ECON PREL HU |
09BUDAPEST49 | NO DIRECTION HOME: VOTERS MOVE LEFT ON ECONOMICS, [...] (C) Summary: As the MSzP prepares for party meetings which will set the course for the coming year, Prime Minister Gyurcsany's halting efforts to rekindle reform are meeting open opposition even from elements of his own party. If recent polling is correct, reforms will make little headway wi [...] | 2009-01-16 16:14:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM HU |
09BUDAPEST501 | HUNGARIAN FOREIGN MINISTER'S MEETING WITH CHARGE [...] (SBU) Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Balazs requested a meeting with Charge July 9 to discuss three topics: Guantanamo detainees; Hungarian Ambassador to the U.S.; and relations with Slovakia. Concerning Guantanamo detainees, the FM said that the Government will decide before the end of Jul [...] | 2009-07-10 13:03:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER OFDP LO HU |
09BUDAPEST529 | HUNGARIAN ASSISTANCE BEYOND THE AUGUST [...] (SBU) PolOff delivered reftel demarche to the MFA's NATO Section Chief Peter Sztaray on July 20. Sztaray expressed appreciation for the information and requested that we share any new strategy updates with his office. Continuing, Sztaray stated that his office is currently coordinating a mul [...] | 2009-07-23 16:44:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | NATO PREL MOPS MARR AF HU |
09BUDAPEST53 | THE FORECAST CALLS FOR PAIN: GLOOMIER THAN [...] (U) Summary. Worse than expected economic forecasts for 2009 mean that Hungary will not meet its budget deficit target of 2.6 percent without cutting expenditures or raising taxes. The GoH is in the process of reviewing possible new measures, which are expected to be announced within the next [...] | 2009-01-21 09:13:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ECON PREL HU |
09BUDAPEST533 | HUNGARIAN VIEWS ON JULY 27-28 FOREIGN MINISTERS [...] (U) MFA EU External Relations Section Chief Andras Dekany discussed issues on the agenda of the July 27-28 GAERC Meeting with EmbOff on July 24. Dekany noted that the agenda will focus on three items: Iran, Georgia, and Somalia. He provided the following summary of the MFA's position on the [...] | 2009-07-24 13:25:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EUN HU |
09BUDAPEST556 | AMBASSADOR DAALDER'S MEETING WITH THE HUNGARIAN [...] (SBU) Summary. Ambassador Daalder, accompanied by the Charge, met Hungarian Prime Minster Gordon Bajnai at Papa Airbase July 27. Bajnai reflected on the first 100 days of his administration, stating he places first priority on the value-based relationships found within NATO and the EU. Comme [...] | 2009-07-31 09:20:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MCAP NATO EUN ZL AF HU |
09BUDAPEST573 | LOST IN TRANSLATION: HUNGARIANS PROTEST THE SLOVAK [...] (SBU) Summary. In protest of the recently amended Slovak language law, Hungarian officials are ratcheting up their public diplomacy efforts. Responding first, representatives of all four parliamentary factions signed a joint letter raising issues of discrimination. Following an August 3 mee [...] | 2009-08-07 10:16:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV LO HU |
09BUDAPEST578 | HUNGARIAN PLANS FOR THE MTCR RIO PLENARY [...] No summary [...] | 2009-08-07 15:25:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | KSCA PARM PREL MNUC ETTC TSPA HU |
09BUDAPEST587 | HUGARY'S GREEN SHOOTS, THE 2010 BUDGET, AND THE [...] (U) Summary. Despite a steep recession, high unemployment and weak domestic consumption, Hungary is beginning to see some "green shoots" of recovery, in the form of improving investor confidence and greater financial stability. Some credit the government's economic reform and fiscal consolid [...] | 2009-08-13 14:03:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ECON PREL HU |
09BUDAPEST591 | FINANCIAL SUPERVISORY REFORM MOVES FORWARD [...] (SBU) Summary. Newly appointed Chairman of Hungary's Financial Supervisory Authority Adam Farkas is moving ahead quickly to reform Hungary's system of financial supervision. In legislation expected to be submitted in September, the independence of the Hungarian Financial Supervisory Authority [...] | 2009-08-14 12:52:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ECON PREL HU |
09BUDAPEST60 | HUNGARIAN VIEWS ON JANUARY 26-27 FOREIGN MINISTERS [...] (C) MFA EU External Relations Section Chief Andras Dekany discussed the reftel GAERC agenda with PolOff on January 23. Dekany stated that the agenda will focus on three items: the Gaza crisis, Guantanamo, and Russia. He provided the following summary of the MFA's position papers on the subjec [...] | 2009-01-23 15:35:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EUN HU |
09BUDAPEST61 | HUNGARIAN VIEWS ON JANUARY 26-27 FOREIGN MINISTERS [...] (C) MFA EU External Relations Section Chief Andras Dekany discussed the reftel GAERC agenda with PolOff on January 23. Dekany stated that the agenda will focus on three items: the Gaza crisis, Guantanamo, and Russia. He provided the following summary of the MFA's position papers on the subjec [...] | 2009-01-23 15:46:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EUN HU |
09BUDAPEST613 | SLOVAKIA AND HUNGARY: NO LOVE LOST [...] (U) Summary. In the wake of President Solyom's aborted trip to Slovakia, the GOH is attempting to balance national outrage with an obvious need to improve bilateral relations with its northern neighbor. A meeting between the Foreign Ministers is scheduled for this weekend and may reduce tens [...] | 2009-08-25 11:41:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV LO HU |
09BUDAPEST617 | HUNGARIAN COMMENTS ON THE IAEA GENERAL CONFERENCE [...] No summary [...] | 2009-08-25 16:06:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | KNNP AORC PREL PARM IAEA HU |
09BUDAPEST628 | STORING UP GAS FOR ANOTHER WINTER CUTOFF [...] (SBU) Summary: Hungary is nearing the completion of a significant addition to its already extensive natural gas storage capacity. This new capacity will further enable gas to continue flowing to consumers in Hungary and possibly to neighboring countries in the event of a cutoff similar to th [...] | 2009-09-01 11:10:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG ECON EPET PGOV RU UK HU |
09BUDAPEST638 | HUNGARIAN COMMENTS ON THE SEPTEMBER GYMNICH [...] MFA EU External Relations and Crisis Situations Section Chief Andras Dekany discussed ref email topics with PolOff on September 3 and provided the following comments concerning the agenda items: 2. (C) Israel-Palestinian Peace: -- Referring to the September summit, Dekany said that Hunga [...] | 2009-09-04 11:16:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EU HU |
09BUDAPEST664 | HUNGARY BRIEFED ON CFE INFORMAL DISCUSSIONS WITH [...] (C) PolOff discussed reftel points September 10 with MFA Arms Control and Non-Proliferation Section Chief Mark Horvath. Horvath said that he was recently approached by Romanian and Portuguese diplomats in Budapest who related that the Russian government recently demarched them concerning "pro [...] | 2009-09-11 14:53:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | KCFE PARM PREL NATO HU |
09BUDAPEST665 | HUNGARIAN ADDITIONAL COMMENTS ON UPCOMING IAEA [...] (C) In a September 10 meeting with PolOff, MFA Arms Control and Non-Proliferation Section Chief Mark Horvath provided an update to ref B comments concerning the upcoming IAEA General Conference. Horvath said that Sweden, currently holding the EU Presidency, responded to the ref A referenced E [...] | 2009-09-11 14:54:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | KNNP AORC PREL PARM IAEA HU |
09BUDAPEST667 | FICO-BAJNAI MEETING SUCCEEDS IN LOWERING BILATERAL [...] (C) SUMMARY. The September 10 meeting between Prime Minister Bajnai and his Slovakian counterpart Robert Fico seems to have succeeded in diminishing -- at least for now -- tensions that were roiled by the passage of a controversial Slovak language law and a heated dispute over a planned "pri [...] | 2009-09-11 17:14:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM LO HU |
09BUDAPEST668 | HUNGARIAN RESPONSE TO SEPTEMBER GAERC AND SRI [...] MFA EU External Relations and Crisis Situations Section Chief Andras Dekany discussed ref email topics with PolOff on September 11 and provided the following comments concerning the agenda items: 2. (C) Eastern Partnership and Caucasus: -- Hungary supports the EU Presidency's orientatio [...] | 2009-09-14 13:01:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | EU PREL HU |
09BUDAPEST669 | DEMARCHE RESPONSE: HUNGARY SUPPORTIVE OF U.S. [...] (C) Emboff delivered reftel talking points to Sandor Racz, Senior Advisor to the Disarmament and Non-Proliferation Section within the Hungarian Foreign Ministry's Department for Security Policy and Non-Proliferation. Racz expressed Hungary's concurrence with the U.S. position on the IAEA Gene [...] | 2009-09-15 15:01:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | AORC PARM PREL KNNP IAEA EG IS HU |
09BUDAPEST686 | TALKING TO THE NEIGHBORS: HUNGARIAN AND SERBIAN [...] (C) During a September 11, 2009, conversation with PolOff, Desk Officer Emil Varadi of the MFA's Territorial Department Number 3 provided a readout of the September 10 meeting between Hungarian FM Peter Balazs and Serbian Foreign Minister Vuk Jeremic. As note-taker for the Hungarian side, Va [...] | 2009-09-18 15:49:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM ENRG EPET BE SP SR KV HU |
09BUDAPEST687 | TALKING TO THE NEIGHBORS: HUNGARIAN AND SERBIAN [...] (C) During a September 11, 2009, conversation with PolOff, Desk Officer Emil Varadi of the MFA's Territorial Department Number 3 provided a readout of the September 10 meeting between Hungarian FM Peter Balazs and Serbian Foreign Minister Vuk Jeremic. As note-taker for the Hungarian side, Va [...] | 2009-09-18 15:49:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM ENRG EPET BE SP SR KV HU |
09BUDAPEST693 | DEMARCHE RESPONSE: EUROPEAN-BASED MISSILE DEFENSE [...] (C) POL Counselor discussed reftel points September 18 with Dr. Gabor Horvath, the Deputy Director General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs' Department of Security Policy and Non-Proliferation. Horvath expressed appreciation for the U.S. briefing, noting that Hungary was not itself directl [...] | 2009-09-18 16:47:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR PL EZ HU |
09BUDAPEST696 | HUNGARY AGREES TO ACCEPT A GUANTANAMO DETAINEE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Prime Minister Gordon Bajnai told Special Envoy for Guantanamo Closure (S/GC) September 16 that Hungary will accept one Guantanamo detainee, who will likely be of Palestinian origin. The main opposition party Fidesz has said it will support the government's decision and backed [...] | 2009-09-22 09:30:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER HU |
09BUDAPEST700 | PARLIAMENT VOTES UNANIMOUSLY TO EXTEND PRT AND [...] (SBU) Parliament voted unanimously September 21 to approve the extension of the Hungarian Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) and Operational Mentor and Liaison Team (OMLT) missions to Afghanistan. The PRT mandate is now authorized through October 1, 2010, while the OMLT will extend until A [...] | 2009-09-22 16:43:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MOPS MARR AF HU |
09BUDAPEST701 | DEMARCHE RESPONSE: HUNGARY BACKS U.S. POSITION ON [...] (C) POL Counselor discussed reftel points September 23 with Dr. Bernadett Kollar, Head of the Global Organizations Unit of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs' International Organizations and Human Rights Department. Dr. Kollar said Hungary shared U.S. concerns about the Goldstone Report's unbal [...] | 2009-09-23 16:16:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM KPAL IS HU |
09BUDAPEST709 | DEMARCHE RESPONSE: HUNGARY SUPPORTS U.S. POSITION [...] (C) POL Counselor discussed reftel points September 28 with Dr. Bernadett Kollar, Head of the Global Organizations Unit of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs' International Organizations and Human Rights Department. Dr. Kollar welcomed the U.S. demarche. She said Hungary was following the issu [...] | 2009-09-28 16:27:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KNNP MNUC PARM IR HU |
09BUDAPEST725 | PREPARATIONS UNDERWAY FOR PAKS NUCLEAR EXPANSION [...] (C) Summary: Work on the possible expansion of Hungary's Paks Nuclear Plant proceeds apace as experts work to define Hungary's power generation needs in the coming decades and potential suppliers begin their marketing efforts. The tender is expected to occur sometime in early 2011. Political [...] | 2009-10-02 15:33:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG ECON EPET PGOV TRGY BEXP BTIO KGHG US HU |
09BUDAPEST734 | BRIEFING THE HUNGARIANS ON P5+1 TALKS WITH IRAN [...] (C) POL/ECON Counselor and POL Officer briefed Ministry of Foreign Affairs Political Director Gabor Iklody and Sandor Racz, Iran Desk Officer in the Security and Non-Proliferation Department, October 5 on the outcome of the P5 1 talks in Geneva. We emphasized that although progress had been m [...] | 2009-10-07 15:19:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | KNNP MNUC PARM IR HU |
09BUDAPEST760 | LOCAL GOVERNMENT SEIZURE OF WATER UTILITY FURTHER [...] (C) Summary: The Pecs city government has used a commercial dispute with France's Suez, the strategic investor and operator of the city's water plant, to basically expropriate the public utility. The move was orchestrated by the newly-elected Fidesz mayor and has raised serious concerns in bo [...] | 2009-10-16 15:08:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON KCOR FR HU |
09BUDAPEST787 | U.S. COMPANY LOSES OUT IN TAINTED RADIO TENDER [...] (SBU) Summary. The Hungarian Radio and Television Board (ORTT) voted October 28 to award the two national radio frequencies to bidders backed by the two largest Hungarian political parties. The decision leaves the current license holders, U.S.-based Emmis Communications' "Slager Radio," and [...] | 2009-10-29 16:28:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECPS KCOR HU |
09BUDAPEST790 | THE SHIFTING POLITICAL GROUNDS OF NORTHEAST HUNGARY [...] (C) Summary. The political ground is shifting in northeast Hungary, a former Socialist stronghold. Support for center-right Fidesz has grown significantly, and its politicians confidently predict a major victory in next April's national elections. Negative stereotypes and perceptions of Ro [...] | 2009-11-02 14:40:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV HU |
09BUDAPEST791 | HUNGARY TO SUPPORT US INTERNATIONAL CIVIL SERVICE [...] (C) On November 2, 2009, Embassy was informed by the Hungarian Ministry of Foreign Affairs International Organizations and Human Rights Department that Hungary would support the candidacy of Ms. Lucretia Myers at the upcoming United Nations General Assembly elections for the International Civi [...] | 2009-11-02 14:58:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | KAWC KJUS KUNR AORC APER PREL UNGA HU |
09BUDAPEST794 | A FIDESZ ECONOMIC PLAN DEVELOPS...BEHIND THE SCENES [...] (C) Summary. Behind the scenes, the opposition Fidesz party is developing details of its economic program should the party win next April's national elections, as polls widely predict. The main thrust of the program will be to try to increase employment and economic growth through reforming [...] | 2009-11-03 09:24:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PREL PGOV HU |
09BUDAPEST800 | HUNGARY NOT READY TO LIFT BELARUS SANCTIONS [...] (C) PolOff discussed reftel November 4 with the MFA's EU Foreign Policy Department Section Chief Karoly Sardi. Sardi stated that Hungary holds positions similar to those outlined in the talking points, commenting that Hungary "is not ready to lift sanctions now." He expressed the GoH view tha [...] | 2009-11-06 12:10:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM EUN BO HU |
09BUDAPEST802 | SCENESETTER FOR SPECIAL ENVOY MORNINGSTAR [...] (SBU) Post warmly welcomes the visit of Special Envoy for Eurasian Energy Richard Morningstar. Your November 16 visit to Budapest sends an important signal to our Hungarian allies that the U.S. continues to be fully engaged in European energy security. The Fourth Energy Forum, where you will [...] | 2009-11-06 14:28:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG ECON PGOV PREL OREP HU |
09BUDAPEST810 | HUNGARIAN FOREIGN MINISTER'S BRIEFING TO NATO/EU [...] (SBU) Summary. Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Balazs briefed NATO and EU Ambassadors November 4 on several key MFA focus areas. Stating he was very pleased with the Lisbon Treaty ratification, Balazs commented that he looks for accelerated action to place the treaty in force by December. P [...] | 2009-11-10 13:44:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL NATO EUN SO ZL HU |
09BUDAPEST817 | HUNGARY'S COMMENTS ON THE NOVEMBER GAERC AGENDA [...] (SBU) MFA EU External Relations and Crisis Situations Section Chief Andras Dekany discussed ref email topics with PolOff on November 13. 2. (C) Dekany provided comments on four topics: the upcoming EU/Russia summit, energy, follow-up to the Corfu summit, and Ukraine. -- The EU/Russia su [...] | 2009-11-13 16:26:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EU RU UA HU |
09BUDAPEST820 | HUNGARY CHARTS TWO MAP INVITATIONS AT DECEMBER [...] (C) PolOff met with the MFA's newly appointed Security and Non-proliferation Department Head, Peter Sztaray, and new NATO Office Director, Eszter Sandorfi, November 16, to discuss reftel. Sztaray, expressing thanks for the information concerning the USG position, stated, however, that Hungary [...] | 2009-11-17 09:56:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL NATO PARM MARR HU |
09BUDAPEST822 | SZEGED - PROSPERITY, POLITICS, AND DARK UNDERTONES [...] (C) SUMMARY. The prosperous university town of Szeged is home to Laszlo Botka, one of Hungary's rising young Socialist politicians who is positioning himself to pick up the pieces after his party's all but certain defeat in next April's parliamentary elections. However, there is a darker, di [...] | 2009-11-17 10:52:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV HU |
09BUDAPEST829 | FIDESZ ROLLS OUT ITS AGENDA TO THE DIPLOMATIC CORPS [...] (U) SUMMARY. Opposition party Fidesz, clearly confident of victory in next April's elections, rolled out its economic and foreign policy agenda to members of the diplomatic community November 18. With no margin of maneuver on fiscal policy, Fidesz intends to use monetary policy to help gene [...] | 2009-11-20 06:20:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON EINV ENRG HU |
09BUDAPEST834 | HUNGARY IN AFGHANISTAN - PAST, PRESENT, FUTURE [...] (SBU) Summary. In a November 9 meeting with the Charge, senior MOD and MFA officers provided an in-depth review of current and future Hungarian operations in Afghanistan. In Hungary's first combat operations since the 1956 revolution, the group underscored Hungary's "unchanged commitment...bu [...] | 2009-11-20 14:22:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV NATO MARR MCAP AF HU |
09BUDAPEST835 | HUNGARY RESPONSE: UNGA RESOLUTIONS WITH [...] No summary [...] | 2009-11-20 14:48:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | KPAL PREL UNGA HU |
09BUDAPEST837 | HUNGARY: COUNTRY REVIEW ON RELATIONS WITH CUBA [...] (C) PolOff discussed ref with GoH MFA America's Department Director Norbert Konkoly on November 18 and with Cuba desk officer Istvan Sandor on 20 November. Sandor provided the following responses to ref questions: Promote the advancement of democracy and human rights: Hungary has been activ [...] | 2009-11-20 14:50:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ETRD ETTC HU CU |
09BUDAPEST843 | AMBASSADOR MORNINGSTAR'S CONSULTATIONS IN BUDAPEST [...] (SBU) Summary: Special Envoy for Eurasian Energy Ambassador Richard Morningstar visited Budapest on November 16-17 to take part in the "Fourth Energy Forum," a conference dedicated to fostering a broad discussion on European energy security. While in Budapest, Ambassador Morningstar met with [...] | 2009-11-24 14:48:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG ECON EPET PGOV PREL OREP HU |
09BUDAPEST844 | HUNGARY'S VIEW ON IRAN'S NUCLEAR PROGRAM AND NEXT [...] (C) PolOff met November 23 with Mark Horvath, the MFA's Office Director for non-proliferation issues to discuss reftel. Although not a member of the IAEA Board of Governors, Horvath said that Hungary will use its "small voice" to promote active IAEA action on the Iran issue. He commented th [...] | 2009-11-25 07:24:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EU PARM IR HU |
09BUDAPEST846 | SLAGER RADIO CEASES BROADCASTING [...] (U) At midnight on November 18, having been denied its request for an injunction to prevent the transfer of its broadcasting license, American-owned Emmis Communication's Slager Radio ceased broadcasting in Hungary. 2. (U) Slager and Danubius Radio, the other long-term licensee, lost thei [...] | 2009-11-25 08:09:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | KCOR PGOV ECPS HU |
09BUDAPEST847 | SCENESETTER FOR PRIME MINISTER BAJNAI'S MEETING [...] (C) Summary. Prime Minister Gordon Bajnai has received high marks from the International Monetary Fund for his management of the Hungarian economy after its near meltdown in October 2008. He has maintained the Hungarian commitment in Afghanistan despite very limited fiscal constraints, and [...] | 2009-11-25 15:29:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MOPS ECON ENRG EINV HU |
09BUDAPEST851 | TOO IMPORTANT TO FAIL: HUNGARY LIKELY TO REACQUIRE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Hungarian government, Malev Airlines, and Budapest Airport contacts confirmed that the GOH will likely reacquire a minority stake in recently improved but still debt-laden Malev from Russia's Putin-connected Vneshekonombank (VEB). Embassy contacts characterized VEB as ill-suited [...] | 2009-11-27 15:04:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL EAIR EINV EFIN RU HU |
09BUDAPEST854 | HUNGARIAN MILITARY OUTREACH TO SERBIA [...] (C) During a conversation on the margins of the recent NATO conference in Budapest, CHOD Laszlo Tombol told PolOff of his upcoming trip to Cyprus, accompanied by his Slovak counterpart. Tombol said that he is seeking ways to engage the Serbian military in joint operations with the Hungarian D [...] | 2009-12-01 09:40:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR YI LO HU |
09BUDAPEST855 | DAS QUANRUD'S VISIT TO BUDAPEST [...] (SBU) Summary. During a November 24-25 visit to Budapest, EUR DAS Pamela Quanrud met with the Prime Minister, other senior Hungarian government officials, the opposition party's senior foreign policy expert, and media representatives to discuss USG priority issues. The Prime Minister indicate [...] | 2009-12-01 10:58:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL NATO ENGR AF HU |
09BUDAPEST856 | BRIEFING THE HUNGARIANS ON THE EVE OF THE [...] (C) We provided ref A points to the Office of the Prime Minister and senior officials at the Ministries of Defense and Foreign Affairs. Dr. Peter Sztaray, Head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs' Department for Security and Non-proliferation, subsequently noted that the Hungarian Government [...] | 2009-12-01 16:25:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL AF PK HU |
09BUDAPEST858 | PARLIAMENT PASSES 2010 BUDGET [...] (C) Summary. On November 30, Parliament approved the Bajnai government's 2010 budget. The fiscally conservative budget calls for a deficit of 3.8 percent, but critics maintain the government will substantially overshoot its target, based on underestimated expenditures and overestimated tax [...] | 2009-12-02 13:06:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ECON PREL PGOV HU |
09BUDAPEST86 | GABOR VONA AND THE MAKING OF A HUNGARIAN POLITICAL [...] (U) Summary. Jobbik party President Gabor Vona has emerged from obscurity to pursue his ambition to be a prime actor with a leading role on the stage of Hungarian politics. Gravitating from Fidesz, Vona took over leadership of the extreme-right Jobbik party in 2006. Using the Jobbik-created [...] | 2009-02-02 05:45:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PHUM PREL SOCI HU |
09BUDAPEST864 | DEBRECEN - FIDESZ FIEFDOM WITH GROWING JOBBIK [...] (C) Summary. Opposition party Fidesz has built up a nearly unassailable fiefdom in the eastern city of Debrecen, Hungary's second largest municipality. While the local Socialist party is in tatters, the far-right Jobbik movement appears to be gaining strength, especially among young univers [...] | 2009-12-04 10:09:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV HU |
09BUDAPEST866 | HUNGARIAN VIEWS ON USG OFFER TO EMBED CIVILIAN [...] (C) In mid-November, MOD Policy State Secretary Jozsef Bali provided PolOff copies of an unclassified cable and a draft U.S. MOU received from Hungary's Ambassador in Kabul, Sandor Matyus. Matyus' reporting cable addressed a request initiated by Embassy Kabul to embed four USG civilian perso [...] | 2009-12-04 11:04:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR AF HU |
09BUDAPEST867 | HUNGARY SUPPORTING MACEDONIA'S EU MEMBERSHIP [...] (C) PolOff discussed reftel demarche December 3, with the MFA's Deputy Department Head for Southeastern Europe, Laszlo Markusz, and Macedonian Desk Officer Maria Csicsko. Agreeing that Macedonia has made significant strides in preparation for EU membership, Markusz first underscored Hungary's [...] | 2009-12-04 11:20:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EU GR MK HU |
09BUDAPEST87 | NOTHING NEW UNDER THE GUN: GOH AIMS LOW ON REFORM [...] (C) Summary: The GoH continues to talk loudly about its financial straits but to carry a very small stick on structural reform. Despite repeated references to the historic magnitude of the financial crisis, the Gyurcsany government appears to be aiming low by limiting its response to modest [...] | 2009-02-02 08:00:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON HU |
09BUDAPEST870 | HUNGARIAN SOCIALIST PRIME MINISTER CANDIDATE [...] (SBU) Summary. The Hungarian Socialist Party (MSZP) selected thirty-five year old parliamentary faction leader Attila Mesterhazy as its Prime Minster candidate for the 2010 national elections. A party member since 2002, Mesterhazy previously served as a State Secretary in the Ministry of Chi [...] | 2009-12-04 16:17:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV HU |
09BUDAPEST871 | NEW ECONOMIC REALITY FOR HUNGARY'S NORTHWEST [...] (C) Summary. Eighteen months ago, Hungary's north and northwest regions enjoyed the lowest unemployment rates and among the highest average incomes in the country. Host to a number of large export-oriented international automotive and technology companies and their suppliers, today the region [...] | 2009-12-07 15:19:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN ETRD PREL HU |
09BUDAPEST872 | HUNGARY'S NEW ANTI-CORRUPTION PACKAGE [...] (C) SUMMARY: On October 26, the Bajnai administration submitted a new anti-corruption package to Parliament that addresses corruption in public procurements. The initiative is the latest in a series of proposals that have been publicly touted with great fanfare only to die quietly in the legi [...] | 2009-12-08 07:50:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | KCOR ETRD PREL PGOV HU |
09BUDAPEST875 | GYOR - JOBBIK CHALLENGING FIDESZ ON ITS HOME TURF [...] (C) SUMMARY. A popular local mayor has helped opposition party Fidesz gain control of the former Socialist party sinecure of Gyor in western Hungary. While local Fidesz politicians expect a crushing victory over the Socialists in next April's parliamentary elections, the far-right party, Job [...] | 2009-12-08 15:58:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON HU |
09BUDAPEST879 | HUNGARY RESPONSE: PRESSING FOR DIALOGUE IN BURMA [...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel message and talking points to Ministry of Foreign Affairs Asia/Pacific Department Head Gyula Petho and Southeast Asia Section Head Laszlo Takacs on December 8, 2009. Petho said that Hungary's policy towards Burma was essentially the same as that of the United States [...] | 2009-12-10 13:37:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV BM HU |
09BUDAPEST885 | HUGE UNCONVENTIONAL GAS POTENTIAL LIKELY TO REMAIN [...] (SBU) Summary: There are substantial amounts of natural gas in the tight gas sands of southeastern Hungary, but initial tests to determine the technical feasibility of developing the resources have not been promising. End Summary. SIGNIFICANT UNCONVENTIONAL GAS RESERVES 2. (SBU) Hungary [...] | 2009-12-14 11:53:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG ECON EPET PGOV HU |
09BUDAPEST9 | SAY ANYTHING: THE PM'S MIXED MESSAGES [...] (C) Prime Minister Gyurcsany continues to calibrate his messages at the expense of his credibility. Throughout the past weeks, he has sought to assure the public that Hungary's economy has weathered a "foreign attack" and will maintain strict "social solidarity." At the same time, he has wor [...] | 2009-01-06 13:07:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON KBIO HU |
09BUDAPEST909 | FOREIGN INVESTORS JITTERY OVER ACTIONS OF FIDESZ [...] (C) SUMMARY. Two recent actions by opposition party Fidesz mayors against private utility companies have rattled Hungary's foreign investors. Senior Fidesz advisors claim these are local incidents and emphasize their party has no policy to re-nationalize privatized utilities. END SUMMARY. [...] | 2009-12-30 10:15:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON EINV KCOR FR HU |
09BUENOSAIRES1008 | (C) CARLOS REUTEMANN, ARGENTINA'S RELUCTANT [...] (C) Summary: Peronist dissident -- and presumptive 2011 frontrunner for his party's presidential nomination -- Senator Carlos Reutemann from Santa Fe province shared his views with the CDA on the 2011 presidential race and the post-midterms strategy of President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner (CFK) [...] | 2009-09-04 15:06:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EAGR KPAO AR |
09BUENOSAIRES102 | ARGENTINA: MINISTER OF JUSTICE READY TO COOPERATE [...] (U) Action request for State and DEA HQ Washington, para 18. 2. (SBU) Summary: Minister of Justice Anibal Fernandez received the Ambassador January 28 in his office and answered "yes" to virtually every offer of collaboration and assistance, including new anti-terrorism training, an enhan [...] | 2009-01-30 20:13:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL SNAR PTER EFIN KCRM ASEC KTIP AR |
09BUENOSAIRES1026 | ARGENTINA: THERE'S LIFE AFTER THE CASA ROSADA FOR [...] (C) Summary: Eight weeks after leaving Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner's (CFK) administration, former Cabinet Chief Sergio Massa told Polcouns that he parted on good terms with CFK and "not so good terms" with CFK's husband and power behind the throne, former president Nestor Kir [...] | 2009-09-15 00:06:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PINR PGOV PREL ELAB AR |
09BUENOSAIRES1029 | ARGENTINA URGES CONTINUED ENGAGEMENT ON BOLIVIA IN [...] (C) Charge d'Affaires delivered points in reftel regarding potential Majors List determination for Bolivia to Vice Foreign Minister Victorio Taccetti on September 14 (see septels for other issues discussed). Taccetti did not react with particular concern or surprise to the renewed listing of [...] | 2009-09-16 19:35:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | SNAR PREL PGOV BL AR |
09BUENOSAIRES1030 | ARGENTINA: GOVERNMENT DISMAYED BY DOL LIST OF [...] (C) Summary: Argentine Vice Minister for Foreign Affairs Victorio Taccetti convoked Charge d,Affaires on September 14 to convey the GOA,s strong objection to the DOL List of Goods Produced by Forced and Child Labor. Taccetti complained that the extensive list of Argentine products on the list [...] | 2009-09-16 19:35:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | ELAB PREL PGOV EIND PHUM SOCI AR |
09BUENOSAIRES1031 | GOA SHARES ITS CONCERN ABOUT INTERPOL STATEMENT ON [...] (C) Argentine Vice Foreign Minister Victorio Taccetti voiced concern with Charge d'Affaires on September 14 over a press statement quoting the Secretary General of Interpol, Ronald Noble, discussing efforts to resolve the dispute between Argentina and Iran over Iranian suspects in a 1994 terro [...] | 2009-09-16 19:36:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | KNNP PTER MNUC PREL AORC IR AR |
09BUENOSAIRES1032 | ARGENTINA: GOVERNMENT SEEKS USG SUPPORT AGAINST [...] (C) During a meeting with Argentine Vice Minister for Foreign Affairs Victorio Taccetti, who had convoked Charge d,Affaires on September 14 to discuss the Department of Labor's report on goods produced by child and force labor, Taccetti expressed concern about a proposal to marginalize the G20 [...] | 2009-09-16 19:36:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PREL EFIN EINV ETRD AR |
09BUENOSAIRES1042 | ARGENTINA: FINANCE SECRETARY SAYS HOLDOUT [...] (C) Hernan Lorenzino, the Secretary of Finance in the Ministry of Economy and Public Finances, told a visiting Treasury delegation accompanied by Econ Couns on September 10 that the GOA is seriously pursuing negotiations with the "holdouts" from the 2005 debt repayment arrangements and that a [...] | 2009-09-18 17:45:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN EINV ETRD AR |
09BUENOSAIRES1051 | ARGENTINA: WILL CONSIDER U.S. UNGA REDLINES [...] (SBU) Political Officer met with Mateo Estreme, a member of Foreign Minister Taiana,s staff, to discuss the reftel demarche. Estreme welcomed word of anticipated high-level U.S. participation throughout the UNGA. He offered no objections to the U.S. redlines, noting with approval in particul [...] | 2009-09-22 11:58:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNGA AR |
09BUENOSAIRES1069 | FOREIGN MINISTER TAIANA DECIPHERS ARGENTINA FOR [...] (C) Summary: Ambassador Martinez presented copies of her credentials on September 18, the day of her arrival in country, to Foreign Minister Jorge Taiana. A friendly and expansive Taiana emphasized the high priority the Government of Argentina (GOA) placed on securing a meeting for President [...] | 2009-09-23 19:53:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM PARM ECON AR |
09BUENOSAIRES1101 | ARGENTINA: A PRIMER ON ARGENTINA'S MEDIA BILL [...] (C) Summary: For decades, there has been consensus within Argentine political circles of the need to reform the 1980 media law, which dates to the military dictatorship (1976-1983). A year after President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner (CFK) first announced an effort at reform, the Chamber of [...] | 2009-10-02 22:01:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON ETRD EINT EINV WTRO AR |
09BUENOSAIRES1109 | ARGENTINA: HOLDOUT PROBLEM RIPE FOR RESOLUTION, [...] (C) There has been much recent speculation in the Argentine press regarding a possible solution to the problem of the private bondholder "holdouts" from the 2005 Argentine debt restructuring. Deputy EconCouns has met with numerous financial sector contacts in the last several weeks to assess [...] | 2009-10-06 21:15:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN EINV ETRD AR |
09BUENOSAIRES1129 | (C) ARGENTINA: CITIBANK ADVISES THAT HOLDOUT DEAL [...] (C) In an October 14 meeting with Ambassador Martinez and the DCM, President of Citibank Argentina Juan Bruchou said that an agreement between the GOA and the holdouts from the 2005 debt restructuring deal would be announced within two weeks. The target date for completion of the deal is Dec [...] | 2009-10-14 20:48:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN EINV ETRD AR |
09BUENOSAIRES1132 | DOES THE PASSAGE OF CONTROVERSIAL ARGENTINE MEDIA [...] (C) Summary: The government of Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner (CFK) took a step back from the political grave in winning congressional approval of a controversial media bill. The Argentine Senate approved the bill (44-24) in the early hours of October 10, three weeks afte [...] | 2009-10-15 20:40:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM ECON EINV WTRO AR |
09BUENOSAIRES1147 | ARGENTINA: AMBASSADOR ENCOUNTERS PROTESTERS IN [...] (SBU) Summary: During her first trip outside of Buenos Aires, Ambassador Martinez was forced to change the location of a speech at the National University of Cuyo due to disorderly protests by far-left groups on October 15. Public reaction has been mostly sympathetic to the Ambassador and critical [...] | 2009-10-21 14:34:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KPAO ASEC PHUM SOCI KDEM AR |
09BUENOSAIRES1148 | ARGENTINA: AMBASSADOR ENCOUNTERS PROTESTERS IN [...] (SBU) Summary: During her first trip outside of Buenos Aires, Ambassador Martinez was forced to change the location of a speech at the National University of Cuyo due to disorderly protests by far-left groups on October 15. Public reaction has been mostly sympathetic to the Ambassador and cri [...] | 2009-10-21 15:31:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KPAO ASEC PHUM SOCI KDEM AR |
09BUENOSAIRES1156 | AMBASSADOR MEETS ARGENTINE VP COBOS [...] (C) Summary: Argentine Vice President Julio Cobos, long estranged from the Kirchners and now the country's most popular politician and leading contender for the presidency in 2011, received the Ambassador for a warm and friendly half-hour introductory courtesy call in his Senate office Octobe [...] | 2009-10-23 12:54:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER SNAR KTIP SENV AR |
09BUENOSAIRES1161 | ARGENTINA INITIATES BOND HOLDOUT DEAL [...] (SBU) Minister of Economy Boudou announced that Argentina has signed letters of engagement with three major banks to manage a new offering to holdouts from the 2005 defaulted debt restructuring. Boudou and other GOA officials had been predicting such a move for a number of weeks, and the an [...] | 2009-10-26 10:33:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN EINV ETRD AR |
09BUENOSAIRES1165 | AMBASSADOR MEETS ARGENTINE CABINET CHIEF FERNANDEZ [...] (C) Summary: In her introductory call on Argentine Cabinet Chief Anibal Fernandez (AF),the Ambassador thanked AF for his role in strengthening bilateral relations and expressed appreciation for GOA cooperation on law enforcement issues. AF said he had always had good relations with the Emba [...] | 2009-10-27 18:13:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER SNAR KTIP SENV AR |
09BUENOSAIRES1168 | ARGENTINA TRIP REPORT OF A/S TREASURY DAVID COHEN [...] (U) Summary. Treasury Assistant Secretary for Terrorist Financing and Financial Crimes David S. Cohen traveled to Buenos Aires, Argentina, on October 2 to address members of the U.S.-Latin America Private Sector Dialogue (U.S.-LA PSD) and conduct meetings with the Central Bank of the Republic o [...] | 2009-10-28 15:22:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN PGOV AR |
09BUENOSAIRES1174 | AMBASSADOR MEETS ARGENTINE MINISTER OF INDUSTRY [...] (C) Ambassador Vilma Martinez paid a courtesy call on Minister of Industry and Tourism Debora Giorgi in the wake of the recent transfer of the agriculture portfolio to a standalone Ministry. Giorgi discussed her approach to her duties and described maintaining employment as her chief concern [...] | 2009-10-30 19:58:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ETRD AR |
09BUENOSAIRES1179 | ARGENTINA: VIOLENCE AMONG GOVERNMENT-SUPPORTED [...] (C) Summary: Argentine media and opposition are questioning government financial support of a group that attacked the venue for an October 16 speech in Jujuy by Senator Gerardo Morales, leader of the Radical Party (UCR). Morales blames 40 members of the piquetero group Tupac Amaru for orchest [...] | 2009-10-31 00:52:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON PHUM SOCI AR |
09BUENOSAIRES118 | ARGENTINA: SPANISH AMBASSADOR PREVIEWS CFK'S [...] (C) Ambassador met with Spanish Ambassador Rafael Estrella February 2 to discuss the February 9-11 visit of Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner (CFK) to Madrid. Estrella, a well-connected former politician, offered the following thoughts on the visit. 2. (C) Efforts to Pos [...] | 2009-02-04 14:39:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON EFIN ETRD SP AR |
09BUENOSAIRES1183 | ARGENTINA: POLITICAL REFORM BILL "TAILOR-MADE" FOR [...] (C) Summary: Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner (CFK) sent Congress her proposal for political reforms, requiring mandatory primaries for picking party nominees, establishing new thresholds for parties, limiting the use of private funds for campaigns, and restricting the publi [...] | 2009-11-02 17:30:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM AR |
09BUENOSAIRES1190 | ARGENTINA: DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON U.S.-COLOMBIA DCA [...] No summary [...] | 2009-11-03 15:10:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR OPDC CO AR |
09BUENOSAIRES1198 | ARGENTINE ECONOMY MINISTER: GOA LOOKING FOR U.S. [...] (SBU) Summary: In the Ambassador's introductory call on Minister of Economy Boudou, the two discussed the status of the GoA's latest offer to the bond ""holdouts,"" discussions with the IMF and Paris Club, and U.S. investment in Argentina. Boudou was confident of a successful deal with the [...] | 2009-11-05 16:36:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN EIND EINV PINR PREL ETRD AR |
09BUENOSAIRES1222 | ARGENTINA: AMBASSADOR MEETS BUENOS AIRES MAYOR [...] (C) Summary: Buenos Aires city mayor Mauricio Macri let slip to the Ambassador that he intends to run for president in 2011. He criticized the Kirchners for the failure of their economic model, for the country's growing crime problems, and for alienating the United States. He also reiterated past c [...] | 2009-11-12 20:59:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ASEC AMGT AR |
09BUENOSAIRES1223 | AMBASSADOR RAISES PRESS FREEDOM, TIP ISSUES WITH [...] (C) Summary and introduction: In a very warm, 70-minute meeting November 11, Argentine Vice Foreign Minister Victorio Taccetti welcomed the Ambassador and said he was pleased by news of the U.S. Senate's confirmation of WHA A/S Arturo Valenzuela's nomination. The Ambassador raised trafficking [...] | 2009-11-12 21:06:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM ASEC KREC AMGT PTER ELAB KTIP AR |
09BUENOSAIRES1231 | ARGENTINA RECEPTIVE ON NPT REVIEW CONFERENCE GOALS IN [...] (C) SUMMARY. During meetings in Buenos Aires on October 26-27, Special Representative of the President for Nuclear Nonproliferation Susan Burk successfully identified areas of common interest and support going in to the 2010 Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) Review Conference. Candid [...] | 2009-11-17 19:45:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL IAEA ENRG AR KNNP |
09BUENOSAIRES1233 | ARGENTINA: RESPONSE TO DEMARCHE ON IRAN RESOLUTION AT THE [...] No summary [...] | 2009-11-19 11:52:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL UNGA UN AR |
09BUENOSAIRES1237 | ARGENTINA: INFORMATION FOR COUNTRY REVIEW REGARDING TITLE [...] (U) Post answers to questions in paragraph 5 of reftel A follow. 2. (C) "Has the host country, in Post's opinion, worked to promote the advancement of democracy and human rights in Cuba." Answer: No. President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner visited Cuba January 18-21 and did not publicl [...] | 2009-11-20 17:59:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM ETRD ETTC CU AR |
09BUENOSAIRES1239 | Argentina: President of the Chamber of Deputies Welcomes [...] (SBU) Ambassador paid an introductory call on a warm and talkative Eduardo Fellner, President of Argentina's Chamber of Deputies, November 12. Fellner, a strong supporter of President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner (CFK),speculated that the Lower House might consider political reform legislat [...] | 2009-11-20 19:36:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON SOCI BL AR |
09BUENOSAIRES1259 | (C) Argentina: Media Freedoms Under Attack? [...] (C) SUMMARY: Argentine media outlets are sounding the alarms over government changes to media licensing laws, an executive decree restricting where print media can be sold, government support for union blockades of media distribution plants, and government pressure on a private-public newsprin [...] | 2009-12-01 17:11:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM SOCI ELAB ECON AR |
09BUENOSAIRES1263 | MTCR: UPDATE ON ARGENTINA'S SPACE LAUNCH VEHICLE (SLV) [...] (C) Summary: ESTHCouns met on December 2 with Conrado Varotto, Executive Director of CONAE (the Argentine space agency),to discuss the latest developments in Argentina's space launch vehicle (SLV) program (reftel). Varotto reported three unsuccessful ground tests of the SLV engine and sa [...] | 2009-12-03 17:49:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | MTCRE PARM PREL MNUC ETTC TSPA AR |
09BUENOSAIRES127 | ARGENTINA: PLAN FOR ENGAGEMENT ON AIRCRAFT CARRIER [...] (U) This is an action request for State and Southern Command, see para 6. 2. (SBU) Embassy Buenos Aires is concerned that the decision to relocate one nuclear-powered aircraft carrier (CVN) from Newport News, VA to Naval Station (NAVSTA) Mayport, FL, could be either misconstrued by Governm [...] | 2009-02-05 19:50:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR PARM PGOV AR |
09BUENOSAIRES1271 | Argentina: Kirchners Win Big on Political "Reform" Bill [...] (C) Summary: Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner (CFK),taking advantage of her (soon-to-expire) majority in the lame-duck Congress, succeeded in getting her electoral reform bill passed without major modifications. Argentina's Senate approved 42 to 24 the bill requiring mandato [...] | 2009-12-07 19:15:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM |
09BUENOSAIRES1279 | Argentina: Deutsche Bank Country Chief Pessimistic About [...] (C) Marcelo Blanco, Argentina Country Director for Deutsche Bank, gave the Ambassador, DCM, and EconCouns on December 7 a very pessimistic assessment regarding the chances for a holdout deal in the immediate future. Blanco is the point-man for one of the three banks working with the GOA to co [...] | 2009-12-09 21:02:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN EINV ETRD EINT AR PGOV |
09BUENOSAIRES1291 | Argentina: GOA Creates USD 6.6 Billion Reserves Fund to [...] (C) The GOA has decided to use Argentina's Central Bank (BCRA) reserves to create a quasi escrow fund to guarantee the payment of its regularly scheduled 2010 debt service obligations. While many analysts think the move will facilitate further government spending and thereby damage Argentina' [...] | 2009-12-18 21:21:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN EINV ETRD PGOV AR |
09BUENOSAIRES1305 | (C) Argentine MFA Shares Some Concerns About Brazilian [...] (C) Summary: Argentine MFA nuclear non-proliferation officials shared concerns about the direction of Brazilian security policy in the final years of the Lula Government during a meeting December 10. These were "yellow lights" only, but the Argentines were concerned by Brazil's outreach to Ir [...] | 2009-12-24 16:03:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KNNP PARM PGOV BR AR |
09BUENOSAIRES1311 | (C) ARGENTINE GOVERNMENT TAKES UMBRAGE AT WHA A/S [...] (C) Summary: The GOA responded with heavy artillery to a remark WHA A/S Valenzuela made during a December 16 press roundtable. Immediately after the press roundtable, Argentine media started focusing almost exclusively on A/S Valenzuela's remark that the American business community in Argentina had [...] | 2009-12-31 13:44:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL OVIP ECON KPAO |
09BUENOSAIRES133 | GOA ECONOMY MINISTER ON "BUY AMERICA," DEBT SWAPS, [...] (C) Argentine Economy Minister Carlos Fernandez noted GoA concerns with the "buy America" provisions in pending U.S. economic stimulus legislation during a February 4 meeting with Ambassador that mostly focused on G-20 issues (septel). The Minister highlighted the GoA's recent successful debt [...] | 2009-02-09 10:07:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN ETRD EXIM AR |
09BUENOSAIRES134 | ARGENTINE GOVERNMENT'S G-20 PRIORITY: IFI REFORM [...] (C) The GoA is focused intensely on G-20 meetings and preparations, and will continue its push for reform of the international financial institutions (IFIs),Economy Minister Carlos Fernandez told Ambassador February 4. Fernandez said the GoA will promote "reasonable, serious, and prudent ref [...] | 2009-02-09 10:07:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN ETRD PREL PGOV AR BR MX |
09BUENOSAIRES137 | (C) ARGENTINA: SENATE PRESIDENT PRO TEMPORE SAYS [...] (C) Summary: With his customary candor, Senate President Pro Tempore Jose Pampuro, a moderate Peronist, told Ambassador Wayne February 4 that "the biggest problem" facing President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner's (CFK) administration is its inability to engage in dialogue with the opposition [...] | 2009-02-09 19:50:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON AR |
09BUENOSAIRES142 | (C) ARGENTINA: CFK'S STREAM-OF-CONSCIOUSNESS ON PRESIDENT OBAMA [...] (C) Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner (CFK) has made a series of positive comments about President Obama dating from last August. CFK's words signal that she hopes to turn a new page in bilateral relations and reflect genuine admiration for our new president and the process t [...] | 2009-02-11 18:25:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | KPAO PGOV PHUM PINR PREL AR |
09BUENOSAIRES144 | ARGENTINA: PERONIST DISSIDENT DISCUSSES [...] (C) Summary: In his first substantive meeting with Ambassador Wayne February 5, National Deputy and Peronist dissident Felipe Sola of the Peronist Union bloc discussed his 2011 presidential aspirations, this year's midterm elections, and the merits of a single ballot system. Sola is in the A [...] | 2009-02-11 20:44:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON PINR AR |
09BUENOSAIRES153 | ARGENTINA: FOREIGN MINISTER PREVIEWS ARGENTINA [...] (C) Summary: Ambassador Wayne met with Foreign Minister Taiana and Vice Foreign Minister Taccetti to exchange views on how the USG and Argentina can work collaboratively in the coming months as President Obama's administration defines its priorities in the hemisphere. They noted that there we [...] | 2009-02-13 10:09:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON EFIN AR |
09BUENOSAIRES160 | ARGENTINA: INFLATION TAMPERING CONTINUES? [...] (C) Official inflation numbers continue to make headlines in Argentina, with the national statistics agency INDEC reporting January inflation of only 0.5% month-over-month, less than one third the 1.7% "true" rate estimated by private economists. For full-year 2008, INDEC reported inflation of [...] | 2009-02-13 17:02:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ECON ELAB AR |
09BUENOSAIRES163 | TOP ARGENTINE BANKER SEES CHALLENGES AHEAD [...] (C) Ambassador lunched February 11 with Jorge Brito, President of Argentina's Banco Macro and also President of the Association of Argentine-owned private banks (ADEBA). Though Brito has good relations with the Argentine government, in private he is frank in his criticisms. Brito offered seve [...] | 2009-02-13 19:43:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN EINV EAGR AR |
