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04LAPAZ2814	PRESIDENT MESA AND CONGRESS TO WORK TOGETHER ON [...] (C) Summary: The Chamber of Deputies' Economic Development Committee has proposed nullifying all of the contracts signed under the current (soon-to-be-invalid) hydrocarbons law. This follows three days of intense meetings in the MAS/NFR-led committee. Minister of Economic Development and h [...]	2004-09-03 20:13:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ECON SOCI EFIN EINV ENRG PGOV PREL BL

05LAPAZ3518	VENEZUELA OVERSTEPS IN PRESIDENTIAL RACE [...] Summary: In a diplomatic stumble, Venezuelan Charge d'Affairs Rafael Valero hailed Evo Morales as the anti-imperialist candidate and criticized Podemos rival Tuto Qurioga as the puppet of multinationals and the U.S. in a press conference on November 23. Public reaction to Venezuelan "interf [...]	2005-11-25 21:32:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL ECON BL
06LAPAZ1062	BOLIVIA: MORALES AND JUDICIARY FACE OFF [...] (SBU) Summary: President Morales has accused key actors in the judicial sector of protecting "sacred cows" and resisting the process of political change. In response, key representatives of the justice sector have accused the President of interfering with and politicizing justice. Although l [...]	2006-04-19 15:02:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL SOCI PHUM USAID BL
06LAPAZ1078	BOLIVIA'S TROUBLED AVIATION SECTOR [...] (U) Summary: Lloyd Aero Boliviano's crisis continues, but it is not alone in its troubles. The carrier's principal competitor, AeroSur, is rumored to be struggling with its own financial problems, and civil and military airlines only narrowly avoided serious accidents over the weekend. Taken [...]	2006-04-20 18:13:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAIR ECON PGOV BL
06LAPAZ1095	BOLIVIA'S 2006 BUDGET: STRONG STATE PRESENCE [...] Summary: The Morales administration sent a revised 2006 public budget proposal to Congress on March 24. The revised budget includes additional appropriations for health and education, while cutting salaries for government workers. Although the new administration has not yet released its econo [...]	2006-04-20 20:51:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EFIN PGOV EAID BL
06LAPAZ1100	THE PEOPLE'S TRADE AGREEMENT: AN ALTERNATIVE MODEL? [...] (SBU) Summary: President Morales recently outlined his proposed People's Trade Agreement (reftel) in a highly ideological document that describes an alternative commercial model whose objective is not market liberalization, but "just trade" and protection of the people. Morales explains his c [...]	2006-04-21 17:17:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD EINV ECON PREL BL
06LAPAZ1101	MUTUN TO PROCEED; PROBLEMS WITH NEARBY PROJECT [...] (SBU) Summary: GOB officials recently announced that bidding on the rights to develop Mutun, one of the world's largest iron ore deposits, would proceed as planned; this satisfied a long-standing demand of local leaders, but problems with a nearby project have generated conflict. Civic activis [...]	2006-04-21 17:18:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED	EMIN EINV ECON PGOV BL
06LAPAZ1107	PETROBRAS-BOLIVIAN GOVERNMENT RELATIONS [...] (SBU) Summary: Petrobras representatives told Econoffs that in several difficult meetings with the GOB, the Brazilian energy giant vowed not to invest another cent in Bolivia until key issues were resolved. In those meetings, GOB officials reportedly displayed a confounding ignorance of the h [...]	2006-04-21 20:24:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EINV ENRG EPET PREL BL
06LAPAZ1114	GOVERNMENT FACES RISING SOCIAL SECTOR TENSIONS [...] (SBU) Summary: Amid accusations that the government has failed to keep its promises, social sector frustration, including among the MAS's highland support base, is rising. Civil sector leaders in Santa Cruz and Tarija have also stepped up their anti-government pressures. The Government has m [...]	2006-04-24 18:21:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SOCI ELAB PHUM PGOV BL
06LAPAZ1129	BOLIVIA AND ARGENTINA SIGN ENERGY DECLARATION [...] (SBU) Summary: On April 21, Bolivia and Argentina signed an Energy Integration Declaration in La Paz, promising to revise the natural gas sales agreement between the two countries, including provisions on price and export volumes, create a partnership between both countries' state oil compani [...]	2006-04-26 16:40:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EINV ENRG EPET PGOV BL
06LAPAZ1130	BOLIVIA: ON THE CUTTING EDGE OF TRADE? [...] (SBU) Summary: The Ministry of Foreign Affairs' vice minister of economic relations and foreign trade appears to believe Bolivia is gaining influence in the formation of regional and international trade policy. She claims President Morales is assuming a leadership role in the Andean Community [...]	2006-04-26 16:40:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD EINV ECON PREL PGOV BL
06LAPAZ1131	CONGRESSIONAL ECONOMIC COMMISSIONS' VIEWS DIFFER [...] (SBU) Summary: While staff of the MAS-led Chamber of Deputies Economic and Sustainable Development Commissions look favorably on the initial performance of the Morales administration, the president of the commissions' opposition-led Senate counterpart believes the government has acted erratica [...]	2006-04-26 19:21:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON PGOV BL
06LAPAZ1138	BOLIVIA: INPUT FOR REVIEW OF TITLE III OF THE [...] No summary [...]	2006-04-27 18:20:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	ETRD ETTC PREL CU BL
06LAPAZ1157	PRESIDENT NATIONALIZES HYDROCARBONS [...] Summary: On May 1, the GOB issued its long-awaited Supreme Decree "nationalizing" the hydrocarbons sector. Largely consistent with prior GOB announcements and the May 2005 Hydrocarbons Law, the decree gives hydrocarbons companies six months to negotiate new "service" contracts with the GOB; t [...]	2006-05-02 15:54:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EINV ENRG EPET BL
06LAPAZ1159	NATIONALIZATION AS GRAND POLITICAL GESTURE [...] (SBU) Summary: By announcing the nationalization of Bolivia's hydrocarbons sector, President Evo Morales has again proven himself a master of the grand political gesture. Timed to coincide with the kick off the campaign for the Constituent Assembly and accompanied by the symbolic taking of g [...]	2006-05-02 17:18:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ELAB EINV ENRG ECON PGOV SOCI PREL BL
06LAPAZ1172	BOLIVIA JOINS ALBA, SIGNS PEOPLES' TRADE AGREEMENT [...] (SBU) Summary: On April 29, Bolivia formally joined the Bolivarian Alternative to the Americas (ALBA) and signed a Peoples' Trade Agreement with Venezuela and Cuba, becoming party to agreements meant to advance regional economic, political, and cultural integration. The three countries promis [...]	2006-05-02 19:53:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD EINV ECON PREL PGOV EPET USTR BL
06LAPAZ1180	IS MINING NEXT IN LINE FOR NATIONALIZATION? [...] (SBU) Summary: In the aftermath of the GOB's May 1 nationalization of Bolivia's hydrocarbons sector, many are wondering if mining might be next in line. President Morales and other GOB officials have repeatedly stated their intent to nationalize all natural resources, including mineral deposi [...]	2006-05-03 18:29:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EMIN ETRD EINV ECON PREL PGOV BL
06LAPAZ1191	NATIONALIZATION: COMPANY PERSPECTIVES [...] (SBU) Summary: While foreign investors were not surprised by most of the terms of the GOB's May 1 nationalization decree (ref A),they were nonetheless taken aback that their long-dreaded expectations appeared to have become reality. So far most companies have reacted in measured fashion, and [...]	2006-05-04 19:49:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EINV ENRG EPET BL