09BUENOSAIRES174 | EX-PRESIDENT DUHALDE HANDICAPS THE NEW GENERATION [...] (C) Summary: Former Argentine president Eduardo Duhalde predicted during a meeting with the CDA that President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner (CFK) will complete her term, but that the Kirchners were fast being eclipsed by new faces and new ideas in Argentine politics. After venting his spleen a [...] | 2009-02-20 09:51:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR ECON SNAR AR |
09BUENOSAIRES196 | ARGENTINA: MENDOZA GOVERNOR PRAISES BILATERAL COLLABORATION ON PUBLIC SECURITY [...] (C) Summary: Mendoza Governor and Peronist party member Celso Jaque praised bilateral collaboration on improving security and combating drug trafficking during a February 12 meeting with Ambassador Wayne. Jaque cited crime reduction as his top priority and regarded a focus on prevention as a [...] | 2009-02-25 18:23:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON PINR AR |
09BUENOSAIRES211 | ARGENTINA: DOMINGO CAVALLO PANS GOA POLICIES, [...] (C) The post-crisis Kirchner model no longer works and Argentina is headed for "stagflation," according to controversial Argentine ex-Economy Minister Domingo Cavallo. During a meeting with the Ambassador, Cavallo suggested that returning to the IMF may be the only way to alleviate Argentina's [...] | 2009-02-27 20:46:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ECON AR |
09BUENOSAIRES215 | ARGENTINA: KIRCHNERS' POLITICAL SAILS GO SLACK, [...] (C) Summary: Embassy officers and visiting Staffdel Lewis encountered nearly universal opinions among Argentine analysts February 16-18 that th political good luck of former President Nestor Kirchner and his wife, current President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner (CFK),is running out. These o [...] | 2009-03-02 14:57:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON PREL KCOR AR |
09BUENOSAIRES219 | ARGENTINA: PRESIDENT OPENS CONGRESS PREDICTING A [...] (C) Summary: Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner (CFK) opened the ordinary session of Congress March 1, focusing largely on the economy, predicting that 2009 would be the most difficult one of the last 100 years, and asserting that Argentina was ready to face the economic crisi [...] | 2009-03-03 18:01:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON AR |
09BUENOSAIRES256 | (C) ARGENTINE BUSINESSMAN ON WORRIES ABOUT [...] (C) A very well-connected Argentine businessman told the Ambassador March 5 that senior GoA ministers are privately very concerned about the eventual effects of the world economic crisis on Argentina. This businessman has regular access to a wide range of GoA ministers and has been used for [...] | 2009-03-10 14:03:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EAGR ECON EFIN AR |
09BUENOSAIRES257 | ARGENTINA: POST-MORTEM ON LOCAL REACTION TO INSCR [...] (C) Argentine press again stirred up tensions between the GoA and USG, running a story on U.S. criticism of Argentina's tax amnesty law included in the February 27 INCSR money laundering report. Press reports contrasted USG comments with the GoA's apparently successful defense of the law duri [...] | 2009-03-10 15:01:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN ETRD EINV AR |
09BUENOSAIRES259 | ARGENTINA: CONTINUING THE DIALOGUE WITH CHINESE [...] (C) Summary: Ambassador Wayne met with Chinese Ambassador to Argentina Zeng Gang to review the results of Chinese Vice Premier Hui Liangyu's February 8-12 official visit to Argentina and to take the temperature of the overall status of China's bilateral relationship with Argentina. Zeng was f [...] | 2009-03-10 18:36:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN ETRD SENV PREL CH AR |
09BUENOSAIRES295 | ARGENTINE GENDARMERIE COMMANDING GENERAL WELCOMES [...] (C) Summary: Argentine Gendarmeria (Border Patrol) Commanding General Hector Schenone called on the Ambassador March 4 at his request to introduce a new staff officer and to review cooperation with the USG on key issues. Schenone described the Gendarmeria's efforts to address increasing [...] | 2009-03-16 21:38:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL SNAR MARR MASS KTIP ASEC AR |
09BUENOSAIRES313 | ARGENTINE TAX AMNESTY LAW LOOKS ACCEPTABLE ON [...] (C) The local controversy over Argentina's new tax amnesty law continues, in part due to the uproar that followed mention of the law in the International Narcotics Control Strategy Report (INCSR) on money laundering in Argentina (reported Reftel). The GoA dismisses concerns that the new law w [...] | 2009-03-19 16:13:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | KTFN EFIN PTER PREL PARM MNUC KNNP AR |
09BUENOSAIRES315 | ARGENTINE CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES APPROVES NEW DATE [...] (SBU) Summary: Argentina's Lower House approved President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner's (CFK) proposal to move up the date of this year's national legislative elections from October 25 to June 28. With a vote of 136 in favor, 109 against, and eight abstentions, the ruling Victory Front al [...] | 2009-03-19 17:43:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM PHUM AR |
09BUENOSAIRES333 | ARGENTINA: NATIONAL DEPUTIES PLAN TRAVEL TO [...] (SBU) Summary: The Ambassador met March 19 with congressional deputy Ruperto Godoy, chairman of the Argentine Lower House's Foreign Relations Committee, to discuss plans to lead a multipartisan delegation of seven national deputies to Washington in May. Godoy stressed that they are committed [...] | 2009-03-23 12:58:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON PINR AR |
09BUENOSAIRES334 | ARGENTINA VIEWS SUMMIT OF AMERICAS AS CRUCIAL TO [...] (C) Summary: U.S. SOA Coordinator Ambassador Hector Morales received GOA assurances March 5 that Argentina was committed to a positive outcome in Trinidad and Tobago and would work closely with the USG to that end. Argentina's Summit Coordinator, Vice Foreign Minister Victorio Taccetti, empha [...] | 2009-03-23 13:50:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KSUM EFIN ENRG ECON PGOV AR |
09BUENOSAIRES347 | ARGENTINA: ELECTING LEGISLATORS, ARGENTINE STYLE [...] (C) Summary: Argentina's political class is increasingly focused on the mid-term national congressional elections, which had been scheduled for October 25 but which the GOA is seeking to move up to June 28 (reftels A and B). Immediately at stake will be one-half of the 256 seats in the Chambe [...] | 2009-03-26 15:16:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON AR |
09BUENOSAIRES360 | ARGENTINE CONGRESSIONAL MIDTERMS NOW SET FOR JUNE [...] (C) Summary: Argentina's Senate approved (42-26-4) President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner's (CFK) proposal to move up the date of this year's national legislative elections by four months to June 28. Theruling Victory Front alliance (FpV) obtained a comfortable majority, with five more vot [...] | 2009-03-27 17:44:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM PHUM AR |
09BUENOSAIRES365 | IAEA DG RACE: ARGENTINA WILLING TO CONSIDER [...] (C) Summary: According to senior Argentina MFA advisor Rafael Grossi, Argentina will consider endorsing Argentine citizen Rogelio Pfirter as a compromise candidate for Director General of the IAEA if it receives high-level requests from the United States and a couple of other European or P5 go [...] | 2009-03-27 20:59:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL IAEA PARM KNNP AR |
09BUENOSAIRES370 | ARGENTINES PLEASED WITH VPOTUS-CFK MEETING [...] (C) Summary. Argentine media gave highly positive coverage to President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner's (CFK) March 27 bilateral with Vice President Biden, and Argentine Ambassador to the United States Hector Timerman confirmed to the Ambassador that the GOA was very pleased with the meeting [...] | 2009-03-30 22:09:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECON AR |
09BUENOSAIRES375 | ARGENTINA: DEFENSE MINISTRY REQUESTS THAT U.S. [...] (SBU) Summary: Argentine daily finance and business paper "Ambito Financiero" released a relatively accurate story March 31 that the Ministry of Defense had requested the U.S. Military Group vacate its offices in the Argentine MOD headquarters, "Edificio Libertador," within 45 days. That requ [...] | 2009-03-31 21:48:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR MASS PGOV AR |
09BUENOSAIRES376 | NEW GOVERNMENT PLAN REFLECTS GROWING IMPORTANCE OF [...] (SBU) Summary: President Fernandez de Kirchner announced a new public security plan on March 27 to respond to rising public concerns about crime. The plan is focused on the provinces of Buenos Aires and Mendoza and includes promises of 4,000 new police to patrol the streets, a redeployment of [...] | 2009-03-31 22:21:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV SNAR ASEC PREL MASS EAID AR |
09BUENOSAIRES387 | ARGENTINA'S CURRENCY SWAP WITH CHINA; WILL IT HELP [...] (C) The Argentine Central Bank (BCRA) and the People's Bank of China appear to have reached a preliminary agreement on a currency swap arrangement (Peso-Yuan) for the equivalent of about US$10 billion. However, there may be some internal disagreement on the Argentine side: while BCRA President [...] | 2009-04-01 21:15:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ECON ETRD AR |
09BUENOSAIRES401 | THE SECRETARY'S APRIL 7 MEETING WITH ARGENTINE FM [...] (C) Your April 7 meeting with Argentine FM Jorge Taiana is an opportunity to encourage his continued support in keeping the overall tone of relations positive, even in the face of occasional disagreements. As populist and liberal democratic models vie in South America, Argentina is a swing sta [...] | 2009-04-03 22:15:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECON AR |
09BUENOSAIRES404 | ARGENTINA PROTESTS INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT [...] (C) Foreign Minster Jorge Taiana sent a letter to Ambassador Wayne the evening of April 3 strongly protesting our 2009 Investment Climate Statement (ICS) posted on April 2. The sharply worded message was apparently drafted by Taiana and President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner (CFK) late Apr [...] | 2009-04-04 19:12:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EINV PGOV PREL AR |
09BUENOSAIRES429 | ARGENTINA: TOP CANDIDATES IN KEY LEGISLATIVE [...] (C) Summary: Former president Nestor Kirchner has once again upset the political apple cart, this time by floating the idea that he and the current governor of Buenos Aires province, Daniel Scioli, will head the Victory Front (FpV) slate of candidates for national deputies from the province o [...] | 2009-04-09 22:06:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON AR |
09BUENOSAIRES443 | ARGENTINA: DIM ELECTORAL PROSPECTS FOR KIRCHNERS [...] (C) Summary: Argentina's ruling (Kirchner-allied) Victory Front (FpV) faces bleak prospects in the June 28 midterms in the second-tier electoral districts of Cordoba, Santa Fe, and Mendoza provinces (ref A). In Cordoba and Santa Fe, the second and third most populous provinces, the Kirchners [...] | 2009-04-15 17:38:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON AR |
09BUENOSAIRES451 | ARGENTINE GOVERNMENT PROPOSES JOINT DECLARATION TO [...] (C) MFA North America Director Antonio Trombetta passed CDA a non-paper April 14 proposing that the USG and GoA issue a joint declaration clarifying certain aspects of the 1991 Bilateral Investment Treaty (BIT). GoA officials subsequently clarified that their priority is to get USG support fo [...] | 2009-04-17 15:21:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | EINV EFIN ECON AR |
09BUENOSAIRES452 | ARGENTINA: RECENT POLLS GIVE KIRCHNERS EDGE IN [...] (SBU) Argentina's ruling (Kirchner-allied) Victory Front (FpV) received a boost in some polls after former President and First Gentleman Nestor Kirchner (NK) proposed last week that Buenos Aires Governor Daniel Scioli join him in leading the FpV slate for the June 28 Congressional elections (re [...] | 2009-04-17 19:59:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON AR |
09BUENOSAIRES461 | ARGENTINA: MEDIA PRAISE FOR PRESIDENT OBAMA'S [...] (C) Summary: Argentine press reacted extremely favorably to President Obama's participation in the Fifth Summit of the Americas (SOA),describing the meetings as a new, positive beginning for U.S.-Latin American relations. In a press conference following the April 18 meeting between President [...] | 2009-04-21 14:20:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KSUM EFIN ENRG ECON PGOV CU AR |
09BUENOSAIRES49 | SERIOUS CONCERNS ABOUT DOL'S DRAFT LIST OF GOODS [...] (C) Embassy Buenos Aires appreciates the opportunity to comment on the Department of Labor's draft list of goods from countries that DOL has reason to believe are produced by forced labor or child labor in violation of international standards. However, post requests that the Argentine goods l [...] | 2009-01-16 12:29:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | ELAB PHUM EAGR EIND ETRD AR |
09BUENOSAIRES490 | ARGENTINA: FORMER PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE [...] (C) Summary: The Ambassador met April 23 with U.S.-trained economist and conservative politician Ricardo Lopez-Murphy, who predicted the Kirchners would suffer a defeat in the mid-terms, losing 15 to 20 seats in the Chamber of Deputies, resulting in the end of their working majority. He bemoa [...] | 2009-04-27 21:13:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON PINR AR |
09BUENOSAIRES494 | ARGENTINA: PRESIDENT'S POPULARITY DECLINING AHEAD [...] (SBU) President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner (CFK) has experienced a steady decline in her approval rating and personal image since late 2007, and has experienced another dip recently. After enjoying a 56% approval rating in December 2007 upon her inauguration, the President's approval sunk [...] | 2009-04-29 14:47:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON AR |
09BUENOSAIRES498 | ARGENTINE FM TAIANA ON MOD EVICTION AND OTHER [...] (C) Summary: In response to the Ambassador's April 22 letter asking Argentine FM Taiana to intervene with the MOD to help find suitable office space for the Military Group in advance of its eviction from MOD headquarters (ref A),Taiana said he had spoken with MOD Nilda Garre and suggested the [...] | 2009-04-30 13:57:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MASS MARR ASEC KSUM PGOV AR |
09BUENOSAIRES50 | SERIOUS CONCERNS ABOUT DOL'S DRAFT LIST OF GOODS [...] (C) Embassy Buenos Aires appreciates the opportunity to comment on the Department of Labor's draft list of goods from countries that DOL has reason to believe are produced by forced labor or child labor in violation of international standards. However, post requests that the Argentine goods l [...] | 2009-01-16 12:39:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | ELAB PHUM EAGR EIND ETRD AR |
09BUENOSAIRES513 | ARGENTINE MOD GARRE OFFERS TEMPORARY SOLUTION FOR [...] (C) Following up on Argentine FM Taiana's suggestion (reftel),the Ambassador called MOD Garre, who indicated she had just signed a response to the Ambassador's March 31 letter regarding the MOD eviction of the Military Group from MOD headquarters and two other facilities. 2. (C) Garre said [...] | 2009-05-04 21:03:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MASS PGOV ASEC AMGT PHUM KPAO AR |
09BUENOSAIRES514 | ARGENTINA: ANTI-KIRCHNER BRIEFING DELIVERED TO [...] (C) Jorge O'Reilly (PROTECT),a top advisor to Argentina's Cabinet Chief Sergio Massa, offered a blunt critique of Argentina's economy and GoA policies during an April 21 meeting with foreign institutional investors. Speaking in the Casa Rosada, he predicted a sharp recession in 2009, with co [...] | 2009-05-04 21:06:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EINV ETRD EFIN PREL AR |
09BUENOSAIRES515 | ARGENTINA: ALLIANCES ANNOUNCED, CAMPAIGN SEASON [...] (C) Summary: Argentine political parties have registered their alliances (but not yet their candidate slates) for the June 28 mid-term congressional elections. Although a total of 16 electoral alliances have registered in the country's top two key electoral battlegrounds, Buenos Aires province [...] | 2009-05-04 21:19:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON AR |
09BUENOSAIRES523 | ARGENTINA LEANS TOWARDS VOTING TO ABSTAIN ON [...] (C) Summary. Econoff joined German, French, and UK colleagues April 29 in delivering Ref A points on Kosovo's IMF and World Bank membership to Jose Mina, Director of the Argentine MFA's Central and Eastern Europe Office. Mina strongly argued against Kosovo's membership in the IFIs, but agree [...] | 2009-05-05 18:42:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN PREL AR KV |
09BUENOSAIRES526 | ARGENTINA'S PIQUETEROS: THE KIRCHNERS' KEY PROTEST ARM Classified By: CDA Tom Kelly for reasons 1.4 (b) & (d). [...] (SBU) Summary/Introduction: After being largely co-opted by the government of former President Nestor Kirchner (NK),some Argentine social protest groups, the ""piqueteros,"" have begun to distance themselves from current President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner's (CFK) government. They remain a [...] | 2009-05-05 21:19:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ELAB KDEM ECON AR |
09BUENOSAIRES534 | (C) ARGENTINA: RECENT UNSETTLING DEVELOPMENTS [...] (C) Summary: Recent moves by the Government of Argentina (GoA) undermine the independence and efficacy of Argentine agencies with jurisdiction over corruption cases. In early March, Manuel Garrido, Argentina's chief prosecutor for corrupton cases resigned, claiming frustration over perc [...] | 2009-05-06 21:41:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KCOR KDEM PHUM KFRD SNAR ASEC AR |
09BUENOSAIRES538 | ARGENTINA ELECTIONS: NO KIRCHNER COATTAILS IN [...] (C) Summary: Argentina's northern province of Salta, a picturesque, agriculturally productive regional center bordering Bolivia, offers another demonstration of Argentina's confusion of competing Peronists and temporary alliances in the run-up to national mid-terms on June 28. With only three [...] | 2009-05-07 16:19:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON SNAR AR |
09BUENOSAIRES557 | Argentina: Logistical Challenges in Convening [...] (C) Summary/Introduction: The GOA's decision in mid- March to move up the legislative elections by four months (ref A) has raised concerns among local observers that some organizational requirements, such as voter registration and the identification and manning of polling places, may not be sa [...] | 2009-05-11 19:17:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON AR |
09BUENOSAIRES558 | Argentina Elections: VP Cobos Still Popular in [...] (C) Summary: Argentine Vice President Cobos's presidential aspirations are riding on the fate of the slate of candidates he is backing in the June 28 congressional mid-term elections. Currently, his slate for Mendoza's five national deputy slots and three Senate seats is favored to win 40% o [...] | 2009-05-11 19:26:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON AR |
09BUENOSAIRES561 | Argentina: Candidates Announced; Former President [...] (C) Summary and introduction: Former president Nestor Kirchner (NK) and his former vice president Daniel Scioli will head the ruling coalition's (FpV) ticket for congressional seats representing the electoral plum of Buenos Aires province, where the Kirchners have set their hopes on winning e [...] | 2009-05-12 14:02:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON AR |
09BUENOSAIRES592 | ARGENTINA: AMIA SPECIAL PROSECUTOR READY TO [...] (C) Special Prosecutor Alberto Nisman called on the Ambassador May 19 to notify us that the following day he would ask Judge Rodolfo Canicoba-Corral to indict a new suspect in the 1994 bombing of the Argentine Jewish Mutual Association (AMIA). Nisman described his painstaking effort to establ [...] | 2009-05-19 22:45:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PREL ASEC MASS PHUM SNAR KJUS IR LE AR |
09BUENOSAIRES593 | ARGENTINA: CRISTINA HOSTS HUGO CHAVEZ, BUT BEGS TO [...] (C) Summary and introduction: Hugo Chavez paid a visit to Argentina May 15-16 to kick off a bilateral consultative process, sign some agreements, and see some sights near the Kirchners' home in El Calafate, Santa Cruz. During a 100-minute joint press conference, CFK denied she plans to sell [...] | 2009-05-19 23:41:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON VZ AR |
09BUENOSAIRES598 | (C) ANTONINI-WILSON BANKRUPTCY CASE NAMES [...] (C) President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, former President Nestor Kirchner and Planning Minister Julio De Vido were named as "interested parties" in an April 15 voluntary personal Chapter 7 bankruptcy filing in Florida of "Suitcase scandal" principal Alejandro Antonini-Wilson (A-W). A sup [...] | 2009-05-21 13:35:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL SNAR KCOR KJUS PGOV CJAN KFRD VZ AR |
09BUENOSAIRES599 | ARGENTINA: 15 ARRESTED FOR ANTI-SEMITIC VIOLENCE [...] (SBU) Summary: Argentine police have arrested 15 persons for their involvement in a violent attack on a Buenos Aires city celebration May 17 marking the 61st anniversary of the founding of Israel. The attack left five persons injured, including two federal police officers. On May 18, two sy [...] | 2009-05-21 13:37:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PTER PREL ASEC AR |
09BUENOSAIRES600 | ARGENTINA: POLLS SHOW KIRCHNER-ALLIED FPV SLIGHTLY [...] (SBU) With six weeks before the June 28 congressional midterms, the Kirchner-allied ruling Victory Front (FpV) continues to enjoy a slim advantage in the key electoral district of Buenos Aires province, but possibly not enough to maintain its majority in the Lower House, according to recent po [...] | 2009-05-21 13:42:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL AR |
09BUENOSAIRES602 | ARGENTINA: AMBASSADOR THANKS MOJ FOR LAW [...] (C) Summary. On May 20, the Ambassador paid a farewell call on Minister of Justice Anibal Fernandez and thanked him for the Ministry of Justice's (MoJ) collaboration in promoting human rights and addressing international crime, including drug trafficking, trafficking in persons (TIP),m [...] | 2009-05-21 22:19:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KTIP SNAR PTER EFIN KCRM AR |
09BUENOSAIRES613 | ARGENTINA: CFK EUPHORIC ABOUT PRESIDENT OBAMA'S [...] (U) The Argentine presidency released to the press the text of President Obama's national day message for the May 25 holiday (ref A),and President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner (CFK) said ""it is something more than a gesture of greeting for all Argentines. The text speaks of democracies tha [...] | 2009-05-26 19:36:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL OPDC AR |
09BUENOSAIRES614 | ARGENTINA: INFORMATION FOR COUNTRY REVIEW [...] (SBU) Post responses to questions in para 5 of ref A follow: 2. (C) Has the host country, in Post's opinion, worked to promote the advancement of democracy and human rights in Cuba? Answer: No. The GOA has not taken public or private actions in the past year to promote the advancement of [...] | 2009-05-26 20:10:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ETRD ETTC CU AR |
09BUENOSAIRES628 | IAEA DG RACE: JAPANESE REQUEST APPROACHING CFK VIA [...] (C) The head of the Japanese Embassy's political section in Buenos Aires, First Secretary Kenya Uno, called on polcouns May 26 and said Ambassador Yukiya Amano, Japanese candidate for Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency, had visited Buenos Aires and met with Argentine FM [...] | 2009-05-28 21:34:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KNNP AORC IAEA PARM AR |
09BUENOSAIRES631 | ARGENTINA: SUPREME COURT OPENS THE DOOR FOR AMIA [...] (SBU) On May 27, Argentina's Supreme Court ordered the reopening of the investigation into the so-called "local connection" involved in the 1994 bombing of the Argentine-Jewish Mutual Association (AMIA). The court ruled 4 to 2 that Carlos Telleldin, who was previously acquitted, should be tri [...] | 2009-05-29 15:11:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PREL ASEC MASS PHUM SNAR KJUS IR LE AR |
09BUENOSAIRES632 | ARGENTINA: AMBASSADOR'S FAREWELL CALL ON CFK [...] (C) Summary and introduction: During his one-on-one May 27 farewell call on Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner (CFK),the Ambassador orally delivered a message from the President of appreciation for Argentine cooperation at the recent summits (para 5). CFK thanked the Ambassad [...] | 2009-05-29 17:30:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECON AR |
09BUENOSAIRES634 | (C) ARGENTINE PLANS TO WORK TOWARD COMPROMISE ON [...] (C) During the Ambassador's May 28 farewell call on Argentine FM Jorge Taiana (septel),Taiana characterized the Cuba issue as "the big challenge" at the June 1-3 OAS General Assembly. Taiana noted there were three groups within the OAS: "Bolivarian bloc" hardliners pushing for Cuba's re-admi [...] | 2009-05-29 19:30:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL OAS CU AR |
09BUENOSAIRES641 | ARGENTINA: AMBASSADOR’S FAREWELL CALL ON FM TAIANA [...] (C) Summary and introduction: Argentine FM Jorge Taiana told the Ambassador, during the latter's May 28 farewell call, that the GOA had no intention of following Venezuela's lead on expropriations. Taiana expressed concern about the visit of a team from the FAA and the prospect (which has since rec [...] | 2009-06-02 14:42:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECON EAIR MASS SENV AMGT VZ AR |
09BUENOSAIRES643 | ARGENTINA: BUENOS AIRES GOVERNOR'S OFFICE THANKS [...] (C) Summary: Secretary General to the Buenos Aires Governor's Office Jose Scioli (JS) visited Ambassador Wayne May 29 to extend the appreciation of his brother, Buenos Aires Governor Daniel Scioli, for the Embassy's close collaboration. JS is a chief adviser to Governor Scioli, Argentina's fo [...] | 2009-06-02 17:40:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV SNAR AR |
09BUENOSAIRES653 | ARGENTINA: AMBASSADOR'S FAREWELL ON VP COBOS [...] (C) Summary: The Ambassador engaged with Vice President Julio Cobos during a June 1 farewell call at his Senate President office on improvements in bilateral cooperation over the past three years, Argentina's upcoming congressional elections, and the importance of a strong education system. Co [...] | 2009-06-04 17:51:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV AR |
09BUENOSAIRES655 | ARGENTINA: CAMPAIGNING K STYLE [...] (SBU) Summary: With congressional midterm elections less than a month away, campaign season is in full swing throughout Argentina. In Buenos Aires province, the key electoral district in the June 28 race, principal candidates of the three main electoral forces -- the Kirchner-allied ruling Vi [...] | 2009-06-04 20:11:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON AR |
09BUENOSAIRES657 | ARGENTINA: CFK PRAISES U.S. ROLE IN OAS RESOLUTION [...] (C) Summary and introduction: President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner (CFK) praised the USG's role in the the OAS decision to lift the ban on Cuba's participation, which she called "historic" and a portent of "new winds" blowing in the hemisphere. Foreign Minister Jorge Taiana took credit f [...] | 2009-06-04 20:41:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM ETRD OAS CU AR |
09BUENOSAIRES66 | ARGENTINA: CENTRAL BANK PRESIDENT DEFENDS [...] (C) Central Bank (BCRA) President Martin Redrado emphasized his success maintaining relative market confidence in the Argentine Peso in the face of four major financial crises since August 2007. In a January 16 meeting with Ambassador, he discounted market expectations of a large depreciation [...] | 2009-01-21 19:23:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN AR |
09BUENOSAIRES668 | ARGENTINA ON IAEA FUEL BANK DISCUSSIONS AND IAEA [...] (SBU) Political Officer spoke June 5 with the Argentine Foreign Ministry's Director for International Security, Nuclear and Space Affairs (DIGAN),Gustavo Ainchil, to deliver Refs A and B demarches. 2. (SBU) Addressing the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) budget, Ainchil said that [...] | 2009-06-09 13:35:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PARM KNNP IAEA AR |
09BUENOSAIRES67 | CANADIAN AMBASSADOR ON ARGENTINE SUMMITRY, NUCLEAR [...] (SBU) A January 14 discussion between Ambassador Wayne and Canadian Ambassador Tim Martin covered Argentina's poor preparation for regional summits and the G-20, as well as Canada's nuclear energy and mining agenda with Argentina. 2. (SBU) Brazil's regional agenda and the Summit of the Amer [...] | 2009-01-21 20:21:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EMIN KSUM PREL CA AR |
09BUENOSAIRES68 | ARGENTINA: TECHINT CEO ON VENEZUELA [...] (C) On January 16, Ambassador had breakfast with Paolo Rocca, CEO of Argentine multinational Techint. The two reviewed Techint,s current problems with the Government of Argentina (GoA) over rescheduling debt payments of the regulated Argentine natural gas pipeline company TGN; over Techint's p [...] | 2009-01-21 20:42:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EPET ELAB EINV VZ AR |
09BUENOSAIRES693 | ARGENTINA: CFK ANNOUNCES CUBA HAS AUTHORIZED [...] (SBU) Argentine media are reporting that President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner (CFK) announced June 12 that Cuban authorities issued a passport to dissident neurosurgeon Hilda Molina and are allowing her to leave the island. For 15 years, Molina had been seeking permission to travel to Arg [...] | 2009-06-12 22:25:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM CU AR |
09BUENOSAIRES694 | ARGENTINA: DEMARCHES ON IAEA FUEL BANK DISCUSSIONS [...] (C) Political Officer spoke June 12 with Dr. Carlos Cherniak in the Argentine Foreign Ministry's Directorate for International Security, Nuclear and Space Affairs (DIGAN),to deliver Ref A demarche. Cherniak was familiar with the Director General's latest reports on Iran and Syria and said th [...] | 2009-06-12 22:31:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL IAEA PARM KNNP AR |
09BUENOSAIRES698 | ARGENTINA: KIRCHNER USES DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE ARM [...] (C) Summary: Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner's husband and former President Nestor Kirchner (NK) reportedly has called on Argentina's Secretariat of Intelligence (SIDE) to dig up dirt against his closest competitor, Peronist dissident Francisco De Narvaez, and other politica [...] | 2009-06-16 10:35:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV SNAR KJUS PHUM ECON AR |
09BUENOSAIRES706 | SUBJECT: (C) ARGENTINA: FOREIGN MINISTER "VERY [...] (C) Summary. On the instructions of Argentine FM Jorge Taiana, MFA Chief of Staff Alberto D'Alotto called CDA June 17 to express the GOA's irritation with the State Department's Trafficking in Persons (TIP) report which placed Argentina on the Tier 2 Watch List. D'Alotto said Taiana was "ver [...] | 2009-06-17 22:10:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KTIP KCRM ELAB PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC |
09BUENOSAIRES722 | ARGENTINA: PRO UNION'S MULTIMILLION DOLLAR CAMPAIGN [...] (C) Summary: With less than one week remaining before the June 28 congressional elections, most polls continue to show the Kirchner-allied Victory Front (FpV) and the Peronist dissident slate, PRO Union, in a statistical dead heat in this race's key electoral district, Buenos Aires province. T [...] | 2009-06-22 16:39:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON AR |
09BUENOSAIRES729 | ARGENTINE MID-TERMS: RADICALS AND CIVIC COALITION [...] (C) Summary: Argentina's center-left alliance of the opposition Civic Coalition (CC),Radical Civic Union (UCR),and Socialist parties is likely to gain congressional seats nationwide in June 28 elections. Their campaign, however, has not caught hold in either Buenos Aires city or province, w [...] | 2009-06-23 12:57:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON AR |
09BUENOSAIRES742 | ARGENTINA'S JUNE 28 CONGRESSIONAL ELECTIONS: THE [...] (C) Summary and introduction: Argentina's ruling Victory Front alliance (FpV) appears headed for a nationwide defeat in the June 28 mid-term congressional elections and will likely lose its majority in the Chamber of Deputies and possibly in the Senate. The election is unlikely to clarify ful [...] | 2009-06-25 21:56:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM PINR PHUM AR |
09BUENOSAIRES748 | (C) ARGENTINA: H1N1 DEATHS SURGING [...] (C) Summary: Argentina's Ministry of Health (MOH) puts the number of confirmed H1N1 cases at 1486, 335 of whom are currently hospitalized. Officially, 23 patients have died, but several sources claim that there have been at least 15 additional deaths and a broader incidence of cases. Eighty [...] | 2009-06-26 20:31:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | TBIO SOCI PGOV PREL AR AMED |
09BUENOSAIRES756 | ARGENTINE PRESIDENT CFK CALMLY SPINS ADVERSE [...] (C) Summary and introduction: Argentine president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner (CFK) addressed the nation June 29 via live television to put the previous day's election results in perspective. She sought to put the best possible face on the electoral results, noting it was not unusual for [...] | 2009-06-30 21:13:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR KDEM AR |
09BUENOSAIRES757 | ARGENTINE PRESIDENT CFK PLANNING TO ESCORT ZELAYA [...] (SBU) Argentine president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner (CFK) announced during a June 29 press conference regarding the previous day's legislative elections (septel) that she had spoken June 28 with Honduran President Zelaya, Chilean President Bachelet, and Ecuadorian President Correa regardin [...] | 2009-06-30 21:24:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM OAS HO AR |
09BUENOSAIRES759 | ARGENTINA NOT MOVING YET ON IAEA DG RACE, BUT [...] (C) Argentina continues to largely accept the U.S. analysis of the July 2nd IAEA vote and is clearly considering the U.S. case for voting in favor of Japanese candidate Amano. Charge d'Affaires spoke with Ministry of Foreign Affairs Cabinet Chief D'Alotto on Friday, June 26, to elicit his fee [...] | 2009-07-01 14:48:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL IAEA PARM KNNP AR |
09BUENOSAIRES762 | (C) ARGENTINA OFFERS ABSTENTION ON FIFTH ROUND IN [...] (C) Following up on Charge d'Affaires' June 26 outreach (ref B),Argentina Ministry of Foreign Affairs Chief of Staff Alberto D'Alotto phoned CDA July 1 to inform him that Argentina had reconsidered its position on the IAEA DG race. D'Alotto said that Foreign Minister Taiana had determined tha [...] | 2009-07-01 20:03:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PARM KNNP IAEA AR |
09BUENOSAIRES775 | (C) ARGENTINA: EMBASSY RECOMMENDS THANKING FM [...] (U) Action Request for Department in paragraph three. 2. (C) Following the decision by the GOA on July 1 (ref B) to offer an abstention in the fifth round of voting for IAEA DG candidate Amano, Political Counselor received a call July 2 from Japanese Embassy First Secretary Kenya Uno to expr [...] | 2009-07-02 20:08:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PARM KNNP IAEA AR |
09BUENOSAIRES787 | ARGENTINE PRESIDENT CFK RETURNS EMPTY-HANDED FROM [...] (C) Summary: Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner (CFK) returned to Buenos Aires July 6 from a 60-hour trip that took her to Washington and El Salvador in a failed attempt to restore Manuel Zelaya to the presidency of Honduras. In El Salvador, CFK argued that she was on a missi [...] | 2009-07-06 21:51:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM PHUM OAS HO AR |
09BUENOSAIRES794 | ARGENTINA: PROFILING KEY KIRCHNER-ALLIED PIQUETERO LEADERS REF: (A) BUENOS AIRES 0526 (B) 08 BUENOS AIRES 1550 AND PREVIOUS (C) 08 BUENOS AIRES 1715 (D) BUENOS AIRES 0315 (E) BUENOS AIRES 0750 AND [...] (SBU) Summary: Despite sharing the same goals -- job creation, social inclusion, and state intervention in the economy -- the leaders of Argentina's social activist movements, known as ""piqueteros,"" differ on how to achieve those objectives. Indeed, former President Nestor Kirchner's efforts t [...] | 2009-07-07 21:35:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON PHUM SOCI ASEC PTER AR |
09BUENOSAIRES799 | ARGENTINA PONDERS A POST-KIRCHNER WORLD [...] (C) Summary and introduction: As Argentines continue to sort through the implications of the June 28 congressional mid-term elections, it is still too early to determine whether president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner (CFK) and her husband Nestor (NK) suffered a mortal blow or merely a tempo [...] | 2009-07-08 19:32:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM ECON AR |
09BUENOSAIRES801 | ARGENTINA: POWERFUL KIRCHNER ALLY ON [...] (C) Summary: CDA and Buenos Aires Province Vice-Governor Alberto Balestrini discussed July 7 Argentina's political panorama following former President Nestor Kirchner (NK) and his Victory Front (FpV) slate's second-place finish in the June 28 election in Buenos Aires province. A powerful insider an [...] | 2009-07-08 20:32:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV SNAR AR |
09BUENOSAIRES802 | ARGENTINA: CABINET SHUFFLE UNLIKELY TO AUGUR MAJOR [...] (C) Summary: Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner (CFK) shuffled her Cabinet on July 7 a week after her party's defeat in a mid-term vote, but the personnel moves do not bring much new blood to the administration. CFK named feisty Minister of Justice Anibal Fernandez as her new [...] | 2009-07-08 20:36:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR ECON SNAR MASS AR |
09BUENOSAIRES839 | ARGENTINA: KIRCHNERS AND LABOR LEADER MOYANO RENEW [...] (C) Summary: Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner (CFK) and her husband, former President Nestor Kirchner, are solicitously rewarding General Workers Confederation (CGT) leader Hugo Moyano in order to ensure his support at a time when many others seem to be defecting from govern [...] | 2009-07-16 21:49:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ELAB AR |
09BUENOSAIRES849 | ARGENTINA: NEW JUSTICE MINISTER PLEDGES TO [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see para 6. 2. (C) Summary. Argentina's newly-appointed Minister of Justice Julio Cesar Alak pledged to continue bilateral law enforcement cooperation in a productive courtesy call meeting with CDA on July 21. During the meeting, the CDA briefed Alak [...] | 2009-07-21 22:07:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KTIP SNAR PTER EFIN KCRM MASS AR |
09BUENOSAIRES869 | ARGENTINA: JEWISH COMMUNITY STILL SEEKS JUSTICE 15 [...] (C) Summary: The Argentine Jewish community commemorated the fifteenth anniversary of the terrorist attack on the Argentine Jewish Mutual Association (AMIA) with a small, informal gathering on July 18. The CDA attended the gathering, as did Chief Cabinet Minister Anibal Fernandez, who afterwa [...] | 2009-07-24 22:22:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PTER PREL PGOV KJUS KTIP SNAR KCRM AR |
09BUENOSAIRES876 | ARGENTINA: ISRAELI FM VISITS ARGENTINA AND [...] (C) Summary: In what the Israeli Foreign Ministry called an effort to counter "Iran's heightened activity in South America," Israeli FM Avigdor Lieberman visited Argentina July 23-26 during the first trip to South America by an Israeli FM in over two decades. Argentina was the second stop on [...] | 2009-07-29 21:15:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IS IR AR |
09BUENOSAIRES91 | ARGENTINE PRESIDENT'S VENEZUELA VISIT GIVES THE [...] (SBU) Summary: Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner's (CFK) January 21-23 visit to Caracas following her stop in Cuba (reftel A) sustained local interest in -- and criticism of -- her trip to Cuba and Venezuela. The visit prompted questions about the GOA's judgment on timing (as [...] | 2009-01-28 12:27:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECON EFIN PGOV PHUM AR |
09BUENOSAIRES911 | ARGENTINA: URIBE VISIT POSITIVE BUT CANNOT HEAD [...] (U) Summary: Despite a relatively cordial exchange between visiting Colombian President Uribe and Argentine President Fernandez de Kirchner (CFK),Argentine Government sources told the press both before and after the meeting that Argentina opposed the Colombia-U.S. agreement allowing USG force [...] | 2009-08-07 18:19:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER MASS SNAR PARM PGOV CO AR |
09BUENOSAIRES92 | ARGENTINA: ARGENTINES PLAY UP AMBASSADOR-INTERIOR [...] (SBU) Summary: The GOA heavily advertised the January 22 meeting of Ambassador Wayne and Interior Minister Randazzo, billing it as a GOA "gesture" to the USG which was widely interpreted as an effort to balance President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner's trip to Cuba and Venezuela (reftels) an [...] | 2009-01-28 17:10:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV AR |
09BUENOSAIRES927 | (C) ARGENTINA: TAIANA TRIES TO EXPLAIN CFK'S [...] (C) Summary: The GOA confirmed August 12 President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner's (CFK) August 10 invitation to South American heads of government to an August 28 UNASUR meeting on the Colombia-U.S. negotiations of a Defense Cooperation Agreement (DCA). CFK made the invitation during UNASUR [...] | 2009-08-13 22:52:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MASS SNAR PTER PARM PGOV CO AR |
09BUENOSAIRES964 | ARGENTINA ENTHUSIASTIC AND RESPONSIVE ON [...] (C) Summary: A delegation led by White House Special Assistant and WMD Coordinator Gary Samore visited Argentina for consultations on August 10, generating significant goodwill and enthusiasm among Argentine interlocutors to continue bilateral consultations and cooperation on key nuclear arms [...] | 2009-08-24 20:37:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PARM PTER ENRG ETTC TRGY SENV AR |
09BUENOSAIRES966 | ARGENTINA: GOVERNMENT JOINS JEWISH COMMUNITY IN [...] (SBU) Summary: The Government of Argentina on August 21 condemned Iranian President Ahmadinejad's August 19 nomination of Ahmad Vahidi as Minister of Defense, labeling the selection an "insult to Argentine justice and to the victims of the brutal terrorists attack against the Argentine Jewish [...] | 2009-08-25 14:29:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER PARM ETTC ENRG IR AR |
09BUENOSAIRES976 | ARGENTINE MINISTER OF ECONOMY SAYS GOA IS READY TO [...] (C) Summary: CDA met August 24 with Minister of Economy and Public Finances Amado Boudou and discussed the upcoming G-20 Summit in Pittsburgh, Argentina's re-engagement with the IMF, an agreement with Paris Club debtors and bond holdouts, as well as Argentina's fiscal and economic outlook. [...] | 2009-08-26 16:04:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | EAGR ECON EFIN ENIV ETRD KSUM PREL AR |
09BUENOSAIRES984 | DAS MCMULLEN BRIEFS ARGENTINE OFFICIALS ON [...] (C) Summary: WHA DAS Christopher McMullen visited Buenos Aires August 26-27 to brief Argentine authorities on the USG's Defense Cooperation Agreement (DCA) with Colombia ahead of the August 28 UNASUR conference hosted by Argentina in Bariloche. He had excellent meetings with Cabinet Chief Min [...] | 2009-08-28 22:16:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MASS SNAR PTER PARM PGOV CO AR |
09BUENOSAIRES988 | ARGENTINA'S CORDOBA GOVERNOR ON THE KIRCHNERS, [...] (C) Summary: Cordoba province Governor and Peronist dissident Juan Schiaretti engaged with the CDA on Argentina's First Couple, 2011 presidential candidates, and the province's budgetary woes. Schiaretti said that former President and First Spouse Nestor Kirchner (NK) sees a divided opposition as g [...] | 2009-08-31 23:11:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON EAGR AR |
09BUENOSAIRES999 | TALES FROM BARILOCHE: ARGENTINA HOSTS A SUCCESSFUL [...] (C) Summary and introduction: The August 28 summit meeting in Bariloche of South American Union (UNASUR) leaders is getting puzzled, mixed reviews. After seven hours of a rambling, inconclusive discussion (on live television) of the U.S.-Colombian Defense Cooperation Agreement (DCA) and other [...] | 2009-09-02 21:22:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL SNAR MASS AR |
09BUJUMBURA162 | BURUNDI SUPPORTS U.S. GEORGIA POLICY [...] (C) In a March 19 meeting with EmbOff to discuss U.S. policy towards Georgia (reftel),Ministry of External Affairs' Director of the Department of International Organizations Adolphe Nahayo said that Burundi, as a small country surrounded by larger states, empathized with Georgia's plight and [...] | 2009-03-27 11:32:00 | Embassy Bujumbura | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MOPS PBTS BY GG |
09BUJUMBURA181 | PENAL CODE: HOMOSEXUAL ACTS, TORTURE, AND TIP ARE [...] (C) Summary: The Burundian National Assembly passed a draft law revising the Burundian Penal Code March 26, rejecting a Senate amendment that would have removed a provision criminalizing homosexual activity. UN Representative for Human Rights in Burundi Jean Luc Marx told PolOff March 25 tha [...] | 2009-04-07 16:05:00 | Embassy Bujumbura | CONFIDENTIAL | BY KDEM PHUM PREL |
09BUJUMBURA267 | GOVERNMENT FINALLY REGISTERS SINDUHIJE'S MSD PARTY [...] (U) On June 8 the Minister of Interior registered Alexis Sinduhije's Movement for Solidarity and Democracy (MSD) as a political party. The requisite documents were signed by MSD Secretary General Audette Ntahiraja instead of MSD President Alexis Sinduhije, who is in Europe. Sinduhije, former [...] | 2009-06-10 15:36:00 | Embassy Bujumbura | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM BY |
09BUJUMBURA301 | BURUNDI -- VIEWS OF A DEPARTING AMBASSADOR [...] (C) SUMMARY: After three years as Ambassador to Burundi, I am convinced that this small, poverty-stricken, conflict-ridden nation has the potential to fulfill its promise as a durable African success story. Despite the just-resolved 15-year civil conflict, lack of infrastructure, deep-roote [...] | 2009-06-30 15:28:00 | Embassy Bujumbura | CONFIDENTIAL | BY CH LY MOPS PGOV PHUM PREL RW SU |
09BUJUMBURA306 | RUDUDURA AWAITS A NEW HEARING IN A NEW COURT, [...] (U) In a very quiet, unpublicized decision on June 15, Burundi's anti-corruption court ruled that it does not have the authority to try the case of Juvenal Rududura, the labor union vice-president charged with defamation of the president who has languished in prison since September 15, 2008 (re [...] | 2009-07-08 15:37:00 | Embassy Bujumbura | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM BY |
09BUJUMBURA339 | MINISTER OF INTERIOR PLAYS WITH ELECTORAL CODE [...] (C) SUMMARY: On July 9, Minister of the Interior Eduard Nduwimana, believed to be "President Nkurunziza's man," set off a political firestorm by presenting to the Council of Ministers a different draft Electoral Code than the consensus version prepared during a June round-table of political p [...] | 2009-07-17 12:39:00 | Embassy Bujumbura | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM BY |
09BUJUMBURA356 | RADJABU'S UPD PARTY GAINING GROUND [...] (C) SUMMARY: Despite apparent attempts by the ruling CNDD-FDD to sideline former party president Hussein Radjabu, including evicting him from the party and subsequently imprisoning him for 13 years for "threatening state security" (ref A),Post assesses that Radjabu continues to exert politica [...] | 2009-07-27 14:03:00 | Embassy Bujumbura | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV BY |
09BUJUMBURA392 | SECOND VICE PRESIDENT SEES STABILITY, PRIVATE [...] (C) Summary: Second Vice President Gabriel Ntisezerana said that security would be the basis for any economic growth and development in Burundi, during an August 11 courtesy call by Charge and DCM. Ntisezerana was concerned that many demobilized FNL combatants knew nothing but fighting, and c [...] | 2009-08-12 06:25:00 | Embassy Bujumbura | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINS ETRD EINV BY |
09BUJUMBURA394 | MSD LEADER SINDUHIJE REQUESTS "TEMPORARY ASYLUM" [...] (C) Summary: Aspiring Presidential candidate Alexis Sinduhije called on DCM at her residence August 11 to request that he be allowed to stay in US embassy housing for a few days to avoid anticipated political harassment. As there was no life threatening situation, DCM listened to him and pers [...] | 2009-08-12 16:00:00 | Embassy Bujumbura | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM BY |
09BUJUMBURA414 | CONSULTATIONS ON TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE UNDERWAY; [...] (C) Summary: Burundi has started broad based popular consultations for a Transitional Justice mechanism to deal with the events of years of conflict. While consultations are will be completed at year's end, we are detecting concerns about launching a Truth and Reconciliation Commission or si [...] | 2009-08-18 17:12:00 | Embassy Bujumbura | CONFIDENTIAL | BY KAWC PHUM PREL |
09BUJUMBURA416 | GUIDE TO BURUNDI'S REGISTERED POLITICAL PARTIES [...] (U) SUMMARY. This is a quick reference resource on Burundi's active political parties. There are 43 registered parties in Burundi, but only 15 are presently active. END SUMMARY. KEY POLITICAL PARTIES --------------------- 2. (C) Conseil National pour la Defense de la Democratie - For [...] | 2009-08-19 12:23:00 | Embassy Bujumbura | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PGOV EAID BY |
09BUJUMBURA419 | FNL: OUT OF THE BUSH, BUT BANDITRY BLOOMS [...] SUMMARY. There is an overwhelming consensus among political and security observers in Burundi that the Forces Nationales de Liberation's (FNL) days of fighting in the bush are truly over. Further, observers in Burundi find no evidence of an organized FNL splinter group existing that is ready [...] | 2009-08-20 15:41:00 | Embassy Bujumbura | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM ASEC PGOV PINS BY |
09BUJUMBURA445 | MEETING WITH FNL CHIEF RWASA [...] (C) Introduction and Summary. As part of a series of calls on political party chiefs, we met August 28 with Agathon Rwasa, the head of the last rebel group to become part of the peace process and demobilize, the Forces Nationales de Liberation, or FNL. Protected by South African troops, he p [...] | 2009-08-31 11:28:00 | Embassy Bujumbura | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PGOV PINR PINS BY |
09BUJUMBURA446 | SAGA OF BURUNDI'S ELECTORAL CODE CONTINUES [...] (C) Summary. Burundi's draft Electoral Code has been the subject of difficult negotiations, which have received a push from the UN and diplomatic community. Both houses of Parliament begin a special session September 1, during which time there are hopes that remaining controversies over the [...] | 2009-08-31 16:50:00 | Embassy Bujumbura | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PGOV BY |
09BUJUMBURA465 | BUYOYA: PROSPECTS FOR PEACE [...] (C) A discussion with former President Pierre Buyoya September 9 about the turbulent history of the past elicited his thoughts about the present and future of his country. In a word, he is optimistic. Buyoya, looking fit and younger than his sixty years, said that until he came on the scene [...] | 2009-09-09 14:45:00 | Embassy Bujumbura | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PGOV BY |