06LAPAZ1193	BUSINESSMEN QUESTION GOB'S ECONOMIC OBJECTIVES [...] (SBU) Summary: The GOB's lack of clearly defined economic objectives is increasingly frustrating La Paz businessmen, who say government officials' erratic behavior has weakened Bolivia's investment climate. Leading manufacturers recently told EconOff that the GOB's failure to negotiate a free [...]	2006-05-04 19:53:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD EINV ECON PREL PGOV BL
06LAPAZ1198	NATIONALIZATION: COMPANY PERSPECTIVES [...] (SBU) Summary: While foreign investors were not surprised by most of the terms of the GOB's May 1 nationalization decree (ref A),they were nonetheless taken aback that their long-dreaded expectations appeared to have become reality. So far most companies have reacted in measured fashion, and [...]	2006-05-05 12:05:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EINV ENRG EPET BL
06LAPAZ1199	BUSINESSMEN QUESTION GOB'S ECONOMIC OBJECTIVES [...] (SBU) Summary: The GOB's lack of clearly defined economic objectives is increasingly frustrating La Paz businessmen, who say government officials' erratic behavior has weakened Bolivia's investment climate. Leading manufacturers recently told EconOff that the GOB's failure to negotiate a free [...]	2006-05-05 12:05:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD EINV ECON PREL PGOV BL
06LAPAZ1209	BOLIVIA: SPECIAL 301 DEMARCHE DELIVERED [...] (U) EconOff delivered reftel talking points May 5 to Jorge Estrada, legal advisor to Bolivia's National Intellectual Property Service (SENAPI). Estrada said he was unfamiliar with the annual Special 301 review of countries' intellectual property rights (IPR) practices but assured EconOff he wo [...]	2006-05-05 20:04:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KIPR ECON ETRD EINV BL
06LAPAZ1211	MILITARY EQUIPMENT: WHAT'S MINE IS MINE, WHAT'S [...] (C) Summary: In a GOB-requested May 2 meeting with the Ambassador, Minister of Defense Walker San Miguel and Foreign Minister David Choquehuanca attempted to set conditions for the return of counter-terrorism unit U.S. equipment to MilGroup custody. The Ambassador reminded both ministers that [...]	2006-05-08 11:28:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV PREL BL
06LAPAZ1231	BOLIVIA: KEEPING IRAN OFF HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL [...] No summary [...]	2006-05-08 19:32:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	KUNR PHUM UNHRC PREL BL
06LAPAZ1245	PRESIDENT MORALES FOCUSED ON POPULISM AT 100 DAYS [...] (C) SUMMARY: In his first 100 days in office, Evo Morales has focused almost exclusively on political goals with short-term domestic appeal and negative long-term consequences. At home, his efforts to consolidate power in the executive appeal to Bolivian demands for stability and jobs after y [...]	2006-05-09 15:10:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV PREL SOCI ETRD BL
06LAPAZ1248	GOB NAMES BOARD MEMBERS TO "NATIONALIZED" [...] (SBU) Summary: The GOB named 20 directors and five controllers to the boards of five hydrocarbons companies on May 8. The GOB has yet to legally acquire ownership control of these five companies, in accord with its May 1 nationalization decree (reftel),and it remains unclear how it plans to [...]	2006-05-09 17:45:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EINV ENRG EPET EFIN PGOV BL
06LAPAZ1254	BOLIVIA: FISSURES IN THE MORALES GOVERNMENT [...] (C) SUMMARY: President Evo Morales entered his fourth month in office with rifts developing within his government and Movement Toward Socialism (MAS) party. Morales' abrupt firing of associates for alleged corruption, autocratic management style, and rhetorical attacks against the United Stat [...]	2006-05-09 20:15:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV PREL BL SOCI
06LAPAZ1265	DISCRIMINATION WITHIN THE MAS? [...] (C) Summary: While the GOB continues to ride a wave of euphoria following President Morales' May 1 nationalization of hydrocarbons, an undertow of discontent grows within the Movement Toward Socialism (MAS) due to alleged intra-party discrimination based on gender and race, as well as Morales' [...]	2006-05-10 13:20:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV PREL BL
06LAPAZ1268	LLORENTI WON'T BE BOLIVIA'S AMBASSADOR TO THE U.S. [...] No summary [...]	2006-05-10 16:40:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL ECON BL
06LAPAZ1271	GOB OFFERS COCA ERADICATION IMPROVEMENTS FOR [...] (SBU) Summary: Leading Bolivian exporters told the Ambassador May 9 that President Morales had floated the idea of linking improvements in illegal coca eradication to an extension of the Andean Trade Promotion and Drug Eradication Act (ATPDEA). GOB officials reportedly told exporters they wer [...]	2006-05-10 18:41:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD EINV ECON PREL PGOV SNAR BL
06LAPAZ1283	SLOW START FOR CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY CAMPAIGNS [...] (C) Summary: The Constituent Assembly campaign is off to an unimpressive start; campaign season opened May 2 but political parties, perhaps taking their cues from a fatigued electorate, or perhaps hindered by a lack of funding, have done little to educate voters about their candidates or posi [...]	2006-05-11 17:47:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV PREL BL
06LAPAZ1285	GOB ON GAS: TO COMPENSATE OR NOT TO COMPENSATE? [...] (SBU) Summary: President Morales reportedly stated on May 11 that the GOB did not have to compensate hydrocarbons companies for their losses due to nationalization if such firms had "recovered investments and accrued some earnings." In contradiction to Morales' statement, the GOB agreed on May [...]	2006-05-11 19:16:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EINV ENRG EPET PGOV BL
06LAPAZ1289	MINING MINISTER SAYS GOB WILL NOT NATIONALIZE [...] (SBU) Summary: Minister of Mining Walter Villarroel told Econoffs May 11 that the GOB would not nationalize Bolivia's mining industry. He left open the possibility of tax increases, however, and said the tax structure and mining code were under review. He also asked for assistance identifyin [...]	2006-05-12 15:53:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EMIN EINV ECON PREL PGOV BL
06LAPAZ1316	GOB EXPLAINS HYDROCARBONS NATIONALIZATION [...] (SBU) Summary: Hydrocarbons Minister Andres Soliz Rada, accompanied by the Finance and Planning Ministers, convened a meeting of international donors on May 12 to discuss the GOB's hydrocarbons nationalization decree issued on May 1 (ref A). After decrying the "neoliberal" economic model, the [...]	2006-05-16 17:30:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EAID EINV ENRG EPET PGOV BL
06LAPAZ1317	OPPOSITION PROSPECTS ARE WEAK FOR THE CONSTITUENT [...] (C) SUMMARY: The opposition to President Evo Morales, Movement Toward Socialism (MAS) party enters the campaign for the Constituent Assembly elections on July 2 even weaker than before the general elections in December 2006. The best-known opposition leaders--Podemos, Jorge Quiroga and UN,s S [...]	2006-05-16 17:50:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV PREL BL SOCI
06LAPAZ1322	MAS HAS STRONG ADVANTAGE ENTERING THE CONSTITUENT [...] (C) SUMMARY: President Evo Morales and his Movement Toward Socialism (MAS) party will launch their campaign for the 2 July Constituent Assembly election on May 26 riding a wave of popular support for the President's hydrocarbons nationalization decree. The MAS remains the most powerful party [...]	2006-05-17 12:50:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV PREL SOCI BL