09BUJUMBURA508 | AFTERMATH OF SOMALIA DEATHS: BURUNDI WILL STAY IN [...] (C) Summary. With all attention in Bujumbura centered on the funerals of the twelve soldiers killed in Somalia September 17, the event has generated discussion about whether Burundi should remain in AMISOM. At this time, the answer here is yes. Most calls are for an expansion of AMISOM's ma [...] | 2009-09-21 13:53:00 | Embassy Bujumbura | CONFIDENTIAL | KPKO MOPS AU BY SO |
09BUJUMBURA550 | RUSSIAN BUSINESS PRESENCE IN BURUNDI [C-CI9-01825] [...] (C) Please see following responses to questions posed reftel: A. (C) There is no Russian trade representative in Burundi. B. (C) There are no major Russian companies operating in Burundi. C. (C) NA; please see response to C. D. (C) Russian investment in Burundi is very limite [...] | 2009-10-08 10:42:00 | Embassy Bujumbura | CONFIDENTIAL | PINR BBSR ECON EINV BY |
09BUJUMBURA60 | BURUNDI: UN FIELD COVERAGE OF HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (C) SUMMARY: The UN's Human Rights operation in Burundi consists of two administratively separate but operationally integrated missions: the Office of the High Commission for Human Rights (OHCHR) and United Nations Integrated Bureau in Burundi (BINUB). Forty UN human rights employees are he [...] | 2009-02-03 09:35:00 | Embassy Bujumbura | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM USUN BY |
09BUJUMBURA627 | FRODEBU YOUTH ARE TALKING TOUGH - HOW FAR WILL [...] (C) SUMMARY: Patrick Nkurunziza, president of the FRODEBU party's youth wing, stated that the group's primary objective is to "protect the party" by acting as a "deterrent" against the intimidation efforts of the ruling party's youth, the Imbonerakure (ref A). To fulfill these goals, FRODEBU's [...] | 2009-11-17 16:50:00 | Embassy Bujumbura | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM BY |
09BUJUMBURA83 | BURUNDI LAWMAKERS VOTE OVERWHELMINGLY FOR [...] (U) The Burundian Senate and National Assembly confirmed February 13 President Nkurunziza's nomination of five individuals to the National Independent Electoral Commission (CENI),voting 41-5 and 108-4 in favor, respectively. The confirmed CENI members represent a compromise between Presiden [...] | 2009-02-18 15:01:00 | Embassy Bujumbura | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM BY |
09CAIRO1 | EGYPT: GAZA ROUND-UP: DECEMBER 31 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-01-01 02:45:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM KPAL IS EG |
09CAIRO1012 | SPLM'S CAIRO OFFICE HEAD ADDRESSES ISSUES IN EGYPT [...] No summary [...] | 2009-06-03 10:47:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PREF SU EG |
09CAIRO1013 | FORMER SUDANESE PM AL-SADIQ AL-MAHDI PRESENTS [...] No summary [...] | 2009-06-03 12:11:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL SU CD EG |
09CAIRO1014 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: U.N. HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL AND THE MANDATE OF THE SUDAN SPECIAL RAPPORTEUR REF: STATE 55852 Classified By: Minister Counselor for Economic and Political Affairs William R. Stewart for reasons 1.4 (b) and (d). [...] No summary [...] | 2009-06-03 14:26:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM SU EG |
09CAIRO1044 | COURT RELEASES 10 MEN DETAINED IN HOMOSEXUAL [...] No summary [...] | 2009-06-09 13:58:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM EG |
09CAIRO1058 | DEMARCHES DELIVERED: SUDAN SPECIAL RAPPORTEUR [...] No summary [...] | 2009-06-11 11:56:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM UN SU EG |
09CAIRO1059 | PARLIAMENTARY AFFAIRS MINISTER ON CT AND PLACES OF WORSHIP LAWS REF: A. CAIRO 858 B. CAIRO 814 Classified By: Ambassador Margaret Scobey for reason 1.4 (b). [...] No summary [...] | 2009-06-11 12:42:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM PTER KIRF KDEM EG |
09CAIRO107 | NORTH SINAI REACTION TO GAZA CONFLICT [...] (SBU) Summary: During a trip to the North Sinai Governorate on January 19-20, we met with local leaders and discussed the recent fighting in Gaza, and its effect on the neighboring communities in Egypt. All the leaders, with whom we met, noted that the local population--which is a mixture of [...] | 2009-01-22 14:15:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KPAL PREF EAID PHUM KISL ECON IS EG |
09CAIRO108 | JANUARY 18 SHARM AL SHAYKH: THE ANTI-DOHA [...] (C) Summary: Egypt convened on less than 24 hours notice, six European leaders, King Abdullah of Jordan, President Gul of Turkey, Palestinian President Abbas, and the SYGs of the UN and Arab League for a meeting in Sharm Al Shaykh January 18. The purpose of the meeting was the meeting itse [...] | 2009-01-22 14:37:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KPAL IS EG |
09CAIRO1089 | UNDER SECRETARY BURNS' JUNE 7 MEETING WITH ARAB LG [...] No summary [...] | 2009-06-15 12:30:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KPAL SY LE IZ IR SU IS EG |
09CAIRO1094 | IO DELEGATION'S POSITIVE MULTILATERAL HUMAN RIGHTS [...] No summary [...] | 2009-06-15 14:01:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM KISL UN EG |
09CAIRO1109 | COURT REJECTS CHRISTIAN CONVERT'S IDENTITY [...] No summary [...] | 2009-06-16 14:56:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV KIRF KISL SOCI EG |
09CAIRO1114 | EGYPT RESPONDS POSITIVELY TO END-USE TRAINING [...] No summary [...] | 2009-06-17 10:58:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PARM MASS ETTC EG |
09CAIRO1139 | MFA OFFICIALS STRIKE A POSITIVE TONE MFA OFFICIALS STRIKE A POSITIVE TONE WITH A/S BRIMMER REF: A. CAIRO 680 B. CAIRO 572 C. CAIRO 484 D. CAIRO 397 E. CAIRO 217 F. 08 CAIRO 2584 Classified By: Ambassador Margaret Scobey for reasons 1.4 (b) and (d). [...] No summary [...] | 2009-06-21 13:08:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM KWMN KPAL KPKO SCUL IS SU EG |
09CAIRO1140 | CIVIL SOCIETY LEADERS, U/S BURNS DISCUSS [...] No summary [...] | 2009-06-21 13:16:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM EG |
09CAIRO1143 | ARAB LEAGUE SYG MOUSSA ON JUNE 24 MINISTERIAL [...] No summary [...] | 2009-06-22 07:15:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KPAL IS EG |
09CAIRO1148 | AMENDMENT ON WOMEN'S POLITICAL PARTICIPATION AND [...] No summary [...] | 2009-06-22 10:34:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM KWMN PHUM SOCI EG |
09CAIRO1177 | EGYPTIAN MFA ON ARAB LG MINISTERIAL; LEBANON; YEMEN [...] No summary [...] | 2009-06-23 12:33:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV YE LE EG |
09CAIRO1180 | EGYPTIAN RESPONSE TO DEMARCHE ON AN INTERNATIONAL PIRACY COURT REF: STATE 58579 Classified By: Minister Counselor for Economic and Political Affairs William R. Stewart for reasons 1.4 (b) and (d). [...] No summary [...] | 2009-06-23 13:44:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHSA PGOV PHUM EWWT MARR KCRM SO EG |
09CAIRO1181 | NDP INSIDER PRESSING FOR HUMAN RIGHTS PROGRESS [...] No summary [...] | 2009-06-23 13:47:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM KIRF EG |
09CAIRO1182 | QUARTERLY UPDATE ON POLICE BRUTALITY CASES - JUNE [...] No summary [...] | 2009-06-23 13:54:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM SOCI EG |
09CAIRO1194 | MFA ON HIZBALLAH CELL, SMUGGLING, CT COOPERATION [...] (C) On June 23, MFA Coordinator for Counterterrorism and Deputy Assistant Minister Ashraf Mohsin told visiting S/CT officer Patrick Worman that the MFA believes Hizballah should be part of the political process in Lebanon. Mohsin said the GOE views Hizballah's terrorist operation in Egypt as [...] | 2009-06-25 14:56:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER CT UN IR LE EG |
09CAIRO1195 | SUDANESE DUP LEADER MIRGHANI ADVOCATES FOR [...] (C) Summary: -- Muhammad Osman Al Mirghani, leader of the Sudanese Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) and the Khatmiyya Sufi sect visited Egypt to ask the Government of Egypt's assistance in the implementation of the June 2005 Cairo Agreement. He suggested a conference to recommit signatories [...] | 2009-06-25 14:56:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL SU EG |
09CAIRO1196 | EGYPTIAN BLOGGERS FIXATED ON IRANIAN UNREST [...] KEY POINTS -- (U) Egyptian bloggers remain fixated on the unrest in Iran, even as the story drops from the front pages of local newspapers. -- (U) Bloggers have reported on developments, using traditional and "new" media sources, and posting photos and videos of the protests and killings. [...] | 2009-06-25 15:10:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM IR EG |
09CAIRO1220 | U.S.-EGYPT STRATEGIC DIALOGUE OF JUNE 7 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-06-30 03:51:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PARM PTER SCUL PHUM SU SO IR AF PK SY |
09CAIRO1222 | EGYPTIAN MFA REACTIONS TO 2009 TIP REPORT REF: A. 08 CAIRO 2525 B. 09 CAIRO 386 C. 09 CAIRO 721 Classified By: Minister Counselor for Economic and Political Affairs William R. Stewart for reasons 1.4 (b) and (d). [...] No summary [...] | 2009-06-30 07:20:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREF KCRM KWMN KJUS SOCI EG |
09CAIRO1226 | HIGH COURT GRANTS CUSTODY TO CHRISTIAN MOTHER, BUT RULES CHILDREN ARE MUSLIMS REF: A. CAIRO 1109 B. CAIRO 485 C. CAIRO 477 D. 07 CAIRO 2622 E. 07 CAIRO 1427 Classified By: Economic-Political Minister-Counselor William R. Stewart for reason 1.4 (d). [...] No summary [...] | 2009-06-30 12:49:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM KIRF SOCI EG |
09CAIRO1227 | EGYPT'S NEW AMBASSADOR TO IRAQ: SHARIF SHAHIN [...] (C) Ambassador met newly named Egyptian ambassador to Iraq, Sharif Shahin, on June 25. Shahin recently completed his first ambassadorial tour to Zambia and appeared enthusiastic about his appointment to Baghdad. His previous tours of duty included Lebanon (during the last years of the civil war and [...] | 2009-06-30 13:42:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL EG IZ |
09CAIRO1229 | INTERIOR MINISTRY EAGER TO CONTINUE POLICE TRAINING [...] No summary [...] | 2009-07-01 07:22:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM SNAR EG |
09CAIRO1231 | COURT SENTENCES JOURNALIST TO PRISON TERM FOR [...] No summary [...] | 2009-07-01 07:56:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV KDEM EG |
09CAIRO1258 | ARAB LEAGUE SECRETARIAT SEEKS FOLLOW-UP ON [...] No summary [...] | 2009-07-02 13:12:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | OPDC PREL KISL EG |
09CAIRO1259 | EGYPT WELCOMES PM VISIT TO DISCUSS END USE ISSUES [...] No summary [...] | 2009-07-02 13:22:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PARM MASS ETTC EG |
09CAIRO1261 | U.S.-EGYPT STRATEGIC DIALOGUE: STRUCTURAL PROPOSALS [...] (C) Key Points: -- The recent launch of a strategic dialogue (reftels) promises a more regular exchange with Egypt on a number of common areas of concern in the region and globally. -- The formal, government-to-government nature of the dialogue does not lend itself to productive exchanges relating [...] | 2009-07-02 13:32:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV EG |
09CAIRO1263 | GOE HOLDS PROMINENT BLOGGER AT AIRPORT, SEIZES HIS [...] (C) Blogger Wael Abbas told us GOE passport and customs officials held him at Cairo International Airport for 13 hours on June 30 upon his return from a conference in Sweden. Abbas said the officials did not ask him any questions, but searched him very thoroughly in what amounted "almost to a [...] | 2009-07-02 14:17:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM EG |
09CAIRO1266 | RUMORS OF THE DISSOLUTION OF EGYPT'S PARLIAMENT [...] No summary [...] | 2009-07-06 05:19:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM PHUM EG |
09CAIRO129 | EGYPT PROMOTING PEACE AND STABILITY IN SUDAN, [...] No summary [...] | 2009-01-25 15:08:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KCRM SU SO EG |
09CAIRO1301 | ARAB LEAGUE ON SUDAN AND SOMALIA [...] (C) Key Points: -- Zeid Al Sabban, African Affairs advisor to Arab League (AL) SYG Amre Moussa said that the recent meeting with A/S Carter and S/E Gration at the AU Summit was "very good." Moussa was upset by the allegation that Qatar was supporting the Somali Al Shibaab through funds given [...] | 2009-07-09 06:22:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER SO SU ER QA CD EG |
09CAIRO1305 | GOE JAILS JOURNALIST CONVICTED OF DEFAMATION REF: A. CAIRO 1231 B. CAIRO 284 C. CAIRO 180 D. 08 CAIRO 2152 E. 08 CAIRO 2122 Classified By: Economic-Political Minister-Counselor Donald Blome for reason 1.4 (d). [...] No summary [...] | 2009-07-09 12:06:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM EG |
09CAIRO1307 | SECURITY FORCES PREVENT COPTIC CEREMONY, [...] KEY POINTS -- (C) The Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR),a credible NGO, briefed us July 7 on its fact-finding mission to the village of Ezbet Boushra where sectarian clashes broke out June 21. -- (C) EIPR said the clashes began when security forces prevented village Copts fr [...] | 2009-07-09 15:04:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM KIRF EG |
09CAIRO1332 | GOE RELEASES JOURNALIST FROM PRISON AFTER FIVE DAYS [...] (C) On July 11, the GOE released independent editor Yasser Barakat from prison five days after police arrested him to implement a sentence imposed by Cairo Criminal Court June 24. The court handed down a six-month sentence against Barakat for allegedly defaming MP Mustafa Bakry in a November 2 [...] | 2009-07-13 12:40:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM EG |
09CAIRO1333 | EGYPT'S SPEAKER OF THE PEOPLE'S ASSEMBLY ON [...] No summary [...] | 2009-07-13 12:40:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM KWMN PHUM SOCI EG |
09CAIRO134 | IMPRISONED QURANIST BLOGGER RELEASED [...] No summary [...] | 2009-01-26 14:58:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PREL KIRF KISL EG |
09CAIRO1352 | SUDAN: SLA-MINAWI ADVOCATES FOR CONTINUING U.S. ROLE IN DARFUR [...] No summary [...] | 2009-07-14 12:25:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL SU CD EG |
09CAIRO1354 | MUBARAK-BASHIR MEETING; EGYPTIAN EFFORTS WITH [...] No summary [...] | 2009-07-14 14:42:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL SU EG |
09CAIRO1366 | EGYPT: PROPOSED EXAPANSION OF JUDICIAL BODY BRINGS [...] Key Points: -- (C) The proposed expansion by presidential decree of the constitutionally-mandated Supreme Judicial Council (SJC),the judiciary's governing body, has drawn fire from judges who accuse Minister of Justice Mamdouh Marei of seeking to exploit the changes to the SJC to increase the numb [...] | 2009-07-15 14:23:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KJUS PHUM EG |
09CAIRO1370 | MFA READOUT ON IRAQI FM ZEBARI VISIT [...] No summary [...] | 2009-07-16 05:25:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IZ EG |
09CAIRO1393 | POWER POLITICS AND CIVIL SOCIETY IN THE DELTA CITY [...] KEY POINTS -- (U) On July 15 we visited the Delta city of Mansoura, with a population of 1 million, high unemployment and a formerly agricultural economy transitioning to light manufacturing and other trade. -- (C) One local businessman and NGO leader told us that in the past six months t [...] | 2009-07-19 14:45:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM SOCI EG |
09CAIRO1394 | MINERS CLASH WITH POLICE IN UPPER EGYPT [...] (C) On July 16, in the most recent example of Egypt's ongoing wave of labor strikes and demonstrations (ref A),quarry workers and owners protesting a local government imposed tariff on cut stone clashed with police in the Upper Egyptian city of Minya. According to local media reports, a pol [...] | 2009-07-20 13:14:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | ELAB ECON PHUM PGOV KDEM EG |
09CAIRO1395 | EGYPT: DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON BIOMETRICS [...] (C) On July 19, we delivered reftel demarche to Deputy Assistant Foreign Minister and Coordinator for Counterterrorism Ashraf Mohsen. Mohsen was not familiar with the Regional Biometrics Partnership Conference and said the MFA had not received a conference invitation. He suggested that the invitati [...] | 2009-07-20 13:21:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER ASEC PREL EG JO |
09CAIRO1408 | EGYPT ON NILE RIGHTS AND THE NILE BASIN INITIATIVE [...] No summary [...] | 2009-07-21 14:31:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL EAGR ECON SU ET KE UG EG |
09CAIRO1410 | ARAB LEAGUE COS FOLLOW-UP ON US-ARAB COOPERATION; [...] No summary [...] | 2009-07-22 10:12:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KISL SCUL EG |
09CAIRO1412 | NAM SUMMIT IN SHARM EL SHEIKH FOCUSES ON RICH-POOR [...] No summary [...] | 2009-07-22 11:53:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PORG PARM EG |
09CAIRO142 | AYMAN NOUR LETTER TO PRESIDENT OBAMA [...] No summary [...] | 2009-01-27 10:15:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM KDEM EG |
09CAIRO1433 | MFA LOOKS AHEAD TO THIRD UN EXPERT VISIT, 2010 UPR [...] No summary [...] | 2009-07-27 05:27:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PTER SENV KIRF KTIP UN EG |
09CAIRO1447 | RECENT GOE ACTIONS TO SUPPRESS CRITICAL OPINION [...] KEY POINTS -- (C) A recent series of selective GOE actions against journalists, bloggers and even an amateur poet illustrates the variety of methods available to the GOE to suppress critical opinion, including an array of investigative authorities and public and private legal actions. -- [...] | 2009-07-28 14:48:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM EG |
09CAIRO1457 | EGYPT'S SHI'A CRACKDOWN [...] Key Points -- (C) According to Mohamed al-Darini (ref A),a leader of the Egyptian Shi'a Supreme Council of the Descendants of the Prophet, Egyptian security forces have arrested approximately 300 Shi'a since mid-April. The Council's headquarters has been shut down by authorities. -- ( [...] | 2009-07-30 04:29:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL KIRF KISL PTER EG IR |
09CAIRO1464 | "APRIL 6" MOVEMENT CONSOLIDATES RANKS, LOOKS [...] KEY POINTS -- (C) "April 6" movement leader Ahmed Saleh told us July 26 that the group has ejected Islamist and Nasserist members to try to preserve its secular, western orientation. -- (C) Saleh urged U.S. pressure on the GOE for international monitors for the 2010 and 2011 elections. He [...] | 2009-07-30 13:45:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM EG |
09CAIRO1465 | GOE YET TO TAKE POSITION ON JORDANIAN RED SEA [...] No summary [...] | 2009-07-30 13:53:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL SENV KWBG JO IS EG |
09CAIRO1495 | EGYPT'S BAHA'I FRUSTRATED WITH LACK OF PROGRESS ON [...] KEY POINTS -- (C) During a July 28 meeting, leaders of Egypt's Baha'i community reported no progress in obtaining government identification documents. -- (C) According to the Baha'i, following the April 15 issuance by the MoI of a decree establishing procedures for members of "unrecognized" religio [...] | 2009-08-03 13:41:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PREL KIRF EG |
09CAIRO1503 | FM ABOUL GHEIT ON MUBARAK VISIT, MB, STRATEGIC [...] (C) Key Points: -- FM Aboul Gheit said Egypt's main goal for the upcoming Washington visit was to build "rapport" between the two presidents, emphasizing Egypt's "strategic" relationship with the U.S. and continuing discussion of key regional issues. -- The Muslim Brotherhood remains a "challenge" [...] | 2009-08-04 10:53:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM KIRF EG |
09CAIRO1525 | NCP AND SPLM CAIRO OFFICE HEADS DISCUSS U.S. AND [...] No summary [...] | 2009-08-09 06:08:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL SU EG |
09CAIRO1531 | GOOD INTENTIONS FAIL TO MASK DOUBTS ABOUT GOE'S [...] No summary [...] | 2009-08-09 11:41:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV EAID EG |
09CAIRO1532 | STATE SECURITY'S SELECTIVE INTERFERENCE WITH CIVIL [...] KEY POINTS -- (C) Recent discussions with NGO contacts illustrate some of the factors which shape Interior Ministry State Security Investigative Services' (SSIS) decisions to interfere with certain civil society activities. -- (C) State Security seems to target certain NGO leaders based o [...] | 2009-08-09 13:28:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM EG |
09CAIRO1547 | STRIKES AND MOULIDS IN NILE DELTA TEXTILE CENTER [...] No summary [...] | 2009-08-09 14:54:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | ELAB PGOV PHUM KISL SOCI EG |
09CAIRO155 | PROSECUTION ACTS ON CRIMINAL CASE AGAINST SAAD [...] No summary [...] | 2009-01-29 13:18:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM PGOV KDEM EAID EG |
09CAIRO1550 | A/USTR WILSON'S MEETINGS WITH MINISTRY OF TRADE [...] No summary [...] | 2009-08-10 06:32:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD ECON ELAB EINV PGOV EG |
09CAIRO1556 | EGYPT ISSUES ID CARDS TO BAHA'IS [...] (SBU) On August 9, Egypt's Ministry of Interior (MoI) issued national identification cards to two Baha'is, teenage brother and sister Nancy and Imad Hindy. The identity cards include a dash in the field that normally reflects the bearer's religion (with the GoE recognized religions of Islam [...] | 2009-08-10 14:02:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PREL KIRF EG |
09CAIRO1559 | PDAS COUNTRYMAN MEETS WITH MOD OFFICIALS TO [...] Key Points: -- (C) On August 2, PM PDAS Tom Countryman led an interagency visit to Cairo to discuss recent potential violations of the Government of Egypt,s (GOE) end-use, retransfer, and security obligations involving U.S.-provided defense articles and defense services with the Ministry of [...] | 2009-08-11 11:41:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MASS ETTC PARM EG |
09CAIRO1571 | PM PDAS COUNTRYMAN TALKS PIRACY WITH EGYPTIAN [...] No summary [...] | 2009-08-12 09:35:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER EWWT KCRM SO EG |
09CAIRO1576 | MFA ON FATAH CONGRESS ELECTIONS, PALESTINIAN [...] (C) On August 11, Poloff met with new MFA Director of Palestinian Affairs, Hesham Seif al-Din and MFA Cabinet Advisor for Israeli-Palestinian Affairs, Ahmed Hamshari. Seif Al-Din said he was adopting a "wait and see" attitude towards the Fatah elections, but doubted that the elections would result [...] | 2009-08-13 11:05:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KPAL IS EG |
09CAIRO1578 | EGYPT'S INDEPENDENT TRADE UNION FLEXES MUSCLE [...] (SBU) On August 11, the Real Estate Tax Collector's Union (RETU),Egypt's only independent trade union, held a one day strike to protest a decision by the Ministry of Finance (MoF),the employer of RETU's 35,000 members, to give a rival state-controlled union responsibility for RETU members' pensio [...] | 2009-08-13 14:00:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | ELAB PGOV PHUM KDEM EG |
09CAIRO159 | JUDGE RELEASES POLICE OFFICER CHARGED WITH SAMALUT [...] No summary [...] | 2009-01-29 15:17:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV KDEM EG |
09CAIRO1615 | NEXT STEPS ON THENILE BASIN INITIATIVE REF: CAIRO 1506 Classified By: Minister Counselor for Economic and Political Affairs Donald A. Blome for reasons 1.4 (b) and (d). [...] No summary [...] | 2009-08-20 11:57:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL TSPL BY CG ET KE RW SU TZ UG EG |
09CAIRO1616 | ARAB LEAGUE ASSISTANCE TO SOMALIA AND SUDAN [...] No summary [...] | 2009-08-20 11:57:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL SO SU IZ EG |
09CAIRO1618 | EGYPTIAN MFA ADDRESSES PIRACY AND SOMALIA [...] He said the fisherman had "nothing to lose" because the GoE refused to pay a ransom to the pirates, and had discouraged the ship owners from doing the same. Marzouk had met personally with the families of the men to explain the GoE position and assured them that the MFA and Egyptian intelligence we [...] | 2009-08-20 14:36:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER MOPS MARR EWWT KCRM SO EG |
09CAIRO163 | DEVELOPMENT ISSUES IN NORTH SINAI [...] No summary [...] | 2009-02-01 05:04:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KPAL ECON PTER SNAR EAID EAGR EG IS |
09CAIRO1679 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: EGYPTIAN INVITATION TO ERITREA [...] (C) On August 24, OMC officers delivered reftel points to MG Ahmed Moataz, Chief of the U.S. Liaison Branch at the Ministry of Defense. Moataz confirmed that Egypt had already delivered an invitation to Eritrea to participate in the Bright Star military exercise as an observer, but noted that Eritr [...] | 2009-08-27 14:56:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MASS MOPS PTER ER EG |
09CAIRO1690 | S/E GRATION PARTICIPATES IN FOUR-PARTY TALKS ON [...] No summary [...] | 2009-08-30 13:55:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL LY SU EG |
09CAIRO1705 | S/E GRATION MEETS WITH ARAB SYG MOUSSA ON SUDAN [...] No summary [...] | 2009-09-02 06:09:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL SU EG |
09CAIRO1709 | UN 1267 (AL-QAIDA/TALIBAN) SANCTIONS: DEMARCHE [...] (SBU) On September 1, we delivered reftel demarche and provided the names of individuals currently under review to Deputy Assistant Foreign Minister and Coordinator for Counter Terrorism Ashraf Mohsen. 2. (C) Mohsen commented on a number of individuals under review. On Sayf al-Adl (QI.S [...] | 2009-09-02 13:56:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | KTFN EFIN PREL PTER UNSC EG |
09CAIRO1714 | EGYPT: NEXT STEPS ON SUDAN [...] No summary [...] | 2009-09-03 08:50:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL SU EG |
09CAIRO172 | EGYPTIAN COURT RULES IN FAVOR OF RECONVERT [...] No summary [...] | 2009-02-01 13:21:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV KIRF SOCI EG |
09CAIRO1723 | EGYPTIAN ISLAMIST MEETS WITH STAFFDEL HOGREFE [...] No summary [...] | 2009-09-03 14:59:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KISL EG |
09CAIRO1725 | GOE PROPOSES NEW MODEL FOR ECONOMIC ASSISTANCE [...] (C) Key Points: -- The GOE sees the current U.S. administration's desire to transform the bilateral relationship as an opportunity to revive proposals for USG economic assistance deemed unworkable in the past. -- The GOE's newest proposal closely mirrors its unacceptable November 2007 endowment/deb [...] | 2009-09-03 15:29:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID ECON PREL PGOV EG |
09CAIRO1727 | REQUEST FOR GUIDANCE ON GOE ECONOMIC ASSISTANCE [...] No summary [...] | 2009-09-03 16:02:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID ECON PREL PGOV EFIN EG |
09CAIRO1739 | EGYPT NOTIFIED OF DEPARTMENT OF LABOR LIST OF [...] No summary [...] | 2009-09-09 10:58:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | EIND ELAB ETRD PHUM SOCI EG |
09CAIRO1743 | EGYPTIAN VIEWS ON IAEA GC NEGOTIATIONS [...] (C) Summary: Key Egyptian interlocutors say Egypt has worked in good faith to achieve consensus in Vienna, including showing substantial flexibility on the GC President's initiative. They are willing to continue to work toward this goal via the now-circulated MES text. In the Egyptian view, Israe [...] | 2009-09-09 15:46:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KNNP PARM IAEA IS IR EG |
09CAIRO1758 | THE NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR CHILDHOOD AND MOTHERHOOD'S ANTI-TRAFFICKING EFFORTS Classified By: Minister Counselor for Economic and Political Affairs Donald A. Blome for reasons 1.4 (b) and (d). [...] No summary [...] | 2009-09-10 14:51:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KCRM KWMN KJUS SOCI EG |
09CAIRO1759 | EGIS CHIEF SOLIMAN AND U.S. AFRICA COMMAND DISCUSS [...] No summary [...] | 2009-09-10 14:58:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL SU SO EG |
09CAIRO1760 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: UN HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL [...] No summary [...] | 2009-09-10 15:44:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL UN UNHRC EG |
09CAIRO1761 | CHALLENGES OF SINAI ASSISTANCE [...] (C) Key Points: -- Although security restrictions and other factors associated with working in the Sinai will continue to make it more difficult to implement our programs there, progress is being made. -- In May 2009, the Governor of North Sinai agreed to help facilitate access, and USAI [...] | 2009-09-10 16:02:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID ECON PREL PGOV EG |
09CAIRO1787 | EGIS CHIEF SOLIMAN AND U.S. AFRICA COMMAND DISCUSS SUDAN AND SOMALIA [...] No summary [...] | 2009-09-15 10:19:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL SU SO EG |
09CAIRO1788 | ARAB LEAGUE SPOKESMAN BRIEFS ON SEPTEMBER MINISTERIAL [...] No summary [...] | 2009-09-15 10:48:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KPAL KWBG IS IZ WEU GZ SY SU EG |
09CAIRO1790 | EGYPTIAN MFA AND AFRICOM DELEGATION DISCUSS [...] MFA officials said there is a lack of evidence against the suspected pirates, and it is unclear whether the events occurred in Somali waters or on the high seas bringing into question the issue of Egyptian jurisdiction. End Key Points. 2.(C) A U.S. Africa Command (Africom) delegation including Dep [...] | 2009-09-15 10:55:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL SU SO EG |
09CAIRO1793 | TRADE MINISTER INTENT ON EXPANDING US-EGYPT TRADE TIES [...] No summary [...] | 2009-09-15 14:35:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD ECON PREL PGOV EG |
09CAIRO180 | JUDGE FINES FOUR EDITORS ON APPEAL, STRIKES PRISON [...] No summary [...] | 2009-02-02 11:40:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM EG |
09CAIRO1818 | TIP PROSECUTOR TALKS ABOUT THE COMPREHENSIVE TRAFFICKING LAW REF: CAIRO 1758 Classified By: Minister Counselor for Economic and Political Affairs Donald A. Blome for reasons 1.4 (b) and (d). [...] No summary [...] | 2009-09-17 15:09:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KCRM KWMN KJUS SOCI EG |
09CAIRO1819 | "APRIL 6 MOVEMENT" RAISES ITS PROFILE TO ATTRACT [...] KEY POINTS -- (C) On September 15, "April 6 Movement" leader Ahmed Saleh told us that the group is working to attract new members through a campaign of helping citizens "stand up for their rights" and receive government services. -- (C) As part of this effort, he said "April 6" has succes [...] | 2009-09-17 15:21:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM EG |
09CAIRO1834 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: CONSTRUCTIVE OUTCOME FROM THE GOLDSTONE REPORT REF: STATE 98567 Classified By: Economic-Political Minister-Counselor Donald A. Blome for reason 1.4 (b). [...] No summary [...] | 2009-09-23 14:33:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM PTER UN KISL KPAL IS EG |
09CAIRO1836 | UPDATE ON BLOGGER CASES - SEPTEMBER 2009 [...] KEY POINTS -- (C) Human rights attorney Gamal Eid, who represents all of Egypt's detained bloggers, told us September 15 he had learned through third party sources that prison officials have tortured jailed Coptic blogger Hany Nazir to pressure him to convert to Islam. The prison has not allowed [...] | 2009-09-23 15:01:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV KDEM KIRF EG |
09CAIRO1842 | EGYPT AND THE IAEA GENERAL CONFERENCE [...] (C) Embassy Cairo commends the efforts of US Mission Vienna to engage Egypt and Israel on the Middle East Safeguards (MES) text at the IAEA GC meetings in Vienna, described in ref a and b, and the positive outcome achieved on that resolution. We believe it represents in part a new approach from the [...] | 2009-09-24 12:14:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KNNP PARM EG |
09CAIRO1848 | EMBASSY RAISES HAASSMENT OF EGYPTIAN CONVERTS WTH MFA [...] No summary [...] | 2009-09-24 14:17:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PREL KIRF EG |
09CAIRO1850 | NDP INSIDER ON UPCOMING ELECTIONS AND LEGISLATION [...] KEY POINTS -- (C) On September 17, ruling National Democratic Party (NDP) Shura Council Member Hossam Badrawi told visiting NEA/ELA desk officer and poloff that high turnout in the 2010 parliamentary elections would benefit the NDP over the Muslim Brotherhood. -- (C) He called for a numbe [...] | 2009-09-24 14:27:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM KIRF EG |
09CAIRO1851 | AFRICAN AFFAIRS DISCUSSIONS AT THE ARAB LEAGUE [...] No summary [...] | 2009-09-24 14:29:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL SU SO MR EG |
09CAIRO1857 | ENGAGING AYMAN NOUR [...] No summary [...] | 2009-09-27 14:45:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM PHUM EG |
09CAIRO1858 | EGYPT ELECTIONS WORKING GROUP, STEP ONE REACHING [...] (C) Key Issues: -- Egypt's 2010 parliamentary and 2011 presidential elections come at a time of increased scrutiny following other high-profile and flawed elections in the region. -- In order to ensure comprehensive engagement on upcoming elections in Egypt, Embassy Cairo has initiated an Elections [...] | 2009-09-27 14:47:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM EG |
09CAIRO1888 | SUDAN: CAIRO-BASED FUR LEADER ON DARFUR PEACE [...] No summary [...] | 2009-10-01 14:21:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL SU EG |
09CAIRO1892 | FOUNDER OF EGYPT'S FIRST INDEPENDENT UNION ON [...] Key Points: -- (C) On September 30, Makram Labib, who with Kamal Abu Eita established the Real Estate Tax Collectors Union (RETU),Egypt's first independent trade union (ref B) since the 1950s, told us that RETU has achieved most of its economic objectives through negotiation with the Ministry of F [...] | 2009-10-01 15:59:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | ELAB PGOV PHUM KDEM EG |
09CAIRO1893 | REPORTS OF DIVISIONS WITHIN THE MB FOLLOWING THE [...] No summary [...] | 2009-10-01 16:20:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER PHUM KISL EG |
09CAIRO1897 | EGYPTIAN WATER MINISTER ON THE NILE BASIN INITIATIVE REF: CAIRO 1506 Classified By: Ambassador Margaret Scobey for reasons 1.4 (b) and (d). [...] No summary [...] | 2009-10-04 07:17:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL SU TZ ET CG EG |
09CAIRO1912 | CORRECTED COPY - UNESCO VOTE INCITES PRESS, GOE READY TO MOVE ON REF: A. PARIS 1301 B. CAIRO 1804 CAIRO 00001912 001.3 OF 002 Classified By: Ambassador Margaret Scobey for reasons 1.4 (b) and (d) [...] No summary [...] | 2009-10-05 14:03:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV UNESCO SCUL EG |
09CAIRO1917 | PETROLEUM MINISTER SEEKS U.S. INVESTMENT IN GAS [...] (C) Key Points: -- Minister of Petroleum Sameh Fahmy wants major U.S. oil companies to invest in five deepwater natural gas exploration blocks off Egypt's Mediterranean coast, according to a senior MOP official. -- Fahmy plans to travel to the U.S. in November 2009 and hopes to brief senior U.S. oi [...] | 2009-10-05 16:11:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD ECON BEXP EPET ENRG EINV EG |
09CAIRO1918 | EGYPTIAN GOVERNMENT PUSHES BACK ON THE NIQAB [...] Key points: -- (C) Leadership of both Islamic and secular educational institutions are increasingly critical of the niqab, a full facial veil exposing only the wearer's eyes, and have announced or intend soon to announce restrictions. These restrictions fall far short of a general prohibition. -- ( [...] | 2009-10-08 06:44:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KISL KIRF SOCI EG |
09CAIRO1924 | PRIME MINISTER DISCUSSES ESF, ELECTIONS, SINAI DEVELOPMENT, AND POST SAID EXPANSION [...] No summary [...] | 2009-10-08 15:36:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID ECON PREL PGOV EWWT ETRD EG |
09CAIRO1925 | UPDATE: PARLIAMENTARY AFFAIRS MINISTER ON [...] (C) Key Points: -- Minister of State for Legislative and Parliamentary Affairs Moufid Shehab confirmed that the new counter-terrorism law would be submitted to parliament by March 2010 in order to go into effect before the Emergency Law expires in May 2010. However, internal disagreements r [...] | 2009-10-08 16:25:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PRGOV PTER KIRF KDEM EG |
09CAIRO1926 | TRADE MINISTER ASSESSES BILATERAL RELATIONSHIP [...] (C) Following a discussion of general trade and economic issues (Cairo 1793),Minister of Trade Rachid asked for a few minutes alone with the Ambassador. He asked her assessment of the bilateral relationship. She noted that it had obviously improved, if for no other reason than that our two Preside [...] | 2009-10-08 16:36:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | BBSR BMGT EAGR EAID ECON PREL |
09CAIRO1927 | GOE MINISTERS SAY EGYPT REMAINS COMMITTED TO ECONOMIC REFORM [...] No summary [...] | 2009-10-08 16:44:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EAID EFIN EINV EG ETRD PGOV PREL |
09CAIRO1930 | DEFICIT FINANCING AND DEBT MANAGEMENT REF: 08CAIRO2408 Classified By: Minister Counselor for Economic and Political Affairs Do nald Blome for reasons 1.4 (b) and (d) [...] No summary [...] | 2009-10-08 16:57:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN EINV EG PGOV |
09CAIRO1932 | RACHID REVIEWS TRADE TIES, UPCOMING TRIP TO U.S. REF: A. CAIRO 1793 B. CAIRO 1550 C. CAIRO 1522 Classified By: Ambassador Margaret Scobey for reasons 1.4 (b) and (d) [...] No summary [...] | 2009-10-08 17:17:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD ECON PREL EFIN EAID EG |
09CAIRO1947 | DEMARCHE ON END-USE MONITORING [...] Key Points: -- On October 10, Ambassador delivered ref A demarche to Minister of Defense Tantawi, stressing that despite the lifting of holds on a proposed F-16 sale to Egypt, the Administration and Congress both share deep concerns about a pattern of end-use violations. -- Ambassador also emphasiz [...] | 2009-10-13 15:56:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ETTC MASS EG |
09CAIRO196 | ARAB LEAGUE COS ON "BLEAK" REGIONAL DYNAMICS [...] No summary [...] | 2009-02-04 10:14:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KPAL IS EG |
09CAIRO1960 | AMBASSADOR GOLDBERG DISCUSSES NORTH KOREA WITH MFA [...] (C) Key Points: -- During an October 4 meeting with Ambassador Goldberg, Deputy Assistant Foreign Minister for Disarmament Khalid Shamma said Egypt supports the implementation of UNSCR 1874 and Six-Party talks aimed at denuclearizing North Korea. -- He noted that MFA shares information on [...] | 2009-10-14 14:55:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KNNP PTER EFIN ECON PARM KN IR EG |
09CAIRO1967 | EGYPT TRAINS POLICE ON PROTECTING TRAFFICKING [...] (SBU) On October 11, Poloff attended the opening ceremony of an International Organization for Migration (IOM) training program for Egyptian law enforcement officials on "Protecting Victims of Trafficking and Investigating Traffickers." The two-week program, conducted under the auspices of Egypt's [...] | 2009-10-15 08:13:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | KTIP PHUM PREL PGOV EG |
09CAIRO1971 | NEWSPAPER SHUT DOWN OVER ALLEGING ACTORS' [...] No summary [...] | 2009-10-15 13:49:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM SOCI EG |
09CAIRO1975 | ALEXANDRIA: NDP, WAFD FOCUS ON SOCIAL SERVICES TO [...] KEY POINTS -- (C) In advance of the 2010/2011 elections, the ruling National Democratic Party (NDP) is working in Alexandria in cooperation with NGOs to improve the city's infrastructure and education. -- (C) NDP-linked and independent NGOs are working in poor areas to provide social serv [...] | 2009-10-18 16:05:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM EG |
09CAIRO1976 | TREASURY DAS DANIEL GLASER,S MEETINGS WITH [...] No summary [...] | 2009-10-19 07:52:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN KN PTER ECON PGOV EG |
09CAIRO1977 | EGYPT: POLITICAL ACTIVISTS SUGGEST CHANGE [...] (C) Key Points -- Political activists at an Ambassador-hosted lunch were pessimistic that the upcoming elections would offer opportunities for real change. -- Most agreed that voter apathy and low voter turnout in previous elections can be explained by the absence of a "political culture," pressu [...] | 2009-10-19 08:03:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM PHUM EG |
09CAIRO1984 | EGYPTIAN CONVERT CONVICTED OF FORGERY [...] (SBU) On October 14, a Cairo criminal court convicted Einas Refaat Mohamed Hassan, a convert from Islam to Christianity, of forgery for possessing a false national identity card. Hassan apparently used documents formerly belonging to a deceased Christian woman to obtain a national identity card lis [...] | 2009-10-19 14:51:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV KIRF KISL EG |
09CAIRO1993 | UNHCR CAIRO DISCUSSES REFUGEE CHALLENGES [...] No summary [...] | 2009-10-20 13:56:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PREF SU IZ SO ER IS EG |
09CAIRO1997 | ACTIVISTS' ANGER OVER U.S. POSITION ON GOLDSTONE REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2009-10-20 15:09:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM KPAL UN IS EG |
09CAIRO2 | EGYPT: GAZA ROUND-UP: DECEMBER 31 [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Arab League ministerial went into closed session at 1:00pm local time and as of 6:00 pm local time we have not gotten any comment on the status of the talks, either from the Egyptians or other delegations. Egypt closed and evacuated the Rafah terminal several times overn [...] | 2009-01-01 02:45:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM KPAL IS EG |
09CAIRO2011 | UPDATE ON REPORTS OF DIVISIONS WITHIN THE MUSLIM [...] No summary [...] | 2009-10-21 15:10:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM EG |
09CAIRO202 | SALAFISM ON THE RISE IN EGYPT [...] No summary [...] | 2009-02-04 14:13:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KISL PTER KIRF SOCI SCUL PGOV EG |
09CAIRO2022 | "APRIL 6" PLANS PARALLEL MEETING TO REFUTE NDP [...] No summary [...] | 2009-10-22 15:07:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM EG |
09CAIRO2031 | POLICE HARASSMENT AT NOUR EVENT [...] (C) Key Points: -- (C) Ayman Nour confirmed reports of police harassment at an event for artists and poets held on the evening of October 21 in support of his campaign against succession. Items seized by police were returned except a laptop used to store information about the campaign. Nou [...] | 2009-10-22 16:08:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM EG KDEM |
09CAIRO2044 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: UNGA THIRD COMMITTEE PRIORITIES [...] No summary [...] | 2009-10-26 16:04:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL UN EG |
09CAIRO2052 | 2009 HUMAN RIGHTS REPORT PREVIEW FOR THE MFA [...] No summary [...] | 2009-10-28 15:30:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM SOCI EG |
09CAIRO2065 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED - UN INERNATIONAL CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION - SUPPORTINGAMCIT NOMINATION [...] No summary [...] | 2009-10-29 17:36:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KAWC KJUS KUNR AORC AER UNGA EG |
09CAIRO2066 | AYMAN NOUR HARASSED IN HURGHADA [...] No summary [...] | 2009-10-29 17:49:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM EG |
09CAIRO2072 | NAVCENT DISCUSSES SUEZ CANAL TRANSIT PROCEDURES [...] (C) Key Points -- During a September 29 meeting, NAVCENT Deputy Commander Rear Admiral Cropper and Assistant Minister of Defense Major General al-Assar discussed Suez Canal transit procedures for U.S. naval vessels as part of an ongoing dialogue following the March 2008 Global Patriot incident. -- [...] | 2009-11-01 15:11:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MOPS MASS MARR EWWT EG |
09CAIRO208 | THE ARAB LEAGUE ON AFRICAN AFFAIRS [...] No summary [...] | 2009-02-04 15:41:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER UN MR SO SU EG |
09CAIRO2083 | EGYPT PROSECUTES FACILITATORS OF UNDER-AGE [...] Key Points: -- (SBU) On October 19, an Egyptian court in Al Gharbeya Governorate (in the Nile Delta region) sentenced a marriage registrar, or "ma'zoun," to two years in prison, under the provisions of the 2008 amendment to Egypt's child law, for registering the marriages of 144 girls under the age [...] | 2009-11-03 09:47:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | KTIP PHUM PREL PGOV EG |
09CAIRO209 | POWER TRIP: RESTRUCTURING THE PETROLEUM [...] No summary [...] | 2009-02-05 13:01:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG EPET PREL EG |
09CAIRO2111 | CIVIL SOCIETY'S EXPECTATIONS FOR ELECTIONS LOW, [...] No summary [...] | 2009-11-05 15:24:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM ELAB EG |
09CAIRO2112 | NOUR TRAVEL PERMISSION DENIED [...] No summary [...] | 2009-11-05 16:18:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM PHUM EG |
09CAIRO2129 | A/S CARSON AND EGIS CHIEF SOLIMAN'S OCTOBER 27 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-11-12 09:47:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL SO SU ER ET EG |
09CAIRO2130 | A/S CARSON'S OCTOBER 27 DISCUSSION OF AFRICAN [...] No summary [...] | 2009-11-12 09:47:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL SO SU ER CG EG |
09CAIRO2133 | ASD VERSHBOW'S NOV 3 MEETING WITH FOREIGN MINISTER [...] No summary [...] | 2009-11-15 12:58:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MASS MOPS PTER PARM SU IR EG |
09CAIRO2137 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: UNGA COUNTRY SPECIFIC HUMAN [...] No summary [...] | 2009-11-16 14:07:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM UNGA EG |
09CAIRO2155 | "APRIL 6" HOLDS PARALLEL NDP CONFERENCE DESPITE [...] No summary [...] | 2009-11-17 12:16:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM EG |
09CAIRO2157 | POPULATION MINISTER FOCUSING ON FAMILY PLANNING [...] No summary [...] | 2009-11-17 13:57:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL SOCI KWMN KIRF ELAB EG |
09CAIRO2158 | SUDAN: SPLM SPOKESMAN ADVOCATES PRESSURE ON NCP [...] No summary [...] | 2009-11-17 14:03:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL SU EG |
09CAIRO2164 | ACTIVISTS BELIEVE POLICE BRUTALITY CONTINUES [...] No summary [...] | 2009-11-17 15:27:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL SOCI KIRF EG |
09CAIRO2165 | EGYPT AND THE ARAB LEAGUE ON THE NEW U.S. SUDAN [...] No summary [...] | 2009-11-17 15:29:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL SU EG |
09CAIRO2166 | EGYPT: NDP READY TO RUN ON A "FOR YOU" PLATFORM REF: 2008 CAIRO 2310 Classified By: Minister-Counselor for Economic and Political Affairs Donald A. Blome [...] No summary [...] | 2009-11-17 15:37:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM EG |
09CAIRO217 | GOE RESUMES PRESS FOR HOSNY UNESCO CANDIDACY [...] No summary [...] | 2009-02-05 14:48:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV UNESCO SCUL EG |
09CAIRO2172 | SCENESETTER FOR U/S HORMATS MEETING WITH MINISTER [...] No summary [...] | 2009-11-19 08:20:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EAID ETRD PGOV PREL EG |
09CAIRO2176 | EGYPT'S MUFTI ON NIQAB CONTROVERSY [...] Key Points -- (C) In a November 9 meeting with the Ambassador, Egypt's Grand Mufti Ali Gom'aa said that while the niqab (full-facial veil) is not a requirement in Islam, women should have the right to wear it if they chose. -- (C) Commenting on sectarian strife in Egypt, the Mufti said that formal [...] | 2009-11-19 10:37:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | KISL SOCI KIRF KPAO KWMN EG |
09CAIRO218 | EGYPTIAN VIEWS ON COUNTER PIRACY, SOMALIA AND SUDAN REF: A. KHARTOUM 51 B. KHARTOUM 75 Classified By: Minister Counselor for Economic and Political Affairs William R. Stewart for reasons 1.4 (b) and (d). [...] No summary [...] | 2009-02-05 15:09:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER KCRM EWWT SO SU EG |
09CAIRO2180 | AL MAHDI DISCUSSES SUDAN POLITICAL DYNAMICS [...] No summary [...] | 2009-11-19 15:36:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL SU EG |
09CAIRO2183 | EGYPT: MB LEADERS RELEASED [...] No summary [...] | 2009-11-19 16:12:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM KJUS PTER EG |
09CAIRO219 | TEN MEN DETAINED FOR ALLEGED HOMOSEXUAL [...] No summary [...] | 2009-02-05 15:13:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM SOCI EG |
09CAIRO2195 | EGYPTIAN MFA ADVISOR ON SUDAN, NILE BASIN REF: 08 CAIRO 1963 Classified By: Minister Counselor for Economic and Political Affairs Donald A. Blome for reasons 1.4 (b) and (d). [...] No summary [...] | 2009-11-24 06:24:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL SU BY TZ UG EG |
09CAIRO2207 | EGYPTIAN TEXTILE FACTORY STRIKE ENDS [...] Key Points: -- (SBU) Workers at Tanta Flax and Oil Company, a large textile factory in the Nile Delta City of Tanta (Gharabeya Governorate),who had been on strike since May, returned to work on November 21. -- (SBU) The strike, which the GoE-controlled General Union of Textile Workers supported, e [...] | 2009-11-25 15:08:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | ELAB PGOV PHUM SOCI EG |
09CAIRO2209 | MUBARAK'S ANNUAL SPEECH TO PARLIAMENT OFFERS [...] No summary [...] | 2009-11-25 15:27:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM KJUS ECON EG |
09CAIRO2210 | GAMAL MUBARAK CHAMPIONS HEALTH CARE REFORM AND [...] No summary [...] | 2009-11-25 15:36:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM ECON EG |
09CAIRO2229 | EGYPTIAN QURANIST DETAINED, RELEASED [...] Key Points: -- (SBU) On November 18, security officials at Cairo International Airport detained Abdel Latif Mohamed Saied, a member of the heterodox Islamic Quranist movement, when he attempted to board a flight for Khartoum. -- (C) On November 24, Embassy Cairo raised Saied's detention with Deputy [...] | 2009-12-02 14:34:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV KIRF KISL EG |
09CAIRO2236 | EGYPTIAN GOVERNMENT ASSERTS TIP PROGRESS TO [...] (SBU) Ambassador at Large for Combating Human Trafficking Luis CDeBaca visited Egypt November 13 through 15 and met with GoE officials and others involved in Egypt's anti-trafficikng efforts, including Egypt's Public Prosecutor Abdel Maguid Mahmoud, Egypt's Minister of State for Family and Populati [...] | 2009-12-03 12:29:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | KTIP PHUM KCRM KWMN ELAB PGOV UN EG |
09CAIRO2258 | ASWAN: GOE ENLISTS LOYAL NGOS TO COOPERATE ON [...] No summary [...] | 2009-12-07 12:21:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM SOCI EG |
09CAIRO2268 | MIXED CIVIL SOCIETY REACTION TO UN ANTI-CORRUPTION [...] No summary [...] | 2009-12-08 12:43:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM UN EG |
09CAIRO2277 | GOE UPR HUMAN RIGHTS REPORT FOCUSES ON COMMITMENTS, BUT IS SHORT ON DETAILS REF: A. CAIRO 2164 B. CAIRO 1948 C. CAIRO 1925 D. CAIRO 1836 E. CAIRO 1433 F. CAIRO 814 Classified By: Economic-Political Minister-Counselor Donald A. Blome for reason 1.4 (b). [...] No summary [...] | 2009-12-10 12:11:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM KIRF KTIP CT UN EG |
09CAIRO2279 | EGYPT: EL BARADEI'S "CONDITIONED" PRESIDENTIAL RUN [...] No summary [...] | 2009-12-10 13:35:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM EG |
09CAIRO229 | STATE SECURITY DETAINS EGYPTIAN-GERMAN BLOGGER AND GAZA ACTIVIST REF: A. 09 CAIRO 79 B. 08 CAIRO 2431 C. 08 CAIRO 862 D. 08 CAIRO 797 Classified By: ECPO Mincouns William R. Stewart for reasons 1.4 (b) and (d). [...] No summary [...] | 2009-02-09 15:29:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV KDEM KPAL GE EG |
09CAIRO2292 | BANKING REFORM CONTINUES BUT IS NARROWLY FOCUSED [...] No summary [...] | 2009-12-14 07:38:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN PGOV EG |
09CAIRO2297 | EGYPT'S "INVISIBLE" REFUGEES [...] No summary [...] | 2009-12-15 12:09:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PREL SO ET EG |
09CAIRO2298 | EGYPT: MB INTERNAL CLASHES CONTINUE [...] No summary [...] | 2009-12-15 14:01:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM KJUS PTER EG |
09CAIRO2299 | NDP REFORMER SEES LIMITED OPPORTUNITIES FOR PROGRESS REF: A. CAIRO 2283 B. CAIRO 2166 C. CAIRO 1850 D. CAIRO 1181 Classified By: Economic-Political Minister-Counselor Donald A. Blome for reasons 1.4 (b) and (d). [...] No summary [...] | 2009-12-15 14:57:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PTER KDEM EG |
09CAIRO230 | EGYPTIANS SEEK USG SUPPORT FOR G20 AND G8 MEETINGS [...] No summary [...] | 2009-02-09 15:51:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN OVIP PREL PGOV ECON IT UK EG |
09CAIRO2301 | EGYPTIAN LABOR ACTIVISM AS A POLITICAL FORCE [...] Key Points: - (SBU) In 2009, there have been over 300 strikes and other worker protests in Egypt, despite legal restrictions and a lack of support for strikers from GoE-affiliated trade unions. -- (C) Worker activism is driven by economic, not political, concerns. Some workers' rights advocates non [...] | 2009-12-15 15:30:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | ELAB PGOV PHUM SOCI EG |
09CAIRO2302 | EGYPT'S PRESS SYNDICATE ELECTIONS [...] No summary [...] | 2009-12-15 15:46:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | ELAB KDEM KPAO PGOV EG |
09CAIRO2308 | EGYPT: CAN KIFAYA REGAIN LOST MOMENTUM? [...] No summary [...] | 2009-12-17 12:41:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM PHUM EG |
09CAIRO2309 | SUBSIDY REFORM PROGRESSING SLOWLY - GOE LOOKS TO [...] No summary [...] | 2009-12-17 13:48:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ETRD EFIN EINV PGOV ENRG EG |
09CAIRO2311 | ORASCOM TELECOM FACES FINANCIAL CHALLENGES FROM ALGERIAN GOVERNMENT ACTIONS REF: CAIRO 02261 Classified By: Minister Counselor for Economic and Political Affairs Do nald A. Blome [...] No summary [...] | 2009-12-17 14:02:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN PGOV EINV ETRD EG AG |
09CAIRO2312 | ISRAELIS NOT UPBEAT ON PROSPECTS FOR BILATERAL [...] No summary [...] | 2009-12-17 14:08:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ETRD EFIN EINV PGOV PREL EG IS |
09CAIRO2320 | THE MYSTERIES OF EGYPT'S HEALTH CARE REFORM [...] No summary [...] | 2009-12-17 15:59:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EAID ECON SOCI EG |
09CAIRO2321 | EGYPT'S EXPORT SUBSIDIES ARE HERE TO STAY [...] No summary [...] | 2009-12-17 16:01:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EG ETRD EFIN PGOV |
09CAIRO2323 | AMBASSADOR, HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVIST DISCUSS SECRETARY'S SPEECH, ELECTIONS, SUCCESSION REF: A. CAIRO 2299 B. CAIRO 2283 C. CAIRO 2277 D. CAIRO 1925 Classified By: Ambassador Margaret Scobey for reasons 1.4 (b) and (d). [...] No summary [...] | 2009-12-17 16:59:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PTER KDEM EAID EG |
09CAIRO2355 | EGYPT UNSUCCESSFUL IN SWAYING UPSTREAM NILE BASIN COUNTRIES REF: A. CAIRO 1897 B. CAIRO 1506 C. CAIRO 1615 Classified By: Counselor for Economic and Political Affairs Stephen P. O'Dowd for reasons 1.4 (b) and (d). [...] No summary [...] | 2009-12-23 10:40:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EAID TZ KE ET SU EG |
09CAIRO2356 | EGYPTIAN MFA DISCUSSES SUDAN AND SOMALIA [...] No summary [...] | 2009-12-23 10:41:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL SU SO EG |
09CAIRO2371 | GOE MISSING TRADE OPPORTUNITIES WITH U.S., ISRAEL [...] No summary [...] | 2009-12-27 12:43:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EG ETRD PGOV |
09CAIRO2380 | EGYPT'S GOVERNMENT-BACKED UNION LEADER ON STRIKES, [...] Key points: -- (SBU) On December 22, we met with XXXXXXXXXXXX a GoE-controlled trade union umbrella organization. XXXXXXXXXXXX one of 23 ETUF-member unions, also participated in the meeting. -- (C) According to XXXXXXXXXXXX, XXXXXXXXXXXX does not oppose strikes, which he believes are necessary in s [...] | 2009-12-28 15:01:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | ELAB PGOV PHUM SOCI EG |
09CAIRO2381 | AUSTR STRICKLER REASSURES GOE, BUSINESS ON QIZ [...] No summary [...] | 2009-12-28 15:10:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | EAGR ECON EG ETRD PGOV |
09CAIRO2384 | SPLM DELEGATION DISCUSSES SUDAN ISSUES WITH EGIS [...] No summary [...] | 2009-12-29 10:07:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL SU EG |
09CAIRO2388 | ARAB LG COS ON ARAB DEVELOPMENT, IRAQ, IRAN, YEMEN, AND MOUSSA'S FUTURE PLANS Classified By: MINISTER-COUNSELOR DONALD A. BLOME REASONS: 1.4 (B) and (D) [...] No summary [...] | 2009-12-29 14:11:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV YE IR IZ EG |
09CAIRO2395 | EGYPT: POSSIBLE PRESIDENTIAL ASPIRATIONS SPARK CONSTITUTIONAL DEBATE REF: CAIRO 2279 Classified By: Economic-Political Minister-Counselor Donald A. Blome for reason 1.4 (d). [...] Key Points: -- (SBU) Former IEEA Chairman Mohamed El Baradei's December 4 statement (ref A) outlining needed constitutional reforms for him to consider a presidential bid has fueled critical public discussion of Egypt's Constitution, particularly the articles dealing with presidential eligibility, [...] | 2009-12-30 14:52:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM EG |
09CAIRO2396 | 100 GAZA MARCHERS EN ROUTE RAFAH [...] No summary [...] | 2009-12-30 14:59:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL CASC ASEC EG |
09CAIRO2403 | REPORTS OF CANADA-EGYPT FTA TALKS INACCURATE [...] No summary [...] | 2009-12-30 15:25:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | EAGR EG ENIV ETRD PGOV |
09CAIRO2404 | EGYPT-U.S. JOINT STANDING COMMITTEE ON NUCLEAR [...] (C) Main Points: -- During upcoming JSCNEC meetings in Cairo GOE wants a tight focus, both in agenda and in delegation composition, on technical issues related to Egypt's expanding civil nuclear power development. -- GOE flagged several civil nuclear issues as already the subject of GOE consultatio [...] | 2009-12-30 15:36:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | AORC EG EU IAEA KNNP PREL RS TRGY UN |
09CAIRO242 | STATE SECURITY RESPONDS TO DRAFT LETTER ON POLICE [...] No summary [...] | 2009-02-10 15:10:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM EG |
09CAIRO243 | BLOGGER POSTS GRAPHIC VIDEO OF ALLEGED POLICE SODOMY REF: A. 09 CAIRO 79 B. 07 CAIRO 3214 Classified By: ECPO Mincouns William R. Stewart for reason 1.4 (d). [...] No summary [...] | 2009-02-10 15:20:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM SOCI EG |
09CAIRO246 | AYMAN NOUR-RELATED DEVELOPMENTS [...] No summary [...] | 2009-02-11 10:25:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM EG |
09CAIRO255 | GOE RELEASES EGYPTIAN-GERMAN BLOGGER, CRACKS DOWN [...] No summary [...] | 2009-02-11 14:43:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM GE EG |
09CAIRO267 | UNHCR UPDATES ON REFUGEE SITUATION IN CAIRO [...] (C) Summary: We attended the Cairo Office of the United Nations High Commission for Refugees' (UNHCR) multilateral meeting on February 4 to discuss refugee developments and UNHCR's plans for 2009. UNHCR partners, NGO's, and western embassies also participated. Following the meeting, UNHCR Re [...] | 2009-02-12 15:14:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PREL PHUM PGOV ECON ELAB SU ER ET SO |
09CAIRO283 | MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD'S PARTY PLATFORM INDEFINITELY [...] No summary [...] | 2009-02-17 14:37:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KISL KDEM EG |
09CAIRO284 | COURT FINES INDEPENDENT JOURNALIST FOR DEFAMING CONTROVERSIAL MP REF: A. CAIRO 180 B. CAIRO 70 C. 08 CAIRO 2405 D. 08 CAIRO 2280 E. 08 CAIRO 2198 F. 08 CAIRO 2001 Classified By: ECPO Counselor Catherine Hill-Herndon per 1.4 (d). [...] No summary [...] | 2009-02-17 15:41:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV KDEM EG |
09CAIRO288 | FOR THE FIRST TIME, THE GOE AGREES TO A SPECIAL [...] No summary [...] | 2009-02-18 09:15:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM EG |
09CAIRO290 | SMUGGLING TUNNEL DETECTED AND DESTROYED, SECURITY [...] (C) Summary: On January 28, Egypt re-started the implementation of a $23 million FMF-funded tunnel detection program along the Egypt-Gaza border, put on hold during Israel's incursion into Gaza. A new 24-man Tunnel Detection Unit (TDU) completed training on January 26 and is working alongside the U [...] | 2009-02-18 09:50:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PARM MASS MOPS PTER ASEC KPAL IS EG |
09CAIRO300 | AYMAN NOUR'S RELEASE [...] No summary [...] | 2009-02-19 09:55:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM EG |
09CAIRO321 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: URGING SUPPORT FOR DURBAN [...] No summary [...] | 2009-02-22 15:56:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL UNHRC EG |
09CAIRO323 | PARLIAMENTARY SPEAKER ON UPCOMING LEGISLATION [...] No summary [...] | 2009-02-23 12:31:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM KISL IR EG |
09CAIRO325 | CIVIL SOCIETY ACTIVISTS OFFER MIXED ASSESSMENT OF THE POLITICAL ENVIRONMENT REF: CAIRO 246 Classified By: Ambassador Margaret Scobey for reason 1.4 (d). [...] No summary [...] | 2009-02-23 12:59:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM KCOR ECON EFIN EG |
09CAIRO327 | LT GENERAL NORTH DISCUSSES GAZA, PIRACY, AND [...] (C) On January 26, AFCENT Commander Lieutenant General North met with MOD Chief of Staff General Sami Enan to discuss Gaza, piracy, and increased bilateral military cooperation. Enan looked forward to an increased U.S. focus on the Middle East under the Obama administration and enhanced bilateral m [...] | 2009-02-23 13:55:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MASS MOPS PARM KPAL IS IR EG XF |
09CAIRO328 | DINNER WITH PARLIAMENT'S FOREIGN RELATIONS [...] (C) Summary: On February 22, the DCM hosted a dinner for several members of the Foreign Relations Committee of the People's Assembly. The attendees included two National Democratic Party (NDP) MP's, one independent, and two Muslim Brotherhood (MB) parliamentarians, including the head of the M [...] | 2009-02-23 13:57:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM KISL PTER EAID KPAL PA IS EG |
09CAIRO330 | ACTIVISTS DISCUSS WAY FORWARD ON REFORM WITH [...] (C) Summary: On February 18, civil society activists and an opposition party leader discussed democratic reform in Egypt with Senator Joseph Lieberman (I-CT),the Ambassador and the DCM. President of the Egyptian Organization for Human Rights Hisham Kassem said that over the next 15 years Egy [...] | 2009-02-23 16:24:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM PGOV KDEM KPAL IS EG |
09CAIRO339 | DARFUR LEADER MINNI MINAWI'S VISIT TO CAIRO [...] (C) Summary: We met with Minni Minawi, SLA leader and Chairman of the Transitional Darfur Regional Authority on February 19, and his foreign affairs advisor on February 12. During his three-day visit to Cairo, Minawi met with President Mubarak, EGIS Chief Soliman, Field Marshall Tantawi, and F [...] | 2009-02-24 16:18:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EAID SU EG |
09CAIRO349 | EGYPTIANS SIGNALLING WILLINGNESS TO RESOLVE ESF [...] (C) Summary: Ministers of Finance and International Cooperation both indicated unofficially to the Ambassador recently that they believed the GOE would agree to the FY2009 level of $200 million for ESF if the U.S. could acknowledge that the process of setting the amount had been unilateral [...] | 2009-02-26 09:44:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID EFIN PREL EG |
09CAIRO358 | WHAT DOES EGYPT WANT OUT OF THE GAZA [...] (C) Summary: The Egyptians see the March 2 Gaza Reconstruction Conference as validation of their role as the regional leader in forging peace between the Israelis and the Palestinians. Their goals for the conference are straightforward: they want to be seen as helping the Palestinian people [...] | 2009-02-26 19:07:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EAID KPAL EG IS XF |
09CAIRO378 | GOVERNMENT OF EGYPT'S UPDATE ON REFUGEES [...] (C) Summary: Egyptian MFA Refugee Office Director Tarek Maaty told us on February 9 that the disagreement over the UN High Commissioner for Refugees' call to open the Gaza borders had passed (reftel). He said that a senior UNHCR official will come to Cairo to work on a combined vision for refu [...] | 2009-03-03 11:36:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREF PHUM PREL ER SO SU EG |
09CAIRO380 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: UN HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL [...] (C) On March 3, we demarched MFA Deputy Director for Human Rights Omar Shalaby regarding the U.S. decisions on resuming participation as an observer at the UN Human Rights Council, and on the Durban Review Conference (ref A). We also delivered the Cairo-specific points per ref A. On Durban, [...] | 2009-03-03 14:49:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL UNHRC EG |
09CAIRO393 | AYMAN NOUR DISCUSSES HIS RELEASE, FUTURE [...] KEY POINTS -- (C) On February 26, poloff met with former presidential candidate and opposition party leader Ayman Nour, who was released from an Egyptian prison on February 18, and his wife, Gameela Ismail. -- (C) Before Nour arrived, Ismail told poloff that on the day of his release, [...] | 2009-03-05 14:04:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM EG |
09CAIRO397 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: UNHRC FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION [...] (C) On March 5, we demarched MFA Deputy Director for Human Rights Omar Shalaby on Egyptian plans to sponsor a freedom of expression resolution at the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) March session, urging Egypt not to pre-empt Canada (ref A). Shalaby responded that Egypt's position is that the [...] | 2009-03-05 14:48:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL UN EG |
09CAIRO402 | EGYPT: COMMENTS ON DOL'S DRAFT LIST OF GOODS [...] (C) Post appreciates the opportunity to comment on the Department of Labor's (DOL) draft list of goods that it has evidence are produced with child or forced labor. (ref A) For Egypt, the DOL proposes listing limestone and cotton as such goods. 2. (SBU) With respect to limestone, Post rec [...] | 2009-03-08 13:36:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | EAGR EIND ELAB ETRD PHUM SOCI EG |
09CAIRO404 | EMBASSY CAIRO DELIVERS DEMARCHE ON GOVERNMENT OF [...] (C) Post delivered reftel demarche on the Government of Sudan's (GOS) decision to expel NGOs to Hisham Youssef, Chief of Staff of the Arab League, and to Ahmed Abu Zeid, Egyptian MFA Cabinet Advisor on African Affairs on March 8. Youssef told us that the Arab League (AL) shares our concerns ab [...] | 2009-03-08 15:11:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KPKO SU EG |
09CAIRO415 | EGYPT DISTRESSED BY BASHIR ARREST WARRANT [...] Key Points -- (C) The Government of Egypt (GOE) is "very disturbed" about the ICC arrest warrant for Sudanese President Bashir, and concerned that the warrant will have an negative effect on the situation in Darfur and CPA implementation. -- (C) FM Aboul Gheit sent a note verbale to the P- [...] | 2009-03-11 11:12:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KPKO SU EG |
09CAIRO416 | ARAB LEAGUE CONCERNED ARREST WARRANT THREATENS [...] Key Points -- (C) The Arab League (AL) believes that the ICC arrest warrant for Sudanese President Bashir threatens the peace and stability of Sudan, but the AL advisor on African Affairs to SYG Moussa told us that the Doha peace talks were still possible because the genocide charge was dism [...] | 2009-03-11 11:41:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KPKO SU EG |
09CAIRO428 | MAHALLA ONE YEAR AFTER THE STRIKE [...] KEY POINTS -- (C) On March 10, we visited Misr Spinning & Weaving Company in the Egyptian Nile Delta city of Mahalla, the largest manufacturing company in Egypt and a hotbed of labor activism. The factory's workers staged a wildcat strike in April 2008, sparking violent riots in Mahalla ( [...] | 2009-03-12 13:59:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | ELAB ECON PGOV PREL KDEM EG |
09CAIRO44 | PROGRESS ON WOMEN'S ISSUES, DESPITE SOME GOE [...] (C) Summary and comment: The past six months have seen significant progress on women's issues in Egypt. Recent advances for women on combating female genital mutilation (FGM) and sexual harassment and assault have stood out in an environment characterized by backsliding on issues such as pre [...] | 2009-01-12 09:02:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM SOCI KWMN KISL KIRF EG |
09CAIRO447 | EGYPT: G-20 SUMMIT PARTICIPATION [...] (C) Key points: -- In a March 14 meeting with the Ambassador, Foreign Minister Aboul Gheit asked the U.S. to encourage the British to issue a "last minute" invitation to Egyptian President Mubarak to attend the G-20 summit in London, hinting that Egypt would be prepared to deliver on some [...] | 2009-03-16 10:40:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ECON PREL EG |
09CAIRO45 | RISING ANGER OVER GAZA [...] (C) Summary and comment: Egyptians are seething over Israeli military operations in Gaza. The January 9 "Day of Anger and Solidarity with Gaza," supported by a range of Egyptian opposition forces, most prominently the Muslim Brotherhood (MB),featured the largest protests since the crisis bega [...] | 2009-01-12 09:27:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KISL KPAL IS PA EG |
09CAIRO452 | INDEPENDENT JOURNALISTS FINED FOR VIOLATING GAG [...] (C) On February 26, a Cairo court fined the editors of the independent newspapers "Al-Masry Al-Youm" and "Al Wafd," and three reporters from the papers, LE 10,000 (1,800 USD) each for allegedly violating a November 16, 2008 gag order on the ongoing murder trial of regime insider Hisham Talat Mu [...] | 2009-03-16 15:07:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV KDEM EG |
09CAIRO453 | EGYPT'S BAHA'I WIN LEGAL BATTLE [...] KEY POINTS - (SBU) On March 16, Egypt's Supreme Administrative Court dismissed a legal challenge filed by an Islamist lawyer that had heretofore blocked the implementation of a January 2008 court decision directing the Ministry of Interior (MoI) to issue identification documents to members [...] | 2009-03-16 15:07:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PREL KIRF KDEM EG |
09CAIRO462 | EGYPT: ADDITIONAL CONCERNS REGARDING DRAFT LIST OF [...] No summary [...] | 2009-03-17 15:33:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | EAGR EIND ELAB ETRD PHUM SOCI EG |
09CAIRO463 | AMBASSADOR PRESSES FOREIGN MINISTER ON FREEDOM OF [...] (C) On March 14, the Ambassador spoke to Foreign Minister Aboul Gheit regarding Egypt's tabling of a freedom of expression resolution at the current session of the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC). She urged Egypt to withdraw its text to allow Canada to a run a resolution at the June session of [...] | 2009-03-17 15:34:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL UN EU UK EG |
09CAIRO464 | NDP OFFICIALS ON PARTY DYNAMICS, POLITICAL PARTIES [...] No summary [...] | 2009-03-17 15:45:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM EG |
09CAIRO477 | EGYPTIAN CONVERT STRUGGLES FOR ACCEPTANCE [...] No summary [...] | 2009-03-19 14:53:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV KIRF KISL SOCI EG |
09CAIRO484 | PRESSING THE GOE ON FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION [...] (C) On March 22, Economic-Political Minister-Counselor underscored the U.S. position on the 2009 UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) Freedom of Expression Resolution to MFA Deputy Assistant Minister for North American Affairs Amin Meleika. Mincouns emphasized that the U.S. strongly believes Canad [...] | 2009-03-22 15:15:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM UN KDEM EG |
09CAIRO485 | RELIGIOUS FREEDOM DISCUSSION WITH EGYPT'S MFA [...] No summary [...] | 2009-03-22 15:34:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL KIRF EG |
09CAIRO515 | EGYPT: ESF DISCUSSION WITH MINISTER OF [...] (C) Key points: -- In a March 23 meeting, Minister of International cooperation Aboulnaga told the Ambassador that Egypt is "very pleased" with the approach taken by the new Administration but is concerned that any proposed ESF for FY 2010 should demonstrate USG commitment to compensate Eg [...] | 2009-03-25 11:57:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID ECON EFIN PREL PARM EG |
09CAIRO520 | AMBASSADOR'S DEMARCHE TO FM ABOUL GHEIT ON SUDAN [...] (C) The Ambassador spoke with Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Ghayt at opening of business Wednesday, March 25, conveying reftel points regarding the visit of Sudanese President Bashir to Egypt. She stressed that the U.S. could not accept any justification for denying humanitarian assistance to [...] | 2009-03-25 14:43:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | KPAL KPKO PGOV PHUM PREL SU EG |
09CAIRO532 | EGYPT SEEKS ENGAGEMENT WITH U.S. ON SUDAN [...] (C) Key Points --The Government of Egypt (GOE) views stability in Sudan as essential to its national security because of concern over its access to Nile waters and increased Sudanese refugee flow into Egypt. --Egypt disapproves of the GOS' expulsion of NGOs from Darfur, and is focused fin [...] | 2009-03-26 15:31:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KPKO PHUM QA SU EG |
09CAIRO544 | BLOGGERS MOVING FROM ACTIVISM TO BROADENING DISCOURSE AND SELF-EXPRESSION [...] No summary [...] | 2009-03-30 13:36:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM KIRF KWMN SOCI EG |
09CAIRO547 | EGYPTIAN SHI'A LEADER ON RELATIONS WITH GOE, IRAN [...] Key Points: --(C) We met recently with Mohamed al-Darini, leader of the Supreme Council of the Descendants of the Prophet, an Egyptian Shi'a organization. According to al-Darini, there are approximately 60,000 Shi'a in Egypt, not counting Iraqi refugees. --(C) Al-Darini said Egypt's Sh [...] | 2009-03-31 11:58:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM KIRF KISL PREF SOCI EG IR IZ |
09CAIRO550 | FORMER SUDANESE PM AL MAHDI SPELLS OUT PLAN FOR [...] (C) Key Points -- Former Sudanese PM Sadiq Al Mahdi said a "catastrophic scenario" is unfolding in Sudan that threatens the humanitarian situation in Darfur, the future peace talks and the unity of the country. -- Al Mahdi is proposing a "National Forum" composed of eight political partie [...] | 2009-03-31 15:09:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KPKO PHUM PREF UN QA CD SU EG |
09CAIRO557 | EGYPT: MFA DISCUSSES SOMALIA, PIRACY AND ERITREA [...] (C) Key Points -- Despite disagreements over prosecution of suspected pirates and the role of the Contact Group on Piracy of the Coast of Somali (CGPCS) in funding the development of Somalia, the Government of Egypt (GOE) was pleased with the Contact Group meetings and the debate on the issu [...] | 2009-04-02 06:10:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EWWT KCRM PTER ER SO EG |
09CAIRO561 | FOREIGN WORKERS IN EGYPT [...] (C) KEY POINTS - As part of our ongoing monitoring of labor conditions in Egypt, particularly in the Qualifying Industrial Zones (QIZs),we discussed the issue of foreign workers with diplomats from a number of Southeast Asian embassies. - Diplomats from Southeast Asian countries estimate [...] | 2009-04-02 09:55:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | ELAB ECON EAID EFIN EINV PGOV PREL EG BG IN |
09CAIRO567 | INFLUENTIAL SUDANESE BUSINESSMEN ADVOCATE "NO [...] (C) Key Points -- Two influential North Sudanese businessmen in Cairo, Kamal Ibrahim Ahmed (protect),Chairman of TransExport Trading Company and Muhammad Abdel Moneim (protect),Chairman of Wadi El Nil Flour Mills urged the USG not to compromise with the Government of Sudan (GOS),warning t [...] | 2009-04-02 15:24:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM PREF SU EG |
09CAIRO570 | EGYPTIAN GOVERNMENT ON ERITREAN AND SUDANESE [...] (C) Key Points -- There are 118 Eritreans in Aswan in detention, who will be accepted for resettlement by Canada if they pass the required consular and medical examinations (reftels A-C). However the Government of Egypt (GOE) refuses to make them available for processing in Cairo. This cou [...] | 2009-04-02 16:03:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PREF PGOV ER SU EG |
09CAIRO572 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: U.S. CANDIDACY FOR UN HUMAN [...] (C) On April 2, DCM informed MFA Spokesman and Senior Advisor to the Foreign Minister Hossam Zaki that the U.S. is seeking election to the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC),and requested the GOE's vote in May (reftel). DCM underscored that the U.S. believes it can do more to advance human right [...] | 2009-04-02 18:04:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL UN EG |
09CAIRO575 | NEW MINISTER ON FAMILY PLANNING, GIRLS' EDUCATION [...] KEY POINTS -- (C) On March 29, New Minister for Families and Population Moushira Khattab told the Ambassador and the USAID Mission Director that significant economic development in Egypt will not be possible without limiting population growth. -- (C) Minister Khattab said that girls' educa [...] | 2009-04-05 08:46:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM KISL KWMN SOCI EG |
09CAIRO580 | GOE RELEASES BLOGGERS, BUT MOVES AGAINST "APRIL 6" [...] KEY POINTS -- (C) With the March 27 release of pro-Palestinian blogger Dia Gad who was detained February 6, the GOE has freed all bloggers arrested in the past 6 months. Earlier in March, the GOE released two bloggers, Mohammed Adel (ref B) and Abdul Aziz Al-Mugahed, who had been detained s [...] | 2009-04-06 14:47:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM EG |
09CAIRO591 | APRIL 6 STRIKE AND PROTESTS FIZZLE INTO A NON-EVENT [...] KEY POINTS -- (SBU) The strike planned by the "April 6 Movement" to protest political and economic conditions failed to disrupt normal traffic and business activity throughout Egypt, in contrast to the more successful April 6, 2008 strike. -- (U) In downtown Cairo, there were a few demonst [...] | 2009-04-07 14:10:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV KDEM ELAB SOCI EG |
09CAIRO595 | ARAB LEAGUE COS BRIEFS ON MARCH 30-31 AL SUMMIT [...] (SBU) Key points: -- Arab League (AL) Chief of Staff Hisham Yousef told local diplomats April 2 that said that some progress had been made on Arab reconciliation at the Arab League Doha summit of March 30-31, but that much more needs to be done. -- Yousef strongly criticized the incoming I [...] | 2009-04-07 14:32:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IZ SY SU LE IS IR LY EG |
09CAIRO598 | MFA ON MULTILATERAL HUMAN RIGHTS ISSUES, [...] KEY POINTS -- (C) In an April 6 meeting with MFA Deputy Assistant Minister for Human Rights Wael Aboulmagd, we reiterated our request for Egyptian support for a U.S. seat on the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC),and emphasized that the U.S. wants to improve cooperation on multilateral human r [...] | 2009-04-07 15:45:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM UN SOCI EG |
09CAIRO604 | CODEL MCCONNELL'S APRIL 5 MEETING WITH PRESIDENT [...] (C) Key Points -- President Mubarak told CODEL McConnell he feared that the new Israeli government would be "very difficult to work with," in particular Foreign Minister Lieberman, whose public statements have already had a very negative impact on Arab public opinion. -- On Palestinian re [...] | 2009-04-08 15:17:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KPAL PHUM KDEM PTER PARM PGOV SOCI SY |
09CAIRO605 | EGYPT: PRIME MINISTER SPEAKS ON ECONOMY AND DOMESTIC [...] (U) KEY POINTS -- On April 6, Egyptian Prime Minister Ahmed Nazif addressed the Egyptian parliament and discussed the global economy and President Mubarak's proposed budget for fiscal 2009/10. The key points he made were: -- The Egyptian economy continues to grow, but growth is slowing. [...] | 2009-04-08 15:18:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EINV EFIN ETRD PGOV EG |
09CAIRO608 | UPDATE ON NUCLEAR LAW AND NUCLEAR LIABILITY [...] (C) Key points: -- Bechtel's local manager believes that the draft nuclear law will be submitted to the People's Assembly and approved before the end of the current session. -- The draft law has been amended to clarify that responsibility for nuclear accidents rests with the GOE, not on t [...] | 2009-04-08 15:43:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG PGOV ECON EG |
09CAIRO614 | CODEL MCCONNELL'S APRIL 6 MEETING WITH GAMAL MUBARAK [...] (C) Key Points -- Gamal Mubarak told CODEL McConnell that Egypt remained committed to economic reform despite the global financial crisis. -- Egypt wants increased trade with the U.S.; however, it is looking elsewhere for trade opportunities as well, including the EU, Russia, and China. [...] | 2009-04-12 10:05:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KPAL PGOV ETRD IZ EG IS IR |
09CAIRO615 | CODEL TAUSCHER'S APRIL 9 MEETING WITH PRESIDENT [...] (C) Key Points -- Iran: President Mubarak told CODEL Tauscher that using diplomacy and economic sanctions with Iran is far better than using force. Using force to solve the problems with Iran will led to instability in the region and an increase in terrorism. Mubarak has no plans to resto [...] | 2009-04-12 10:10:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KPAL IS IR EG SY |
09CAIRO618 | CODEL TAUSCHER"S APRIL 9 MEETING WITH FOREIGN [...] (C) Key Points: -- Israel: Foreign Minister Aboul Gheit said that Egypt has a long-standing relationship with Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu and can work with him, in contrast to new Israeli Foreign Minister Leiberman, whom Aboul Gheit labeled a "problem." --Aboul Gheit does not see [...] | 2009-04-12 15:05:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PARM KPAL KNNP IS IR EG QA |
09CAIRO626 | SOUTH SUDAN LIAISON OFFICE ON ICC AND CPA [...] (C) Key Points -- According to Government of South Sudan (GOSS) officials, the GOSS expected an arrest warrant for Sudanese President Bashir and has encouraged him to work with the ICC and not ignore the warrant. -- Bashir has turned the ICC arrest warrant into a fight with the West. The [...] | 2009-04-13 09:07:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECON PGOV KISL SU EG |
09CAIRO634 | DARFURI ARAB LEADERS IN CAIRO CONCERNED ABOUT [...] (C) Key Points -- Osama El Hassan, Secretary General of the Sudanese Democratic Popular Front (DPF) and Siddique Ander, Chairman of the DPF, told us on April 1 that Darfuri Arabs are fearful of being targeted by the Darfuri Rebel groups as retribution for "past crimes," even though most Darf [...] | 2009-04-14 05:00:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KISL PTER SU CD IR EG |
09CAIRO639 | DARFURI WOMEN REFUGEE LEADERS DESCRIBE [...] (C) Key Points -- We met with two Darfuri women chosen to represent the views of Darfuri refugee women to the U.S. Embassy. They told us that they held protests at UNHCR's Cairo office demanding better housing allowances, medical care, and resettlement options. -- Both women said they we [...] | 2009-04-14 11:18:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PHUM PREL SOCI KWMN SU EG |
09CAIRO64 | AYMAN NOUR'S WIFE ON LATEST TRAVAILS [...] (C) Summary: In a January 11 meeting, Gameela Ismail, wife of imprisoned Ghad party leader Ayman Nour, told us that Nour has been baselessly accused of assaulting a prison guard, and now faces solitary confinement as punishment. She said that Nour is "terrified" of solitary confinement, as the [...] | 2009-01-13 14:13:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM EG |
09CAIRO65 | CODEL DORGAN VISIT TO EGYPT DECEMBER 13-14 REF: A. CAIRO 2542 B. CAIRO 2435 C. CAIRO 2502 D. CAIRO 2505 Classified By: Ambassador Margaret Scobey for reasons 1.4 (b) and (d) [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Senators Byron Dorgan (ND),Thad Cochran (MS),Kent Conrad (ND) and Sheldon Whitehouse (RI) visited Cairo on December 13-14. All of their GOE interlocutors asked them to convey to the incoming Obama Administration that the Israeli-Palestinian peace process and Palestinian statehood [...] | 2009-01-14 09:36:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | OREP PGOV PTER PREL EWWT MEPP IR IZ SO EG |
09CAIRO656 | MEETING WITH HEAD OF THE SUDANESE NATIONAL [...] (C) Key Points: -- Kamal al-Din Hassan Ail, the Director of the Sudanese National Congress Party's (NCP) office in Cairo told us April 1 that the ICC arrest warrant sent the wrong message to rebel groups. He said the Sudanese people are united behind Bashir, and Bashir's trip to Egypt was a [...] | 2009-04-15 13:29:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM KPKO EAID PGOV SU EG |
09CAIRO664 | EGYPTIAN NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC FRONT EFFORTS TO [...] (C) Key Points: -- Dr. Osama al-Ghazali Harb, chairman of the Egyptian National Democratic Front Party (NDF),and NDF deputy chairman, Dr. Ibrahim Nawar, told us on April 2 that their party sponsored a forum on March 24-26, in Cairo, to unite Sudanese political parties because of Sudan's "st [...] | 2009-04-16 11:54:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV SU EG |
09CAIRO668 | EGYPT'S INTERIOR MINISTRY APPROVES ISSUANCE OF [...] KEY POINTS -- (SBU) On April 14, Egypt's Ministry of the Interior (MOI) published a decree in Egypt's Official Gazette authorizing members of "non-recognized religions" (all other than Islam, Christianity and Judaism) to obtain identification cards with a dash in the mandatory religious [...] | 2009-04-16 15:14:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PREL KIRF KDEM EG |
09CAIRO684 | EGYPT'S INDEPENDENT TRADE UNION SEEKS GOVERNMENT [...] Key Points: -- (SBU) On April 22, Egypt's real estate tax collectors, government employees who in December 2008 announced the formation of an independent union, submitted an application for government recognition of their new organization to the Ministry of Manpower and Migration (MOMM). [...] | 2009-04-22 15:47:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | ELAB KDEM PHUM PGOV EG |
09CAIRO685 | EGYPT'S INDEPENDENT TRADE UNION SEEKS GOVERNMENT [...] Key Points: -- (SBU) On April 22, Egypt's real estate tax collectors, government employees who in December 2008 announced the formation of an independent union, submitted an application for government recognition of their new organization to the Ministry of Manpower and Migration (MOMM). [...] | 2009-04-23 05:04:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | ELAB KDEM PHUM PGOV EG |
09CAIRO69 | EGYPT HOSTS SOMALI LEADER SHAYKH SHARIF SHAYKH [...] (C) Abdelhameed Marzouk, Deputy Assistant Secretary for East and South Africa, told us on January 14 that Alliance for the Re-liberation of Somalia (ARS) leader Shaykh Sharif Shaykh Ahmed came to Cairo at the invitation of Egyptian General Intelligence Chief Omar Sulayman. Shaykh Sharif met w [...] | 2009-01-14 15:08:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL SO ET EG |
09CAIRO694 | POLICE PROGRAM DIPNOTE DELIVERED TO THE MFA [...] No summary [...] | 2009-04-23 15:33:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM SNAR EG |
09CAIRO695 | "APRIL 6" LEADER PLANS U.S. TRAVEL; DESCRIBES [...] (C) On April 22, "April 6 Movement" leader Ahmed Saleh told us that he plans to travel to Washington from May 2 to May 9 to testify in a May 7 Congressional hearing on a draft resolution on human rights in Egypt sponsored by Rep. Frank Wolf (R-VA). Saleh said that Dina Guirgis of the Washingt [...] | 2009-04-23 15:45:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM KDEM EG |
09CAIRO70 | COURTS FINE PRO-GOVERNMENT NEWSPAPERS IN LIBEL [...] (C) On December 21, 2008, a Cairo court ordered the pro-government paper "Al-Ahram" and one of its journalists, Gaber Asfour, to pay 50,000 Egyptian Pounds (8,000 USD) in compensation to Sheikh Youssef El-Bedry for characterizing El-Bedry as a "terrorist" in an August 2007 article. The "Al-Ah [...] | 2009-01-14 15:15:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM KIRF EG |
09CAIRO713 | QURANIST BARRED FROM TRAVEL TO U.S. [...] KEY POINTS: -- (SBU) On April 24, Egyptian security officials prevented Abdel Latif Mohamed Saied from boarding a flight to the United States. Saied, a member of the heterodox Islamic Quranist movement, intended to travel to Washington to participate in the Center for the Study of Islam [...] | 2009-04-27 12:01:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PREL KIRF KISL EG |
09CAIRO737 | VISIT OF SOMALI PRESIDENT SHAYKH SHARIF TO EGYPT [...] (C) Key Points: -- Ismail Hussein, DCM at the Somali Embassy in Cairo, told us on April 23 that he was pleased with substantive discussions on Egyptian support for the Somali Government and how to fight piracy during the April 22 meeting between Somali President Shaykh Sharif Shaykh Ahmed an [...] | 2009-04-29 13:17:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER KCRM EWWT MOPS MARR KJUS SO EG |
09CAIRO748 | GOE REMINDS PROMINENT HUMAN RIGHTS NGO THAT IT [...] KEY POINTS: -- (SBU) A prominent independent human rights NGO, the Egyptian Organization for Human Rights (EOHR) received a letter April 27 from The Ministry of Social Solidarity (MOSS) reminding it that MOSS is authorized to dissolve EOHR for receiving unauthorized foreign funding. EOHR is [...] | 2009-04-30 16:17:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM EG |
09CAIRO763 | TOURISM IN THE SINAI: THE HAVES AND HAVE NOTS [...] (SBU) Key Points -- Tourism revenues, the life blood of South Sinai have dropped 30-40 percent in the last six months due to the global financial crisis. Some are forecasting recovery by fall; others say the downturn could last two years -- South Sinai Governor Mohamed Hany Metwally belie [...] | 2009-05-05 09:42:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV SOCI ECON EG |
09CAIRO772 | EGYPTIAN MFA ON VISIT OF SHAYKH SHARIF, PIRACY [...] (C) Key Points: -- The Egyptian MFA said that Somali President Shaykh Sharif Shaykh Ahmed asked for Egyptian support for his government and the Somali joint forces. Egypt agreed to supply uniforms for the forces and is ready to provide training for troops and trainers. -- The Government [...] | 2009-05-06 11:13:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KCRM MARR MOPS EWWT SO EG |
09CAIRO775 | MUBARAK USES LABOR DAY SPEECH TO CRITICIZE STRIKERS [...] No summary [...] | 2009-05-06 14:42:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | ELAB ECON EFIN PGOV KISL EG |
09CAIRO786 | GOE APPARENTLY BACKING DOWN ON DISSOLUTION OF [...] (C) Egyptian Organization for Human Rights (EOHR) Secretary-General Hafez Abu Seada told us May 6 that he recognizes that the Ministry of Social Solidarity (MOSS) has publicly denied any intention to dissolve EOHR, but he noted that EOHR has asked MOSS for written assurances to that effect. A [...] | 2009-05-07 15:10:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM EG |
09CAIRO79 | GOE STRUGGLING TO ADDRESS POLICE BRUTALITY [...] No summary [...] | 2009-01-15 15:24:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM EG |
09CAIRO810 | BOMB EXPLODES OUTSIDE CAIRO CHURCH [...] Key Points: -- (SBU) At approximately 9:45 pm on May 10, a bomb exploded in a car parked near the Cathedral of the Virgin Mary (al-Azraa Miriam) in Cairo's Zeitoun neighborhood (ref A). Police found and destroyed in a controlled explosion a second bomb, also located in a parked car, at app [...] | 2009-05-12 13:16:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PGOV KIRF EG |
09CAIRO814 | NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR HUMAN RIGHTS REPORT [...] KEY POINTS: -- (U) The quasi-governmental organization, the National Council for Human Rights (NCHR),released its 2008 human rights report on May 6, criticizing the GOE for specific violations and offering 25 recommendations. -- (U) The report criticizes the GOE for human rights violations s [...] | 2009-05-13 07:44:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM KIRF EG |
09CAIRO816 | Treasury meets with Finance Ministry and Central Bank [...] (U) Key points: -- In percentage of GDP, next year's deficit is likely to nearly reach the size that Boutros-Ghali inherited in 2004. -- Next year's budget contracts in nominal and real terms. Revenues projected to fall fast. -- The Ministry of Finance is trying to keep fiscal sustaina [...] | 2009-05-13 08:39:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EPET EFIN EAGR ETRD ENRG PGOV EG |
09CAIRO822 | S/E GRATION MEETS WITH EGYPTIAN OFFICIALS ON SUDAN [...] (C) Key Points -- U.S. Special Envoy (S/E) for Sudan General Gration met in separate meetings on April 30 with Egyptian General Intelligence Services (EGIS) Chief Soliman and Egyptian Foreign Minister Aboul Gheit to explain his vision for Sudan and enlist Egypt's support and cooperation in r [...] | 2009-05-14 05:29:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM PREF SU CD EG |
09CAIRO824 | S/E GRATION MEETS WITH ARAB LEAGUE SYG MOUSSA [...] (C) Key Points -- Special Envoy (S/E) for Sudan, J. Scott Gration, explained to with Arab League (AL) SYG, Amre Moussa the USG's immediate focus to obtain a ceasefire in Darfur to provide humanitarian assistance, an environment for a peace talks that will lead to a political solution to Dar [...] | 2009-05-14 05:36:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM SU CD EG |
09CAIRO826 | EGYPTIAN MFA REACTS TO VISIT OF S/E GRATION [...] (C) Key Points: -- Egyptian MFA Cabinet Advisor for African Affairs told us on May 4 that the visit of S/E for Sudan, General J. Scott Gration, was a very good opportunity for Government of Egypt (GOE) and the USG to exchange views on Sudan (reftel). -- Abu Zeid agreed with S/E Gration's c [...] | 2009-05-14 08:46:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL SU QA EG |
09CAIRO827 | MEETING WITH SLA UNITY DEPUTY HARIR [...] Key Points: -- SLA Unity Deputy Chairman and Foreign Affairs Representative Sharif Abdalla Harir (protect) said that SLA Unity members that signed the Tripoli, Libya Agreement, in April, were not authorized to do so by the 51-man council, or Chairman Abdallah Yahya. -- Harir met with Just [...] | 2009-05-14 08:55:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL SU CD QA EG |
09CAIRO829 | EGYPT TO HOST FIFTH ROUND OF INTRA-PALESTINIAN [...] (C) Key points: -- The Egyptians will host the fifth round of negotiations between the Palestinian factions beginning May 16 in Cairo. MFA Director for Palestinian Affairs Yasser Osman told us May 13 that he was not optimistic an agreement will be reached on a consensus PA government or majo [...] | 2009-05-14 10:15:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KPAL IS EG |
09CAIRO839 | NGO SAFE -- FOR NOW [...] (C) On May 10, the Egyptian Organization for Human Rights (EOHR) received a letter from the Ministry of Social Solidarity's (MOSS) Director of Central Administration for Associations noting that the ministry is not attempting to dissolve EOHR. EOHR Secretary-General Hafez Abu Seada told us Ma [...] | 2009-05-14 13:22:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM EG |
09CAIRO851 | EGYPT: DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON IAEA DIRECTOR GENERAL [...] (C) On May 14, Poloffs urged MFA Disarmament Affairs official Heba Negm to support the candidacy of Yukiya Amano of Japan as IAEA Director General (reftel). Negm replied that Egypt supported Abdul Minty of South Africa during the first round along with the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) group, b [...] | 2009-05-17 12:49:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KNNP PARM EG |
09CAIRO858 | FIRST VISIT OF A UN SPECIAL RAPPORTEUR TO EGYPT [...] KEY POINTS: -- (C) UN Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms while countering terrorism, Martin Scheinin, visited Egypt from April 17-21. This was the first visit of a UN Special Rapporteur the GOE has allowed. The MFA said the GOE will i [...] | 2009-05-17 14:50:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM CT UN EG |
09CAIRO86 | DRAFT LETTER ON POLICE PROGRAM GIVEN TO EGYPTIANS [...] (C) In a January 14 meeting, DCM passed to General Ali Hegazy, Director of the International Relations Department of the State Security Investigations Service (SSIS),a copy of the draft letter to the GOE regarding the continuation of a USG-funded community policing training program for the Eg [...] | 2009-01-19 14:06:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EG |
09CAIRO873 | ARAB LEAGUE ON ISRAEL-PALESTINIAN CONFLICT AND [...] (C) Key points: -- In a May 11 meeting, Arab League (AL) Chief of Staff Hisham Yousef told us that AL SYG Moussa was very encouraged by the Administration's early position on Middle East peace. He said that the AL had agreed to resume Israeli-Palestinian negotiations only if Israel satisfact [...] | 2009-05-19 12:22:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KPAL IS EG |
09CAIRO887 | EGYPT ISSUES DOCUMENTS TO BAHA'IS [...] Key Points -- (SBU) On May 20, the GoE issued birth certificates, containing dashes in the religion field, to two of the three Baha'is who sued the GoE seeking such documents. (ref B) -- (SBU) The third plaintiff, who is seeking a national identification card, has not yet received the [...] | 2009-05-20 15:07:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PREL KIRF EG |
09CAIRO888 | MFA ON SYRIA, LEBANON AND YEMEM [...] (C) Key points: -- SYRIA: MFA Cabinet Advisor Mahmoud Afifi told us May 18 that the tenor of Egyptian-Syrian relations has improved recently, and that Damascus appears to be taking a less obstreperous posture toward Egyptians efforts at Palestinian reconciliation. -- LEBANON: Afifi said t [...] | 2009-05-20 15:14:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV SY YE LE EG |
09CAIRO900 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: ECOSOC COMMITTEE ON NGOS [...] No summary [...] | 2009-05-21 13:41:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM UN SOCI EG |
09CAIRO928 | APPEALS COURT OVERTURNS SAAD EDDIN IBRAHIM PRISON [...] (U) On May 25, a Cairo appeals court reversed an August 2008 court ruling against Saad Eddin Ibrahim (SEI) in a civil lawsuit by an NDP activist for "tarnishing Egypt's image abroad," and overturned the two-year prison sentence and LE 10,000 (1,886 USD) fine imposed against him (ref B). The a [...] | 2009-05-25 14:48:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM PGOV KDEM EAID EG |
09CAIRO929 | FORMER REGIME INSIDER SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR POP [...] (U) On May 21, a Cairo court convicted former regime insider and powerful businessman Hisham Talat Mustafa, and sentenced him to death for ordering the July 2008 Dubai murder of his former girlfriend, the Lebanese pop singer Suzanne Tamim. Mustafa, who remains a ruling National Democratic Par [...] | 2009-05-25 14:52:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM SOCI EG |
09CAIRO930 | UPDATE ON BLOGGER CASES [...] KEY POINTS: -- (U) The following bloggers remain in prison: 1) Karim Amer, convicted of insulting Islam and Mubarak, and sentenced to a four-year term in 2007; 2) Musad Abu Fagr, jailed in December 2007 following posts about the Sinai Bedouin's difficulties; 3) Hany Nazir, jailed in October [...] | 2009-05-25 14:54:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM KDEM SOCI KIRF EG |
09CAIRO934 | AYMAN NOUR INJURED BY UNIDENTIFIED ASSAILANT [...] Key Points: -- (U) On May 23, an unidentified assailant attacked opposition politician Ayman Nour, released from prison in February (ref A and B),with flames from an ignited aerosol can. -- (U) Nour, who on May 21 announced his intention to run for president in 2011, suffered first [...] | 2009-05-26 09:01:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL EG |
09CAIRO936 | EGYPT NOT AFFECTED BY SAUDI RECOGNITION OF KOSOVO [...] (C) Key Points: -- The Government of Egypt (GOE) was not influenced by the Saudi decision to recognize Kosovo. The Saudi decision will have more impact on Gulf countries. -- Egypt and other Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) countries oppose Albania's OIC resolution to recognize [...] | 2009-05-26 09:18:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KO AL EG |
09CAIRO937 | SCENESETTER FOR THE PRESIDENT'S CAIRO VISIT [...] (SBU) Mission Cairo welcomes your visit, the first by a U.S. president to Cairo since President Clinton's in 1990. The Egyptian Government will also warmly welcome you, as will the Egyptian people, who are proud that the U.S. has recognized what they view as Egypt's central role in the Arab [...] | 2009-05-26 09:35:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KISL KIRF EG |
09CAIRO940 | EGYPT: FOREIGN MINISTER SAYS NO TO AMANO FOR IAEA [...] No summary [...] | 2009-05-26 10:24:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KNNP IAEA PARM EG |
09CAIRO945 | CONVERSATION WITH EGYPTIAN MUSLIM TELEVANGELIST [...] Key Points: -- (C) According to Moez Massoud, a rising star among Egyptian Muslim televangelists, Salafists and the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) are competing fiercely for influence among Egypt's youth. -- (C) Massoud said Salafist influence - which has been present in Egypt since the movements founding [...] | 2009-05-27 14:49:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KISL KIRF KPAO SOCI EG |
09CAIRO946 | EGYPT'S QIZ: NO AGREEMENT ON REDUCTION IN ISRAELI [...] (C) Key issues: --At the May 25 QIZ meeting, the Israeli and Egyptian delegations disagreed over results of a one-on-one meeting May 11 between trade ministers in Sharm El Sheikh, with the Egyptian side insisting a reduction in Israeli content to 8% had been agreed, and the Israelis insisting it ha [...] | 2009-05-27 15:21:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD ECON PREL IS EG |
09CAIRO958 | ARAB LEAGUE SUPPORTIVE OF U.S. POLICIES ON SUDAN [...] No summary [...] | 2009-05-28 08:21:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL SU CD EG |
09CAIRO974 | CUBA-EGYPT ACTIVITY AND REVIEW FOR SUSPENSION OF [...] No summary [...] | 2009-05-28 12:35:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD ETTC PREL CU EG |
09CAIRO98 | GAZA: REVERBERATIONS WITHIN EGYPT [...] (C) Summary: The Gaza crisis has inflamed a visceral hatred of Israel among Egyptians, and deepened disaffection for the Mubarak regime, furthering negative views of Mubarak as a "Western puppet." While GOE efforts to counter the negative propaganda may soften current hard feelings, the immed [...] | 2009-01-20 15:21:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM KISL PA IS EG |
09CAIRO986 | CAIRO REFUGEE UPDATE: QUESTIONS OF PROTECTION [...] No summary [...] | 2009-05-31 12:43:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PREL KWBG KPAL SU ER EG |
09CAIRO999 | ARAB DARFUR LEADERS IN CAIRO ADVOCATE FOR DARFUR [...] No summary [...] | 2009-06-02 12:19:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM SU CD QA SA EG |
09CANBERRA1041 | AUSTRALIA ON LIBERTAD ACT AND FOREIGN MINISTER'S [...] (C) SUMMARY: Australia wants to enhance engagement with Latin America and the Caribbean and sees improving its relationship with Cuba as a part of that strategy. In addition to signing a Memorandum of Understanding, which "will provide the future basis for cooperation and exchanges" between [...] | 2009-11-25 06:52:00 | Embassy Canberra | CONFIDENTIAL | CU ETRD ETTC PREL AS |