06LAPAZ1332	ECONOMIC ROOTS OF BOLIVIA'S SOCIAL REVOLUTION [...] (SBU) Summary: Economic factors, which have fed the growing political disaffection of Bolivia's majority poor, have helped fuel the country's rolling "social revolution." Take persistent poverty. The percentage of Bolivia's population living below the poverty line has remained virtually uncha [...]	2006-05-17 18:25:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON ELAB SMIG SOCI PGOV EINV EPET BL
06LAPAZ1337	GOB PROMISES LAND REFORM [...] Summary: The GOB announced on May 8 that it planned to distribute between 11 and 14 million hectares of land to farmers, indigenous communities, and the landless through eight supreme decrees and a revision of the 1996 Agrarian Reform Law. On May 17, the GOB told the press that President Mora [...]	2006-05-17 20:18:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED	EAGR ECON SMIG SOCI BL
06LAPAZ1341	GOB CONTINUES TO FOCUS ON ATPDEA EXTENSION [...] (SBU) Summary: Bolivia's vice minister of trade and exports told Econoffs May 17 that GOB officials remained interested in an extension of the Andean Trade Promotion and Drug Eradication Act (ATPDEA),believing additional time would provide "space" for the government to define its trade polici [...]	2006-05-18 15:16:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD EINV ECON PREL PGOV BL
06LAPAZ1357	JUDICIAL BRANCH STANDS TALL AGAINST EXECUTIVE [...] (C) Summary: In meetings with poloff on May 17 in Sucre, Supreme Court and Constitutional Tribunal (CT) justices, still stinging from President Morales' March public criticisms of the CT, expressed strong resolve to resist political pressure and influence from the Morales government. While Mo [...]	2006-05-19 19:49:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV PREL BL
06LAPAZ1384	BOLIVIA: IMF, IDB, AND WORLD BANK UPDATES [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see Paragraph 6. 2. (C) Summary: Please see paragraph 6 for action request. The World Bank Andean Director met with the Ambassador to solicit support from the U.S. government for the approval of its interim Bolivian strategy during the next World Bank [...]	2006-05-23 18:11:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	EAID ECON EFIN PREL PGOV BL
06LAPAZ1407	BRAZILIANS FIRM ON ECONOMIC ISSUES, BEHIND CLOSED [...] (C) Summary: The Ambassador met with Brazilian Ambassador to Bolivia Antonio Mena Goncalves May 24 to discuss Brazilian Foreign Minister Celso Amorim's May 22-23 visit to La Paz. In meetings with the Bolivian government, Amorim deliberately avoided the hydrocarbons issue, but Mena Goncalves to [...]	2006-05-26 14:05:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV PREL EPET ENRG BL
06LAPAZ1414	DEJA VU--IS MORALES FOLLOWING THE CHAVEZ MODEL? [...] (C) Summary: As the Morales government hits the four month mark and further strengthens its relationships with Cuba and Venezuela, there is increasing speculation about the extent to which Morales is following the Chavista model of governance. Three Venezuelan USAID contractors working on dem [...]	2006-05-26 19:44:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV PREL BL
06LAPAZ1418	BOLIVIA IN CHAVEZ' EMBRACE [...] (C) Summary: The MAS party's May 26 Chapare-based campaign kick-off for the Constituent Assembly -- featuring President Evo Morales and his Venezuelan counterpart Hugo Chavez in the shared leading role -- revealed a Bolivian government fallen openly into Venezuela's embrace. Venezuelan offici [...]	2006-05-30 14:15:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ECON EPET EINV SOCI ELAB BL
06LAPAZ1456	TUTO QUIROGA ON CHAVEZ DOMINO EFFECT [...] (C) Summary: Former President and opposition leader Jorge "Tuto" Quiroga told the Ambassador on May 30 that the USG should help "stop Chavez" in Peru, or risk the domino effect in Ecuador and elsewhere. Quiroga talked at length about Chavez's visions of a Bolivarian state, and said that after [...]	2006-05-31 19:19:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV PREL EFIN BL
06LAPAZ1466	BOLIVIA FORMALLY REQUESTS ATPDEA AND GSP EXTENSIONS [...] (SBU) Summary: President Morales' newly-appointed advisor for international trade, Pablo Solon, called on the Ambassador May 31 to deliver a copy of a letter formally requesting extensions of the Andean Trade Promotion and Drug Eradication Act (ATPDEA) and the Generalized System of Preferences [...]	2006-06-01 18:40:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD ECON PREL PGOV USTR BL
06LAPAZ1491	TRANSREDES SALE DECREASES U.S. INVESTMENT IN [...] (SBU) The U.S. firm Enron has completed the first stage of selling its subsidiary Prisma, which owns 25 percent of Bolivian gas pipeline operator Transredes and 29 percent of the Bolivian gas pipeline operator GTB, to Ashmore Energy International. According to Transredes contacts, Ashmore is [...]	2006-06-02 19:09:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EINV ENRG EPET BL
06LAPAZ1516	AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH DORIA MEDINA [...] (SBU) Summary: Ambassador met May 30 with National Unity (UN) party leader Samuel Doria Medina, who predicted that President Morales' Movement Toward Socialism (MAS) party would win 50 to 55 percent of the vote for the Constituent Assembly elections in July, while the UN and Podemos would spl [...]	2006-06-05 20:29:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL ECON BL
06LAPAZ1517	MORALES ISSUED LAND DECREES WITHOUT PROMISED [...] (U) Despite his May 18 decision not to promulgate executive decrees redistributing land without consensus, President Morales issued seven decrees on June 3 after negotiations with Santa Cruz agricultural and business representatives broke down June 2. The GOB will redistribute 2.2 million he [...]	2006-06-05 20:43:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL ECON BL
06LAPAZ1518	LLOYD: CLOSER TO COLLAPSE [...] (SBU) Summary: Bolivia's national airline, Lloyd Aero Boliviano, moved closer to collapse following the chief executive's failed attempt to relinquish ownership to employees. In a bizarre turn of events June 3, disgruntled pilots accosted two members of the company's board of directors and he [...]	2006-06-05 20:48:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAIR ECON PGOV CASC BL
06LAPAZ1530	INDIA'S JINDAL STEEL WINS MUTUN BID [...] (SBU) Summary: GOB officials announced June 1 that India's Jindal Steel and Power had won the right to develop Mutun, one of the world's largest iron ore deposits. The firm expects to invest USD 2.3 billion over the next ten years, not only to exploit Mutun's estimated 40 billion tons of iron [...]	2006-06-06 17:06:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EMIN EINV ECON PGOV BL
06LAPAZ1537	BUSINESS ASSOCIATIONS, MORALES TRADE CRITICISMS [...] (SBU) Summary: In a joint declaration May 31, seven departmental business associations harshly criticized the Morales administration and charged the president with leading Bolivia in the wrong direction. Morales responded in an open letter published in leading newspapers June 3, accusing the [...]	2006-06-06 21:22:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD EINV ECON PREL PGOV BL
06LAPAZ1556	ONE PREFECT WORRIES ABOUT FUTURE OF REGIONAL [...] (C) Summary: Cochabamba prefect (governor) and former presidential candidate Manfred Reyes Villa told the Ambassador on June 7 that he believes President Morales will hold national elections following the Constituent Assembly in order to consolidate control over Bolivia's prefects, and will a [...]	2006-06-08 18:40:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV PREL BL
06LAPAZ1564	HYDROCARBONS CHAMBER SAYS NEGOTIATIONS WILL [...] (SBU) Summary: Hydrocarbons Chamber representatives told the Ambassador June 7 that hydrocarbons companies would negotiate with GOB officials to determine the terms of their new contracts (ref A) until they felt they could no longer negotiate in good faith - at least until the expiration of th [...]	2006-06-08 21:28:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EPET ENRG EINV ECON BL
06LAPAZ1565	EU AWAITS ANDEAN COMMUNITY STANCE TOWARD TRADE [...] (U) Summary: At a June 8 breakfast, the European Commission Delegation's chief trade representative said the European Union (EU) would await a clear Andean Community stance toward trade talks before pursuing association agreement negotiations. EU member states hope to see consensus emerge aft [...]	2006-06-08 21:30:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD EINV ECON PREL PGOV BL
06LAPAZ1586	BOLIVIA ON NAM STATEMENT [...] No summary [...]	2006-06-12 18:29:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	AORC PREL IAEA BL KNNP USNC IR
06LAPAZ1587	LAND CONFLICT IN ORURO [...] (U) The GOB displaced 7,000 squatters from privately-owned lands in the Department of Oruro on June 9; one off-duty police officer was killed in the confrontation. Members of an organization dubbed the "Roofless Movement" (similar to the Landless Movement) had been living in tents on private [...]	2006-06-12 18:30:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL ECON BL
06LAPAZ1596	TRIBUNAL DECLARES MINING CODE ARTICLES [...] (SBU) Summary: Bolivia's Constitutional Tribunal recently declared six articles of the mining code unconstitutional, eliminating investors' rights to transfer and mortgage mining concessions. The ruling will take effect after a two-year delay, ostensibly to allow the GOB to pass legislation i [...]	2006-06-13 15:23:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EMIN EINV ECON BL
06LAPAZ1597	COUNTDOWN TO CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY ELECTION [...] (C) Summary: With three weeks to go before the July 2 Constituent Assembly elections, polls in La Paz, Cochabamba and Santa Cruz, together representing 70 percent of the population, indicate Morales' Movement Toward Socialism (MAS) party will win approximately 45 percent of the vote, with Pode [...]	2006-06-13 15:35:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV PREL BL
06LAPAZ1614	VENEZUELAN INVOLVEMENT IN BOLIVIAN BANKING [...] (C) Summary: Venezuela has agreed to buy USD 100 million of Bolivian bonds in May to be used to finance Bolivian Treasury gaps or fund a portion of the deficit, but Finance Ministry contacts tell us that the deal is uncertain. Venezuela has also promised Bolivia another USD 100 million to prov [...]	2006-06-14 14:50:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN BL
06LAPAZ1629	LLOYD SECURES INSURANCE EXTENSION [...] (SBU) Summary: Bolivia's national airline, Lloyd Aereo Boliviano, narrowly avoided collapse June 15 by securing a new extension on its aircraft insurance, set to expire the same day. The extension will allow the carrier to continue operating, but with board members' June 15 decision to resign [...]	2006-06-16 19:27:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAIR ECON PGOV BL
06LAPAZ1638	BOLIVIA ON UN HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL [...] No summary [...]	2006-06-19 13:14:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL BL
06LAPAZ1644	BOLIVIA'S EXPANSIVE COCA POLICY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The GOB's coca strategy is becoming more explicit, and its expansiveness will only complicate effective control. On June 17, President Morales celebrated the opening of a coca tea plant in the Yungas and unveiled a domestic coca leaf commercialization regime that reportedly allo [...]	2006-06-19 15:30:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SNAR EAID BL
06LAPAZ1651	AGRICULTURE MINISTER ON APHIS AND LAND REFORM [...] (SBU) Summary: Econoff delivered talking points from ref A on APHIS regulatory changes to Minister of Agriculture Salvatierra on June 16. Salvatierra claimed that the MAS and its land reform program had capitalist, not socialist, goals promoting production and efficient land use. He indicate [...]	2006-06-19 19:35:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAGR ECON ETRD USDA USTR BL
06LAPAZ1654	SANTA CRUZ PREFECT PREDICTS WIN FOR AUTONOMY [...] (SBU) Summary: Santa Cruz Prefect Ruben Costas told the Ambassador June 19 that he believed six of Bolivia's nine departments would vote "yes" in the July 2 autonomy referendum. He expressed frustration with the GOB's "double talk," referring to President Morales' recent decision to withdraw [...]	2006-06-19 20:24:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV BL
06LAPAZ1660	GOB UNVEILS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT PLAN [...] (SBU) Summary: The GOB released its five-year national development plan on June 16. The plan proposes a strong state presence in the economy and natural resource management and substantial public investment in order to create jobs, diminish poverty, improve health and education, and provide [...]	2006-06-20 19:02:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EAGR EAID EFIN EINV ELAB PGOV BL
06LAPAZ1661	BUSINESS PERSPECTIVE ON TELECOMS CHANGES [...] (SBU) Summary: A U.S. investor in Bolivia's telecommunications sector relayed to us his concerns about the GOB's proposed changes to the sector -- a government take-over of Entel and elimination of the independent regulator -- outlined in its national development plan released on June 16 (sept [...]	2006-06-20 19:03:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON ECPS EINV BL
06LAPAZ1662	TARIJA PREFECT ON UPCOMING ELECTIONS [...] (C) Tarija Prefect Mario Cossio told the Ambassador June 19 that like the Embassy's relationship with the GOB, his relationship with the Morales administration is complicated by instability, largely due to the GOB's unclear policies and erratic public attacks for political gain. Cossio said h [...]	2006-06-20 19:16:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV PREL BL
06LAPAZ167	MORALES INAUGURATION SPEECH: A MIXED BAG [...] (SBU) Summary. Evo Morales' January 22 inauguration speech was many things: long, rambling and inconsistent, but also direct, passionate and heartfelt. He celebrated international support for his government from the United States, Venezuela and Cuba. But in a less-than-presidential manner, [...]	2006-01-23 21:00:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL ECON BL
06LAPAZ1672	FORESTRY SECTOR FEARFUL OF GOB INTERVENTION [...] (U) Summary: The Bolivian Forestry Chamber has repeatedly voiced opposition to the GOB's plans to nationalize forestry resources, arguing that government interference will undermine a healthy and productive sector. The GOB's national development plan, released June 16 (ref A),does not propos [...]	2006-06-21 18:13:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD EINV EAGR ECON SENV BL
06LAPAZ1673	NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT PLAN PROPOSES MINING SECTOR [...] (SBU) Summary: Bolivia's national development plan, announced June 16 (reftel),proposes wide-ranging changes in the mining sector, among them increased state control of mineral production and sales and new taxes and regulations. The plan highlights the need for more research into available mi [...]	2006-06-21 18:15:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EMIN EINV ECON BL