09CANBERRA1043 | AUSTRALIA AGREES WITH U.S. POSTURE ON IRAN'S [...] (C) Summary: Australia is in complete agreement with the P5 1 two track approach to Iran's nuclear program. It has lobbied for this approach at APEC and the East Asian Summit and has made its views clear to Iran. When there is a need for further sanctions because of Iranian refusal of IAEA [...] | 2009-11-25 09:33:00 | Embassy Canberra | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL IR AS |
09CANBERRA105 | "BUY AMERICA" PROVISION RAISES CONCERNS IN [...] (C) Summary. The "Buy America" provisions on the purchase of US steel for infrastructure projects in the recently-passed House economic stimulus bill have raised considerable concern in Australian, provoking negative headlines and commentary in the Australian media as well as from key contact [...] | 2009-01-30 06:49:00 | Embassy Canberra | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD ECON PREL AS |
09CANBERRA1054 | AMBASSADOR BLEICH MEETS TREASURER SWAN [...] (C) SUMMARY: Treasurer Wayne Swan welcomed Ambassador Bleich during an introductory meeting on November 27 and expressed optimism about Australia's economic outlook. Swan was pessimistic about the fate of the emissions bill being hotly debated in Parliament, as well as that of Opposition lea [...] | 2009-11-27 06:34:00 | Embassy Canberra | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ECON PREL AS |
09CANBERRA1073 | AUSTRALIA: LNG LTD. AND IRAN SANCTIONS ACT [...] (SBU) Econoff spoke with Liquefied Natural Gas Limited (LNG Ltd.) Managing Director and CEO Maurice Brand on December 2. Our former Consul General in Perth last spoke with Brand regarding the Iran Sanctions Act on March 16, 2007 (reftel B). Responses to reftel A follow below. 2. (C) Accor [...] | 2009-12-03 05:19:00 | Embassy Canberra | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ENRG EPET ETTC PREL AS |
09CANBERRA1081 | AUSTRALIA: FAA COMPLETES ASSESSMENT, NEXT STEPS [...] (C/NF) Summary: The FAA team concluded their audit (reftels) and gave a brief assessment of preliminary findings. While the team recognized improvements on previous shortcomings and commended many areas, a few problems remain. Australian officials seem committed to overcoming the shortcomin [...] | 2009-12-07 05:33:00 | Embassy Canberra | CONFIDENTIAL | EAIR AS |
09CANBERRA1123 | RUDD GOVERNMENT REPORT CARD 2009 [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Rudd government remained politically dominant in 2009, largely on the back of better than expected economic conditions, Rudd's enduring high popularity, government unity, and a dysfunctional opposition. Foreign Minister Smith stepped out of Rudd's shadow and the resignation [...] | 2009-12-23 06:11:00 | Embassy Canberra | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV AS |
09CANBERRA13 | AUSTRALIAN PM SPEAKS OUT ON GAZA [...] (U) In his first public comment on the Israeli strike on Gaza, vacationing Prime Minister Rudd expressed concern over the continued violence in Gaza and Southern Israel. In a January 5 press interview, Rudd said Australia recognizes Israel's right to self-defense but called on "all parties to [...] | 2009-01-05 21:16:00 | Embassy Canberra | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL AS |
09CANBERRA135 | RESERVE BANK GOVERNOR DISCUSSES ECONOMY [...] (C) Summary: Reserve Bank of Australia Governor Glenn Stevens told Charge that Australia will face a difficult 2009 as the result of an unprecedented worldwide loss of confidence by consumers and businesses. The RBA and the Australian Government are taking aggressive measures to stimulate the [...] | 2009-02-09 22:13:00 | Embassy Canberra | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ECON AS |
09CANBERRA136 | VICTORIA WILDFIRES: CANBERRA UPDATE [...] (SBU) Summary: Though the worst of the fires appear to be over, Australia is reeling as rescuers discover more victims from Victoria's wildfires, with the death toll expected to pass 200 (ref B). Deputy PM Gillard termed the fires "one of the darkest days" in Australia's peacetime history. T [...] | 2009-02-10 21:00:00 | Embassy Canberra | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID SENV AS |
09CANBERRA149 | AUSTRALIAN COMMENTS ON COLLISION OF IRIDIUM/COSMOS [...] (SBU) In the absence of a unified GOA point of contact on space matters, we delivered the talking points on the February 10 collision of the U.S. Iridium and Russion Cosmos satellites simultaneously to Group Captain Denny Davison, Director for Defence Space Coordination, Australian Department [...] | 2009-02-13 06:11:00 | Embassy Canberra | CONFIDENTIAL | TSPA AS |
09CANBERRA156 | AUSTRALIA: PM'S ADVISOR ON AFHANISTAN-PAKISTAN [...] (C) In response to the U.S. invitation to contribute ideas to the Afghanistan-Pakistan strategic policy review, Prime Minister Rudd's senior international adviser said Australia has been hard at work on its own review and believes the U.S. and Australian efforts can complement one another. On [...] | 2009-02-17 07:14:00 | Embassy Canberra | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PARM EFIN MARR AS |
09CANBERRA166 | AFGHANISTAN-PAKISTAN POLICY REVIEW: AUSTRALIA ON BOARD [...] (C) Following his February 17 call on PM Senior Advisor Quinlan to solicit input into the U.S. Afghanistan-Pakistan policy review (reftels),Charge delivered the same demarche February 18 to National Security Adviser (NSA) Duncan Lewis, who is coordinating the GOA's own policy review. Lewis w [...] | 2009-02-18 07:05:00 | Embassy Canberra | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PARM MARR AS |
09CANBERRA178 | AFGHANISTAN-PAKISTAN POLICY REVIEW: AUSTRALIAN NSA [...] (C) At the direction of Prime Minister Rudd, National Security Adviser Duncan Lewis plans to visit Washington the week of March 2 with instructions to personally deliver Australia's submission to the Afghanistan-Pakistan review by weeks's end, as indicated in Ref A. Embassy recommends Departm [...] | 2009-02-20 06:09:00 | Embassy Canberra | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MOPS MARR AS |
09CANBERRA202 | AUSTRALIA DEMURS ON DEMARCHING NAMIBIA OVER [...] (SBU) We presented reftel demarche to John Sullivan, Assistant Secretary for Arms Control and Counter-Proliferation, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT),on February 27. Bill Bryson, Executive Officer for Arms Control, joined on the call. 2. (C) Sullivan reacted with some puzzle [...] | 2009-02-27 06:56:00 | Embassy Canberra | CONFIDENTIAL | KNNP MNUC PARM TRGY ENRG ETTC EMIN IR AS |
09CANBERRA24 | AUSTRALIA CANNOT SUPPORT DELAY IN UNDP PRESIDENCY [...] (C/NF) Australian government representatives advised Poloff in reftel demarche that it is sympathetic to the U.S. position to prevent Iran from obtaining the UNDP Presidency, but agrees with the Western European and Others Group (WEOG) that the election should not be delayed. Lalita Kapur and [...] | 2009-01-08 05:30:00 | Embassy Canberra | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF IR UN EAID AS |
09CANBERRA262 | HCOC: AUSTRALIA ON ANNUAL DECLARATION "INREACH", [...] (SBU) We approached Gerry McGuire, Director, Counter-Proliferation Section, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, on March 16 to solicit Australia's help in encouraging timely submission of annual declarations from Hague Code of Conduct Against Ballistic Missile Proliferaton (HCOC) subscrib [...] | 2009-03-17 06:50:00 | Embassy Canberra | CONFIDENTIAL | MNUC TSPA PREL ETTC KSCA AS |
09CANBERRA264 | AUSTRALIAN REPLY TO RUSSIAN BASING PLANS IN [...] (C) On March 16, Poloff delivered US talking points to Barbara Cooper and Simon Moore, Director and Executive Officer respectively for the Northern, Central and Eastern Europe Section at the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) informing the Government of Australia (GOA) o [...] | 2009-03-18 04:33:00 | Embassy Canberra | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MOPS PBTS GG RS AS |
09CANBERRA29 | GOA DOWNPLAYS MEDIA SPECULATION ON AUSTRALIAN ROLE [...] (C/NF) Lee Kerr, Director, United Nations and Commonwealth Section, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, advised that media reports on redeployment of an Australian warship to the Horn of Africa for anti-piracy work were completely unfounded. She said the Department of Defence (ADOD) has [...] | 2009-01-09 03:18:00 | Embassy Canberra | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR PREL AS |
09CANBERRA32 | PACIFIC WORKING GROUP DECEMBER MEETING [...] (U) The Trilateral Strategic Dialogue (TSD) Pacific Island Working Group (PWG) meeting was hosted by Australia on December 1 in Canberra. Australian delegation: Richard Rowe, First Assistant Secretary, Pacific Division Ravi Kewalram, Assistant Secretary, Pacific Regional and New Zealand [...] | 2009-01-09 06:31:00 | Embassy Canberra | CONFIDENTIAL | AS EAID FJ JA PREL |
09CANBERRA348 | NORTH KOREAN MISSILE LAUNCH: DEMARCHE DELIVERED TO [...] (U) We delivered reftel talking points and the President's April 5 statement, and drew from the "if asked" points, in an April 6 meeting with Assistant Secretary for Arms Control and Counter-Proliferation John Sullivan and Director for Counter-Proliferation Gerry McGuire of the Department of F [...] | 2009-04-06 07:36:00 | Embassy Canberra | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PARM KNNP KN AS |
09CANBERRA35 | REQUEST FOR PM ATTENDANCE AT SYDNEY MEETING [...] (U) SUMMARY AND ACTION REQUEST: Embassy requests PM/RSAT participation in the March 16-17 meeting of the Australia - U.S. Ministerial (AUSMIN) Defence Acquisition Committee/Acquisition, Technology and Development Working Group (ADAC/ATDWG) in Sydney. End Summary and Action Request. 2. (U [...] | 2009-01-12 05:47:00 | Embassy Canberra | CONFIDENTIAL | MASS PREL AS |
09CANBERRA373 | AUSTRALIA "LEANING" TO US POSITION ON KOSOVO [...] No summary [...] | 2009-04-14 00:33:00 | Embassy Canberra | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN PREL KVPR AS |
09CANBERRA413 | U/S BURNS' AUSTRALIAN BILATERAL, APRIL 21, 2009 [...] (C) Summary: Under Secretary Burns held a bilateral meeting with Michael L'Estrange, Secretary of Australia's Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, on the margins of the Trilateral Strategic Dialogue Senior Officials Meeting (TSD SOM),in Canberra on April 21, 2009. They discussed the str [...] | 2009-04-28 00:04:00 | Embassy Canberra | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KNNP MARR PARM PGOV EAID AS |
09CANBERRA414 | U/S BURNS' MEETING WITH JAPANESE DEPUTY FOREIGN [...] (C) Summary: During a bilateral meeting on the margins of the U.S.-Australia-Japan Trilateral Strategic Dialogue (TSD) Senior Officials Meeting in Canberra on April 21, Under Secretary Bill Burns and Japanese Deputy Foreign Minister Kenichiro Sasae agreed that the United States and Japan woul [...] | 2009-04-28 00:17:00 | Embassy Canberra | CONFIDENTIAL | CASC KNNP MOPS PARM PHUM PREF PREL PTER AS JP |
09CANBERRA421 | PRIME MINISTER RUDD ANNOUNCES ADDITIONAL [...] (C) Summary: Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd announced in a press conference April 29 that Australia would boost its troop contribution in Afghanistan from 1,100 to 1,550 troops, mostly for training and capacity building and to support the Afghan elections in August 2009, and that it wo [...] | 2009-04-29 07:51:00 | Embassy Canberra | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR MOPS PTER PREL AS |
09CANBERRA428 | AUSTRALIA LIKELY TO BACK KOSOVO FOR IMF/WORLD BANK [...] (C) Summary: Australia likely will vote in favor of Kosovo's membership in the IMF/World Bank. In order to avoid the curtailment of the vote by the lack of a quorum, Australia will urge the 13 other nations in its IMF constituency to vote; however, they do not feel that advocacy on behalf of K [...] | 2009-05-01 00:12:00 | Embassy Canberra | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN PREL KV AS |
09CANBERRA445 | AUSTRALIA ON IAEA DIRECTOR GENERAL ELECTION [...] (C) Australia remains solidly behind Japanese Ambassador Yukiya Amano for IAEA director general, according to Acting Assistant Secretary for Arms Control and Counter-Proliferation Wendy Walsh. During a May 8 call by poloff to thank Australia for its support and outline U.S. strategy going int [...] | 2009-05-08 08:45:00 | Embassy Canberra | CONFIDENTIAL | AORC KNNP IAEA PREL AS |
09CANBERRA450 | AUSTRALIA BACKS KOSOVO FOR WORLD BANK BUR WON'T [...] (C) Summary: Australia will vote in favor of Kosovo's membership in the World Bank. In order to assure a quorum, Australia's Executive Director is urging all 13 nations in their World Bank constituency to vote; however, the GOA will not lobby others to vote in favor of Kosovo's inclusion. End [...] | 2009-05-13 06:48:00 | Embassy Canberra | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN PREL KVPR AS |
09CANBERRA457 | AUSTRALIAN SANCTIONS IN PLACE ON UNSC 1718 [...] (SBU) Poloff delivered non-paper and points contained in reftel to Gerald Thomson, Director for Korea, and Wendy Walsh, Director for Arms Control, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) on May 14. Thomson undertook to pass the paper to other interested GOA offices, including DFAT's Sa [...] | 2009-05-14 08:04:00 | Embassy Canberra | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ETTC KNNP PARM PREL XE ZO KN AS |
09CANBERRA47 | LIBERTAD ACT REVIEW - AUSTRALIA [...] (U) Cuba is not a front-burner issue in Australia. It is far from Australia and there are few political, economic, or cultural ties. 2. (C) Following is keyed to reftel questions. - Has the host country, in Post's opinion, worked to promote the advancement of democracy and human rights i [...] | 2009-01-15 06:12:00 | Embassy Canberra | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD ETTC PREL AS |
09CANBERRA483 | AUSTRALIA SUPPORTIVE ON UN CONFERENCE ON [...] (SBU) Econoff delivered reftel points May 20 to Marco Salvio, acting director for the International Financial Crisis Task Force at Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. The GOA fully shares our concerns about the direction of the UN Conference on the Development Impact of Crisis. In fact, [...] | 2009-05-21 05:16:00 | Embassy Canberra | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID ECON EFIN UNGA AS |
09CANBERRA511 | GFC, H1N1, AND OPEN SKIES, OH MY! A LOOK AT [...] (SBU) Summary. The Australian civil aviation industry has not escaped the economic slowdown brought on by the intensified global financial crisis. Qantas remains the heavyweight in the Australian aviation arena, but its share of the domestic market is slipping and is now down to around 60%. [...] | 2009-06-01 06:46:00 | Embassy Canberra | CONFIDENTIAL | EAIR ECON AS |
09CANBERRA543 | AUSTRALIAN RESPONSE TO NUCLEAR FUEL BANK DEMARCHE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Australia will be prepared to discuss the Nuclear Fuel Bank proposal at the June 11-15 IAEA Board of Governor's meeting in Vienna, but has reservations about the utility of the initiative, prefering to allow open market forces to provide an assured supply of nuclear fuel. Moreov [...] | 2009-06-09 22:34:00 | Embassy Canberra | CONFIDENTIAL | KNNP PARM ENRG AS |
09CANBERRA568 | GOVERNMENT OF AUSTRALIA-INFORMATION COLLECTION, [...] (U) The Australian government is forward leaning in both maintaining border security and providing assistance to partners in the fight against terrorism. To that end, robust and dynamic protocols are in place to ensure that the movement of suspected and known terrorists are monitored and thwar [...] | 2009-06-17 23:10:00 | Embassy Canberra | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC CVIS KVPR PGOV PREL PTER |
09CANBERRA57 | SCENE SETTER FOR CDR USN SEVENTH FLEET VADM J. [...] (C/NF) Australia is the closest of our five treaty allies in the Asia-Pacific region and has deployed forces with the United States in every major military engagement since World War I, including most recently in Afghanistan and Iraq. Relations intensified dramatically in the wake of the 9/11 [...] | 2009-01-16 05:25:00 | Embassy Canberra | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL OTRA AS |
09CANBERRA576 | AUSTRALIAN RESPONSE TO DEMARCHE OF RELEASE [...] (C) Poloffs met with Neil Hawkins, Assistant Secretary, Afghanistan and Iraq Branch, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, on June 19 to convey reftel request for a public statement intended to stress impartiality in regards to the Afghan elections. 2. (C) Hawkins stated that Austral [...] | 2009-06-19 07:33:00 | Embassy Canberra | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM AF AS |
09CANBERRA601 | AUSTRALIA GROUP: REPORT DELIVERED TO GOA [...] (U) On June 30, Gerry McGuire, Director, Counter-Proliferation Section, Arms Control and Counter-Proliferation Branch, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade thanked poloff for the report, and said he would provide a response shortly. 2. (C) McGuire expressed reservations concerning th [...] | 2009-06-30 06:20:00 | Embassy Canberra | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL ETTC AS |
09CANBERRA628 | LIBERTAD ACT REVIEW - AUSTRALIA [...] (U) Cuba is not a front-burner issue in Australia. It is far from Australia and there are few political, economic, or cultural ties. 2. (C) Following is keyed to reftel questions. - Has the host country, in Post's opinion, worked to promote the advancement of democracy and human rights i [...] | 2009-07-08 06:18:00 | Embassy Canberra | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD ETTC PREL AS |
09CANBERRA637 | GOA OFFICIAL ON CAIRNS PIF GOALS [...] (C) Summary: DFAT Pacific Division, First Assistant Secretary Richard Rowe, told Polcouns on July 9 that the GOA, New Zealand and most PIF members do not want the Fiji issue to dominate the August forum. Rowe said that Prime Minister Rudd is strongly emphasizing a "pragmatic, forward thinki [...] | 2009-07-10 02:28:00 | Embassy Canberra | CONFIDENTIAL | AS BP FJ FM KR NE NH NR NZ PP PREL PS RM |
09CANBERRA785 | AUSTRALIAN REPONSE TO SEARCH FOR CONSENSUS ON [...] (C) On August 24, Jane Hardy, Director of Arms Control Section, Arms Control and Counter-Proliferation Branch, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) told poloff the GOA agreed that a single consensus resolution was a good tack to take concerning the contentious issues of the Middle Ea [...] | 2009-08-26 06:34:00 | Embassy Canberra | CONFIDENTIAL | AORC PREL PARM KNNP IAEA EG IS AS |
09CANBERRA833 | AUSTRALIAN RESPONSE TO DEMARCHE ON SRI LANKAN IDPS [...] (C) Pol/Econcouns delivered on September 8 reftel points on freedom of movement for internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Sri Lanka to Gary Cowan, Director of the India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bhutan and Maldives section in the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) and raised the issue sep [...] | 2009-09-10 05:33:00 | Embassy Canberra | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM PREF PTER MASS SOCI EAID EUN CE |
09CANBERRA839 | DEMARCHE RESPONSE: IAEA GENERAL CONFERENCE MIDDLE [...] (C/NF) On September 14, Poloff presented points in reftel to Wendy Walsh, Executive Officer Arms Control Section, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT). Walsh told poloff that neither the GOA nor New Zealand believe that the New Zealand General Conference President's attempt to creat [...] | 2009-09-14 07:29:00 | Embassy Canberra | CONFIDENTIAL | KNNP AORC PARM PREL IAEA |
09CANBERRA845 | AUSTRALIAN RESPONSE TO DEMARCHE ON EXPANDING THE [...] (C) On September 14, Poloff delivered reftel talking points concerning a common position towards Iran at the IAEA and the UNGA to Wendy Walsh, Executive Officer, Arms Control Section, and Jenny Bloomfield, Director of the Middle East Section, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT). [...] | 2009-09-16 06:55:00 | Embassy Canberra | CONFIDENTIAL | KNNP MNUC PARM IAEA PREL AORC AS |
09CANBERRA847 | AUSTRALIA CAUTIOUSLY SUPPORTIVE OF MTCR PLENARY [...] (C/NF) ) Australia agrees in principle with the four U.S. proposals (reftel) for the Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR) plenary, but has unsure about implementation. Australia is concerned that the Reinforced Point of Contact Meetings (RPOC) are under strain and appears reluctant to add [...] | 2009-09-16 08:58:00 | Embassy Canberra | CONFIDENTIAL | ETTC PARM PREL KSCA |
09CANBERRA869 | AUSTRALIA SUPPORTS UNGA WALKOUT REDLINES [...] (C) Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade Acting Secretary Gillian Bird told Charge September 21 that she would send reftel points to Prime Minister Rudd and Foreign Minister Smith in New York, but that the walkout redlines are largely in line with standing instructions given to Australian o [...] | 2009-09-21 08:12:00 | Embassy Canberra | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNGA AS |
09CANBERRA879 | MTCR: AUSTRALIA REQUESTS COPY OF PAPER: INTANGIBLE [...] (C) Embassy Canberra requests a copy of the interagency cleared paper "Intangible Technology Transfers: Foreign National Vetting" for delivery to Gerry McGuire, Director of the Counter-Proliferation Section of the Arms Control and Counter-Proliferation Branch of Australia's Department of Forei [...] | 2009-09-23 06:17:00 | Embassy Canberra | CONFIDENTIAL | MTCRE ETTC KSCA MNUC PARM TSPA FR AS |
09CANBERRA892 | AUSTRALIA SUPPORTS NEW BURMA APPROACH [...] (C/NF) Summary: Australia supports the Burma Policy Review Conclusions and is conducting its own review of Burma policy. Brendon Hammer, First Assistant Secretary for Southeast Asia at the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, reacted very positively to the Burma Policy Review Conclusions ( [...] | 2009-09-29 07:47:00 | Embassy Canberra | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV BM AS |
09CANBERRA954 | -CORRECTED COPY - AUSTRALIAN RESPONSE TO STATE 102905 ON UNSCR [...] No summary [...] | 2009-10-26 04:02:00 | Embassy Canberra | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN KTFN AS |
09CANBERRA97 | AUSTRALIA IMPLEMENTING OSLO CLUSTER MUNITIONS [...] (C/NF) Australia may be among the first 30 countries to bring the Oslo Convention on Cluster Munitions into force according to Gerry McGuire, Director, Counter-Proliferation Section, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. McGuire advised that the Parliamentary review process is moving more [...] | 2009-01-28 00:42:00 | Embassy Canberra | CONFIDENTIAL | MOPS PARM PGOV AS |
09CANBERRA981 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: GOLDSTONE REPORT [...] (SBU) Australia generally shares the U.S. position on the Goldstone report. Pol/Econ Couns delivered reftel demarche regarding the UNGA debate on the Goldstone report to Acting First Assistant Secretary Bassim Blazey of the International Legal Department. Blazey said that Australia is still [...] | 2009-11-04 07:02:00 | Embassy Canberra | CONFIDENTIAL | AS IS KPAL PHUM PREL PTER |
09CAPETOWN110 | WESTERN CAPE HOUSING MINISTER DISCUSSES THE WAY [...] (U) On May 14, Poloff and CG attended a dinner in honor of newly elected Western Cape Housing Minister, Bongi Madikizela. Madikizela, a member of the Democratic Alliance (DA) is the only black member of the all male Western Cape Cabinet and is also the nephew of Winnie Mandela. Although he [...] | 2009-05-15 15:09:00 | Consulate Cape Town | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PGOV PREL SF |
09CAPETOWN111 | WHY THE ANC LOST THE WESTERN CAPE [...] (C) Summary. On May 14, Poloff met with Chris Nissen, who spearheaded the ANC,s political campaign in the Western Cape. Nissen discussed the ANC,s failure to win the Western Cape in the recent April 22 elections as well as the ANC,s plans for the future in both the City of Cape Town and the [...] | 2009-05-15 15:10:00 | Consulate Cape Town | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM SF |
09CAPETOWN30 | ANC, COPE TO SLUG IT OUT IN EASTERN CAPE [...] (C) Summary: South Africa's Eastern Cape province is the spiritual home of the African National Congress (ANC) and one of the ruling party's strongholds since the 1994 transition to majority rule, but the ANC breakaway Congress of the People (COPE) thinks it can give the ANC a run for its money [...] | 2009-02-09 10:28:00 | Consulate Cape Town | CONFIDENTIAL | SF PGOV |
09CAPETOWN43 | UPDATES ON THE SOUTH AFRICAN NATIONAL DEFENSE FORCE [...] (C) On February 19, Poloff met with Dr. Gerard Koornhof an ANC Member of Parliament serving on the Portfolio Committee on Defense. Koornhof told Poloff that the current spending on defense is 1.2 percent of South Africa,s gross domestic product (GDP),noting that South Africa,s defense spendin [...] | 2009-03-05 13:11:00 | Consulate Cape Town | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM SF MARR MOPS |
09CAPETOWN44 | LOCAL CAPE TOWN NGO WORKING TO REHABILITATE GANG [...] (U) On February 27, Poloff and PAO met with Reverend Jacobus Nomdoe, Director of Teen Challenge. Among other things, Teen Challenge targets gang members by removing them from the gang and placing them in the center. The program aims to rehabilitate these former gang members primarily throug [...] | 2009-03-06 13:39:00 | Consulate Cape Town | CONFIDENTIAL | GTIP KCRM SF SOCI |
09CAPETOWN55 | UPDATES ON THE SOUTH AFRICAN NATIONAL DEFENSE FORCE [...] (C) On February 19, Poloff met with Dr. Gerard Koornhof an ANC Member of Parliament serving on the Portfolio Committee on Defense. Koornhof told Poloff that the current spending on defense is 1.2 percent of South Africa,s gross domestic product (GDP),noting that South Africa,s defense spendin [...] | 2009-03-10 14:34:00 | Consulate Cape Town | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM SF MARR MOPS |
09CAPETOWN79 | ANC INSIDERS DISCUSS THE UPCOMING ELECTIONS [...] (C) On March 6, Poloff met with Mr. Mynami Booi, the Chief Whip of the African National Congress (ANC),and number 69 on the party list, to discuss the upcoming elections. Mr. Booi said that he is likely to remain the Chief Whip after the new government is formed in April, but said he was not [...] | 2009-03-30 12:04:00 | Consulate Cape Town | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KDEM SF |
09CAPETOWN90 | NORTHERN CAPE OFFERS CHANCES FOR OPPOSITION [...] (C) Support for South Africa's political opposition appears strong in the sparsely populated, but geographically huge, Northern Cape province, and opposition parties could see their best provincial showing there outside the Western Cape. As elsewhere, the ruling African National Congress's tr [...] | 2009-04-20 13:53:00 | Consulate Cape Town | CONFIDENTIAL | SF PGOV KDEM |
09CARACAS1000 | WHY CHAVEZ FEELS THREATENED BY THE COUP IN HONDURAS [...] (C) Summary: President Chavez's public statements and actions indicate that he feels threatened by the June 28 military ouster of Honduran President Manuel Zelaya. While initially leading the international response to the coup, Chavez is now side-lined by the mediation process led by Preside [...] | 2009-07-31 16:03:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL SNAR VE |
09CARACAS1001 | VENEZUELA'S ALUMINUM INDUSTRY IN CRISIS [...] (C) SUMMARY: The GBRV has agreed to a number of labor demands after days of protests shut down the industrial city of Puerto Ordaz. After years of GBRV mismanagement, state-owned aluminum companies suffer from deep structural inefficiencies. Low aluminum prices and rising production costs [...] | 2009-07-31 16:06:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | ECIN ECON EFIN EIND EINV ELAB EMIN ENRG EPET |
09CARACAS1005 | CHARGE'S JULY 31 MEETING WITH MFA CHIEF OF STAFF [...] (C) Summary: Charge d'Affaires (CDA) met July 31 at his request with Temir Porras, the chief of staff for Foreign Minister Nicolas Maduro to discuss the return of Ambassador Duddy. Porras said that the Ambassador had no reason to be concerned about a second expulsion, despite the tensions w [...] | 2009-07-31 21:46:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM VE |
09CARACAS1011 | PRO-GOVERNMENT MILITANTS ATTACK TV STATION GLOBOVISION [...] (SBU) An estimated 35 armed militants attacked the opposition-leaning television station Globovision in the early afternoon of August 3, 2009, led by the well-known pro-Chavez activist Lina Ron. Brandishing weapons, the attackers breached the perimeter wall of the station's headquarters. After thro [...] | 2009-08-03 21:33:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KPAO PREL VE |
09CARACAS1013 | 34 RADIO/TV STATIONS SILENCED, MEDIA CRIME LAW [...] (C) Summary: During the weekend of August 1-2, the Government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (GBRV) shuttered 32 independent and/or opposition radio stations and two TV stations across the country. One day prior to the closings the GBRV released the names of 35 largely pro-Governme [...] | 2009-08-03 22:52:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM VE |
09CARACAS1014 | SAMBIL LA CANDELARIA MALL IN COMPLETE LIMBO [...] (C) According to Bernardo Weininger (strictly protect throughout),lawyer and confidant of the Cohen family which in turn owns the Sambil chain of malls, the Sambil La Candelaria project is in complete limbo. (Note: On December 21, 2008, President Chavez ordered Jorge Rodriguez, mayor of th [...] | 2009-08-04 20:31:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV KIRF VE |
09CARACAS1017 | VENEZUELA: REPSOL EMPLOYEE COMMENTS ON DRILLING [...] (C) XXXXXXXXXXXXX , Repsol Drill Project Manager for the Rafael Urdaneta offshore natural gas exploratory well told Petroleum Attache on August 2 that Repsol had cancelled plans to drill in Cuba, as it had been unable to secure an offshore drill rig with less than fifteen percent U.S. content. [...] | 2009-08-05 18:08:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET EINV ENRG ECON CU VE |
09CARACAS1018 | CHAVEZ CONTINUES SHRILL RHETORIC AGAINST THE U.S. [...] (U) In an August 4 speech in Caracas commemorating the 72nd anniversary of Venezuela's National Guard, President Hugo Chavez again accused the US, "despite its ambiguity," of supporting the Honduras coup. He charged that the "Yankee Empire," through its proposed military agreement with Colomb [...] | 2009-08-05 21:39:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM VE |
09CARACAS1019 | CONATEL THREATENS TO SEIZE RADIO STATION [...] (SBU) On July 31, Minister of Public Works and Housing, Diosdado Cabello, named Puerto La Cruz-based radio station Orbita Radio 107.5 as one of 34 radio and television stations to be closed by the media regulatory agency Conatel. Following weekend shutdowns of numerous stations across Venezu [...] | 2009-08-05 21:48:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM VE |
09CARACAS1020 | CHAVISTA MILITANT ARRESTED FOR GLOBOVISION ATTACK [...] (C) Summary: The Government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (GBRV) publicly announced August 4 that Chavista militant Lina Ron had been arrested and would begin court proceedings for her role in a highly-publicized tear gas attack against the pro-opposition Globovision media outlet a [...] | 2009-08-05 21:59:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM VE |
09CARACAS1022 | GBRV EXPANDS CONTROL OVER PORTS [...] (C) Summary: In a July 30 decree, the Ministry of Public Works and Housing (MPWH) ordered the immediate nationalization of private warehouse operations at four ports, including Puerto Cabello, Venezuela's largest. The decree leaves vague the status of the private companies and their employe [...] | 2009-08-06 19:45:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV ETRD EINV MARR CU VE |
09CARACAS1028 | CHAVEZ WARNS OF WAR IN SOUTH AMERICA, CALLS OBAMA [...] (C) Summary: In an August 5 press conference at Miraflores, President Chavez's discourse was notable in its more direct personal attacks on President Obama, calling him a "disappointment" and a "frustration" as Chavez warned that the planned joint defense agreement with Colombia could heral [...] | 2009-08-07 10:06:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM VE |
09CARACAS1029 | THERE'S TROUBLE BREWING: VENEZUELAN COFFEE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Government intervention in Cafe Madrid and Fama de America, two of Venezuela's leading coffee processors, began the weekend of August 1-2 for alleged violation of government production and supply regulations. Minister of Agriculture and Lands Elias Jaua stated that non-complian [...] | 2009-08-07 10:08:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EAGR ETRD VE PGOV |
09CARACAS103 | ECONOMIC TIES WITH IRAN GROWING SLOWLY [...] (C) Summary. Emboffs met with a local businessman to discuss his possible involvement in the establishment of a Venezuelan-Iranian Chamber of Commerce. In the private sector, expatriate Iranians cautiously build enterprises within Venezuela, ever wary of the political and economic pitfalls of doing [...] | 2009-01-26 21:44:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN PREL EINV PGOV VE |
09CARACAS1034 | VENEZUELA'S LEADING UNIVERSITY FACES GBRV PRESSURE [...] (C) Summary: Rector of Universidad Central de Venezuela (UCV) Dr. Cecilia Garcia Arocha and senior university administrators met the PAO on August 5 and discussed the proposed Education Law in the National Assembly and the serious political pressure faced by the country's most renowned, and s [...] | 2009-08-07 22:02:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM KPAO VE |
09CARACAS1038 | THE AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH CARABOBO GOVERNOR [...] (C) Summary: The opposition Governor of Carabobo State, Henrique "El Pollo" Salas Feo, and his father and former governor and presidential candidate Henrique Salas Romer requested a meeting with the DCM and Ambassador August 6. They voiced their concerns about the national impact that the c [...] | 2009-08-10 15:28:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM VE |
09CARACAS104 | VENEZUELAN OIL SHIFTING TO ASIA [...] (C) A senior BP executive told EconCon and Petroleum Attache that PDVSA is shipping 100,000 b/d to China non-competitively (PDVSA continues to pay transportation costs). A senior Chevron executive noted that it has been common knowledge that this is PDVSA's strategic direction. At a separate [...] | 2009-01-28 13:11:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET EINV CH JA VE |
09CARACAS1043 | VENEZUELA: CHAVEZ STEPS UP CRITICISM OF U.S. AND [...] (SBU) During his address to the UNASUR summit on August 10, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said that "the winds of war were beginning to blow" in Latin America, and charged that the proposed US-Colombia defense agreement could cause a war in the region. In an interview earlier in the day wit [...] | 2009-08-10 20:54:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM VE CO |
09CARACAS1051 | VENEZUELA: UN MEETING PRESENTS COUNTERNARCOTICS [...] (U) This is an Action Request. See Paragraph 4. 2. (SBU) From September 28-October 2, 2009, the Government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (GBRV) will host the 19th meeting of Heads of National Drug Law Enforcement Agencies, Latin America and the Caribbean (HONLEA),for the United [...] | 2009-08-12 20:43:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL SNAR VE |
09CARACAS1055 | VENEZUELA: OIL PRODUCTION IN WESTERN VENEZUELA [...] (C) SUMMARY. Energy field consultations in June highlighted Venezuela's continued crude oil production challenges and the disparity between field production estimates and the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela's (GBRV) official production figures. END SUMMARY. 2. (C) From June 2 through 15, [...] | 2009-08-13 14:33:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET EINV ENRG ECON CU VE |
09CARACAS1056 | VENEZUELA: FACTORS THAT INFLUENCE CRUDE OIL [...] (C) SUMMARY. Many factors likely affect Venezuela crude oil production levels and production capacity, including recent oil service sector expropriations, challenges in securing foreign exchange authorizations, increased crude inventory levels, implementation of the joint venture (JV) model, [...] | 2009-08-13 14:38:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET EINV ENRG ECON CU VE |
09CARACAS1057 | VENEZUELA: BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES AND WAYS TO [...] (C) SUMMARY. It is easy to focus on the negative stories coming out of Venezuela's oil sector, but there are opportunities for companies to prosper and for Venezuela to increase production. Energy field consultations in June highlighted the multitude of opportunities that oil service compani [...] | 2009-08-13 14:41:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET EINV ENRG ECON CU VE |
09CARACAS1059 | VENEZUELA'S AGENDA FOR THE AFRICA - SOUTH AMERICA SUMMIT [...] (C) Summary: Venezuela is hosting an Africa - South America heads of state summit on Margarita Island in September 2009. A chaotic July 20-23 coordination meeting in Caracas for South American and African representatives suggests Venezuela is planning to use its position as host to ram through a co [...] | 2009-08-13 15:55:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL VE |
09CARACAS106 | VENEZUELA: OPEC CUTS TARGETED AT U.S. [...] (C) SUMMARY: Senior BP and Chevron officials confirmed that PDVSA is aggressively enforcing OPEC-mandated quota cuts in the hope that the cuts will turn around the slump in oil prices. So far, the cuts have been levied on joint ventures based on the price per barrel received for the crude sales. Th [...] | 2009-01-28 13:18:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET EINV VE |
09CARACAS1062 | GBRV SHIFTS AXIS OF TRADE, TELLS OBAMA TO BUY [...] (C) SUMMARY: Recent decisions by the Government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (GBRV) to halt imports of Colombian beef and suspend sales of reduced-price gasoline to Colombia suggest that the GBRV is determined to reduce bilateral trade. On August 11, President Chavez and Argentine [...] | 2009-08-13 16:12:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | EAGR ECON EFIN EIND EINV ELAB EMIN ENRG EPET |
09CARACAS107 | OPPOSITION LACKLUSTER WHILE STUDENTS MARCH FORWARD [...] (C) Summary: The opposition has been slow to counter President Chavez's proposed constitutional referendum to remove term limits, relying largely on highly-publicized, sporadic student protests to rally support to vote "No." Opposition parties lack resources in the wake of the November 2008 [...] | 2009-01-28 14:30:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM VE |
09CARACAS1070 | PETTY POLITICS SURFACE DURING HEAVY RAINS [...] (U) A torrential downpour in Caracas on August 12, flooded roads, closed highways and muddied Chavista credibility. While Globovision, the last remaining opposition television broadcaster showed cars in water up to their windows, Jacqueline Farias, Chavez's appointed Chief of Government for [...] | 2009-08-14 16:47:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM VE |
09CARACAS1073 | GBRV RESPONDS TO CRITICAL GAO REPORT ON NARCOTICS [...] (C) Summary: Venezuelan Minister of Interior and Justice (MIJ) Tarek El-Aissami and Director of the National Anti-Drug Office (ONA),Colonel Nestor Reverol, addressed the Venezuelan National Assembly (AN) on July 21 following the release of the GAO report on declining U.S. - Venezuelan counte [...] | 2009-08-14 17:04:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PREL SNAR VE |
09CARACAS1079 | PRO-GOVERNMENT GROUPS ATTACK EDUCATION LAW [...] (SBU) Demonstrations for and against the controversial Education Law turned violent August 13. Several hundred educators, university students, and parents marched toward the National Assembly (AN) on August 13 to call for a delay in the vote on the law. About 2000 pro-government demonstrato [...] | 2009-08-14 22:42:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KPAO VE |
09CARACAS1080 | NATIONAL ASSEMBLY APPROVES EDUCATION LAW, [...] (C) Summary: The National Assembly approved the Education Law late August 13, amidst well-founded accusations of procedural irregularities, just eight days after the proposed text was made public on August 5. Opposition leaders, educators, and parents have declared that the text of the law i [...] | 2009-08-15 15:39:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM KPAO VE |
09CARACAS1085 | COLOMBIAN BEEF IS NOT WHAT IS FOR DINNER [...] (C) SUMMARY: As a result of chilly Venezuela-Colombia bilateral relations, food processors are pessimistic about Venezuela's future beef imports from Colombia. By presidential order, trade is effectively paralyzed, and some processors can only access raw materials from a domestic cattle her [...] | 2009-08-17 19:45:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EAGR ETRD VE PGOV |
09CARACAS1086 | EDUCATION LAW PROMULGATED, OPPOSITION CALLS FOR A [...] (C) Summary: The Education Law was passed by the National Assembly late August 13, promulgated by President Chavez at a televised rally on August 15, and published in an extraordinary issue of the Official Gazette on August 15. Opposition politicians, leading educators, and the Catholic Churc [...] | 2009-08-17 21:13:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM VE |
09CARACAS1090 | CANADIAN-VENEZUELAN RELATIONS AT A LOW POINT [...] (C) Summary: In a meeting with Ambassador Duddy August 18, Canadian Ambassador to Venezuela Perry Calderwood said that Canada's bilateral relations with Venezuela were as bad as they had ever been. In addition to disrupting Canada's Diplomatic pouches, not issuing license plates, and making i [...] | 2009-08-19 18:56:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM VE |
09CARACAS1091 | ZULIA'S ECONOMY STRUGGLES WITH ECONOMIC DOWNTURN [...] (C) Summary: The economy of Zulia, a major oil-producing area and Venezuela's most populous state, is suffering from long-standing Venezuelan government (GBRV) economic policies, the current economic downturn, and GBRV actions that appear to target Zulia specifically, such as the recent expr [...] | 2009-08-19 21:16:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV VE |
09CARACAS1110 | VENEZUELA: VENAMCHAM SAYS SITUATION WORSENING [...] (C) SUMMARY. On August 17, the Ambassador attended the monthly meeting of the governing Executive Committee of the Venezuelan American Chamber of Commerce (VenAmCham). Following their normal business, the Executive Committee members, all Presidents of leading corporations, briefed the Ambassa [...] | 2009-08-21 18:40:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EINV VE |
09CARACAS1111 | ELECTORAL LAW PROMULGATED WITH LITTLE PUBLIC [...] (C) Summary: The new Organic Law of Electoral Processes (LOPE) entered into law August 12 with minimal response from the public, whose attention has been distracted by President Chavez's vigorous public campaign in support of the passage of the Education Law (Reftel A). LOPE's text has been [...] | 2009-08-21 19:44:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM VE |
09CARACAS1114 | DOLLARIZATION OF LE STAFF SALARIES [...] (C) SUMMARY. Post requests Department permission to pay LE Staff in US dollars. Venezuela's rising inflation and fixed official exchange rate have eroded the purchasing power of LE staff. The continued decline in the standard of living of LE Staff has hurt morale, increased attrition, and c [...] | 2009-08-21 21:38:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | AFIN |
09CARACAS1115 | RAMPANT CRIME IN VENEZUELA - CHAVEZ'S ACHILLES [...] (C) SUMMARY. With a murder rate of 130 homicides per 100,000 inhabitants, Caracas is generally considered the most dangerous city in Latin America, if not the world. Over 90 percent of homicides in Venezuela go unpunished, and recent polling suggests more Venezuelans may be starting to lay t [...] | 2009-08-24 14:45:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV SOCI ECON VE |
09CARACAS1116 | VENEZUELA: ENSCO DRILLING RIG UPDATE [...] (C) Bill Chaddick ENSCO Chief Operating Officer, updated Petroleum AttachQ on ENSCO's situation in Venezuela on August 20. Chaddick (strictly protect throughout) stated that the U.S. drilling rig company received an unexpected mixed USD and Bolivar payment on July 23 ($11.2 million and 631,00 [...] | 2009-08-24 15:36:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET EINV ENRG ECON CU VE |
09CARACAS1119 | GBRV ISSUES ARREST WARRANT FOR FORMER ARAGUA [...] (C) Summary: The Government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (GBRV) issued an arrest warrant and asked Interpol for a capture order August 24 for the former Governor of Aragua State, Didalco Bolivar, on corruption charges. Bolivar, who is the Deputy Secretary General of the oppositi [...] | 2009-08-24 22:41:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM VE |
09CARACAS1120 | OPPOSITION MOUNTS IMPRESSIVE PROTEST AGAINST [...] (C) Summary: The August 22 march against the National Assembly's passage the week prior of the controversial Education Law (reftel) appeared larger than any opposition protest in at least a year, a surprising accomplishment given that many Venezuelans -- particularly students -- are on thei [...] | 2009-08-24 22:54:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM VE |
09CARACAS1129 | VENEZUELA: PDVSA PAYMENTS PROVIDE TEMPORARY RESPITE [...] (C) SUMMARY. Drawing on funds raised though its July bond issuance, PDVSA has made significant payments on its outstanding arrears. PDVSA appears to have paid domestic companies owed less than ten million dollars in full and to have made significant payments on larger debts. END SUMMARY. [...] | 2009-08-27 13:44:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET EINV ENRG ECON CU VE |
09CARACAS1130 | VENEZUELA: DECREASED PETROLEUM SECTOR ACTIVITY [...] (C) SUMMARY. With the exception of Weatherford (which is aggressively seeking to expand its market share),international oil service companies continue to reduce their exposure, to decrease staffing levels, and to move idle equipment out of Venezuela. The Venezuelan rig count provides a clea [...] | 2009-08-27 13:44:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET EINV ENRG ECON CU VE |
09CARACAS1131 | VENEZUELA: NEW PETROCHEMICALS LAW [...] (C) SUMMARY: Venezuela passed a limited-scope Petrochemicals Law in July that covers basic and intermediate sector activities. It permits the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (GBRV) to enter into mixed companies with the private sector and attempts to preclude private company recourse to inte [...] | 2009-08-27 13:48:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET EINV ENRG ECON CU VE |
09CARACAS1133 | CHAVEZ'S INTIMIDATION TACTICS: POLICE ARREST [...] (C) Summary: The Prefect of the Caracas metropolitan district, Richard Blanco, was arrested by state security officers on August 26 for his alleged involvement in "injurious and law-breaking behavior." Blanco is the president of Metropolitan Mayor Antonio Ledezma's Brave People's Alliance [...] | 2009-08-27 23:13:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM VE |
09CARACAS1134 | CNE RECTOR WARNS ASSEMBLY ELECTIONS COULD COME AS [...] (C) Summary: Vicente Diaz, one of the five rectors of the National Electoral Council (CNE),met with Poloffs August 20 and speculated that President Chavez may call for National Assembly (AN) elections as early as March 2010. Diaz, who is the only rector not beholden to Chavez, suggested that this [...] | 2009-08-27 23:15:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM VE |
09CARACAS1137 | CHAVEZ SENDS TOUGH MESSAGE ON COLOMBIA PRIOR TO [...] (C) Summary. During an August 25 televised address, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez ordered Foreign Minister Nicolas Maduro to start preparations for a rupture with Colombia. This latest episode of brinkmanship appears targeted at multiple audiences -- his domestic constituency, Colombia, [...] | 2009-08-28 17:10:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER CO VE |
09CARACAS1144 | CHAVEZ CLAIMS VICTORY AND SPINS UNASUR AGAINST [...] (C) Summary. President Hugo Chavez stressed three themes in his August 30 "Alo Presidente" broadcast, which were reinforced on the government television station (VTV) throughout the weekend. First, although the Summit did not censure Colombia for its Defense Cooperation Agreement (DCA) with [...] | 2009-09-01 22:12:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PREL VE |
09CARACAS1145 | LOPEZ'S SPLIT FROM UNT HIGHLIGHTS CONTINUING OPPOSITION DISUNITY [...] (C) Summary: Representatives from the opposition Un Nuevo Tiempo (UNT) party rejected rumors, published by the local media August 26, that popular former Mayor of Chacao municipality Leopoldo Lopez has been expelled from the party reportedly for insubordinate behavior. Lopez announced September 1, [...] | 2009-09-02 15:30:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM VE |
09CARACAS1146 | VENEZUELA: BANKERS SEE SUFFICIENT OIL REVENUES TO [...] (C) SUMMARY. In an August 31 briefing, leading banker Gustavo Marturet and members of his economic research team updated the Ambassador on their perceptions of Venezuela's political and economic situation. Despite the recent downturn in the Venezuelan economy, the bank believes Venezuela will [...] | 2009-09-02 18:56:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EINV VE |
09CARACAS1147 | CHAVEZ GIVES OBAMA AFRICAN PRIDE ADVICE [...] (C) Summary: Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, on a September 1 state visit to Libya to commemorate the 40th anniversary of Qadhafi's revolution, urged President Obama to "rise to the height of his African blood," adding that although he may have good ideas, his hands are tied by the "North A [...] | 2009-09-02 20:19:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PREL VE |
09CARACAS1154 | GBRV MINISTER LIKENS PFIZER TO THE DEVIL, BUT [...] (C) SUMMARY: On August 27, Pfizer representatives told EconOffs that negotiations with the Ministry of Health for the sale of a pharmaceutical plant in Valencia have stalled following the July 31 appointment of Carlos Rotondaro as Health Minister. Pfizer has been unable to meet with Ministr [...] | 2009-09-03 17:22:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | ECIN ECON EFIN EIND EINV ELAB EMIN ENRG EPET |
09CARACAS1168 | CHAVEZ UPS THE ANTE: THE CRIMINALIZATION OF [...] (C) Summary: With the number of protests on the rise across Venezuela, the Venezuelan government (GBRV) is increasingly using the threat of investigation, arrest and incarceration as a political strategy to discourage demonstrators and intimidate the political opposition. Intimidation and h [...] | 2009-09-04 21:20:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM VE |
09CARACAS117 | CHAVEZ MAINTAINS MANEUVERING ROOM REGARDING OBAMA [...] (SBU) Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has softened his comments towards President Obama in recent days. Backing away from his previous attacks, Chavez declared on January 24 that he was "pleased" with Obama's decree to close the Guantanamo detention center and that the new American presiden [...] | 2009-01-29 15:14:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL VE |
09CARACAS1180 | THOUSANDS MARCH IN CARACAS FOR "NO MORE CHAVEZ" [...] (C) Summary: As many as ten thousand marchers took to the streets September 5 to protest against President Chavez, exceeding public expectations of the anticipated turnout. The protest came two weeks after the large opposition march against the recently passed Education Law (ref A) and a day [...] | 2009-09-08 22:35:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM VE |