06LAPAZ168	BOLIVIA AND VENEZUELA WASTE NO TIME SIGNING [...] (U) On President Evo Morales' first full day in office, Morales and Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez signed a series of cooperation agreements covering energy, sports, health, medicine, education and agriculture. Chavez called the signing of these agreements "the start of a new period of rel [...]	2006-01-23 21:00:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL ECON SOCI BL
06LAPAZ169	CHILE'S LAGOS HOPEFUL ABOUT BOLIVIA'S MORALES [...] (C) Summary: During their January 22 meeting in La Paz, President of Chile Ricardo Lagos told WHA A/S Shannon that the U.S. should keep the doors open with Evo Morales to prevent Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez from gaining disproportionate influence. Lagos said he had explained Chile's his [...]	2006-01-23 21:06:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ECON SOCI ELAB CI BL
06LAPAZ1706	JAPANESE AND CHINESE AMBASSADORS ON BOLIVIA [...] (C) Summary: Acting Ecopol Chief met the Chinese and Japanese ambassadors in Bolivia June 20 and 21. The ambassadors shared concerns about the GOB's economic policies, which they said are having a chilling effect on foreign investment. Both ambassadors indicated that their governments are ta [...]	2006-06-23 15:38:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV PREL OTRA SNAR ETRD LA XK CH JA
06LAPAZ1711	GOB VOWS TO "DECOLONIZE" EDUCATION, THREATENING ACS [...] (SBU) Summary: After weeks of rumors concerning educational reform, Bolivia's education minister announced June 22 that the GOB planned to "decolonize" education to make all schools, public and private, equal. He declared the American Cooperative School part of a system that caters to a fortu [...]	2006-06-23 21:11:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ASCH APER AMGT PGOV SOCI BL
06LAPAZ1729	HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF? [...] (C) Summary: Bolivia's 1952 revolution, led by the National Revolutionary Movement (MNR),redistributed land and nationalized mining resources (including tin, Bolivia's principal export at the time) in an effort to correct economic disparity and established universal suffrage to promote greate [...]	2006-06-27 14:30:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV PREL BL
06LAPAZ1743	LATEST POLLS ON CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY [...] (SBU) With less than a week before the July 2 Constituent Assembly elections, a June 17-18 Apoyo opinion poll of all nine department capitals projects the MAS will win at least 114 of 255 seats in the Assembly. According to the poll, MAS candidates are likely to win 14 of the 45 department-wi [...]	2006-06-27 19:20:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL BL
06LAPAZ1774	BUSINESS ASSOCIATIONS DIFFER IN RESPONSE TO GOB [...] (SBU) Summary: Bolivian business associations share similar concerns about GOB economic policies but differ in their response, with some advocating open criticism and others urging moderation. Neither strategy has been effective, as association representatives reportedly have limited access t [...]	2006-06-28 19:48:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD EINV ECON PREL PGOV BL
06LAPAZ1775	OPPOSITION GOALS FOR THE CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY [...] (C) Summary: The two leading opposition political parties, Podemos and the National Unity (UN) party, have had little success in educating voters about their respective campaign platforms. While Podemos has a solid plan for the Constituent Assembly, its repeated criticism of Venezuelan inter [...]	2006-06-28 19:53:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV PREL BL
06LAPAZ1782	REPSOL AND PETROBRAS NEGOTIATIONS UPDATE [...] (SBU) Summary: Hydrocarbons company Repsol (Argentina/Spain) told Econoff June 28 that it expected Argentina to agree to a price increase on Bolivian natural gas exports on June 29. Press reports on June 29 indicated that the agreement would be in effect until December 31 and include an expor [...]	2006-06-29 15:03:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EINV ENRG EPET BL
06LAPAZ1787	NATIONAL ELECTORAL COURT READY FOR JULY 2 [...] (C) Acting Ecopol Chief met with National Electoral Court (CNE) President Salvador Romero on June 28 regarding the Court's preparations for the July 2 Constituent Assembly elections, which Romero says are almost complete. The CNE has set up a new system which voters can use to confirm (by cel [...]	2006-06-29 16:26:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV PREL BL
06LAPAZ179	MORALES GOVERNMENT GENERATES HOPE, CONCERN [...] (C) Summary: WHA Assistant Secretary Thomas Shannon held a series of meetings on January 22 with Santa Cruz business leaders, media and political analysts, opposition leader Jorge "Tuto" Quiroga, and Spanish Secretary of Foreign Affairs Bernardino Leon on the margins of the Morales inauguratio [...]	2006-01-24 19:40:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV PREL BL
06LAPAZ1791	FIRST QUARTER 2006 MACROECONOMIC REPORT [...] Summary: Bolivia's positive GDP growth trend continued during the first quarter of 2006 due to high international prices for the country's main exports: hydrocarbons, minerals, and agricultural products. Exports grew by 23 percent in the first quarter compared with the same period in 2005, c [...]	2006-06-29 20:17:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EINV ELAB EMIN ENRG EPET ETRD BL
06LAPAZ1794	SANTA CRUZ: THOUSANDS SHOW SUPPORT FOR AUTONOMY [...] (SBU) Summary: An estimated 400,000 people gathered in Santa Cruz June 28 to support civic leaders' campaign for a "yes" vote in the July 2 departmental autonomy referendum. Speakers accused the Morales administration of attempting to consolidate "hegemonic" power and declared autonomy a means [...]	2006-06-29 21:05:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV SOCI BL
06LAPAZ1795	MORE ON RELIGIOUS EDUCATION [...] (C) Summary: Following the GOB's June 22 announcement of its plan to "decolonize" and secularize education (reftel),pressure from the Catholic Church led the Morales administration to soften its position at least as regards Church interests. The GOB hosted a seminar June 26-28 on its propos [...]	2006-06-29 21:10:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	ASCH APER AMGT PGOV SOCI PREL BL
06LAPAZ1797	USED CLOTHING IMPORTS TEMPORARILY EXTENDED [...] (U) Summary: In a June 21 supreme decree, the GOB extended used clothing imports until April 20, 2007, and said it would allow used clothing sales through February 28, 2008. Reactions were mixed, with some groups accusing the GOB of harming small apparel producers and others suggesting the GOB [...]	2006-06-30 14:03:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD EINV ECON BL
06LAPAZ180	GOB NAMES LEFTIST CABINET [...] (SBU) Summary: President Morales announced the 16 members of his cabinet January 23, the majority leftist, indigenous and from the altiplano. Morales exhorted the new cabinet to change Bolivia, integrate marginalized members of society, eliminate corruption, and serve -- not exploit -- the peo [...]	2006-01-24 19:41:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL ECON PGOV TBIO BL
06LAPAZ1805	ARGENTINA AND BOLIVIA SIGN IMMIGRATION AND GAS [...] (SBU) Summary: Bolivian and Argentine government officials signed seven agreements in Buenos Aires on June 29 regarding several topics including immigration, natural gas prices, and the construction of a bridge connecting the two countries (reftels). Argentina did not agree to legalize coca [...]	2006-06-30 20:20:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EINV EPET BL
06LAPAZ1808	PRELIMINARY CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY RESULTS [...] (U) Summary: Although preliminary election results show that the majority of Bolivians voted against departmental autonomy, four eastern departments solidly voted in its favor. Early results also indicate that President Morales' Movement Toward Socialism (MAS) party won around 52 percent of Co [...]	2006-07-03 13:15:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL ECON BL
06LAPAZ1841	ELECTIONS UPDATE [...] (SBU) Approximately 80 percent of the July 2 election results are in, and National Electoral Court officials expect around 90 percent by July 7. Most analysts anticipate high voter participation rates, perhaps approaching the 84.5 percent of the December 2005 national elections. While voter [...]	2006-07-06 15:01:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL ECON BL
06LAPAZ1842	TRANSREDES AND GONI ON TRIAL [...] (SBU) Summary: The Morales administration claims that Enron improperly acquired shares in the Bolivian-Brazilian pipeline through a dubious contract between Enron and the GOB signed by former President Gonzalo "Goni" Sanchez de Lozada. The GOB claims that Enron and its subsidiary Transredes ow [...]	2006-07-06 15:09:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EINV ENRG EPET BL
06LAPAZ1845	MILLENNIUM CHALLENGE ACCOUNT UPDATE [...] (SBU) Summary: Econoff delivered reftel information to Bolivia's Millennium Challenge Account (MCA) representative, Javier Hurtado, on July 5. Hurtado was optimistic that Bolivia would not follow in the Gambia's footsteps. He plans to contract seven technical team members within the next wee [...]	2006-07-06 15:56:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID ECON ETRD PGOV BL
06LAPAZ1859	SANTA CRUZ LABOR DISPUTE PROMPTS GOB INTERVENTION [...] (SBU) Summary: July 3 clashes between feuding branches of Santa Cruz' Departmental Labor Confederation prompted the GOB to dismiss the department's police chief and install military guards at key administrative buildings. Minister of Government Alicia Munoz accused the police chief of neglige [...]	2006-07-07 20:09:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ELAB PREL PGOV SOCI BL
06LAPAZ186	MAS ECONOMICS TEAM: STRONG SOCIAL AWARENESS, WEAK [...] (SBU) Summary: If reports about its economic transition teams are any indication, the future Movement Toward Socialism (MAS) government will have lots to learn. Current government ministers have told us that the MAS mining, economic development, and hydrocarbons teams conspicuously lack techn [...]	2006-01-24 21:18:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED	BL ECON EINV EMIN ENRG EPET ETRD PGOV
06LAPAZ1877	CENTRAL BANK SCANDAL [...] (SBU) Summary: Two MAS congressmen recently accused former government and finance ministry officials of illegally withdrawing USD 153 million from the Central Bank in October 2003, just before the fall of former President Gonzalo "Goni" Sanchez de Lozada. Prosecutor Milton Mendoza is investi [...]	2006-07-10 19:06:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN KJUS BL
06LAPAZ1885	CUSTOMS HOPES "SOCIAL CONTROL" WILL REDUCE [...] (SBU) Summary: Customs officials recently proposed a "social control" mechanism to reduce contraband, arguing that appropriate incentives would increase the identification and seizure of illegally traded goods. The proposal is part of a restructuring process in which officials are evaluating [...]	2006-07-11 12:39:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD EINV ECON ENRG EPET PGOV PREL BL
06LAPAZ1891	FINAL ELECTION RESULTS: "MAS" OF THE SAME [...] (C) Summary: Final July 2 Constituent Assembly election results gave the Movement Toward Socialism (MAS) party 137 of 255 seats and ensured several opposition parties, including Podemos and National Unity (UN),a significant presence in the Assembly. In the week following the election, politic [...]	2006-07-11 14:26:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV PREL BL
06LAPAZ1918	HYDROCARBONS REGULATOR ENSURES FUEL SUPPLY [...] (SBU) Summary: Bolivia's state oil company, YPFB, successfully assumed control of Bolivia's wholesale hydrocarbons market on July 1, as provided for by the 2005 Hydrocarbons Law. To ensure adequate supplies of gasoline and diesel, the hydrocarbons regulator issued an emergency decree requirin [...]	2006-07-12 19:30:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EINV ENRG EPET BL
06LAPAZ1923	AIRLINES SEEK TO EXPLOIT LLOYD'S TROUBLES [...] (SBU) Summary: As Lloyd Aereo Boliviano struggles, American Airlines and AeroSur seek to expand. American plans to add La Paz-Miami flights in August and September, and AeroSur hopes to operate public charters to Miami from late July. Both see opportunities in Lloyd's near-complete departure [...]	2006-07-13 14:54:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAIR ECON PGOV BL

06LAPAZ1936	UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES OF GOB'S HYDROCARBONS [...] (SBU) Summary: The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and the Andean Development Corporation (CAF) have frozen the pipeline operator Transredes' financing for expanding and constructing three natural gas pipelines due to the GOB take-over of company shares. Without these pipelines, various [...]	2006-07-14 20:54:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EINV ENRG EPET BL
06LAPAZ195	MORALES-SHANNON MEETING: PRESIDENT RECOUNTS [...] (C) Summary: Summary: In their January 21 meeting, WHA Assistant Secretary Thomas Shannon told President-elect Evo Morales the U.S. agenda in Bolivia reflected our larger agenda in the region: consolidating democracy, promoting economic growth through free markets and integration, and protec [...]	2006-01-26 15:23:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ECON EPET EINV ENRG SOCI ELAB BL
06LAPAZ1952	SCENESETTER FOR VP GARCIA LINERA VISIT [...] (C) Summary: Bolivian Vice President Alvaro Garcia Linera will arrive in Washington late July 19 to push for an extension of ATPDEA benefits. In its first six months in office, the Morales administration has maintained popularity ratings of 70 to 80 percent by nationalizing hydrocarbons, ann [...]	2006-07-19 16:14:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV PREL MCC BL
06LAPAZ1955	GOB ASKS WHY VICE PRESIDENT NOT ALLOWED TO TRAVEL [...] (C) Summary: Acting Foreign Minister Alicia Munoz summoned the Ambassador July 19 to explain why Vice President Alvaro Garcia Linera was not allowed to board American Airlines flight 922 from La Paz to Miami. The Ambassador apologized for the incident, attributing the error to an administrat [...]	2006-07-19 17:26:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV PREL BL
06LAPAZ1956	EDUCATION CONGRESS ENDORSES SECULAR EDUCATION [...] (SBU) Summary: Days of contentious debate ended July 14 with the National Education Congress' endorsement of a secular education system that "respects the beliefs and spirituality of indigenous nations and the Bolivian people" and "rejects all dogmatic impositions." The Catholic Church accuse [...]	2006-07-19 17:42:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ASCH APER AMGT PGOV PREL SOCI BL
06LAPAZ196	HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVIST NAMED BOLIVIA'S AMBASSADOR [...] (SBU) Summary: President Morales will reportedly appoint human rights activist Sacha Llorenti as Bolivia's next Ambassador to the U.S., tasking the new envoy with securing the extradition of former President Gonzalo "Goni" Sanchez de Lozada. It is tempting to read an "anti-U.S." message into [...]	2006-01-26 20:39:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL SOCI BL