09CARACAS1181 | THE CUBANS IN VENEZUELA'S PORTS [...] (C) SUMMARY. Post has comfirmed that a wholly Venezuelan government-owned company, Bolipuertos, is now charged with the management of Venezuela's ports. Cuba's ASPORT has a 49 percent share in Puertos del Alba, a separate company, which will reportedly be focused on business development. Contac [...] | 2009-09-09 12:24:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV ETRD EINV MARR CU VE |
09CARACAS1186 | HIGH PROFILE MURDER HIGHLIGHTS ANOTHER BLOODY [...] (C) Summary: The kidnapping and murder of a Guardia Nacional (GN) colonel combined with a spike in the overnight murder rates in Caracas and Valencia on September 5 surprised Venezuelan media. However, overall homicide statistics for the weekend remained steady at about one murder per hour. [...] | 2009-09-10 14:51:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM SNAR VE |
09CARACAS1187 | 29 MORE RADIO STATIONS THREATENED; THE [...] (SBU) Summary. The Venezuelan government announced on September 7 its intention to close another 29 radio stations for alleged administrative and tax irregularities, bringing to 61 the number of radio stations targeted and/or closed since July 31. The timing of the closures and the names of [...] | 2009-09-10 16:09:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM VE |
09CARACAS1188 | NEW LEGISLATION DECIMATES THE CARACAS METROPOLITAN [...] (C) Summary: Along with a flurry of other legislation, the National Assembly (AN) passed on August 26 a new "Law of Municipal Regimen at Two Levels of the Metropolitan Area" that removes most of the authorities and budget of the metropolitan government. The new law grants opposition Mayor [...] | 2009-09-10 18:58:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM VE |
09CARACAS119 | ELECTORAL COUNCIL RECTOR ON 2010 ELECTIONS, TE [...] No summary [...] | 2009-11-05 20:09:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM VE |
09CARACAS1194 | OPPOSITION PARTY "PODEMOS" ASKS FOR U.S. [...] (C) Summary: At the Podemos party's request, the Ambassador met September 9 with National Assembly (AN) Deputies Ricardo Gutierrez, Juan Jose Molina, and Ismael Garcia. They argued that the 2010 AN elections were the "last chance for democracy" in Venezuela in light of President Chavez's dismantlin [...] | 2009-09-14 11:33:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM VE |
09CARACAS1195 | OPPOSITION PARTY "PODEMOS" ASKS FOR U.S. [...] (C) Summary: At the Podemos party's request, the Ambassador met September 9 with National Assembly (AN) Deputies Ricardo Gutierrez, Juan Jose Molina, and Ismael Garcia. They argued that the 2010 AN elections were the "last chance for democracy" in Venezuela in light of President Chavez's d [...] | 2009-09-14 11:33:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM VE |
09CARACAS1198 | EARTHQUAKE STRIKES VENEZUELA, BUT CHAVEZ DOESN'T [...] (U) On September 12, a 6.2 magnitude earthquake struck the coast of Venezuela at approximately 3:36 PM local time, according to the Venezuelan Seismological Foundation (FUNVISI). FUNVISI reported that the earthquake's epicenter was 100 kilometers west of Caracas, off the coast of Carabobo st [...] | 2009-09-14 20:55:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN EIND EINV EMIN ENRG EPET VE |
09CARACAS1201 | GLOBOVISION TV PLAYS WITH FIRE; BURNED A 6TH TIME [...] (C) Summary: On September 7, CONATEL, the Venezuelan government's telecommunications regulatory commission, opened a sixth administrative proceeding against Globovision Television, this time for its September 3 broadcast of text messages from viewers warning of a coup and calling for people to resi [...] | 2009-09-15 17:27:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM VE |
09CARACAS1208 | VENEZUELA: CHAVEZ'S EARLY ANNOUNCEMENT OF REPSOL'S [...] (C) SUMMARY: On Friday, September 11, President Chavez trumpeted that Spanish oil company Repsol had made a significant natural gas discovery in the Gulf of Venezuela. Repsol issued a press release reiterating President Chavez's statement. This discovery was made in one of seven off-shore blo [...] | 2009-09-16 14:09:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET EINV ENRG ECON CU VE |
09CARACAS1209 | NO SHORT TERM DELIVERIES FROM CHAVEZ'S RUSSIAN [...] (C) Summary: Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez announced September 13 that he had agreed to purchase USD 2.2 billion worth of weapons from Russia. Russia reportedly is providing financing for this purchase. The weapons would include main battle tanks (MBTs),components of an integrated air d [...] | 2009-09-16 15:15:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | MCAP PREL VE CO RU |
09CARACAS1224 | ANOTHER OPPOSITION POLITICIAN SEEKS ASYLUM IN PERU [...] (C) Summary: Local papers report that Oscar Perez, a close ally of opposition Mayor of Greater Caracas Antonio Ledezma, presented his petition to the Peruvian Government September 17 for political asylum. Perez has been in hiding for nearly three weeks after an arrest warrant was issued for [...] | 2009-09-18 19:31:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL PREF PGOV KDEM VE |
09CARACAS1225 | OPPOSITON MAYOR GUNNED DOWN BY UNKNOWN KILLERS [...] (SBU) On September 12, opposition Mayor Lluvane Alvarez was shot dead in front of his house in Coloncito, a ranching town in northern Tachira state. Mayor Alvarez was a member of COPEI, Venezuela's Christian Democratic party and a strong supporter of Tachira's COPEI Governor Cesar Perez Vivas [...] | 2009-09-18 19:39:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER VE CO |
09CARACAS1230 | STILL NO AGREEMENT ON DRAFT DECLARATION FOR [...] (C) Summary: South African Ambassador Bhekizzizwe Gila told Ambassador Duddy on September 18 that South African President Zuma would attend the September 26-27 UNASUR -African Union Summit taking place on Venezuela's Margarita Island. Gila said the heads of state of Brazil, Libya, Algeria, and poss [...] | 2009-09-18 20:36:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL VE |
09CARACAS1231 | CARABOBO GOVERNOR CALLS VENEZUELA A DICTATORSHIP [...] (C) SUMMARY: In his meeting with the Ambassador on September 16, opposition Governor of Carabobo State, Henrique Salas Feo, highlighted the deterioration of Carabobo's economy and problems following the nationalization of Venezuela's main port, Puerto Cabello. He observed that disagreement [...] | 2009-09-18 20:59:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON ELAB PREL KDEM VE |
09CARACAS1232 | CHAVEZ ANNOUNCES GOVERNMENT RESTRUCTURING [...] (C) Summary: President Chavez unveiled September 17 two new structures within his central government, pledging to fully explain the changes and 40 pending economic decisions in the coming days. He designated six of his Cabinet ministers as Vice Presidents with different areas of responsibi [...] | 2009-09-18 21:04:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM VE |
09CARACAS1236 | VENEZUELA: INSIGHT INTO LUKOIL AND THE RUSSIAN [...] (C) SUMMARY: Russian oil companies in Venezuela understand that government-to-government negotiations are the most expedient way to advance commercial relations in Venezuela. In addition to working through a consortium to sign new oil deals, the individual companies are preparing to transfer [...] | 2009-09-21 11:42:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET EINV ENRG ECON VE |
09CARACAS1240 | VENEZUELA: PRODUCTION UPDATE FROM PDVSA AND [...] (C) A petroleum engineer working on crude oil production at Shell and PDVSA's joint venture on Lake Maracaibo provided some insights into the challenges of oil production in Venezuela's oldest production area. According to the engineer, the production of Petroregional del Lago (PERLA) had dro [...] | 2009-09-22 15:52:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET EINV ENRG ECON CU VE |
09CARACAS1246 | VENEZUELA: INSIGHTS FROM PDVSA'S SENIOR EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR [...] (C) SUMMARY: XXXXXXXXXXXX provided insight into PDVSA's finances and strategy, saying that PDVSA plans to issue additional bonds in the coming months and to use the revenues to pay pending arrears to oil services companies. PDVSA has also negotiated payment in crude oil shipments for outstanding di [...] | 2009-09-23 14:24:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET EINV ENRG ECON VE |
09CARACAS126 | VENEZUELA: SEEKING IMPROVED TIES WITH COLUMBIA [...] (C) Summary. In response to the worldwide economic crisis, on January 24, Presidents Uribe and Chavez agreed to create an economic commission focused on binational issues, including a binational fund for microfinance projects. Documented trade between the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (B [...] | 2009-01-29 21:31:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN PREL EINV PGOV VE |
09CARACAS1262 | HR DEFENDERS WARN OF AUTHORITARIANISM, ARBITRARY [...] (C) Summary: During a September 24 breakfast hosted by Embassy Caracas' human rights officer, Venezuelan human rights defenders expressed profound concern to 22 Caracas based diplomats about the increasingly limited democratic space within the country. They expressed concern about the disc [...] | 2009-09-29 15:45:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL VE |
09CARACAS1265 | VENEZUELA: GBRV ERECTING OBSTACLES TO NEW LABOR [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The collective bargaining agreement for the Oil, Chemical, and Gas Workers Federation of Venezuela (FUTEV) expired on January 21, 2009. Our contacts report the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (GBRV) and PDVSA do not want to negotiate a costly new collective bargaining agreemen [...] | 2009-09-30 13:56:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET EINV ELAB ECON ENRG VE |
09CARACAS1266 | BANESCO PRESIDENT CONCERNED OVER ALLEGATIONS OF [...] (C) In a September 28 meeting with the Ambassador, Banesco president Juan Carlos Escotet expressed concern that allegations in the blogosphere of Banesco's involvement with Iranian banks, although they were false, could damage Banesco's reputation. (Note: Banesco is privately held and by some measu [...] | 2009-09-30 19:59:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN VE IR |
09CARACAS1269 | STUDENT-LED HUNGER STRIKE BROADENS APPEAL; FOCUSES [...] (C) Summary: As of September 29, a student-led hunger strike entered its 7th day, expanding from an initial group of 33 protesters in front of the headquarters of the Organization of American States (OAS) in Caracas to upwards of 160 students, unionists, journalists, and prisoners in severa [...] | 2009-09-30 21:39:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM VE |
09CARACAS1271 | SCHOOLS ON ALERT, NO IMPLEMENTATION YET OF [...] (C) Summary: Venezuelan schools and universities reopened on September 15 with little fanfare, despite earlier concerns about potential unrest as a result of the controversial new Education Law that was passed during the summer school recess (ref A). The Venezuelan government (GBRV) has not y [...] | 2009-10-01 14:51:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM VE |
09CARACAS1275 | COLOMBIAN BEEF IS NOT WHAT IS FOR DINNER [...] (C) SUMMARY: As a result of chilly Venezuela-Colombia bilateral relations, food processors are pessimistic about Venezuela's future beef imports from Colombia. By presidential order, trade is effectively paralyzed, and some processors can only access raw materials from a domestic cattle her [...] | 2009-10-02 13:58:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EAGR ETRD VE PGOV |
09CARACAS1279 | STUDENTS END HUNGER STRIKE [...] (SBU) Summary: The 7 day student-led hunger strike, initially launched on September 24 as a protest against the arrest of student activist Julio Rivas, ended late the evening of September 30. The students called off the protest and claimed victory, stating that their demands had been fully [...] | 2009-10-02 17:45:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM VE |
09CARACAS128 | TENSIONS MOUNTING WITH TWO WEEKS TO GO TO [...] (C) Summary: With just over two weeks to go before President Chavez's February 15 referendum to remove term limits, tensions are high with near daily confrontations between student protesters and the police. Chavez continues to foment political polarization and is warning that if the amend [...] | 2009-01-30 18:12:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM CASC ASEC VE |
09CARACAS1281 | GBRV USES ANTI-TRADE MEASURES TO PUNISH COLOMBIA [...] (C) SUMMARY: Following President Chavez's July 28 announcement to freeze relations with Colombia, trade experts and business leaders in both countries downplayed the threat to bilateral trade and predicted that Chavez would not damage a mutually beneficial commercial relationship. But recent [...] | 2009-10-02 18:57:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | ECIN ECON EFIN EIND EINV ELAB EMIN ENRG EPET |
09CARACAS1283 | ANOTHER BOND ISSUANCE TARGETS THE PARALLEL MARKET [...] (U) The Venezuelan government (GBRV) announced on September 28 and 29 the terms for the planned issuance of USD 3 billion in dollar-denominated bonds (Bonos Soberanos Internacionales). Half the bonds will mature in 2019 and half in 2024, and all will be Eurobonds registered in Luxembourg. A [...] | 2009-10-02 19:17:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN VE |
09CARACAS1284 | AFRICA-SOUTH AMERICA SUMMIT SHORT ON SUBSTANCE, LONG ON HEADACHES [...] No summary [...] | 2009-10-05 20:00:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM VE UNCHC EAID |
09CARACAS1286 | SUGAR PROCESSORS ARE BRV FAVORITES [...] (C) SUMMARY: Despite the BRV's overall negative attitude toward big business, Venezuela's large sugar processors have found official foreign exchange and import permits easier to obtain. A prime example is Centro Azucarero Portuguesa (CAPSA),the country's largest processor. However, facilitated ac [...] | 2009-10-05 20:03:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | EAGR ECON PGOV VE ETRD |
09CARACAS1287 | GOVERNMENT FURTHER REDUCES SPACE FOR INDEPENDENT [...] (C) Summary: The Venezuelan government has announced that radio stations will be required to broadcast 3.5 hours/day of government-selected programs and another 2 hours/day of nationally-produced programming. The new rules would also essentially end syndicated radio programming. The gover [...] | 2009-10-05 20:23:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM VE |
09CARACAS1292 | STUDENT HUNGER STRIKES ENDED, BUT APPEALS FOR OAS [...] (SBU) Summary: Student protests calling for a visit by the Commission on Human Rights (CIDH) of the Organization of American States (OAS) continue. However, an October 3 march was poorly attended and ended with students "mooning" National Guard troops. On October 5, 15 students in the bor [...] | 2009-10-06 21:09:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM VE |
09CARACAS1295 | URBAN LANDS LAW THREATENS PROPERTY RIGHTS [...] SUMMARY: On August 14, the National Assembly unanimously approved a new law that grants the Government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (GBRV) wide authority to seize underutilized urban lands to develop socialist housing projects. While the law is yet unpublished in the Official Gaz [...] | 2009-10-07 19:19:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | ECIN ECON EFIN EIND EINV ELAB EMIN ENRG EPET |
09CARACAS1296 | VENEZUELA: THE POLITICS OF DEVELOPING URANIUM RESERVES [...] No summary [...] | 2009-10-07 19:33:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ENRG IR KNNP VE |
09CARACAS1311 | VENEZUELA: CONCRETE ECONOMIC MEASURES STILL [...] (C) Summary: Despite weeks of anticipation, a press conference by the Venezuelan government's (GBRV's) three top economic officials yielded little in the way of concrete new economic measures. The officials outlined general economic goals but offered no significant new proposals that would c [...] | 2009-10-09 21:23:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN VE |
09CARACAS1318 | VENEZUELA: LOOMING POWER BLACKOUTS [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (GBRV) has not adequately invested in the electrical sector nor addressed its deteriorating infrastructure resulting in hundreds of isolated local power outages and regular nation-wide outages. Domestic electricity consumption has increased ov [...] | 2009-10-14 15:41:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | EINV ENRG ECON VE |
09CARACAS1325 | GBRV INCREASINGLY ISOLATING ITSELF ON AVIATION [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The International Air Transport Association (IATA),reports that all international airlines continue to experience prolonged delays in receiving dollars from the Venezuelan Commission for Foreign Exchange Administration (CADIVI). According to IATA statistics in early October [...] | 2009-10-15 15:38:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | CASC CVIS EAIR ECON ETRD PGOV PREL PTER SNAR |
09CARACAS1326 | VENEZUELA: JOINT VENTURE WITH PETROVIETNAM NEARING [...] (C) SUMMARY: According to senior PDVSA officials, the process to launch a joint venture between PDVSA and PetroVietnam is pending a decree from President Chavez. Plans for PDVSA to build a refinery in Vietnam have fallen through, however. Nevertheless, PDVSA continues to plan to sign a long-t [...] | 2009-10-15 15:52:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET EINV ENRG ECON VE |
09CARACAS1330 | POLLSTER: VENEZUELANS LOVE CHAVEZ, BUT THEY DON'T [...] (C) Summary: Poloffs met October 9 with Luis Vicente Leon, the director of the prominent Datanalisis polling firm, who shared his analysis of the results of his September poll. He distinguished between President Chavez's enduring personal popularity, hovering around 53 percent, and the dec [...] | 2009-10-15 19:49:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM VE |
09CARACAS1333 | VENEZUELA: AMBASSADOR VIEWS ECONOMIC SITUATION IN [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Ambassador traveled to the State of Zulia October 4-7 and met with a range of political, private sector, and business leaders. This cable highlights the economic messages delivered to him by the business community. It reinforces reftels that point to decreased private sector inves [...] | 2009-10-15 21:59:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET EINV ENRG ECON VE |
09CARACAS1334 | GBRV EXPROPRIATES ONE OF CHAVEZ'S FAVORITE HOTELS [...] (C) SUMMARY: On October 14, the Government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (GBRV) assumed formal control of the Margarita Hilton Hotel and Suites Hotel complex after President Chavez complained that the owners were enriching themselves at the expense of the local tourism industry. The Marga [...] | 2009-10-16 10:59:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | EINV KPOL VE |
09CARACAS1335 | C-AL9-02049: CHAVEZ PLEASED THAT ZELAYA IS BACK [...] (C) Summary: In answer to questions posed in ref A, President Chavez appeared delighted with President Zelaya's physical return to Honduras on September 21. He continues to accuse the U.S. of instigating and definitely supporting the ouster of Zelaya in June, and includes the events in Hondu [...] | 2009-10-16 15:23:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM PINR PINS HO VE |
09CARACAS1338 | VENEZUELA: ENSCO BRIEFS AMBASSADOR ON STATUS OF [...] (C) SUMMARY. Ensco executives remain optimistic that the U.S. drilling company will recover the offshore platform seized by PDVSA in January 2009 and hopes amicably to resolve the situation leaving open the possibility of future cooperation. The company does not want the USG to raise its spe [...] | 2009-10-16 18:58:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET EINV ENRG ECON VE |
09CARACAS1339 | COFFEE INDUSTRY EXPECTED TO CONTINUE DECLINE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Leading private sector representatives state that Venezuela's policy of fixed output prices, ineffective support for farmers, and probable takeover of two leading coffee processors, will reinforce a downward trend in output and result in additional raw coffee imports. As even d [...] | 2009-10-16 19:30:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | EAGR ECON ETRD PGOV VE |
09CARACAS1344 | RUSSIA HAS NO PLANS TO BUILD NUCLEAR REACTORS IN [...] (C) SUMMARY: During an October 15 initial courtesy call with Ambassador Duddy, Russian Ambassador Zaemsky denied reports that Russia would help Venezuela build nuclear reactors, saying that its nuclear cooperation with Venezuela was limited to the medical field and food controls. With respect [...] | 2009-10-19 12:14:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ENRG EPET KNNP PREL RU VE |
09CARACAS135 | CARACAS SYNAGOGUE ATTACKED, CHAVEZ BLAMES [...] (C) Summary. A group of unidentified armed gunmen vandalized a prominent Caracas synagogue during the late night-early morning hours of January 30-31. The intruders appeared to have planned the attack well, defeating the synagogue's security system and subduing two contract guards. They not [...] | 2009-02-02 21:35:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM KIRF PGOV PREL ASEC VE IS |
09CARACAS1351 | VIEW FROM THE BARRIOS: CARITAS EXPLAINS CHAVEZ [...] (C) Summary: Yaneth Marquez (protect),the Andean regional director of the Catholic charity Caritas, described to PolCouns on October 15 the political perspective of people in Venezuela's poorest areas where Caritas works. Marquez said the standard of living of Venezuela's poor had increased [...] | 2009-10-20 16:53:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM VE |
09CARACAS1352 | VENEZUELA: IRAN'S PETROPARS FRUSTRATED IN CARACAS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Iran's PetroPars is reportedly frustrated by its inability to move petroleum projects forward in Venezuela, especially the development of Ayacucho block 7 in the Faja heavy oil belt. END SUMMARY. 2. (C) XXXXXXXXXXXX told Petroleum Attache (PetAtt) on October 15 that PetroPars is frus [...] | 2009-10-20 17:38:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET EINV ENRG ECON VE IR |
09CARACAS1353 | POLITICAL NOTES ON AMBASSADOR'S VISIT TO WESTERN [...] (C) Summary: The Ambassador traveled to Venezuela's western states of Zulia and Falcon October 4-8 and met with a range of political leaders. Complaints of Colombian guerrillas operating openly in Zulia and reduced budgets were widespread. Pablo Perez, the opposition governor of Zulia, sai [...] | 2009-10-20 19:29:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER SNAR VE CO |
09CARACAS1355 | AA ASKED TO HEAD NEW US-VENEZUELA BUSINESS GROUP [...] (C) SUMMARY: American Airlines Senior Vice President for Latin American Peter Dolara informed the Ambassador that he had been approached by the Venezuelan Ambassador to the U.S. concerning a proposal to help form a new bilateral business organization to promote a positive image of Venezuela. [...] | 2009-10-21 19:38:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | CASC CVIS EAIR ECON ETRD PGOV PREL PTER SNAR |
09CARACAS136 | VENEZUELA: SERVICE COMPANIES FEEL THE PINCH [...] (C) SUMMARY: PDVSA,s cash shortage is exacting an increasingly heavy burden on oil services companies. As reported in the press, Ensco and Helmerich& Payne have already chosen to cease certain drilling operations. Ensco has allowed PDVSA to operate its rig while negotiating quietly for outstanding [...] | 2009-02-03 12:43:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET EINV VE |
09CARACAS1361 | VENEZUELA: REPSOL CONFIRMS SIGNIFICANT NATURAL GAS [...] (C) SUMMARY: President Chavez's recent claims that Repsol and ENI's natural gas discovery in the Gulf of Venezuela will catapult Venezuela into place as the country with the fourth largest natural gas reserves in the world appear to be true. Furthermore, Repsol and ENI expect to produce suffici [...] | 2009-10-22 16:41:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET EINV ENRG ECON VE |
09CARACAS1367 | VENEZUELA: GBRV IMPOSES WATER AND ELECTRICITY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Faced with water and electrical shortages, Venezuelans are facing outages and rationing of both. In response to the growing electrical crisis affecting the entire country, President Chavez has announced an emergency plan that includes the creation of a new electricity ministry [...] | 2009-10-23 21:44:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET EINV ENRG ECON VE |
09CARACAS137 | PARALLEL MARKET GROWING; PDVSA CONTINUING TO [...] (C) Financial executive Miguel Octavio (strictly protect throughout) told EconOffs January 28 that the amounts transacted on the parallel foreign exchange market have grown significantly in recent months. One year ago, Octavio's company averaged USD 3 million in transactions per business day [...] | 2009-02-03 13:01:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN VE |
09CARACAS1372 | BANKER CONCERNED ABOUT FAILING INFRASTRUCTURE AND [...] (C) Summary: Bank president Oscar Garcia Mendoza (strictly protect throughout) told the Ambassador he was worried Venezuela would "collapse" eventually as a consequence of failing infrastructure and services. He also described his bank's efforts to finance a campaign in support of private pr [...] | 2009-10-26 15:39:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV VE |
09CARACAS1373 | CHAVEZ EXPROPRIATES TWO SUGAR MILLS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On October 21, in a state television broadcast, Agriculture and Lands Minister Elias Jaua announced the 90 day occupation and planned expropriation of two sugar mills in western Venezuela. Jaua accused Central Azucarero Venezuela of illegally halting production and Central Azu [...] | 2009-10-26 15:41:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | ECIN ECON EINV ENRG ETRD VE |
09CARACAS1374 | BARRIO ADENTRO IN CRISIS: CHAVEZ TO STRENGTHEN [...] (C) SUMMARY: In response to growing public criticism of Venezuela's health care system, including a well-publicized letter of protest from five former health ministers, the Government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (GBRV) has intensified efforts to revitalize Barrio Adentro, its fla [...] | 2009-10-26 15:42:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON EAID EFIN ELAB KTIP VE |
09CARACAS1375 | ECONOMIC MEASURES LACKING, SPENDING INCREASE [...] (C) Summary: It appears the Venezuelan government (GBRV) does not plan to announce any significant new economic policy measures. A much anticipated press conference by leading economic officials produced few significant announcements, and subsequent announcements by other ministers were sim [...] | 2009-10-26 15:53:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN PGOV VE |
09CARACAS1376 | GBRV BLAMES PARAMILITARIES FOR DEATHS OF 10 KIDNAP [...] (C) Summary: Venezuelan media reported that the bodies of 10 kidnap victims were discovered on October 24 in Tachira state along the border with Colombia. The deceased included a Venezuelan, a Peruvian, and eight Colombians who were kidnapped in Venezuela on October 11. The opposition-led [...] | 2009-10-27 18:40:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER VE CO |
09CARACAS1383 | VENEZUELA: WORLD HEAVY OIL CONFERENCE MOVED AT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (GBRV) announced on October 27, 2009, that the November 2-5 third World Heavy Oil Conference had been moved from Puerto La Cruz to the Island of Margarita. Citing electricity problems in Puerto La Cruz, the GBRV announced the conference (repo [...] | 2009-10-29 12:59:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET EINV ENRG ECON VE |
09CARACAS1386 | US AMBASSADOR MEETS WITH GOVERNMENT ORCHESTRATED [...] (C) Summary: The Ambassador was greeted with government orchestrated resistance and/or protests during trips to the western states of Zulia, Falcon, Merida and Trujillo. During October 4-8 visits to Zulia, a pro-Government media blog criticized the Ambassador's trip to the opposition control [...] | 2009-10-29 21:45:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL CO VE |
09CARACAS139 | GIVE US YOUR TIRED, WEARY, DISEASED,LIVESTOCK [...] (C) SUMMARY. According to knowledgeable industry representatives, Venezuela continues to import cattle without appropriate controls against animal disease. The most recent example brought to our attention is cows purchased from Cuba that suffer from leucosis, for which there are tests. Appa [...] | 2009-02-03 13:39:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | EAGR ECON ETRD PGOV VE |
09CARACAS1390 | CENTRAL BANK LAW MODIFIED: OPEN THE FLOODGATES? [...] (C) Summary: The National Assembly has approved significant modifications to the law governing Venezuela's Central Bank (BCV). The BCV will have vastly expanded powers to act as a development bank and finance a wide array of government projects. It will also be able to buy PDVSA bonds dire [...] | 2009-10-30 19:18:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN VE |
09CARACAS1391 | VENEZUELAN REACTION TO THE 2009 IRF REPORT [...] (C) Summary: Reaction to the 2009 International Religious Freedom (IRF) report has been muted in Venezuela, despite initial press headlines implying that the report grouped Venezuela and Cuba together. A short October 28 article in the government paper Diario Vea said "all religions enjoy t [...] | 2009-10-30 20:09:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL KDEM PGOV KIRF VE |
09CARACAS1393 | URBAN LANDS LAW PUBLISHED, GBRV RECLASSIFIES [...] (C) SUMMARY: On October 21, the Government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (GBRV) published a controversial Urban Lands Law in the Official Gazette. This empowers the state to seize underutilized urban lands in order to develop socialist housing projects. Critics say that the law t [...] | 2009-11-02 11:26:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN EINV KCOR VE |
09CARACAS1401 | VENEZUELA'S JEWISH COMMUNITY SEES "DARK HORIZON" [...] (C) Summary: In an October 28 breakfast meeting with the Confederacion de Asociaciones Israelitas Venezolanas (CAIV) Board of Directors, XXXXXXXXXXXX, said he privately encouraged Brazilian senators to allow Venezuela to join MERCOSUR. At the same time, Jewish community leaders told PolCouns th [...] | 2009-11-02 21:11:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM VE |
09CARACAS1402 | CHAVEZ'S "UNITED SOCIALIST PARTY" TO ELECT PARTY [...] (C) Summary: President Chavez has restarted his United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) electoral machine by calling for internal party elections on November 15. The party officials elected will be responsible for selecting candidates for the 2010 National Assembly (AN) and town council [...] | 2009-11-02 22:21:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM VE |
09CARACAS1406 | POLITICAL NOTES ON AMBASSADOR'S TRIP TO ANDEAN [...] (SBU) Summary: The Ambassador traveled to two cities in Western Venezuela, Merida and Valera, from October 24-28, making additional stops in Carabobo, Portuguesa and the Andean highlands of the country. Among the highlights of the trip were the inauguration of the new round of the 2009/10 v [...] | 2009-11-03 16:45:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL VE |
09CARACAS1408 | WHAT'S WRONG WITH THE OPPOSITION? [...] (C) Summary: Both President Chavez and the opposition are gearing up for the National Assembly (AN) and community council elections anticipated in the last half of 2010, although the Chavista-packed National Electoral Council (CNE) has not formally announced the dates. The opposition claims [...] | 2009-11-03 18:43:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM VE |
09CARACAS141 | REVOLUTIONARY SPUDS: IN VENEZUELA, POLITICS TRUMP [...] (C) SUMMARY: Despite strong interest by Venezuela's private sector to move forward on food trade protocols with the United States, and a recent warming to the topic by SASA, Venezuela's plant and animal health authority, meaningful and timely progress will be difficult. We understand that SA [...] | 2009-02-03 20:16:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | EAGR ECON PGOV VE ETRD |
09CARACAS1417 | CHARGING OPPOSITION LEADERS AS SPIES, [...] (C) Summary: Over the past week, President Chavez and his supporters have stepped up attacks against two opposition governors, Cesar Perez Vivas (Tachira) and Henrique Capriles Radonski (Miranda). Chavez is blaming Perez Vivas for several highly-publicized violent incidents along the Colombian bord [...] | 2009-11-05 19:24:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM VE |
09CARACAS1419 | ELECTORAL COUNCIL RECTOR ON 2010 ELECTIONS, THE [...] (C) Summary: The sole non-Chavista rector of the National Electoral Council (CNE),Vicente Diaz, told Poloffs on October 22 that the CNE would announce the election timetables, implementing electoral regulations, and any changes to the voting districts by December. Diaz dismissed opposition allegat [...] | 2009-11-05 20:09:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM VE |
09CARACAS1423 | POLLSTER: OPPOSITION NEEDS AN "EVERYDAY AGENDA" [...] (C) Summary: Pollster Alfredo Keller predicted to Polcouns on October 23 that the opposition would achieve a tactical alliance in advance of the 2010 legislative elections, but warned about its continued lack of an effective message. Keller suggested that Chavista abstentionism at the poll [...] | 2009-11-06 14:47:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM VE |
09CARACAS1426 | GBRV LAYS BLAME FOR BORDER VIOLENCE [...] (C) Summary: During the weeks of October 24-November 6, Venezuelan-Colombian border tensions rose sharply as a result of the killing of 10 kidnap victims (reftel) and two Venezuelan National Guardsmen, the arrest of three alleged Colombian DAS (Administrative Department of Security) agents b [...] | 2009-11-06 17:44:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER VE CO |
09CARACAS1430 | FM MADURO: DCA IS MOST SHAMEFUL ACCORD IN HISTORY [...] (SBU) Summary: One week after the U.S. - Colombian Defense Cooperation Agreement (DCA) signing on October 30, Venezuelan Foreign Minister Nicolas Maduro announced increased military intelligence and other activities so the country "would never be touched by even one single U.S. soldier." Usi [...] | 2009-11-06 20:56:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM SNAR VE |
09CARACAS1434 | GBRV REDUCES REVENUE FLOWING TO THREE [...] (C) Summary: The Venezuelan government (GBRV) continues to find ways to reduce the funding provided by the central government to state and city governments, especially those run by opposition leaders. City officials in Maracaibo project their 2009 revenues will be 25 percent below what they [...] | 2009-11-09 19:38:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN PGOV VE |
09CARACAS144 | ELECTORAL PLAYING FIELD FAVORS CHAVEZ'S "YES" [...] (C) Summary: In the run-up to the February 15 constitutional amendment referendum to remove official term limits, President Chavez is tilting the electoral playing field strongly in favor of the "Yes" campaign. Despite flagrant abuse of electoral regulations and the illegal use of state re [...] | 2009-02-03 22:21:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM VE |
09CARACAS1447 | VENEZUELA'S STANDARDS REGIME IN DISARRAY [...] (C) SUMMARY: The status of Venezuela's standards regime is uncertain after a June 2009 resolution abolished the relationship between the principal, non-profit industry standards setting entity, the Fund for Standardization and Quality (FONDONORMA),and the Government of the Bolivarian Republ [...] | 2009-11-12 10:20:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ECIN EIND EINT EINV ETRD VE |
09CARACAS1459 | ANTI-OBAMA MURAL ON DISPLAY IN CARACAS [...] (U) Users with access to SMART Cable system, please open attachment to see three photos of anti-Obama mural. 2. (U) A prominently displayed, high-quality painted mural denigrating President Obama is currently on public display in central Caracas. The mural, which is painted on a co [...] | 2009-11-17 13:46:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV VE |
09CARACAS1461 | VENEZUELAN AIRLINE NO LONGER AUTHORIZED TO MAKE UNSCHEDULED [...] (C) SUMMARY: According to a senior executive of Venezuelan cargo carrier Vensecar, the Government of Colombia (GOC) has retaliated against a September 10 decision by the Government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (GBRV) that it would no longer authorize unscheduled flights by Colombia [...] | 2009-11-17 14:32:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | EAIR ECON ETRD PREL SNAR VE CO BEXP EINT ETTC |
09CARACAS1465 | VENEZUELA: PDVSA'S REFINERIES AND NEW PROJECT PLANS [...] (C) SUMMARY: PDVSA's concept for the future development of the Faja heavy oil fields -- and particularly how to link the different joint venture projects together into a common infrastructure -- is still in its infancy. A senior PDVSA official described the company's numerous international ref [...] | 2009-11-17 21:12:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET EINV ENRG ECON VE |
09CARACAS1467 | BILATERAL TRADE FALLS OVER 50 PERCENT [...] (SBU) On November 17, the local press widely published an announcement from the Venezuelan-American Chamber of Commerce and Industry (VENAMCHAM) that bilateral trade between Venezuela and the US had declined by over 50 percent in the first nine months of 2009, compared to the same period [...] | 2009-11-17 22:42:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON VE |
09CARACAS1469 | IT'S OFFICIAL: VENEZUELA'S ECONOMY IN RECESSION [...] (C) Summary: According to Central Bank statistics, Venezuela's economy contracted for the second straight quarter, which is the accepted definition of a recession. The contraction itself was no surprise, but its size - 4.5 percent in real terms - was greater than expected. While even the M [...] | 2009-11-18 21:16:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON VE PGOV |
09CARACAS1473 | RE: MUNICIPALITY CONTINUES TO RESIST CENTRAL GOVERNMENT [...] (SBU) Summary: Government of Venezuela (GBRV) authorities continue to block efforts by Caracas' opposition led municipality of Chacao to build a new civic center on the former site of a popular weekend market. Opposition Chacao Mayor Emilio Grateron ordered construction to begin on Nove [...] | 2009-11-19 20:50:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM VE |
09CARACAS1475 | Venezuela: Deciphering the Current Electricity Crisis [...] (C) SUMMARY: Venezuela's current electrical crisis is serious and complex, with problems that may yet present a "perfect storm" for policymakers. While acknowledging problems in maintenance delays and planning shortfalls in augmenting electricity infrastructure, President Chavez cites increase [...] | 2009-11-20 15:38:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET EINV ENRG ECON VE |
09CARACAS1483 | VENEZUELA DESTROY BORDER BRIDGES; ACCUSES COLOMBIA OF [...] (C) Summary: Venezuelan Army troops on November 19 demolished two locally constructed foot bridges joining villages in Colombia and Venezuela. General Aguero of the 2ND Infantry Division, at a press conference later that day, claimed the structures were "pedestrian crossings used by dr [...] | 2009-11-20 19:59:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | MOPS PREL SNAR CO VE OAS |
09CARACAS1487 | VENEZUELA: REVIEW FOR SUSPENSION OF TITLE III OF THE LIBERTAD ACT [...] No summary [...] | 2009-11-20 20:51:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | CU ECON EINV EPET ETRD ETTC HURI PREL VE |
09CARACAS1489 | Students Occupy Embassies; Plan Second Hunger Strike [...] (C) On November 19 student activist Julio Rivas told Polcouns and Human Rights Officer that students would convene a demonstration in Caracas on November 21 in which they would announce their initiation of a second round of political actions, to include a hunger strike by about 50 student [...] | 2009-11-20 20:59:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM VE |
09CARACAS149 | RUMORS OF A RUSSIAN FAVORED BID IN CARABOBO AND [...] (C) SUMMARY: A well-connected industry source asserts that PDVSA has offered to form a mixed company with a newly formed Russian consortium for direct award of one of the Carabobo bid round blocks. The consortium was reportedly not required to pay for the data pack (for $2 million) despite p [...] | 2009-02-04 19:15:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET EINV VE |
09CARACAS1491 | VENEZUELAN GOVERNMENT TAKES CONTROL OF FOUR PRIVATE BANKS [...] (SBU) Summary: The Venezuelan government (GBRV) announced November 20 that it was taking control of four private banks recently bought (or in the process of being bought) by Ricardo Fernandez, a businessman with close ties to the GBRV. The intervention is taking place with "open doors," i.e [...] | 2009-11-20 21:32:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN VE |
09CARACAS1493 | FM Maduro Rails Against U.S. and DCA in Meeting of [...] (SBU) Summary: Venezuelan Foreign Minister Nicolas Maduro inaugurated the first "International Meeting of Leftist Parties" in Caracas on November 19 with a televised diatribe against the United States. Calling the coup in Honduras a "coup against ALBA," and the Defense Cooperation Agreem [...] | 2009-11-20 22:03:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL VE CO |
09CARACAS1501 | Chavez Focuses Meeting of International Leftist Parties on [...] (C) Summary: At the November 19-20 Meeting of International Leftist Parties, President Chavez called on the parties to unite against the United States and said the Defense Cooperation Agreement between the U.S. and Colombia (DCA) threatened the entire hemisphere. He also called convicte [...] | 2009-11-25 21:08:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM VE |
09CARACAS1503 | BRV's Aggressive Land Interventions Benefit Selected [...] (C) SUMMARY: Continuing their aggressive policy to "rescue idle land," Minster of Agriculture Elias Jaua and representatives of the National Land Institute (INTI) intervened in 31 farms totaling about 19,750 hectares on November 23. As before, the government underscored their determinat [...] | 2009-11-25 22:45:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON VE EAGR PGOV |
09CARACAS1509 | VENEZUELAN GOVERNMENT SHUTS 4 BANKS AMID RUMORS OF CHAVISTA [...] (C) Summary: The Venezuelan government (GBRV) announced on November 30 it will liquidate two of the four banks it took control of November 20 and temporarily close the other two as it tries to "rehabilitate" them. The intervening period of November 20-30, during which transactions proceeded [...] | 2009-12-01 15:31:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN VE PGOV |
09CARACAS151 | CHAVEZ DECLARES SUDDEN HOLIDAY TO HONOR HIMSELF [...] (C) Summary. President Chavez declared on February 1 that February 2 would be a holiday to celebrate his ten years in power. The Venezuelan president's surprise was late, and the vague announcement of this last minute holiday created considerable confusion at businesses, schools, and other i [...] | 2009-02-04 21:45:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM ECON ELAB VE |
09CARACAS1511 | VENEZUELA - Trafficking in Persons Interim Assessment 2009 [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: There is little to no progress to report for the interim period. The Government of Venezuela (GBRV) refused to meet with Post regarding TIP and remains reluctant to share trafficking information, however it did provide some responses to Post's recent inquiries. While of [...] | 2009-12-01 20:20:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM SMIG KWMN KTIP KCRM VE |
09CARACAS1515 | CARACAS STRUGGLES TO TAKE OUT THE TRASH [...] (C) SUMMARY: On November 26, Caracas residents blocked a major highway with burning tires to protest the growing piles of trash that had accumulated along the streets of the Libertador municipality. Despite an earlier promise by Libertador Mayor Jorge Rodriguez to resolve the crisis by Novemb [...] | 2009-12-01 20:32:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV ELAB SENV KCOR VE |
09CARACAS1517 | Ambassadors Discuss Expulsion of Colombian Miners/Colombian [...] (C) Summary: On December 1, Ambassador met with Colombian Ambassador to Venezuela Maria Luisa Chiappe at the residence of Mexican Embassy Political Counselor Maria Elena Alcaraz, at the former's request. Ambassador Chiappe confirmed reports that late last week approximately 500 miners - m [...] | 2009-12-02 18:09:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PREF CO VE |
09CARACAS1519 | Opposition Officials Attacked During Protest Of Budget Cuts [...] (C) Summary: Leading opposition officials held a march in downtown Caracas on December 1 in protest of proposed cuts of the 2010 allocation of funds from the central government to the states. In an unusually strong show of opposition unity, Miranda Governor Henrique Capriles Rodonski was jo [...] | 2009-12-02 18:29:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM EFIN VE |
09CARACAS1521 | VENEZUELA EXPECTED TO TAKE HARD LINE IN COPENHAGEN [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (GBRV)'s steadfast view that developed countries have caused climate change is expected to dominate its official position at the 15th United Nations Climate Change Conference. Though the GBRV has not publicized an official s [...] | 2009-12-03 14:06:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | SENV EAID ECON ENRG PGOV PREL UN VE KGHG |
09CARACAS1523 | RE: Second Student Led Hunger Strike at Risk of Fizzling Out [...] (C) Summary: Two weeks after the November 21 announcement by student activist Julio Rivas of a second student-led hunger strike to demand a visit by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (CIDH),the number of students participating in the hunger strike has dropped from its pea [...] | 2009-12-03 22:11:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM VE |
09CARACAS1525 | VENEZUELA: IRAN SANCTIONS ACT [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a public speech on November 25, President Chavez touted the implementation of 129 joint projects with Iranian cooperation and called the Government of Iran (GOI) a "strategic ally." The same day, the Venezuelan Government (GBRV) signed an additional 45 agreements with Iran to [...] | 2009-12-04 13:39:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PREL EPET VE |
09CARACAS1529 | COLOMBIANS IN VENEZUELA [...] (SBU) Summary: Forty years of civil war in Colombia have created a unique situation where four generations of refugees, totaling an estimated 6 million people, call Venezuela home. Colombian expatriates are integrated at every level of Venezuelan society, from casual day laborers to pro [...] | 2009-12-04 22:11:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PREF PGOV PTER CO VE IOM |
09CARACAS1535 | DEFAMATION OF RELIGIONS DEMARCHE [...] (C) As requested in Reftel, PolCouns demarched Ministry of Foreign Affairs officials on December 4 on the "combating defamation of religions" resolution before the UN General Assembly. Using the non-paper, PolCouns urged the Venezuelan government against supporting the resolution. The officia [...] | 2009-12-07 21:03:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | UNGA PHUM VE |
09CARACAS1537 | Venezuelan government takes over three additional banks; key [...] (C) Summary: The Venezuelan government (GBRV) announced December 4 that it was taking control of three more banks, in addition to the four it took over November 20. While these three banks are small, the growing scale of the GBRV's intervention has had a number of repercussions in the financial sec [...] | 2009-12-07 22:54:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN VE |
09CARACAS1539 | Venezuela's Rice Availability Diminishing [...] (C) Summary: According to local rice producers and traders, Venezuela's rice supplies are contracting due to diminished domestic output and a slow import program. Although there have been high profile purchases in the last few months from Ecuador, Argentina, and Guyana to cover the expe [...] | 2009-12-08 13:19:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EAGR VE PGOV ETRD |
09CARACAS1541 | VENEZUELA'S MEDICAL SYSTEM IN DISARRAY AS GBRV SHIFTS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Venezuelan doctors have accused the Venezuelan Government (GBRV) of politicizing health care at the expense of the health of Venezuelans. In recent months, protests have paralyzed hospitals across Venezuela as doctors and patients have complained of shortages of medical supplies, [...] | 2009-12-08 16:34:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV ELAB HURI VE |
09CARACAS1543 | Sucre Municipality Opposition Mayor Focuses On Barrios [...] (C) Summary: Carlos Ocariz, the opposition mayor of the Municipality of Sucre in Greater Caracas, has focused on governing, rather than politicking since assuming office in November 2008. His approval ratings have increased since taking office, and his work on social programs, public services, and [...] | 2009-12-10 15:27:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM PINR VE |
09CARACAS1545 | OAS Visit Ends Student Hunger Strike; Student Confrontation [...] (SBU) Summary: Student activist Julio Rivas claimed victory and ended his 18-day hunger strike on December 8 after a visit to Caracas by an OAS team that listened to the students' concerns and announced a January 2010 visit to Venezuela by OAS Secretary General Insulza. In a separate i [...] | 2009-12-10 23:31:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM VE |
09CARACAS155 | VENEZUELAN AUTOMOTIVE POLICY HAD "DISASTEROUS" [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Venezuelan government's automotive policy, in effect since January 1, 2008, fell far short of meeting its goal of increasing domestic car production. Car sales dropped by 45 percent in 2008 while spiraling prices due to lack of supply now have some in the government calling f [...] | 2009-02-05 16:49:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV PREL ETRD EINV VE |
09CARACAS1551 | VENEZUELA'S MEDICAL SYSTEM IN DISARRAY AS GBRV SHIFTS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Venezuelan doctors have accused the Venezuelan Government (GBRV) of politicizing health care at the expense of the health of Venezuelans. In recent months, protests have paralyzed hospitals across Venezuela as doctors and patients have complained of shortages of medical supplies, delay [...] | 2009-12-14 14:32:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ELAB HURI PGOV VE |
09CARACAS1553 | GBRV Takes Over Another Small Bank, Raising Total to Eight [...] (C) Summary: On December 11, the Venezuelan government (GBRV) took over another small bank due to "a situation of illiquidity," raising the total in the ongoing episode to eight. This bank, Banorte, fits the pattern of the other seven banks in that it was bought recently by a new entrant to [...] | 2009-12-14 20:51:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN VE PGOV |
09CARACAS1559 | C-AL9-02397 GBRV TIGHTENS THE NOOSE ON COLOMBIAN IMPORTS, [...] (C) SUMMARY: On December 8, the Executive President of the Venezuelan-Colombian Economic Integration Board (CAVECOL),Luis Alberto Russian, told EconOffs that while custom offices remain open on the Colombian border the Venezuelan Government (GBRV) has erected a series of administrative barrier [...] | 2009-12-16 13:05:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ETRD EAGR PINR PREL VE CO |