06LAPAZ2011	TRANSREDES UPDATE [...] (SBU) Summary: Transredes' board will meet at the end of July to discuss acquisition of the company's shares by the GOB. According to a Transredes executive, the company could live with GOB majority ownership, as long as the private investors, Shell and Prisma, retained operating control. The [...]	2006-07-26 13:05:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EINV ENRG EPET BL
06LAPAZ2017	STATE CRITICIZES CHURCH [...] (C) Summary: A growing confrontation between church and state, which began as a debate about religious education, has broadened into a larger discussion of religion in general. Religion and religious education will be discussed in Congress in relation to a pending education bill as well as in [...]	2006-07-26 18:47:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	ASCH APER AMGT PGOV PREL SOCI BL
06LAPAZ2036	LA PAZ PREFECT UNDER FIRE [...] (C) Summary: Following the July 2 autonomy referendum, social sectors have called for the resignation of La Paz Prefect Jose Luis "Pepe Lucho" Paredes, expressing anger at his support for regional autonomy (a position that contradicted his department's popular vote). Paredes alleges that a r [...]	2006-07-27 14:21:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV PREL BL
06LAPAZ2037	SOCIAL SECTORS TO OVERSEE CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY [...] (SBU) Summary: On July 23, President Morales announced plans to have social sectors oversee the Constituent Assembly. Morales' statements were strongly criticized by opposition parties and citizen groups. While his recent declarations might be an attempt to reach out to social sectors that [...]	2006-07-27 14:24:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL ECON BL
06LAPAZ2046	MINING COMPANIES BRACE FOR ROYALTY AND TAX [...] (SBU) Summary: U.S.-owned mining company representatives said July 24 that they remained concerned by the GOB's failure to make royalty and tax decisions. While officials have repeatedly said the government will not act on President Morales' promises to nationalize Bolivia's mining industry ( [...]	2006-07-28 18:49:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EMIN EINV ECON PREL PGOV BL
06LAPAZ205	EARLY WARNING SIGNS? [...] (C) Summary: President Morales' first week in office has brought public and private reassurances that his government will cooperate with the USG and respect democracy and the rule of law, but there are also some early warning signs that the new government may undermine democratic institutions. [...]	2006-01-27 19:45:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV PREL BL
06LAPAZ2056	HYDROCARBONS REGULATOR STANDS FIRM AGAINST GOB [...] (SBU) Summary: Bolivia's hydrocarbons regulator has accused Bolivia's state oil company, YPFB, of entering into contracts that are against state interests -- charges ironically similar to those of the GOB against Enron and former President Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada. The GOB reportedly tried t [...]	2006-07-31 20:53:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EINV ENRG EPET BL
06LAPAZ2079	GOB URGES "CREATIVE" APPROACH TO BILATERAL TRADE [...] (SBU) Summary: GOB trade officials expressed satisfaction August 1 with Vice President Garcia Linera's trip to Washington (reftel),which provided an opportunity to lobby for an extension of the Andean Trade Promotion and Drug Eradication Act (ATPDEA). They noted the GOB's interest in negotia [...]	2006-08-02 20:15:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD EINV ECON PREL PGOV BL
06LAPAZ2099	INDIGENOUS WOMAN TO LEAD ASSEMBLY [...] (SBU) On July 29, President Morales designated Silvia Lazarte as the MAS' candidate for Constituent Assembly (CA) president, noting that she represents two sectors that have been historically excluded: women and the indigenous. Opposition parties criticized the nomination process as too one [...]	2006-08-03 18:55:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL ECON BL
06LAPAZ2111	MORALES' RHETORIC LEADS TO INCREASED CRITICISM [...] (C) Summary: President Morales launched his "agrarian revolution" August 2 in Ucurena, Cochabamba, declaring that if Congress does not approve the executive's land reform bill, indigenous communities will close Congress for its "ineffectiveness." Opposition parties from eastern Bolivia claim [...]	2006-08-04 18:57:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV PREL BL
06LAPAZ2112	CENTRAL BANK OUTLOOK POSITIVE [...] (SBU) Summary: According to a Central Bank official, Bolivia's macroeconomic situation is positive overall, with first semester GDP growth of 4.3 percent, strong fiscal revenue inflows, low deficit projections, moderate inflation, high international reserves, and a sound banking system. Howev [...]	2006-08-04 19:01:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN ETRD BL
06LAPAZ2120	STATE OF THE UNION [...] (SBU) Summary: In a rambling two and a half hour state of the union address kicking off the August 5 Constituent Assembly festivities in Sucre, Bolivia's historic capital, President Morales reviewed his accomplishments to date: delivery of the Constituent Assembly, economic stability and govern [...]	2006-08-08 14:14:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL ECON BL
06LAPAZ2130	MAS' DRAFT CONSTITUTION [...] (C) Summary: President Morales' Movement Toward Socialism (MAS) party is circulating a draft constitution for the Constituent Assembly, although other drafts, which we have not reviewed, seem to be circulating as well. The draft we have seen, which contains strong socialist and communist not [...]	2006-08-08 19:16:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV PREL BL
06LAPAZ2138	LEBANON SECURITY COUNCIL RESOLUTION [...] No summary [...]	2006-08-08 21:22:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PTER MOPS UN IS BL
06LAPAZ2139	CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY INAUGURATION [...] (SBU) Summary: Bolivians celebrated their independence and the inauguration of the Constituent Assembly August 6 in Sucre. Festivities included introduction of all 255 Assembly members, speeches by President Morales and Vice President Garcia Linera, a parade of Bolivia's indigenous communities [...]	2006-08-09 13:25:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL ECON BL
06LAPAZ216	HYDROCARBONS COMPANIES PESSIMISTIC, BUT WILLING TO [...] (SBU) Summary: In a recent meeting with the Ambassador, hydrocarbons company representatives discussed their concerns about negotiations with the incoming administration. They worried in particular about the likely absence of reasonable GOB interlocutors (subsequent ministerial appointments pr [...]	2006-01-30 20:26:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	BEXP BL ECON EINV ENRG EPET PGOV
06LAPAZ2167	POLICE THREATEN HUNGER STRIKE [...] (SBU) The National Association of Police, a union of lower-level officials in the national police force, declared a state of emergency on August 10, threatening a mass hunger strike if the GOB did not agree to increase police salaries. No violence has occurred. During the first week of August, [...]	2006-08-11 20:59:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ASEC ELAB PGOV BL
06LAPAZ217	AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH NEW FOREIGN MINISTER [...] (C) Summary: Late January 27, Foreign Minister Choquehuanca summoned the Ambassador to apologize for the Foreign Ministry's gaffe in prematurely announcing its intention to nominate Sacha Llorentty as Bolivia's next ambassador to the U.S., and to formally submit Llorentty's credentials. He sa [...]	2006-01-30 20:29:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV PREL BL