09CARACAS1561 | VENEZUELA: NEW PORT AUTHORITIES CHARACTERIZED BY DECLINING [...] (C) SUMMARY: Shipping company representatives report that port conditions improved immediately after the nationalization of Venezuelan port operations in June 2009 when the government retrieved thousands of containers that had been left in the ports. This improvement, though, was short-lived as [...] | 2009-12-16 13:13:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EINT EWWT VE MARR PGOV PREL ETRD |
09CARACAS1563 | MILITARY REFORMS CONSOLIDATE CHAVEZ AUTHORITY [...] (C) Summary: The October 5 approval by the National Assembly (AN) of 45 changes to the year-old Organic Law of the Bolivarian National Armed Forces and a revision of the Law on Conscription and Enlistment surprised military watchers and NGOs. The new reforms increase the presidency's contro [...] | 2009-12-17 00:13:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | MCAP PGOV CO VE |
09CARACAS1565 | TRIBAL DEATHS HIGHLIGHT GOVERNMENT LAND TRANSFER PROGRAM IN [...] (C) Summary: The October 13 killing of three members of the Yukpa tribe in the border state of Zulia highlighted the tension surrounding the Venezuelan government's (GBRV's) land transfer program. The killings, supposedly by other Yukpa members, followed the alleged theft of 124 cattle two d [...] | 2009-12-17 16:30:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREF PHUM PREL KDEM SNAR VE |
09CARACAS1567 | Venezuela: PDVSA Experiencing Quality Control Problems [...] (C) SUMMARY: PDVSA is experiencing quality control problems with refined product and upgraded crude oil and is bearing significant costs due to these problems. The Venezuelan national oil company has prioritized the supply of gasoline and other petroleum products to its domestic market over it [...] | 2009-12-17 17:28:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET EINV ENRG ECON CH VE |
09CARACAS1569 | Sorting Out the Cedeno Story [...] (C) Summary. The December 10 release of imprisoned banker Eligio Cedeno and the immediate detention of Judge Maria Lourdes Afiuni, who ordered his release, have merged two issues: corruption by Chavez insiders and the politicization of Venezuela's judicial system. Embassy recommends a principled po [...] | 2009-12-17 23:56:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV VE |
09CARACAS157 | VENEZUELA: LABOR UNREST TURNS DEADLY [...] (C) Summary. On January 29, police in Anzoategui state, enforcing a judicial order obtained by Mitsubishi, entered the Mitsubishi automotive factory, which had been taken over by union workers on January 12. A melee ensued, leaving two workers dead and several workers and two police officers [...] | 2009-02-05 17:56:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN ELAB EINV PGOV PREL VE |
09CARACAS1581 | Venezuela Hosts New FARC-Affiliated Organization [...] (C) Summary: In a meeting in Caracas on December 7-9, about 1,000 delegates from 24 countries established the Continental Bolivarian Movement (MCB),named FARC leader Alfonso Cano its honorary president, and expressed support for the FARC and for President Chavez's fight against "U.S. imperia [...] | 2009-12-21 21:02:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM SNAR VE |
09CARACAS1587 | CHAVEZ VOWS TO SHOOT DOWN "SPY" PLANES [...] (SBU) In his nationally-televised weekly Alo Presidente show on December 20, President Chavez accused Colombian President Uribe of having "handed over Colombia to the yankees" and having allowed them to send unmanned aircraft into Venezuelan airspace near the Colombian border. Chavez said tha [...] | 2009-12-22 20:22:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL SNAR VE |
09CARACAS1589 | Chavez Calls for Cedeno's Extradition and 35-Year Sentence for the Judge [...] (C) During a December 21 broadcast, President Chavez announced that fugitive banker Eligio Cedeno had been detained in the United States and asked the relevant government ministries to quickly put together the necessary documentation for an extradition request to the United States (see reftel for b [...] | 2009-12-22 21:27:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM PGOV VE |
09CARACAS159 | REFERENDUM UPDATE - ONE WEEK OUT [...] (C) Summary: With just over a week to go before the February 15 constitutional referendum to remove official term limits, credible local polling indicates that support for President Chavez's "Yes" campaign has drawn slightly ahead of the "No." The Government of Bolivarin Republic of Venezue [...] | 2009-02-06 17:37:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM VE |
09CARACAS1591 | GRBV UNDEREPORTS H1N1, DENGUE AND MALARIA ON THE RISE [...] (C) SUMMARY: As of December 17, the Venezuelan Ministry of Health has reported 2,697 laboratory-confirmed cases of H1N1 and 117 deaths associated with the virus. Many medical experts claim that the Venezuelan Government (GBRV) has underreported the prevalence of H1N1, based on the mortality r [...] | 2009-12-23 14:50:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON VE KFLU KHIV AMED |
09CARACAS1593 | VENEZUELA: PDVSA'S CVP LEADERSHIP [...] (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: A senior Ministry of Energy and Petroleum (MENPET) official provided insight into the structure of PDVSA's Venezuelan Petroleum Corporation (or CVP by its Spanish acronym) board of directors, current production numbers, and noted current Russian and Chinese difficulties [...] | 2009-12-23 15:13:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET EINV ENRG ECON RS CH VE |
09CARACAS1595 | Venezuela: Banco Bicentenario Opens, But is the Banking Episode Over? [...] (C) Summary: President Chavez officially inaugurated Banco Bicentenario on December 21, thus effectively re-opening three of the eight banks the Venezuelan government (GBRV) has taken over or shut down since November 20. The National Assembly also passed changes to the banking law to triple the amo [...] | 2009-12-23 19:44:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN VE |
09CARACAS1597 | Dueling Expectations regarding Cedeno's Return [...] (U) During a December 22 press conference to discuss the results of Copenhagen-15, Foreign Minister Nicolas Maduro said that all the documentation required under the U.S.-Venezuela Extradition Treaty to request fugitive banker Eligio Cedeno's return had been provided to the United States so that Ce [...] | 2009-12-23 20:17:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM PGOV VE |
09CARACAS1599 | CHAVEZ PROMOTES TRANSITION TO SOCIALIST ECONOMY, THREATENS [...] (SBU) On December 22, President Chavez inaugurated a chain of government-run retail stores called the Corporation of Socialist Markets (COMERSO). "We're going to defeat speculation. Private individuals can still sell, but they'll have to compete with us and with a people that is now fully awa [...] | 2009-12-29 22:50:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON KIPR EINV ETRD EIND EINT ECIN CH VE |
09CARACAS160 | STATE TV AIRS TELCON WITH POLOFF - ALLEGES PLOT [...] (U) Action message -- See Para 6. 2. (SBU) Venezolana de Television (VTV),the Government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela's (GBRV's) free-to-air state TV station, aired on January 27 a January 9 telephone conversation between the secretary of opposition activist Enrique Mendoza and [...] | 2009-02-06 18:11:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ASEC VE |
09CARACAS1605 | NATIONAL ELECTORAL COUNCIL DELAYS DECISION ON VOTING [...] (C) On December 29, Venezuela's National Electoral Council (CNE) announced that despite its earlier promise to release information about the revised boundaries of voting districts before the end of 2009 (reftel),it would instead do so by January 20, 2010. The information about the revis [...] | 2009-12-31 17:18:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV VE |
09CARACAS1607 | CHAVEZ CLAIMS VENEZUELA HAS "GEOPOLITICAL IMPORTANCE" [...] (SBU) President Chavez and the Venezuelan Foreign Ministry made statements during the week of December 28 regarding the Spanish criticism of Venezuela's role at the Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen and U.S. policy toward Iran. Both statements are suggestive of President Chavez's [...] | 2009-12-31 19:08:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL VE SENV SP KGHG IR |
09CARACAS174 | REFERENDUM UPDATE - FIVE DAYS OUT [...] (C) Summary: With less than a week until President Chavez's February 15 constitutional referendum on removing official term limits, the Venezuelan President has shifted gears from warning of an impending "civil war" to calling for peace and demanding an end to political violence by his radi [...] | 2009-02-09 22:18:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM VE |
09CARACAS182 | AUSTRIANS REQUEST INFORMATION ON VENEZUELA-FARC [...] (U) This is an Action Request - See Para. 4. 2. (C) During a February 5 courtesy call on the Charge, Austrian Ambassador to Venezuela Thomas Schuller-Gotzburg said the Venezuelan National Guard is seeking to purchase weapons from Austria. Schuller-Gotzburg inquired whether we had informa [...] | 2009-02-10 20:17:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER MCAP VE CO |
09CARACAS184 | GBRV DETAINS 11 PERSONS FOR ATTACK ON SYNAGOGUE [...] (C) Summary: Venezuelan authorities arrested eleven persons over the February 7-8 weekend in response to the January 31 Caracas synagogue attack (Ref A). Five officers and a sub-inspector in the Caracas Metropolitan Police Force, as well as a detective from Venezuela's national criminal po [...] | 2009-02-10 22:12:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | KIRF PGOV PHUM PREL ASEC VE IS |
09CARACAS195 | CHAVEZ REFUSES FORMER POLISH PRESIDENT WALESA'S [...] (C) Summary: With five days to go until the February 15 constitutional referendum on removing official term limits, Chavez is trying to marginalize and discredit any potential critics. He has again denied democracy activist and former Polish President Lech Walesa entrance into Venezuela -- [...] | 2009-02-11 22:04:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM KIRF VE PL |
09CARACAS200 | REFERENDUM: CHAVEZ'S ELECTION TO WIN OR LOSE [...] (C) Summary. The February 15 referendum on eliminating term limits is accentuating political polarization and virtually splitting Venezuela's electorate in two. Both the "Yes" and "No" camps are focused on motivating and mobilizing their core supporters to overcome voter fatigue and abstenti [...] | 2009-02-12 20:51:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL VE |
09CARACAS204 | REFERENDUM CAMPAIGNS WRAP-UP, WITH "YES" LEADING [...] (C) Summary: As the February 13 deadline for campaigning approaches, both the YES and the No camps are wrapping up their activities. The GBRV refused to approve student activists' request to hold a final march in central Caracas on February 12 while Chavez announced his own "Yes" march for [...] | 2009-02-13 14:02:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM ASEC VE |
09CARACAS206 | MALL CONSTRUCTION CONTINUES DESPITE CHAVEZ'S [...] (C) Ricardo Cohen (strictly protect throughout),a director of Sambil Construction, confirmed to Econoffs February 11 that construction was continuing at Sambil's La Candelaria mall despite President Chavez's December 21 order that the building be expropriated (reftel). He said several days [...] | 2009-02-13 14:37:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV VE |
09CARACAS207 | CENTRAL BANK STATISTICS COME UNDER ATTACK FROM [...] (C) Summary: In a recent speech, President Chavez claimed the Central Bank of Venezuela's (BCV) inflation statistics did not properly take into account products and services subsidized by the government. He called on his Minister of Finance and a member of the BCV's board to develop a measu [...] | 2009-02-13 14:39:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN VE |
09CARACAS214 | PDVSA'S STRATEGY AGAINST EXXONMOBIL AND INCREASED [...] (C) SUMMARY: According to a PDVSA employee interviewed following his visa renewal, PDVSA is aggressively preparing its international arbitration case against ExxonMobil (XM),is reviewing and prioritizing balances due to service companies, and is optimistic that ConocoPhillips (CP) will retur [...] | 2009-02-17 11:31:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET EINV ENRG ECON VE |
09CARACAS216 | VENEZUELANS APPROVE ELIMINATION OF TERM LIMITS, [...] (C) Summary. The National Electoral Council (CNE) announced February 15 that Venezuelan voters approved a proposed constitutional amendment to eliminate term limits, 54.85 percent to 45.15 percent. The result, coming on the heels of the "Yes" camp's state-funded and sometimes violent campaig [...] | 2009-02-17 13:25:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM VE |
09CARACAS218 | VENEZUELA WILL NOT ATTEND MEETING ON BIOSAFETY [...] (C) As requested in reftel A, the Agriculture Attache approached university professor and biotech expert Dr. Claret Michelangeli de Clavio (strictly protect throughout) to determine Venezuelan participation at the Mexico City biosafety meeting. Michelangeli, who represented the Venezuelan gov [...] | 2009-02-17 18:00:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV PREL ETRD EINV EAGR VE |
09CARACAS222 | GBRV EXPELS EUROPEAN PARLIAMENTARIAN OVER CRITICAL [...] (C) Summary. The Government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (GBRV) forcibly expelled European Parliament member Luis Herrero February 13 after Herrero criticized both President Chavez and the Venezuelan electoral system. National Electoral Council (CNE) President Tibisay Lucena called [...] | 2009-02-17 21:49:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL SP VE |
09CARACAS223 | FEBRUARY 15 REFERENDUM - WINNERS AND LOSERS [...] (C) Summary: President Chavez and his United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) party are the big winners of the February 15 referendum in which almost 55% of Venezuelans voted to remove term limits for all elected officials. Chavez now can run for a third six-year term and currently faces [...] | 2009-02-17 21:55:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM VE |
09CARACAS227 | VENEZUELANS STAND TO LOSE BILLIONS AT STANFORD [...] (SBU) Summary: Venezuelans stand to lose up to several billion dollars if the SEC is correct in its allegations of a Ponzi scheme at Antigua-based Stanford International Bank (SIB). The Stanford Financial Group (SFG),which owns SIB, aggressively pursued offshore deposits by Venezuelans in S [...] | 2009-02-18 21:05:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN VE |
09CARACAS239 | PDVSA STRUGGLING WITH FINANCIAL AND TECHNICAL [...] (C) SUMMARY: According to the CEO of a major domestic oil field services company, Chavez continues to spend as if world oil prices will quickly return to a minimum of $60/barrel, ignoring other budget scenarios developed by PDVSA planners. This contact avers that Venezuela is not only facin [...] | 2009-02-20 20:22:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET EINV ENRG ECON VE |
09CARACAS240 | THE DENIAL DILEMMA: OPPOSITION CLAIMS "VICTORY" IN REFERENDUM LOSS [...] (C) Summary: The political opposition's reaction to President Chavez's successful February 15 constitutional referendum has largely been one of denial -- lamenting the government's electoral advantages while spinning the outcome as somewhat of a victory for the opposition. Opposition parties have a [...] | 2009-02-20 21:21:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM VE |
09CARACAS247 | GBRV NOT TO NATIONALIZE BANCO DE VENEZUELA [...] (C) Milton Guzman (strictly protect throughout),chief economist and vice president of Banco de Venezuela (BdV),told Econoffs February 18 BdV would not be nationalized despite President Chavez's sensational prior announcement to that effect. (Note: President Chavez surprised Venezuela's ba [...] | 2009-02-25 18:56:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN VE |
09CARACAS257 | THE BOLIVARIAN REVOLUTION ADVANCES: WHAT'S NEXT? [...] (C) Summary. After winning public approval for the elimination of term limits, President Chavez publicly declared his intention to accelerate his Bolivarian Revolution which will almost certainly concentrate even more power in his hands. Chavez has not yet revealed how he intends to do so, b [...] | 2009-02-27 18:39:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL VE |
09CARACAS258 | CHAVEZ STRONGLY REJECTS HUMAN RIGHTS REPORT [...] (C) Summary: President Chavez, Foreign Minister Maduro, and other senior Government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (GBRV) leaders strongly criticized the Human Rights Report February 26-27. Chavez phoned a late night pro-government political talk show to denounce the report as hypo [...] | 2009-02-27 21:51:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL PGOV VE |
09CARACAS26 | VENEZUELAN SCIENTISTS SAY NUCLEAR ENERGY PROGRAM [...] (C) Summary: In late 2008, Chavez once again made statements regarding his plans to develop a nuclear power program in Venezuela and went so far as to sign an agreement with Russia's Rosatom on nuclear energy cooperation. Several local nuclear physicists are skeptical arguing that nothing came [...] | 2009-01-08 20:24:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG TRGY BEXP BTIO PGOV PREL ETRD ECON PARM |
09CARACAS264 | CHAVEZ TO PRESIDENT OBAMA: GO (EXPLETIVE) YOURSELF [...] (C) Summary: In two mandatory "en cadena" TV broadcasts February 28 and March 1, President Chavez verbally assailed President Obama in response to the recent public release of the U.S. Human Rights Report and the International Narcotics Control Strategy Report (INCSR). More specifically, Ch [...] | 2009-03-02 19:22:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV SNAR VE |
09CARACAS265 | CHAVEZ TO PRESIDENT OBAMA: GO (EXPLETIVE) YOURSELF [...] (C) Summary: In two mandatory "en cadena" TV broadcasts February 28 and March 1, President Chavez verbally assailed President Obama in response to the recent public release of the U.S. Human Rights Report and the International Narcotics Control Strategy Report (INCSR). More specifically, Ch [...] | 2009-03-02 19:38:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV SNAR VE |
09CARACAS269 | VENEZUELAN GOVERNMENT IGNORES USG OVERTURES ON AVIATION [...] (C) SUMMARY: A Venezuelan private sector organization advocated strongly for the Venezuelan civil aviation authority (INAC) to support the issuance of visas for F AA inspectors and to meet with the Embassy to discuss visa matters. The Venezuelan govemment (GBRV) has not acceded to either request. [...] | 2009-03-03 15:45:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV PREL ETRD EINV EAIR VE |
09CARACAS270 | VENEZUELA'S RICE INDUSTRY THREATENED FOR POLITICAL GAIN [...] (C) SUMMARY: President Chavez announced on February 28, that the government would intervene in the domestic rice processing industry, ostensibly to stop millers from contravening its food price control policy. The Venezuelan National Guard occupied one of the plants on February 27 - the da [...] | 2009-03-03 16:47:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV ETRD EINV EAGR VE |
09CARACAS272 | SUPREME COURT ELECTIONS HIGHLIGHT JUDICIAL [...] (C) Summary: The Venezuelan Supreme Court (TSJ) will hold internal elections March 4 to determine the president, vice-president, and a number of other posts. Current TSJ president Luisa Estella Morales is likely to be reelected to a third consecutive two-year term, arguing that the passage [...] | 2009-03-03 21:41:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM PHUM VE |
09CARACAS279 | VENEZUELAN GOVERNMENT THREATENS TO "EXPROPRIATE" A [...] (C) On March 4, Chavez directed the Minister to "begin the process of expropriating Cargill." The President of Cargill Venezuela Roberto Moro (protect) told Post this morning that he was on his way to a meeting with the Minister of Agriculture Elias Jaua. Moro reported tha he believes thus f [...] | 2009-03-05 16:54:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV PREL ETRD EINV EAGR VE |
09CARACAS28 | BRV REITERATES THERE'S NO FARC IN VENEZUELA [...] (SBU) According to press reports, FARC Supreme leader Alfonso Cano AKA Guillermo Leon Saenz inadvertently revealed the names of seven senior FARC operatives in Venezuela in a communique that vowed a new offensive against Colombian police and military units following setbacks during 2008. Cano [...] | 2009-01-08 21:27:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PREL PTER VE CO |
09CARACAS280 | VENEZUELAN GOVERNMENT THREATENS TO "EXPROPRIATE" A [...] (C) On March 4, Chavez directed the Minister to "begin the process of expropriating Cargill." The President of Cargill Venezuela Roberto Moro (protect) told Post this morning that he was on his way to a meeting with the Minister of Agriculture Elias Jaua. Moro reported that he believes thus [...] | 2009-03-05 18:30:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV PREL ETRD EINV EAGR VE |
09CARACAS281 | ANTI-SEMITISM UPDATE - TENSIONS ABOUND ONE MONTH [...] (C) Summary: Anti-Semitism continues to be a problem in Venezuela despite the Government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela's (GBRV's) pledge to address this issue in the wake of the January 31 attack on the Caracas synagogue. On February 26, unknown assailants threw a small explosive [...] | 2009-03-05 18:30:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM KIRF PREL PGOV VE |
09CARACAS282 | VENEZUELA: CONFLUENCE OF CHAVEZ AND OBAMA OIL [...] (C) SUMMARY: Press reports have picked up on DOE/EIA statistics indicating that Venezuelan exports to the U.S. decreased 12.3% in 2008 and have concluded that President Chavez's plans to reduce oil exports to the U.S. are succeeding. The stories ignore the broader impact of the last ten year [...] | 2009-03-05 18:30:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET EINV ENRG ECON VE |
09CARACAS283 | DON'T CALL US, WE'LL CALL YOU: VENEZUELA'S ANIMAL [...] (C) SUMMARY: One of President Chavez' July 2008 decrees mandated the reorganization of Venezuela's animal and plant health authority, SASA, into a new organization called INSAI (the National Institute for Agricultural Health). This has now taken operational effect with the first action, for [...] | 2009-03-05 18:34:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EAGR ETRD PGOV VE |
09CARACAS287 | VENEZUELA: LATEST CABINET RESHUFFLE [...] (C) Summary. On March 3, the Government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (GBRV) announced a cabinet reshuffling, including the transformation of five existing ministries and the abolition of three ministries. The only new face in the cabinet is Eduardo Saman, a hard line Chavista and [...] | 2009-03-05 21:48:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN PREL EINV PGOV VE |
09CARACAS288 | VENEZUELA: PDVSA FALLS FURTHER DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Even though Energy Minister Ramirez announced March 2 that PDVSA would begin paying service companies and that it would not cancel any contracts, several major service companies have neither received payments nor notification from PDVSA of pending payments. International service [...] | 2009-03-06 13:42:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET EINV ENRG ECON VE |
09CARACAS290 | VENEZULEAN NATIONAL GUARD STILL OCCUPYING CARGILL [...] (C) SUMMARY: US agribusiness giant Cargill has yet to receive an official expropriation order following President Chavez's March 4 threat to expropriate the company's rice plant (ref A). According to Cargill Venezuela, the company has three days to respond to a citation issued as a result of [...] | 2009-03-06 19:05:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV PREL ETRD EINV EAGR VE |
09CARACAS3 | CADIVI CUTS MAXIMUM DOLLAR ALLOCATIONS TO [...] (U) CADIVI, the government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (GBRV) entity that administers foreign exchange, cut the maximum dollar allocations to Venezuelans traveling abroad by half for 2009. Each individual will be allowed to spend up to USD 2,500 abroad on his or her Venezuelan cre [...] | 2009-01-02 13:20:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN PGOV VE |
09CARACAS304 | TO DEVALUE OR NOT TO DEVALUE, IS THAT THE QUESTION? [...] (C) Summary: With the announcement of new economic policy measures expected by some over the next few weeks, speculation continues about whether the Government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (GBRV) will choose to devalue Venezuela's currency. Those who expect a devaluation in 2009 [...] | 2009-03-10 20:35:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN PGOV VE |
09CARACAS305 | VENEZUELA: CARGILL EXPECTS PLANT TO BE NATIONALIZED [...] (C) Cargill Venezuela's Director of International Relations Ramon Sosa (protect) told the Agriculture Attache on March 9 that it is only a matter of time before the Venezuelan government nationalizes Cargill's rice processing plant. Sosa reported that in a March 8 meeting with Minister of Agr [...] | 2009-03-10 21:05:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV PREL ETRD EINV EAGR VE |
09CARACAS306 | SUPREME COURT ASSESSMENT UNDERSCORES REFLEXIVE [...] (C) Summary: A legal study quantifying the level of partisanship in the Venezuelan Supreme Court (TSJ) was released the week of March 2 to a number of local Venezuelan dailies. The study, conducted by legal scholar Antonio Canova, finds that the court has been unwilling to rule in favor of [...] | 2009-03-10 21:07:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KJUS KDEM VE |
09CARACAS307 | VENEZUELAN GOVERNMENT "HITS THE ACCELERATOR" ON [...] (C) SUMMARY: The government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (GBRV) has dramatically increased its intervention in the Venezuelan economy in the weeks following President Chavez's successful February 15 bid to abolish presidential term limits. As the price of oil remains low, the GBRV [...] | 2009-03-10 21:37:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV PREL ETRD EINV EAGR VE |
09CARACAS309 | STUDENT LEADER NIXON MORENO FLEES HOLY SEE MISSION [...] (C) Summary. Early on March 9, former student leader Nixon Moreno fled the Holy See Mission in Caracas, where he had been sheltered for almost two years. The 35-year-old opposition activist was granted political asylum from the Holy See in June 2008, following his plea for political asylum a [...] | 2009-03-11 15:23:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM KIRF KDEM VE VT |
09CARACAS312 | NATIONAL ASSEMBLY RECONVENES TO CONSOLIDATE [...] (C) Summary: After a two-month recess to campaign for President Chavez's successful February 15 referendum, the Chavista-dominated National Assembly (AN) reconvened and announced March 10 a slate of proposed legislation intended to consolidate the Venezuelan President's power even further. [...] | 2009-03-13 14:17:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM VE |
09CARACAS32 | ANTI-ISRAELI ACTIONS IN CARACAS [...] (SBU) Approximately 1,000 PSUV activists and associated leftist supporters held a brief January 8 march in Caracas to protest Israel's invasion of the Gaza strip and the USG's supposed role. That same day, some 15 masked vandals spray painted pro-Palestinian graffiti on the perimeter wall of t [...] | 2009-01-09 21:00:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL VE IS |
09CARACAS322 | CHAVEZ CONCENTRATES MORE POWER AT THE EXPENSE OF [...] (C) Summary: The Chavista-dominated National Assembly (AN) approved an amended Organic Law of Decentralization March 12 which enables President Chavez to take control over state infrastructure, goods, and services that are "in the general public's interest." Chavez ordered the military on [...] | 2009-03-16 22:10:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM SNAR VE |
09CARACAS323 | CHAVEZ INVITES RUSSIAN BOMBERS TO VISIT, NOT STAY. [...] (SBU) During the March 15 broadcast of his regular Sunday television program "Alo, Presidente," Government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (GBRV) President Hugo Chavez denied offering La Orchila island as a permanent base to Russian strategic bombers. Interrupting his discussion on de [...] | 2009-03-16 22:17:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MCAP RU VE |
09CARACAS330 | VENEZUELAN NATIONAL GUARD OCCUPIES PORTS AND [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Venezuelan Government passed a "Decentralization Law" on March 12, that moves authority over state-run airports, roads and ports to the central government (Ref A). The morning of March 16, a senior Carabobo state official reported that the National Guard had arrived and fear [...] | 2009-03-17 19:31:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV PREL ETRD EINV EAGR VE |
09CARACAS338 | SUMMIT OF THE AMERICAS: CHARGE'S MEETING WITH [...] (C) Summary: Charge met Trinidad and Tobago (T&T) Ambassador to Venezuela Razi Ali March 17 to discuss the upcoming Summit of the Americas (SOA). Charge raised both the need to avoid any potential incidents with the Government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (GBRV) given the volume [...] | 2009-03-18 21:09:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KSUM MASS TD VE |
09CARACAS339 | VENEZUELA: LABOR UNREST ACROSS ECONOMIC SECTORS [...] (C) Summary. Labor unrest is growing in Venezuela, particularly since the January 21 expiration of the collective bargaining agreement for oil workers. Oil workers, whose benefits have lost ground to other unions, are openly expressing their dissent. The Government of the Bolivarian Republi [...] | 2009-03-18 21:12:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN EINV ELAB ENGR PGOV VE |
09CARACAS340 | AS CHAVEZ EXPANDS CONTROL, OPPOSITION IMPLODES [...] (C) Summary: Opposition party leaders are considering coordinating their messages and actions more, but are still a long way from doing so. Instead, fracture lines within opposition parties are even more pronounced in the wake of President Chavez's victory in the February 15 referendum to eliminate [...] | 2009-03-18 21:25:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM VE |
09CARACAS352 | VENEZUELAN GOVERNMENT VERSUS U.S. COMPANY CARGILL [...] (C) SUMMARY: Cargill de Venezuela President Roberto Moro (strictly protect throughout) told the Charge on March 17 that although the Government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (GBRV) has informed the company that its rice plant would be nationalized on the grounds of "public utility," [...] | 2009-03-20 19:33:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV PREL ETRD EINV EAGR VE |
09CARACAS353 | PROSECUTOR CALLS FOR ARREST OF MARACAIBO MAYOR [...] (C) Summary: Government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (GBRV) prosecutor Katiuska Plaza issued an arrest order request March 19 for Maracaibo Mayor and former 2006 presidential candidate Manuel Rosales. The senior prosecutor accused the former Zulia State Governor (2000-2008) of " [...] | 2009-03-20 19:33:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV VE |
09CARACAS354 | CHAVEZ PLAYS POLITICAL CRAPS WITH PROPOSALS TO [...] (C) SUMMARY. Facing the global economic crisis and a domestic fiscal crisis arising from low oil prices, Chavez has floated plans to rationalize the subsidized price of gasoline (a $5.5 billion subsidy according to PDVSA,s own calculations). Energy and Petroleum Minister Ramirez has opined t [...] | 2009-03-20 19:39:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET EINV ENRG ECON VE |
09CARACAS355 | CODEL DELAHUNT MEETINGS WITH CHAVEZ AND FOREIGN [...] (C) Summary: After a briefing by the Charge', Congressman Delahunt discussed bilateral relations alone with Foreign Ministry (MFA) officials and ALBA Bank President and former Ambassador to the United States Bernie Alvarez on March 19. He also met alone with President Chavez and Minister o [...] | 2009-03-20 20:58:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV SNAR OVIP AMGT VE |
09CARACAS356 | FOREIGN MINISTRY PROMISES TO RESOLVE [...] (C) Summary: On the margins of the March 19 visit of Congressman William Delahunt, Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) Chief of Staff Temir Porras promised -- again -- to resolve persistent administrative issues impeding Embassy operations. Porras spoke directly with the Charge March 18 and [...] | 2009-03-20 21:07:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV AMGT VE |
09CARACAS361 | VENEZUELA: NATIONALIZED CEMENT COMPANIES GIVE UP [...] (C) SUMMARY: Former Executive Director of Holcim Venezuela Louis Beauchemin (protect throughout) told EconOff March 19 that Holcim would seek international arbitration after giving up hope of payment for its cement operations, nationalized in August 2008. Holcim, the world's second largest cem [...] | 2009-03-23 12:54:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV PREL ETRD EINV VE |
09CARACAS362 | VENEZUELA: OPIC-FINANCED COMPANY MAY FILE DEFAULT [...] (C) SUMMARY: U.S. concern Williams is poised to file one to three default notices against PDVSA on projects financed by OPIC. PDVSA's on-going financial crisis makes it unlikely it will be able to pay arrears to Williams. Given recent actions taken against other companies that have issued de [...] | 2009-03-23 16:52:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET EINV ENRG ECON VE |
09CARACAS367 | CHAVEZ CALLS PRESIDENT OBAMA "IGNORANT", STILL [...] (C) Summary: President Chavez attacked the Obama administration again March 22, two days after Representative William Delahunt encouraged the Venezuelan president to push the "reset" button on bilateral relations (Reftel). Chavez also accused the United States of backing "separatist" plans [...] | 2009-03-23 20:44:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV VE |
09CARACAS368 | CHAVEZ ANNOUNCES "ANTICRISIS" ECONOMIC MEASURES: [...] (C) Summary: President Chavez announced on March 21 a series of "anticrisis" economic measures. These measures do not represent any fundamental change in the Government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela's (GBRV) management of the Venezuelan economy. Instead, they are stop-gap policies [...] | 2009-03-23 21:05:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN VE |
09CARACAS369 | VENEZUELA: PDVSA CHEATING ON OPEC CUTS AT EXPENSE [...] (C) SUMMARY: A Senior Chevron official confirmed that he believes PDVSA is cheating on its OPEC-mandated quota cuts to take advantage of greater demand for heavy crude. He also confirmed that PDVSA issued an informal rig stoppage order and instructed its joint venture partners to cease capital [...] | 2009-03-24 11:41:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET EINV ENRG ECON VE |
09CARACAS378 | PRESS FREEDOM UPDATE - FEBRUARY/MARCH 2009 [...] (C) Summary: Following multiple attacks against journalists in January 2009 (Reftel),Government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (GBRV) threats against the freedom of press continued in February and March. President Chavez recently ordered his governors and mayors to "draw a map of [...] | 2009-03-25 13:15:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL VE |
09CARACAS390 | NOT A GOOD IDEA, BUT IT'S THE LAW: THE BRV'S LEGAL [...] (C) SUMMARY: Although recent government interventions in the food processing industry are at once real attempts to hold food prices down and maintain a social contract with the poor, leading commentators, including legal experts and representatives of American companies, estimate that the GBR [...] | 2009-03-26 16:20:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EAGR ETRD PGOV VE |
09CARACAS398 | SUPREME COURT INITIATES ANOTHER JUDICIAL [...] (C) Summary: The pro-Chavez Venezuelan Supreme Court (TSJ) has announced an "integral restructuring" to combat corruption, although it is almost certainly a measure to remove judges or court officials who have not sufficiently demonstrated their "revolutionary" credentials. Judicial expert [...] | 2009-03-27 15:46:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | KJUS PGOV KDEM PHUM VE |
09CARACAS4 | PRESSURE IN OVERNIGHT INTERBANK MARKET AS SOME [...] (U) The overnight market for interbank loans has come under increasing pressure in the last two months, with the loan amounts negotiated and average interest rates more than doubling. In 2007, the average daily total negotiated in the interbank overnight market was 1,212 billion bolivars (Bs; USD 5 [...] | 2009-01-02 13:22:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN VE |
09CARACAS404 | REQUEST FOR ADDITIONAL FUNDS TO HELP STRENGTHEN [...] (C) Summary: As President Chavez concentrates even more power in his presidency, and closes off space for democratic dialogue, Embassy's USAID/OTI programs in support of democracy and civil society are vital to preserving and strengthening remaining democratic institutions and practices in Venezuel [...] | 2009-03-27 18:44:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EAID VE |
09CARACAS407 | VENEZUELAN AVIATION UPDATE: NATIONALIZATIONS, [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a possible violation of the Chicago Convention on International Civil Aviation, the Government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuelan (GBRV) has grounded all foreign-registered private aircraft, 95 percent of which are US-registered. The GBRV informed the Embassy via diplomat [...] | 2009-03-27 21:19:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV PREL ETRD EINV EAIR VE |
09CARACAS418 | CHAVEZ GOES AFTER OPPOSITION LEADER ROSALES [...] (C) Summary: The Government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (GBRV) continues to go after emblematic targets among the democratic opposition, including Maracaibo Mayor and 2006 opposition presidential candidate Manuel Rosales. As of March 31, rumors abound regarding whether Rosales, who is b [...] | 2009-03-31 21:42:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM VE |
09CARACAS422 | CHAVEZ AS HE SEES HIMSELF - THE REVOLUTIONARY [...] (C) Summary: President Chavez claims that he wants to improve relations with the new U.S. administration (Reftel),but his intolerance for what he perceives as criticism and his radical worldview continue to pose major hurdles to bettering bilateral relations. His perennial (mis)treatment [...] | 2009-04-01 19:59:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV SNAR PTER VE |
09CARACAS426 | KIMBERLY-CLARK OPERATIONS IN VENEZUELA [...] (C) Summary. Following extensive press coverage the week of March 23 of a government "investigation" of a plant owned by Kimberly-Clark, EmbOffs met with the company March 27. Kimberly-Clark reported it was not concerned by the "routine government inspection" of its Venezuelan factory. Th [...] | 2009-04-02 14:19:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN PREL EINV PGOV VE |
09CARACAS428 | VENEZUELA: OIL PRODUCTION IN THE WEST: A MIXED BAG [...] (C) SUMMARY: Petroleum AttachQ (PetAtt) conducted site visits in Zulia March 23-26. Companies corroborated reftel reporting and provided additional perspective on the complexity of problems encountered daily in the oil sector. Chevron's production is near capacity in the West; it is taking a [...] | 2009-04-02 17:55:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET EINV ENRG ECON VE |
09CARACAS433 | VENEZUELA NATIONALIZES U.S. COMPANY CARGILL'S RICE [...] (C) On March 31, the Venezuelan government made President Chavez's threats official by publishing a "forced acquisition order" for U.S. company Cargill's rice plant (Ref A). Citing the "Law of Expropriation for Reasons of Public or Social Utility", the decree, which appeared in the Venezuelan [...] | 2009-04-03 17:54:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV PREL ETRD EINV EAGR VE |
09CARACAS438 | GENERAL BADUEL ARRESTED AGAIN [...] (SBU) With guns drawn, plain clothed agents of the Directorate of Military Intelligence (DIM),on April 2 unceremoniously pulled former Defense Minister General Raul Baduel out of his vehicle after leaving his sub-division in the city of Maracay. According to Baduel's wife, Cruz Maria Baduel [...] | 2009-04-03 21:39:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM VE |
09CARACAS440 | VENEZUELA: SCHLUMBERGER BULL-ISH ON PDVSA [...] (C) SUMMARY: PDVSA and Schlumberger are exploring areas of possible cooperation, but press reports of a joint venture are premature. Since March 11, PDVSA has made regular payments to Schlumberger (roughly 5% of outstanding receivables),is current with February and March invoices, and plans t [...] | 2009-04-06 15:26:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET EINV ENRG ECON VE |
09CARACAS441 | OPPOSITION LEADER ROSALES STILL IN HIDING AS [...] (C) Summary: Maracaibo mayor and former opposition Presidential candidate Manuel Rosales remains in hiding, probably in Zulia State, a week after he was rumored to have fled the country in pursuit of political asylum. His lawyers provided Polcouns April 2 with a step-by-step legal rebuttal [...] | 2009-04-06 20:56:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM VE |
09CARACAS443 | PRO-CHAVEZ COURT SENTENCES POLICE COMMISSIONERS TO [...] (C) Summary. A pro-Chavez court handed down harsh sentences on April 3 ending the politically motivated trial of three former Caracas police commissioners and eight other police officers charged with the deaths of pro-Chavez supporters during an April 2002 coup attempt. Former Caracas Metr [...] | 2009-04-06 22:07:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM KDEM PGOV VE |
09CARACAS445 | NATIONAL ASSEMBLY SEALS THE FATE OF CARACAS MAYOR [...] (C) Summary: The Chavista-dominated National Assembly (AN) is set to pass the Federal District Law April 7 to create a new Vice President of the Republic for Caracas, appointed by President Chavez, whose authorities are expected to completely marginalize the opposition Mayor of Greater Cara [...] | 2009-04-07 21:37:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM VE |
09CARACAS452 | VENEZUELAN AUTO INDUSTRY NEARING COLLAPSE [...] (C) Lack of access to controlled dollars is bringing the Venezuelan automotive sector to the point where it will begin to shut down at the end of April if the Foreign Exchange Control Commission (CADIVI) does not quickly make available large amounts of foreign exchange. The seven assemblers [...] | 2009-04-08 21:29:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN PREL EINV PGOV VE |
09CARACAS471 | NATIONAL ASSEMBLY POISED TO SILENCE INDEPENDENT [...] (C) Summary. The National Assembly is reportedly poised to pass a revived version of the 2006 Law on International Cooperation. If promulgated in its current form, the law would severely limit the ability of foreign donors to support development, human rights, counternarcotics, and pro-dem [...] | 2009-04-16 12:06:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM SNAR PREF VE |
09CARACAS478 | VENEZUELAN PLANNING FOR SUMMIT OF THE AMERICAS [...] (SBU) Summary: The Government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (GBRV) engaged post on the subjects of an UNASUR-Obama meeting at the Summit of the Americas (SOA),and de-confliction of the air space near Venezuela in support of the SOA. However, the working level GBRV interlocutors di [...] | 2009-04-16 21:24:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MOPS PGOV VE |
09CARACAS486 | GBRV STEPS UP PRESSURE ON THE CATHOLIC CHURCH [...] (C) Summary: The Venezuelan Catholic Conference of Bishops (CEV) issued a highly critical April 6 communique warning that Venezuela's democratic system is "at risk of collapse". In response, President Chavez (using parallels from liberation theology) insinuated on Easter Sunday in his nati [...] | 2009-04-17 16:14:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL KIRF KDEM VE VT |
09CARACAS492 | BORDER BRUHAHA NEARLY OVERSHADOWS URIBE VISIT AS [...] (SBU) Summary: Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez and Colombian President Alvaro Uribe held a brief meeting on April 14 in Caracas. Consistent with prior reporting (Ref B),the Colombian side was focused on trade and protecting the interests of Colombian businessmen and investors in Venezuela. I [...] | 2009-04-20 11:38:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER CO VE |
09CARACAS494 | AN OFFER THEY CAN'T REFUSE? GBRV ASKS LOCAL BANKS [...] (C) Summary: The Government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (GBRV) has signaled its plans to ask local banks to finance a significant part of its anticipated deficit in 2009. The Central Bank (BCV) has taken steps to increase banks' liquidity and incentives to buy GBRV debt, reducin [...] | 2009-04-20 12:48:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN VE |
09CARACAS495 | CHAVEZ IN TOKYO: MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING [...] (C) SUMMARY: President Chavez's April 5-7 visit to Tokyo followed the Bolivarian model - heavy on theater and light on substance. Shifting from the negative rhetoric against the U.S. displayed on previous stops in Iran and Qatar, Chavez hit more positive notes in Japan. While media reports i [...] | 2009-04-20 13:10:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET EINV ENRG ECON VE |
09CARACAS497 | TECHNOCRAT-TURNED-RADICAL APPOINTED AS CARACAS VEEP [...] (C) Summary: President Chavez named Jacqueline Faria, a civil engineer and former cabinet member, as the new Vice President of Caracas on April 15 -- an office and appointment designed to undercut opposition Mayor of Greater Caracas Antonio Ledezma. Farias earned a reputation as a technocra [...] | 2009-04-21 13:27:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM PHUM PINR VE |
09CARACAS50 | CATHOLIC BISHOPS CRITICIZE INDEFINITE REELECTION [...] (C) Summary: The Catholic Conference of Bishops (CEV) issued a January 13 communique sharply criticizing President Chavez's proposal to change the 1999 Constitution to eliminate term limits for all elected positions. The CEV expressed doubts about the legality of Chavez's upcoming referendum [...] | 2009-01-15 14:32:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | KIRF PGOV PHUM PREL VE |
09CARACAS503 | OPPOSITION LEADER SKIPS COURT DATE, FLEES TO PERU [...] (C) Summary: Maracaibo Mayor and former 2006 consensus opposition presidential candidate Manuel Rosales did not appear at his April 20 mandatory court date regarding pending illicit enrichment charges. He is reportedly seeking asylum in Peru. Rosales has already released one letter calling [...] | 2009-04-21 20:35:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM VE |
09CARACAS511 | CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL GIVES UP ON VENEZUELA [...] (C) SUMMARY: NGO Conservation International closed its doors in Venezuela on March 31 saying it wanted to focus on countries where it can have an impact on host government environmental policies. The Venezuelan head of another US-based NGO, The Nature Conservancy, said the government would g [...] | 2009-04-23 15:55:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV PREL ETRD EINV EAGR SENV VE |
09CARACAS538 | SPECULATION ABOUT ULTERIOR USG MOTIVES IN FREEZING [...] (C) Businessman Andres Duarte (strictly protect) shared with Econcouns and PetAtt speculation he had heard from several associates that the recent freezing of a Bank of America account (ref A) was part of a USG plan to "tighten the financial noose" around the government of the Bolivarian Repu [...] | 2009-04-29 14:33:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN PREL VE |
09CARACAS539 | CHAVEZ CONTINUES ATTACKS ON THE OPPOSITION AND [...] (C) Summary: President Chavez is now using Venezuela's highly politicized judiciary to go after well-known, but vulnerable, political supporters. He and his supporters also continue to put pressure on the opposition media, pursuing charges against prominent opposition journalist Teodoro Pe [...] | 2009-04-29 15:04:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM VE |
09CARACAS54 | CHAVEZ BROADENS AMENDMENT LANGUAGE/OPPOSITION FINALLY BEGINS TO REACT [...] (C) Summary: President Chavez revised his amendment proposal January 5 to remove term limits for all elected officials, strengthening his argument that the proposal would "expand the political rights" of Venezuelans to choose how long to keep all officials -- not just the president -- in office. As [...] | 2009-01-15 21:06:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM VE |
09CARACAS540 | GRV RECALLS AMBASSADOR FROM PERU AND WELCOMES [...] (C) Summary. The Government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (GBRV) ordered its ambassador home from Peru on April 27 to protest the Peruvian government's decision to grant opposition leader Manuel Rosales asylum. On the same day, Foreign Minister Nicolas Maduro welcomed a senior Pal [...] | 2009-04-29 18:05:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM PE VE |
09CARACAS541 | VENEZUELA: MORE EVIDENCE OF CASH FLOW PROBLEMS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Faced with mounting receivables payable by PDVSA and other government entities, the GBRV is turning to alternative payment solutions to stay afloat during its cash flow crisis, including proposing barter swaps of commodities and the issuance of bonds. Halliburton confirmed receiv [...] | 2009-04-29 21:12:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET EINV ENRG ECON VE |
09CARACAS544 | VENEZUELA: NO RESPONSE ON CODEX FOOD LABELING [...] (C) Post delivered reftel A remarks to potential members of Venezuela's currently defunct CODEX committee on April 23. Although there has been no official response and none is anticipated, Venezuelan participation in the May 2009 Calgary meeting is unlikely. Several potential CODEX committee [...] | 2009-04-30 17:01:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV PREL ETRD EINV EAGR VE |
09CARACAS545 | PDVSA TO PURCHASE WILLIAMS' PLANTS [...] (C) SUMMARY: PDVSA intends to nationalize William's El Furrial and PIGAP II high-pressure gas injection plants but does not have the resources to pay Williams. As both of the projects involve OPIC financing, there is significant USG interest in the transaction estimated to be worth $500 milli [...] | 2009-04-30 19:17:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET EINV ENRG ECON VE |
09CARACAS546 | PRESS FREEDOM UPDATE - APRIL 2009 [...] (C) Summary: The Government of the Bolivaran Republic of Venezuela (GBRV) continued to put pressure on the independent media during April. President Chavez used the occasion of the anniversary of the April 2002 failed military coup to lambaste both the United States and opposition-oriented [...] | 2009-04-30 20:05:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL VE PGOV |
09CARACAS547 | NEW LAWS FURTHER POLITICIZE VENEZUELAN JUDICIARY [...] (C) Summary: The National Assembly (AN) passed two new judicial laws in April that will further diminish what independence remains within Venezuela's court system and make it easier for the executive and legislative branches to discipline or remove magistrates. Pundits assess that this is [...] | 2009-04-30 20:07:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM KJUS VE |
09CARACAS548 | NEW CENTRAL BANK PRESIDENT NOMINATED [...] (U) President Chavez designated former Finance Minister Nelson Merentes as President of Venezuela's Central Bank (BCV) on April 28, filling the vacancy left by the December 2008 death of the former president. Also on April 28, the National Assembly approved Merentes' nomination, and the Offi [...] | 2009-04-30 20:34:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN PGOV PINR VE |
09CARACAS559 | CHAVEZ DEFENDS TERRORISM RECORD BUT WON'T STOP FARC [...] (C) Summary: During a May 1 rally, President Hugo Chavez harshly criticized the Venezuela section of the USG April 30 Country Reports on Terrorism, calling it "a new aggression by the American empire." During the May 3 broadcast of his regular Sunday political talk show, "Alo Presidente," [...] | 2009-05-05 18:30:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PGOV PREL VE CO |
09CARACAS560 | POOR TURNOUT FOR VENEZUELAN LABOR DAY MARCHES; [...] (C) Summary: Government supporters and the opposition organizers organized competing May 1 Labor Day marches in Caracas. Both sides attracted only modest turn-outs at the start of a long weekend when Venezuelans traditionally head to the beach. Members of the Caracas metropolitan police an [...] | 2009-05-05 19:34:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ELAB PHUM PREL VE |
09CARACAS561 | EU AND OTHERS CONCERNED OVER NGO LAW; FEW WILLING [...] (C) Summary: The local diplomatic community is concerned about the increasing authoritarianism of the Government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (GBRV),including the draft law that would restrict NGO activities. Domestic economic concerns, reluctance to interfere in internal affairs, [...] | 2009-05-05 20:21:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM SNAR PREF VE |
09CARACAS564 | PDVSA AND VENEZUELA: TWO DESTINIES INTERTWINED IN [...] (C) Summary: The cash flow crisis at PDVSA (Petroleos de Venezuela, the state oil company) is straining Venezuela's oil sector and overall economy. Since the December 2002-February 2003 oil sector strike, PDVSA has put itself at the service of President Chavez's Bolivarian revolution, fundi [...] | 2009-05-06 20:36:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EPET EFIN PGOV VE |
09CARACAS581 | VENEZUELA: PDVSA SEIZES SERVICE COMPANIES [...] (C) Summary: On May 7, the National Assembly passed and President Chavez promulgated a law permitting the expropriation (partial or total) of companies involved in the oil services industry. PDVSA officials accompanied by the National Guard quickly began the transfer of assets and operations [...] | 2009-05-08 22:06:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET EINV ENRG ECON VE |
09CARACAS583 | INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY WORKING QUIETLY TO STOP [...] (C) Summary: The international diplomatic community is quietly questioning the Venezuelan government about the proposed law restricting international financing of NGOs. Several European Union (EU) ambassadors are not convinced that the law will pass, at least not in its most aggressive form. Nor do [...] | 2009-05-11 11:14:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM SNAR PREF VE |
09CARACAS584 | VENEZUELAN GOVERNMENT TARGETS MORE POLITICAL [...] (C) Summary: The Government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (GBRV) continues to direct the legislative and judicial branches to pursue politically-motivated charges against members of the political opposition and dissident members of President Chavez's United Socialist Party of Vene [...] | 2009-05-11 11:18:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM VE |
09CARACAS592 | PDVSA: UPDATE ON SERVICE COMPANY SEIZURES [...] (C) SUMMARY: Legal uncertainty surrounds the Venezuelan government's (GBRV) actions on May 8 regarding the seizure of oil service companies. According to PDVSA, it assumed operational control of sixty firms, but the resolution dated May 8 listed only 39 companies, and did not include internat [...] | 2009-05-11 21:37:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET EINV ENRG ECON VE |
09CARACAS595 | CHAVEZ THREATENS TO CLOSE LOCAL TV NEWS STATION [...] (C) Summary. President Chavez threatened to close the opposition-oriented cable television news network Globovision during the May 10 broadcast of his weekly "Alo, Presidente" talk show. Chavez's threat follows Globovision's May 4 broadcast of U.S. Geological Survey seismic data as well as [...] | 2009-05-12 16:49:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PREL VE |
09CARACAS602 | CHAVEZ DESIGNATES OLD FACES AMONG NEW PSUV [...] (C) Summary. President Chavez has reorganized his United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) putting long-time loyalists in key positions and fusing ever more closely his party and the state. National Assembly (AN) President Cilia Flores has been elevated to the number-two slot (below Chav [...] | 2009-05-13 20:00:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM PINR VE |
09CARACAS614 | U.S. COMPANIES COULD LOSE HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS AS [...] (SBU) Summary: U.S. companies stand to lose hundreds of millions of dollars, if not more than one billion dollars, as the backlog at CADIVI grows. The government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (GBRV) maintains currency controls, and CADIVI is the GBRV agency that determines who rec [...] | 2009-05-18 17:17:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN VE |
09CARACAS615 | VENEZUELAN AIRLINE WITH POSSIBLE DRUG TIES TO FLY [...] (C) ACTION REQUEST: Post requests information on whether or not Venezuelan carrier Aeropostal is cleared to commence flights to the United States and any information, derogatory or otherwise, on U.S.-based company Aircraft Parts and Pieces, Inc. 2. (C) SUMMARY: President of Venezuelan air [...] | 2009-05-18 17:30:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV PREL ETRD EINV EAIR CASC CVIS ASEC |
09CARACAS616 | VENEZUELA: TITLE III OF THE LIBERTAD ACT [...] (U) Post's response to Reftel A questions follow. 2. (C) Has the host country, in post's opinion, worked to promote the advancement of democracy and human rights in Cuba? Post sees no evidence that the Government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (GBRV) has undertaken policies or [...] | 2009-05-18 18:27:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD ETTC PREL CU VE |
09CARACAS62 | CHARGE'S MEETING WITH FM MADURO - JANUARY 15 [...] (C) Summary. Foreign Minister Nicolas Maduro called in Charge January 15 at President Chavez's request to ask him for an explanation of his recent visit to Puerto Rico. Maduro noted that the Government of the BolivarianRepublic of Venezuela (GBRV) viewed with concern the "strange coincidence" betwe [...] | 2009-01-16 16:02:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV VE |
09CARACAS625 | VENEZUELAN AIRLINES MAY LOSE SABRE TRAVEL SERVICES [...] (C) SUMMARY: U.S. travel services giant Sabre has sent "disconnect letters" to two privately owned Venezuelan carriers and has already suspended its contract with government owned carrier Conviasa due to non-payment. Sabre is concerned that if it discontinues its services in Venezuela, the Gov [...] | 2009-05-20 16:08:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV PREL ETRD EINV EAIR CASC CVIS KHLS |
09CARACAS643 | VENEZUELA: BRV PRESSES SOCIALIST LABOR AGENDA [...] (C) Summary. The Government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (GBRV) is making determined efforts to stem the demands of public sector workers and to reshape employer-worker relations along socialist lines. The National Assembly is considering a draft reform of Venezuela's labor law, w [...] | 2009-05-22 19:53:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ELAB EINV PGOV PREL VE |
09CARACAS644 | VENEZUELA: WOOD GROUP ASSETS SEIZED, ENSCO FILES [...] (C) SUMMARY: PDVSA published a new list of oil service sector companies that it has added to the government's reserve, including Wood Group's local subsidiary, Simco. Wood Group continues to hold out hope that PDVSA will negotiate a fair compensation package, but has not ruled out internationa [...] | 2009-05-22 19:57:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET EINV ENRG ECON VE |
09CARACAS658 | TEACHERS CALL NEW CONTRACT "IDEOLOGICAL" [...] (C) Summary: The Government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (GBRV) reached agreement with three teachers' unions (but excluded six other unions) to sign a collective bargaining agreement May 12. The agreement provides for a 15% raise, but changes the teacher evaluation system and m [...] | 2009-05-27 16:34:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ELAB SOCI KDEM VE |
09CARACAS663 | GBRV STEPS UP ATTACKS ON PRESS IN MAY [...] (C) Summary: The Government of the Bolvarian Republic of Venezuela (GBRV) accelerated its attacks on independent media outlets and journalists in May. President Chavez threatened to close opposition-oriented cable news network Globovision, and government officials raided the home of Globov [...] | 2009-05-28 21:19:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PREL VE |
09CARACAS666 | VENEZUELA: SABRE TRAVEL SERVICES ON AGAIN OFF [...] (C) SUMMARY: After Sabre Travel Services suspended ticketing and reservation services to Venezuelan airlines Aserca and Santa Barbara (SBA) on May 26 it reactivated the same on May 28. Both airlines worked in an "emergency" situation, but managed to maintain operations. However, Sabre may "s [...] | 2009-06-01 13:04:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EAIR ETRD CASC PGOV CVIS KHLS VE |
09CARACAS67 | MOROCCO CLOSING EMBASSY DUE TO CHAVEZ'S POLISARIO [...] (SBU) Summary. Morocco announced its plans to close its Caracas embassy and relocate to the Dominican Republic via a terse January 15 press release carried widely in the Venezuelan media. The Moroccans cited Venezuela's "growing hostility" to Moroccan territorial integrity and recent measure [...] | 2009-01-16 21:30:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL VE MO |
09CARACAS680 | WHERE'S HUGO? [...] (C) Summary: President Chavez disappeared from national view May 30, missing the last half of a planned four-day marathon speech and the June 1 inauguration of the incoming President of El Salvador, Mauricio Funes. State-owned media outlets claimed technical issues were to blame for the su [...] | 2009-06-03 13:25:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL VE |
09CARACAS681 | CHAVEZ'S PROPOSED ELECTORAL LAW TO TRAMPLE [...] (C) Summary: The National Assembly is actively considering a new electoral law that would drastically limit the ability of small parties in Venezuela to claim legislative seats at all levels of government. The legislature approved the measure in a first vote May 21, and it is currently eng [...] | 2009-06-03 13:26:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM VE |
09CARACAS685 | CHAVEZ BACK IN PUBLIC VIEW, CLAIMS CIA [...] (C) Summary: President Chavez reappeared on state TV the night of June 2 after disappearing without warning from Venezuelan airwaves on May 31 (Reftel). Chavez alleged that the CIA and Cuban exile Luis Posada Carriles were seeking to assassinate him and credited Nicaraguan President Daniel [...] | 2009-06-04 11:22:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV VE |
09CARACAS686 | PRESIDENT MAKES IMPORTING FOOD MORE DIFFICULT, [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Director of Communications for Venezuela's foreign exchange committee (CADIVI) informed wheat and pasta industry representatives recently that three leading companies will be excluded from the "Pago a la Vista" (cash payments) system, which eases bureaucratic procedures for [...] | 2009-06-04 11:25:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | EAGR ECON ETRD PGOV VE |
09CARACAS690 | NATIONALIZED SPANISH AND ARGENTINE COMPANIES GET [...] (C) Summary: Local analysts believe two major nationalization agreements recently concluded by the government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (GBRV) represent good deals for the Spanish and Argentine owners of the nationalized companies. In the case of Banco de Venezuela (BdV),owne [...] | 2009-06-05 14:28:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN PREL VE |
09CARACAS692 | EXPLAINING VENEZUELAN ACQUIESCENCE [...] (C) Summary. President Chavez's efforts to concentrate more power in his hands and undermine the democratic opposition have been met in Venezuela with more acceptance and resignation than outrage and resistance. There are numerous, credible theories to explain Venezuelans' acquiescence to an [...] | 2009-06-05 15:12:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM SOCI VE |
09CARACAS693 | VENEZUELA HARASSES CLASSIFIED POUCH TRANSFERS [...] (C) Summary: The Venezuelan Protocol Director phoned Charge on June 4 to detail new procedures that compromise the ability of the Embassy to receive classified escorted diplomatic pouches. Despite claiming to be just "tidying up" procedures, this action represents renewed efforts to harass [...] | 2009-06-05 16:18:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PREL AOPR AREP VE |
09CARACAS70 | CHAVEZ BREAKS RELATIONS WITH ISRAEL/JEWISH [...] (C) Summary. The Government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (GBRV) officially broke diplomatic relations with Israel on January 14. Foreign Minister Nicolas Maduro announced the rupture in diplomatic relations via a communique disseminated via state media that simultaneously condemne [...] | 2009-01-16 21:43:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ASEC VE IS |
09CARACAS707 | VENEZUELA: UPDATE ON TIDEWATER VESSELS AND [...] (C) U.S. oil service firm Tidewater Senior Vice President Gerry Kehoe and Country Representative Mikael Jakobs (strictly protect throughout) on June 4 told Petroleum AttachQ (PetAtt) and visiting Washington energy analyst that Tidewater plans to send its two U.S.-flagged oil support vessels wi [...] | 2009-06-09 10:58:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET EINV ENRG ECON VE |
09CARACAS724 | OPPOSITION ANNOUNCES NEWEST UNITY EFFORT [...] (C) Summary: Opposition political parties held a June 8 press conference to announce that they are creating a "unity table" with a structure of 11 committees aimed at drafting a single democratic alternative to Chavismo. The presence of virtually all political party leaders across the ideol [...] | 2009-06-10 21:48:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM VE |
09CARACAS725 | VENEZUELA: U.S. COMPANY EXTERRAN ASSETS SEIZED [...] (C) SUMMARY: PDVSA has now seized additional U.S. company assets under the auspices of the May 7 Organic Law permitting the expropriation of companies involved in the oil services industry. Exterran (formerly Hanover Compression Corporation and Universal Compression Holdings) confirmed June 8 [...] | 2009-06-10 22:00:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET EINV ENRG ECON VE |
09CARACAS728 | VENEZUELA INCAPABLE OF SUBSTANTIVE NUCLEAR [...] (C) SUMMARY: A plain-spoken nuclear physicist told Econoff that those spreading rumors that Venezuela is helping third countries (i.e. Iran) develop atomic bombs "are full of (expletive)." He said Venezuela is currently unable to provide such assistance particularly as the Chavez administration "do [...] | 2009-06-11 17:24:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV PREL ETRD EINV ENRG TRGY EMIN PTER |
09CARACAS730 | CHARGE'S MEETING WITH CARABOBO GOVERNOR SALAS FEO [...] (C) Summary: Carabobo Governor Henrique Fernando Salas Feo discussed increasing economic problems, his disagreements with other opposition parties, and concerns about the future of elections in a June 9 meeting at his home with the Charge d'Affaires. Governor Salas Feo asserted that Presiden [...] | 2009-06-11 21:12:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM SNAR PREF VE |
09CARACAS731 | VENEZUELA: COCA-COLA ZERO BANNED [...] (C) Summary: On June 10, Mexican-owned Coca-Cola Femsa was notified by the Venezuelan government of an administrative review corroborating the ingredients of Coca-Cola Zero. Femsa voluntarily complied and has temporarily pulled Coca-Cola Zero from the Venezuelan market. Despite what Femsa t [...] | 2009-06-11 21:50:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ETRD PREL EINV PGOV VE |
09CARACAS741 | VENEZUELA: WHAT TO EXPECT WHEN YOU ARE EXPECTING [...] (C) SUMMARY: The experience of Swiss cement company Holcim may offer insight into what U.S. companies with recently nationalized interests in Venezuela can expect from the Venezuelan government over the coming months. In the Holcim case, a model the Government of the Bolivarian Republic of V [...] | 2009-06-12 21:24:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV PREL ETRD EINV VE |
09CARACAS748 | PDVSA'S 2008 FINANCIAL STATEMENTS: SHINING A DIM [...] (C) Summary: PDVSA's recently issued audited financial statements for 2008 do nothing to refute the belief that PDVSA is suffering a cash flow crisis given inefficient management, increased political commitments, and faltering production (ref A). Given the difficulty interpreting the statem [...] | 2009-06-15 21:02:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET EFIN VE |
09CARACAS750 | TEN TENETS OF CHAVISMO [...] This message is the end of tour analysis of the political situation in Venezuela by Embassy Deputy Political Counselor Dan Lawton. 2. (C) Summary. Despite President Chavez's professed allegiance to socialism, his political project lacks any consistent ideology. Instead, the Venezuelan president e [...] | 2009-06-16 13:23:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM VE |
09CARACAS759 | CHAVEZ USES TREASON ACCUSATIONS TO TARGET [...] (C) Summary: Taking a relatively new tact, President Chavez used accusations of treason and paramilitary involvement June 14 to target the opposition Governor of Tachira State Cesar Perez Vivas. Several days prior, the Chavista-dominated National Assembly (AN) announced it would investigat [...] | 2009-06-17 21:32:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM VE |
09CARACAS760 | DEATH OF A STUDENT ACTIVIST [...] (C) Summary: The killing June 13 of a student activist from the opposition Primero Justicia (PJ) party has become a highly-charged political issue. The United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) mayor of the municipality where the death occurred has alleged that his predecessor and politica [...] | 2009-06-17 21:34:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM VE |
09CARACAS761 | CHAVEZ GOVERNMENT ANNOUNCES SUPPORT FOR AHMADINEJAD [...] (C) Summary: The Government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (GBRV) announced its official support June 16 for the reelection of Iranian President Mahmoud Ajmadinejad and -- in language typical of President Chavez's worldview -- denounced an alleged campaign to discredit the election [...] | 2009-06-17 21:52:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM VE |
09CARACAS764 | CHAVISTAS PROTEST AGAINST MIRANDA GOVERNOR, [...] (C) Summary: The Charge d'Affaires (CDA) called off a planned visit June 17 to Miranda State after learning of preparations for a United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) protest the same day in front of the opposition Governor's mansion. Embassy had notified the Ministry of Foreign Affa [...] | 2009-06-18 22:35:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM KIRF VE |
09CARACAS766 | GBRV TIGHTENS SCREWS ON TV NEWS STATION [...] (C) Summary: The Government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (GBRV) is increasing the pressure on the opposition-oriented Globovision cable news network. President Chavez has repeatedly asked his cabinet to use whatever means available to "stop Globovision." A range of GBRV ministrie [...] | 2009-06-19 21:28:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM VE |
09CARACAS768 | VENEZUELA: CONTINUES TO COURT JAPANESE INTEREST [...] (C) During a June 15 Japanese embassy-hosted farewell dinner in honor of A/DCM and PolCon, Japanese Ambassador Shuji Shimokoji discussed bilateral relations with Venezuela, Minister Ramirez's travel to Tokyo, and the new Venezuelan petrochemical law. He stated that Prime Minister Aso placed a [...] | 2009-06-22 19:12:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET EINV ENRG ECON VE |
09CARACAS77 | CHAVEZ SHARPLY CRITICIZES NEW U.S. PRESIDENT [...] (C) Summary: President Chavez aggressively responded to remarks made by then President-Elect Obama during a recent interview with Mexico-based Univision TV in which Obama reportedly criticized the Venezuelan President. Chavez accused Obama of having the "same stench" as former President Bush [...] | 2009-01-20 20:53:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL VE |
09CARACAS770 | VENEZUELA: PATENT PROTECTIONS THREATENED [...] (SBU) Summary. On June 14, President Chavez ordered a review of the country's legal protection of patents. Two days later, the Venezuelan government announced that the "technical information" relating to patents granted in the past by the Venezuelan government would soon be posted on the In [...] | 2009-06-22 19:28:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN PREL EINV PGOV VE |
09CARACAS776 | OPPOSITION STATES AND MUNICIPALITIES SURVIVING [...] (SBU) Summary: With the significant exception of the Alcaldia Mayor (Mayor of Metropolitan Caracas),states and municipalities won by opposition candidates in the November 2008 elections appear to be weathering significant budget cuts forced by central government action, particularly changes [...] | 2009-06-22 20:10:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN PGOV VE |
09CARACAS777 | MUNICIPALITY USES REFERENDUM TO RESIST CENTRAL [...] (C) Summary: Caracas's Chacao Municipality is resisting national government efforts to obstruct the opposition-led municipality's initiatives. The Government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (GBRV) is trying to stop Chacao from building a new civic center and school, a project that has [...] | 2009-06-22 20:15:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM VE |
09CARACAS778 | VENEZUELAN GOVERNMENT'S NATIONALIZATIONS CONTINUE: [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Venezuelan government continues to centralize power over the country's ports under the Diosdado Cabello-led Ministry of Public Works and Housing with its seizure of privately owned port warehouse operations. On June 10, the Ministry announced that, within 30 days, the governm [...] | 2009-06-22 20:45:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV PREL ETRD EINV EAGR MARR VE |
09CARACAS779 | TIP REPORT "AN OBSTACLE TO NORMALIZING RELATIONS" [...] (C) Embassy Caracas delivered an advance copy of the Trafficking in Persons (TIP) report to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on June 16, as requested in Reftel. No Government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (GBRV) official has responded directly to the Embassy regarding the report. [...] | 2009-06-22 20:49:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM KTIP VE |
09CARACAS781 | STUDENT MOVEMENT STRUGGLES UNDER WEIGHT OF PUBLIC [...] (C) Summary: Student leaders are expressing frustration with mounting political pressure and the high expectations placed on them as one of the few credible groups in Venezuela who can counter President Chavez's increasing authoritarianism. Less than a week after the June 13 death of a stu [...] | 2009-06-23 20:21:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM VE |
09CARACAS79 | FM'S CHIEF OF STAFF PROMISES ACTION ON RECIPROCITY [...] (C) Summary. Chief of Staff to the Foreign Minister Temir Porras met with the Charge January 19 to "turn the page" on ongoing MFA-imposed administrative impediments to normal diplomatic relations, provided the USG reciprocates in the United States. Porras pledged to issue and renew visas for [...] | 2009-01-20 21:26:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV AMGT MCAP SNAR VE |
09CARACAS791 | ALBA SUMMIT: NEW MEMBERS, NEW NAME [...] (C) Summary: Venezuela hosted an extraordinary ALBA Summit on June 24, welcoming Ecuador, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, and Antigua and Barbuda to the organization. President Chavez proposed a new name for ALBA, changing the Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas to the Bolivarian Allian [...] | 2009-06-25 19:06:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM VE |
09CARACAS80 | PRESIDENTIAL TERM LIMITS REFERENDUM: WHAT'S AT STAKE [...] (C) Summary. President Chavez is seeking to concentrate even more power in his hands via the February 15 referendum to eliminate term limits. Should he win, we expect Chavez will try to govern at least until 2019 and to steer his government in an even more authoritarian direction. Should he lose, C [...] | 2009-01-20 21:28:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM VE |
09CARACAS817 | VENEZUELA: RECENT EXPROPRIATIONS' IMPACT ON THE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Recent oil service sector expropriations in Venezuela targeted two diverse groups: (1) water injection and natural gas compression operations related to crude oil production; and (2) launch operators on Lake Maracaibo that had organized and threatened to strike over PDVSA's arrears [...] | 2009-07-01 12:43:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET EINV ENRG ECON VE |
09CARACAS819 | VENEZUELA: THE REVOLUTION ACCELERATES AS THE [...] (C) Summary: As we approach the halfway point of 2009, two trends are clear in Venezuela's economy: state control is accelerating just as the economy enters a recession. Most analysts predict economic output to decline by 1.5 to three percent in 2009 as lower oil prices force the government [...] | 2009-07-01 12:57:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN VE |
09CARACAS824 | HIV/AIDS IN VENEZUELA [...] (C) Summary. The Government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (GBRV) does not publish statistics on the incidence of HIV/AIDS in Venezuela. The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) and a local HIV/AIDS non-governmental organization (NGO) estimate that approximately 130,00 [...] | 2009-07-01 16:27:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON SOCI PREL PGOV TBIO VE |
09CARACAS827 | VENEZUELA: LOCAL HALLIBURTON OPERATION IN [...] (C) SUMMARY: Halliburton is concerned that its perceived historical connection with the previous U.S. administration and the $300 million it is owed by PDVSA may provide ample rationale for the GBRV to expropriate the U.S. oil services company. Venezuelan courts have now ruled twice in favor o [...] | 2009-07-01 17:12:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET EINV ENRG ECON VE |
09CARACAS828 | PDVSA LAUNCHES BID ROUND FOR MARISCAL SUCRE [...] (C) Mitsubishi's Venezuela Projects Director, Yasuyuki Ozaki (strictly protect throughout),told Petroleum Attache that PDVSA launched a "Second Bid Round" for commercial development of the Mariscal Sucre natural gas blocks the morning of June 30. The Mariscal Sucre offshore blocks are locate [...] | 2009-07-01 19:53:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET EINV ENRG ECON VE |
09CARACAS831 | PRESS FREEDOM UPDATE - JUNE [...] (C) Summary: The Government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezeula (GBRV) continues to intimidate, threaten and harass independent media outlets in Venezuela. President Chavez frequently calls for the closure of Globovision, the last free-to-air opposition-leaning TV station, and the GBRV ha [...] | 2009-07-01 21:05:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM VE |
09CARACAS833 | CHAVEZ: INDIRECTLY, US IS STILL TO BLAME [...] (C) Summary: At a military graduation ceremony on June 30, President Chavez continued to express strong support for ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya. Chavez, while acknowledging the helpfulness of statements from President Obama and Secretary of State Clinton, also declared that the U [...] | 2009-07-01 21:43:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM VE |
09CARACAS847 | 240 RADIO STATIONS THREATENED WITH CLOSURE [...] (C) Summary: Diosdado Cabello, a top aide to President Hugo Chavez, announced July 4 the Government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (GBRV) would potentially revoke the licenses of 240 radio stations across the country. Citing incomplete tax payments and improper regulatory filings [...] | 2009-07-06 17:13:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM VE |
09CARACAS85 | ATTACKS ON OPPOSITION BY PRO-GOVERNMENT GROUPS [...] (C) Summary. Pro-government gangs in Caracas threw tear gas canisters at the home of a prominent media director, the Holy See Mission, and student groups, as well as firebombed the car of a university student leader during the January 18-19 weekend. In addition, Chavista thugs carrying police [...] | 2009-01-21 21:39:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM ASEC VE |
09CARACAS850 | LEDEZMA TRIES TO WIN OAS ATTENTION WITH A HUNGER [...] (C) Summary: Mayor of Greater Caracas Antonio Ledezma entered the offices of the Organization of American States (OAS) in Caracas July 3 and began a hunger strike to demand an OAS response to President Chavez's transgressions against the opposition in Venezuela. Ledezma has argued that the [...] | 2009-07-07 16:37:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM VE |
09CARACAS851 | CHAVEZ CALLS PRESIDENT OBAMA "A PRISONER OF THE [...] (C) Summary: In a media interview following the Venezuelan Independence Day celebration in Ciudad Bolivar on July 5, President Hugo Chavez said that while President Obama is not responsible for the events in Honduras, the United States tacitly supports the coup and the provisional government. [...] | 2009-07-07 17:27:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM VE |
09CARACAS852 | RESULTS ANNOUNCED FOR PETROBONO 2011 [...] (U) PDVSA announced on July 6 the results of the Petrobono 2011 bond auction. Interested buyers submitted offers for USD 7.9 billion worth of the bonds. PDVSA accepted all offers at or above 175 percent of face value. Of the total amount for which offers were placed, only offers for USD 1.4 [...] | 2009-07-07 20:46:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET EFIN VE |
09CARACAS853 | GULF OF VENEZUELA OFFSHORE GAS EXPLORATION NOT [...] (C) SUMMARY: Chevron completed drilling an exploratory offshore well in the Cardon III block in the Gulf of Venezuela but plans to plug and abandon the well. While gas was found, the amount was deemed non-commercial. After months of setbacks and technical challenges, Russia's Gazprom continu [...] | 2009-07-07 21:18:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET EINV ENRG ECON VE |
09CARACAS854 | VENEZUELA: AMERICAN OIL AND SERVICE COMPANIES [...] (C) Summary: Executives representing U.S. companies involved in Venezuela's oil sector briefed the Ambassador on the status of the industry, highlighting problems all face in securing payments from PDVSA; difficulties maintaining positive relationships with PDVSA, the Ministry for Energy and P [...] | 2009-07-07 21:48:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET EINV ENRG ECON VE |
09CARACAS858 | CHAVISTAS FEELING BOXED IN BY THE SECRETARY'S [...] (C) Summary: Chavistas may be feeling that the calls for a stronger US response regarding the coup in Honduras may have backfired and diminished the possibility of a Venezuelan-led resolution to the current situation. The announcement by Secretary Clinton that Costa Rican President Oscar A [...] | 2009-07-08 21:39:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM VE |
09CARACAS859 | INSULZA INVITES LEDEZMA TO WASHINGTON [...] (C) Summary: After securing salary payments for his supporters and getting the OAS's attention to his plight, Caracas Mayor Antonio Ledezma lifted his six-day old hunger strike. After days with little movement, there was a flurry of activity on July 7, with OAS Secretary General Jose Miguel [...] | 2009-07-09 10:50:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM VE |
09CARACAS86 | CHAVEZ'S CAMPAIGN: I AM THE REVOLUTION [...] (C) Summary: Chavez has kicked his "Yes" campaign for the February 15 referendum to remove term limits into high gear. His message, which has saturated media from all sides of the political spectrum, is that he is the only leader capable of safeguarding and continuing his "revolutionary" p [...] | 2009-01-21 22:02:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM VE |
09CARACAS860 | VENEZUELAN INTEREST IN RESURRECTING MOU WITH US [...] (C) SUMMARY AND ACTION REQUEST: This is an action request. PDVSA board members have twice proposed reactivating the bilateral MOU on energy cooperation with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). Post recommends that the DOE and other Washington agencies authorize the Ambassador to press for p [...] | 2009-07-09 10:55:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET EINV ENRG ECON VE |
09CARACAS863 | AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH NATIONAL ASSEMBLY US [...] (C) Summary: The Ambassador and Deputy Chief of Mission (DCM) attended a breakfast July 9 hosted by the National Assembly (AN)'s Interparliamentary Friendship Group at the offices of AN First Vice President Saul Ortega. Francisco Torrealba, who is president of the group, and Calixto Ortega [...] | 2009-07-09 18:29:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM VE |
09CARACAS864 | MIXED SIGNALS AT RETURN OF AMBASSADOR [...] (C) Summary. US Ambassador Patrick Duddy returned to Venezuela July 1, following a nearly ten month expulsion and the 2008 recall of Hugo Chavez's Ambassador in Washington. On July 2, Ambassador Duddy hosted the annual Independence Day celebrations at the US Embassy in Caracas. Despite off [...] | 2009-07-09 18:54:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL CASC PGOV ASEC VE |
09CARACAS87 | VENEZUELA'S 2009 ECONOMIC OUTLOOK: GRIM TO DIRE [...] (C) Summary: If oil prices remain at or near current levels, 2009 will be an extremely difficult year, perhaps even a crisis year, for the Venezuelan economy. Most independent analysts expect anemic economic growth or a slight contraction; inflation at 40 percent or above; a loss of real pu [...] | 2009-01-22 13:41:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN PGOV VE |
09CARACAS887 | NEW MEASURES PROPOSED TO ELIMINATE INDEPENDENT [...] (C) Summary: Pressure and attacks against the independent media have continued during the first-half of July. Government Minister Diasdado Cabello told lawmakers that any draft legislation on media social responsibility should include provisions to limit radio networks, restrict joint prog [...] | 2009-07-13 20:13:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM VE |
09CARACAS888 | CHAVEZ CHALLENGES PRESIDENT OBAMA TO PROVE USG [...] (C) Summary: In an eight-hour "Alo, Presidente" TV and radio broadcast July 12, President Chavez rained criticisms on the US Government, challenging President Obama to withdraw US troops from the joint US-Honduran Palmerola military base to "prove" the US was not involved in the Honduran cou [...] | 2009-07-13 20:17:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM VE |
09CARACAS891 | PDVSA EXPROPRIATES REMAINING TIDEWATER VESSELS [...] (C) Tidewater's remaining assets in Venezuela were verbally expropriated the weekend of July 11-12. According to Tidewater Country Representative, Mikael Jacob (strictly protect throughout),the U.S. oil services company had four boats supporting PDVSA's PetroSucre project (formerly ConocoPhi [...] | 2009-07-14 19:04:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET EINV ENRG ECON VE |
09CARACAS902 | VENZUELA TO CHANGE INDUSTRIAL PROPERTY LAW TO [...] (SBU) Summary. The government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (GBRV) is reportedly well along with plans to reform its principal industrial property law. According to press reports of remarks by Commerce Minister Eduardo Saman at a July 9 conference, however, this might only be the f [...] | 2009-07-16 17:33:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | ECIN ECON EFIN EIND EMIN ENIV ETRD ETTC KIDE |
09CARACAS904 | FROM BOLIVIA, CHAVEZ REPEATS ACCUSATIONS OF USG [...] (C) Summary: President Chavez, while giving a speech July 16 in La Paz celebrating Bolivia's bicentennial, repeated accusations that the USG -- and the State Department and CIA specifically -- were behind the coup in Honduras. In a message he has been pushing for weeks, Chavez contended th [...] | 2009-07-16 21:44:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM VE |
09CARACAS908 | SELECTIVE VENEZUELAN PORT NATIONALIZATIONS BENEFIT [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Venezuelan government has seized all port operators in Maracaibo and is threatening to do the same throughout the country. The seizures have further deprived an opposition state of tax revenue and sources indicate costs and opportunities for corruption have already increased at the [...] | 2009-07-17 16:14:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV PREL ETRD EINV EAGR MARR EAIR VE |
09CARACAS912 | NATIONAL GUARD DRIVES OUT LOCAL POLICE [...] (C) Summary: In the early hours of July 15, Venezuelan National Guard (GN) soldiers, using tear gas, took over a Miranda state police substation in the small town of Curiepe. Townsfolk who gathered to protest the takeover were driven off with plastic bullets and tear gas. The GN soldiers were [...] | 2009-07-17 23:03:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM SNAR VE |
09CARACAS918 | ALLEGATIONS OF MINISTER DIOSDADO CABELLO'S [...] (C) In a lunch with EconCouns and Econoff on July 10, XXXXXXXXXXXX alleged Minister of Public Works and Housing Diosdado Cabello was expanding his network of corruption into the financial sector. According to XXXXXXXXXXXX, Cabello and several other former military officers who participated with Cha [...] | 2009-07-20 13:14:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN PGOV VE |
09CARACAS919 | ENERGY MINISTER RAMIREZ IN NO MOOD TO NEGOTIATE [...] (C) Summary: On July 14 Energy and Petroleum Minister Rafael Ramirez told oil and gas workers that he would not negotiate a new collective bargaining agreement with the enemies of the revolution. He also called on state-owned businesses to activate "socialist committees" in order to spread [...] | 2009-07-20 13:18:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | ECIN ECON EFIN EIND EMIN ENRG EPET ETRD ETTC |
09CARACAS933 | CHAVEZ CALLS FOR "SOCIALIST EDUCATION"; NEW LAW IN [...] (C) Summary: President Chavez, National Assembly leaders, and the Ministers of Education and Higher Education have declared that the controversial Education Law will be passed soon by the National Assembly, possibly within the next few weeks. No text of the draft law is available for review, [...] | 2009-07-20 20:09:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM KPAO VE |
09CARACAS934 | VENEZUELAN TV BROADCASTS OUTRAGEOUS MONTAGE OF [...] (C) Summary: An altered "parody version" of Secretary of State Clinton's July 7 interview with the host of opposition oriented Globovision TV's "Hello Citizen" was broadcast on both the internet and Venezuelan Government television station VTV over the weekend. The doctored broadcast falsi [...] | 2009-07-20 21:36:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM VE |
09CARACAS935 | GBRV INCENSED OVER LEAKED GAO REPORT [...] (SBU) International media reports during the week of July 13 referred to a "congressional report", classifying Venezuela as "approaching a narco-state," have raised the ire of the Government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (GBRV). (Note: A GAO report on U.S. - Venezuelan counter-dr [...] | 2009-07-20 22:29:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL SNAR VE |
09CARACAS96 | AS DICTATED BY CHAVEZ, CENTRAL BANK TRANSFERS 29 [...] (C) Summary: On January 21, Central Bank of Venezuela (BCV) reserves dropped by USD 12.5 billion dollars (29 percent of total reserves),apparently reflecting a transfer of USD 12.3 billion dollars to the National Development Fund (Fonden). This transfer is unprecedented for its size. While [...] | 2009-01-23 18:50:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN VE |
09CARACAS967 | THREATS AGAINST INDEPENDENT MEDIA CONTINUE IN JULY [...] (C) Summary: As of the second half of July, pressure continues against independent media in Venezuela. New charges were brought against opposition-oriented Globovision station owner, Guillermo Zuloaga, for "conspiracy to commit a crime." A judge barred Zuloaga from leaving the country but [...] | 2009-07-27 20:14:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM VE |
09CARACAS980 | VENEZUELA CONDITIONS NORMALIZATION OF RELATIONS ON [...] (C) Summary: In a July 21 press release from the Foreign Ministry the Government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (GBRV) said that normalization of relations between Venezuela and the U.S. was conditional on the cessation of criticism, referring specifically to official reports releas [...] | 2009-07-28 20:19:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM SNAR VE |
09CARACAS981 | SMALL U.S. INVESTMENT IN ELECTRICITY GENERATION [...] (C) Acting through its European subsidiary, PSEG Global LLC, a New Jersey-based company, sent Rafael Ramirez, Minister of Energy and Petroleum (MEP),a letter July 22 requesting the reinitiation of negotiations over the GBRV's intended nationalization of Turboven, a group of companies with a [...] | 2009-07-28 20:28:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EINV ENRG VE |
09CARACAS982 | CHAVEZ DETERMINED TO ACCELERATE HIS REVOLUTION [...] (C) SUMMARY. President Hugo Chavez appears determined to enact a series of controversial laws covering the electoral process, education, social property, and the criminal penal code that are vital tenets of his Bolivarian Revolution and would further consolidate his power. Many of the laws are repa [...] | 2009-07-28 20:53:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM VE |
09CARACAS983 | ANNOUNCEMENT OF COLOMBIAN FOLS PROMPTS CHAVEZ TO [...] (SBU) Summary: Following the announcement of U. S. Forward Operating Locations in Colombia, President Hugo Chavez openly labeled the United States as "the enemy" in a July 23 speech to military officers. In an attempt to intimidate Colombia, Chavez on July 20, ordered a "review" of relatio [...] | 2009-07-28 22:16:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER CO VE |
09CARACAS985 | NEW ELECTORAL LAW ADVANTAGES MAJORITY (CHAVISTA) [...] (C) Summary: The National Assembly (AN) is poised to pass the Organic Law of Electoral Processes (LOPE) by mid-August, at the height of the Venezuelan vacation season, amidst little public protest. The bill would institutionalize practices that tilt the electoral playing field to greatly a [...] | 2009-07-29 15:42:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM VE |
09CARACAS987 | BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING: CONTROVERSIAL CRIMINAL [...] (C) Summary: The Chavista-dominated National Assembly (AN) is poised to pass yet another reform to Venezuela's criminal penal code (COPP) which would expand state control over criminal proceedings and, most controversially, require banks and telecommunications companies to record and make a [...] | 2009-07-29 21:32:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM VE |
09CARACAS99 | PRESS FREEDOM UPDATE: MULTIPLE ATTACKS AGAINST [...] (C) Summary: Supporters of the Government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (GBRV) continue to try to intimidate journalists who are critical of the GBRV and government officials. There have been numerous attacks on local journalists during the first three weeks of 2009, including what [...] | 2009-01-23 22:13:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL VE |
09CARACAS990 | AMBASSADOR'S FUTURE CALL ON FOREIGN MINISTER [...] No summary [...] | 2009-07-30 19:03:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL VE |
09CARACAS994 | CHAVEZ FREEZES RELATIONS WITH COLOMBIA [...] (C) SUMMARY: Following President Chavez's July 28 announcement to "freeze" relations with Colombia, an Embassy contact within the Agriculture and Lands Ministry reported that she had been tasked to identify Colombian imports suitable for substitution and to compile a list of Colombian busine [...] | 2009-07-30 22:12:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | EAGR ECON EFIN EIND EINV ELAB EMIN ENRG EPET |
09CASABLANCA10 | MOROCCO, INDIA, PHOSPHATES AND BEYOND [...] (SBU) Summary: Morocco exports about 50 percent of its production of phosphoric acid to India, a dual-use item used extensively to produce fertilizer for the country's agricultural sector and a potential source for uranium. The value of Morocco's exports to India totaled USD 1.4 billion in the [...] | 2009-01-14 15:03:00 | Consulate Casablanca | CONFIDENTIAL | AG AMCHAMS ECON EIND ETRD MNUC MO PGOV PREL |
09CASABLANCA141 | THE CASABLANCA EXCEPTION [...] (C) Summary: Notwithstanding the widely reported Palace machinations, the final composition of the City Council in Morocco's largest city Casablanca consists of a broad political alliance between the Palace-favored Party of Authenticity and Modernity (PAM)and the Islamist-oriented Party of Jus [...] | 2009-07-20 14:43:00 | Consulate Casablanca | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM MO PGOV PHUM PINS |
09CASABLANCA168 | PALACE PREVENTS ISLAMIST PARTY FROM TAKING [...] No summary [...] | 2009-08-19 12:31:00 | Consulate Casablanca | CONFIDENTIAL | MO PGOV PHUM |
09CASABLANCA189 | MOROCCO CRACKS DOWN ON ISLAMIST DISSIDENTS [...] (C) SUMMARY: During the first half of September Moroccan security forces launched a campaign of arrests across the country against the banned Islamist group Al-Adl wal-Ihsan (AWI). The raids forcibly broke up AWI meetings at private residences in three cities and resulted in brief detentions [...] | 2009-09-26 13:55:00 | Consulate Casablanca | CONFIDENTIAL | MO PGOV PHUM |
09CASABLANCA216 | WESTERN SAHARA: CONFIDENCE BUILDING MEASURES [...] (C) SUMMARY: The UN-administered Confidence Building Measures (CBMs) in Western Sahara have thus far fallen short in achieving their underlying political goal of pushing the parties to interact regularly and build a relationship for future negotiations. The CBMs, however, have provided a vit [...] | 2009-11-30 10:25:00 | Consulate Casablanca | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PGOV SMIG PREL PHUM MO AG |
09CASABLANCA217 | MOROCCAN JEWISH LEADER REPORTS ON LIVNI VISIT [...] (C) SUMMARY: The President of Morocco's Jewish Community characterized the recent visit of Tzipi Livni to Morocco as a "positive development" and claimed that given the right circumstances, Morocco is ready to take additional steps to publicly engage with Israel in support of the peace process [...] | 2009-11-30 18:14:00 | Consulate Casablanca | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KPAL MO IS |
09CASABLANCA225 | MOROCCAN FM CRITICIZED FOR HAIDAR CASE [...] (C) At a small December 7 dinner XXXXXXXXXXXXX spontaneously raised the case of Aminatou Haidar (reftels). He harshly criticized FM Fassi Fihri for not having provided King Mohammed VI with better counsel regarding the likely consequences and world reaction. "At a number of levels, our dec [...] | 2009-12-08 12:10:00 | Consulate Casablanca | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PREF PREL MO |
09CASABLANCA228 | EXPATRIATE CHRISTIANS EXPELLED FOR ALLEGED PROSELYTIZING [...] (C) Summary: On December 4 a group of Moroccan Christian converts and foreigners gathered in a home in the town of Saidia for a weekend of study and spiritual retreat. Moroccan police raided the house, confiscated personal items and religious material, and detained those present. The Morocc [...] | 2009-12-23 12:33:00 | Consulate Casablanca | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM KIRF PGOV ASCH MO |
09CASABLANCA26 | MOROCCO-RUSSIA ECONOMIC RELATIONS: ENERGY, [...] (SBU) Morocco's economic relationship with Russia, initially concentrated almost exclusively in the energy sector, has widened dramatically in recent years. Bilateral trade is flourishing in the agriculture and phosphate sectors, joining longstanding Moroccan reliance on Russia for petroleum [...] | 2009-02-12 13:44:00 | Consulate Casablanca | CONFIDENTIAL | AG ECON EIND ETRD MO PGOV PREL RS |
09CASABLANCA34 | FES MAYOR BECOMES NEW TRADE UNION LEADER AND [...] (C) SUMMARY: The General Union of Moroccan Workers (UGTM),one of Morocco,s largest trade unions, elected a new secretary general at its annual congress on January 29th. The leadership of the trade unions, much like the political parties with which they are affiliated, rarely changes and oft [...] | 2009-02-24 16:54:00 | Consulate Casablanca | CONFIDENTIAL | ELAB PGOV MO |
09CASABLANCA78 | WESTERN SAHARAN STUDENTS IN MOROCCO: BITING THE [...] No summary [...] | 2009-04-23 10:27:00 | Consulate Casablanca | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM MO |
09CASABLANCA79 | WESTERN SAHARAN STUDENTS IN MOROCCO: BITING THE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Students from the Western Sahara seeking higher education have no choice but to attend university far from home in Morocco. These students, the future leaders of the Saharan political society, cut their teeth on politics in the radicalized and at times violent world of universit [...] | 2009-04-23 10:27:00 | Consulate Casablanca | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM MO |
09CASABLANCA83 | MOROCCO'S NON-EMERGING ALTERNATIVE: ISLAMIC FINANCE [...] (C) Summary: In late 2007, Morocco's central bank authorized Sharia-compliant products to be sold in the country's leading commercial banks. To date, the products have had limited success in penetrating the financial market due to two major constraints: the country's fiscal policy and a gove [...] | 2009-04-30 16:19:00 | Consulate Casablanca | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN SOCI KISL MO |
09CASABLANCA90 | ISLAMISTS CALL FOR DIALOGUE WITH SALAFIST [...] (C) SUMMARY: In the aftermath of the 2003 Casablanca suicide bombings the government of Morocco (GOM) detained and prosecuted thousands of suspected Islamic extremists. The creation of a concentrated Salafist population in the prisons has presented the GOM with new challenges including the b [...] | 2009-05-11 18:12:00 | Consulate Casablanca | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PINS KISL PHUM MO |
09CHENGDU101 | SOUTHWEST CHINA: SICHUAN WORKER LAMENTS PARTY AND PLA [...] (C) Summary: A 55-year old worker in the southern Sichuan city of Xichang vented to us recently about how the Communist Party had ruined his life, chronic corruption in Xichang, bribery in the People's Liberation Army, and the arrogance of the Party/government elite that wastes resources on bi [...] | 2009-06-10 04:07:00 | Consulate Chengdu | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV SOCI MCAP CH |
09CHENGDU102 | SOUTHWEST CHINA: CONVERSATIONS WITH XICHANG CHRISTIANS [...] (C) Summary: According to Catholic and Protestant church members in the city of Xichang in southern Sichuan Province, urban and rural churches in the area operate relatively freely. The local Catholic community boasts nine priests and 25 nuns, regularly receives priests from South Korea and Ta [...] | 2009-06-11 03:21:00 | Consulate Chengdu | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM KIRF SOCI PGOV CH |
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