06LAPAZ2171	MAS INSIGHT INTO CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY [...] (C) Summary: Raul Prada, a MAS insider and Constituent Assembly representative, confirmed President Morales' plans for an all-powerful Assembly which would seek to remove all traces of colonialism from Bolivian society. Prada said procedural issues for the Assembly remain pending but he expe [...]	2006-08-11 21:58:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV PREL BL
06LAPAZ2196	HYDROCARBONS NATIONALIZATION FACES OBSTACLES [...] (SBU) Summary: Bolivia's hydrocarbons nationalization plan is facing legal and financial obstacles that have delayed its implementation. The state oil company, YPFB, lacks the necessary resources to take on its new mandated role as controller of the entire hydrocarbons production chain. The [...]	2006-08-14 21:12:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EINV ENRG EPET BL
06LAPAZ2197	IDB'S FUTURE DIRECTION [...] (C) Summary: The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) Resident Representative told Econoff on August 11 that a donor coordination meeting to be held in Bolivia in October would likely fail to meet the GOB's anticipated funding requirements. The GOB's National Development Plan relies heavily [...]	2006-08-14 21:13:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	EAID ECON BL
06LAPAZ2207	EXPORTERS' EXPECTATIONS OF ATPDEA EXTENSION BEGIN [...] (SBU) Summary: Expectations of an extension of the Andean Trade Promotion and Drug Eradication Act (ATPDEA) have begun to fade, as exporters gradually accept that the GOB stands little chance of securing a continuation of existing trade preferences. Even so, many La Paz and Santa Cruz business [...]	2006-08-16 18:42:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD EINV ECON PREL PGOV BL
06LAPAZ2216	GOB NEGOTIATIONS WITH PETROBRAS STALLED [...] (C) Summary: A Petrobras executive told Econoff on August 15 that no gas price agreement had been reached between Petrobras and Bolivia's state oil company YPFB, and that in fact, YPFB never presented a price proposal during the negotiations. The GOB also lacks a plan regarding implementatio [...]	2006-08-17 16:16:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EINV ENRG EPET BL
06LAPAZ2222	UNCERTAINTY REGARDING ALLEGED DEAL WITH IRAN [...] (C/NF) Press reports from Tehran state that Bolivian Minister of Economic Development Celinda Sosa signed a memorandum of understanding with the Government of Iran (GOI) for the expansion of industrial and mineral cooperation, but GOB officials could not confirm the signing for Embassy offici [...]	2006-08-17 20:19:00	Embassy La Paz	SECRET//NOFORN	ECON PGOV PREL BL IR VE
06LAPAZ2246	MANPADS: EX-PRESIDENT RODRIGUEZ ON THE DEFENSIVE [...] (S/NF) Summary: Congress will soon decide whether to approve criminal charges against ex-President Rodriguez for the transfer of MANPADS to the United States for destruction in October 2005. Given the upcoming vote, Rodriguez is ramping up his rhetoric, again denying that he approved the tran [...]	2006-08-21 18:48:00	Embassy La Paz	SECRET//NOFORN	PGOV PREL PARM MASS MARR BL
06LAPAZ2269	HYDROCARBONS MINISTER BASHES BRAZIL [...] (C) Summary: Hydrocarbons Minister Soliz Rada told the DCM on August 21 that Brazil's strong presence in Bolivia is the root of many of the nation's problems, particularly in the hydrocarbons sector. Soliz said that Bolivia needs to develop alternate markets to Brazil, including Argentina and [...]	2006-08-22 15:52:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EINV ENRG EPET BL
06LAPAZ2295	HYDROCARBONS MINISTER IS CENSURED [...] (U) The opposition majority in the Senate -- 13 Podemos and 1 National Unity (UN) senators -- censured Hydrocarbons Minister Andres Soliz Rada on August 23 for the state oil company YPFB's alleged violations of Bolivian laws and regulations (reftel). MAS senators protested by not participatin [...]	2006-08-24 21:03:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON ENRG EPET PGOV BL
06LAPAZ2342	YPFB PRESIDENT RESIGNS [...] (SBU) Summary: On August 28, President Morales announced the resignation of the President of the state oil company YPFB, Jorge Alvarado. Alvarado resigned in the face of corruption accusations related to a contract between YPFB and Iboamerica Trading (reftel). Morales also announced the repl [...]	2006-08-29 19:47:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EINV ENRG EPET PGOV BL
06LAPAZ2372	CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY BRAWL OVER RULES OF DEBATE [...] (SBU) Stalemate over the rules of order for the Constituent Assembly (CA) escalated into violence late August 31 and continued into the early morning of September 1 in Sucre. Movement Toward Socialism (MAS) delegates hardened their position on a simple majority vote (the opposition supports t [...]	2006-09-01 19:16:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV PREL BL
06LAPAZ2393	CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY AT A CROSSROADS [...] (C) Summary: The Constituent Assembly is at a crossroads after political disagreements over its rules of order escalated into violence September 1, resulting in MAS delegates approving their own proposal for a majority vote on constitutional changes after opposition parties abandoned the sess [...]	2006-09-05 21:19:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV PREL BL
06LAPAZ2399	GOB DEFIES COURT DECISION ON HYDROCARBONS CONTRACTS [...] (SBU) Summary: On September 4, the Bolivian Hydrocarbons Chamber issued a press statement to publicize the Constitutional Court's May ruling that the 74 existing shared risk contracts between state oil company YPFB and private investors are legally valid. In response, the Hydrocarbons Minist [...]	2006-09-06 14:49:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	BL ECON EINV ENRG EPET KJUS
06LAPAZ240	RODRIGUEZ CONCERNED ABOUT THREATS TO JUDICIARY [...] (C) Summary: In a meeting with AID Deputy Assistant Administrator Mike Magan, the Ambassador and Embassy officials on January 31, former President (and current Supreme Court President) Rodriguez shared his concerns that President Morales will threaten Bolivia's relatively young democratic ins [...]	2006-02-01 21:05:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV PREL BL
06LAPAZ2406	BUSINESS AS USUAL, DESPITE RISING TENSIONS [...] (SBU) Summary: La Paz businessmen reacted with relative calm to the September 1 violence in the constituent assembly (reftel),declaring that business would continue as usual. While not necessarily thriving, businesses appear to have survived the uncertainty of the last few months, and most ex [...]	2006-09-06 20:58:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EINV ETRD ECON PREL PGOV BL
06LAPAZ2415	THE MEDIA LUNA STRIKE: WHICH SIDE WILL BLINK [...] (C) Summary: In response to growing ruling party intransigence in the Constituent Assembly charged with writing Bolivia's new constitution, the largely "media luna" (Santa Cruz, Tarija, Beni, and Pando) based opposition has called a regional general strike for September 8th (reftel 02393). [...]	2006-09-07 19:20:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV PREL BL
06LAPAZ2418	MAS STEAMROLLING CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY? [...] (C) Movement Toward Socialism (MAS) Constituent Assembly delegates approved the general outline of their own draft rules of order September 6 by simple majority (141 of 255 votes) without permitting debate. Opposition parties had attempted to postpone a vote on the rules of order by requestin [...]	2006-09-07 20:32:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL BL
06LAPAZ2432	SCENESETTER FOR VP GARCIA LINERA VISIT [...] (C) Summary: Bolivian Vice President Alvaro Garcia Linera will be in Washington September 10 - 13 to continue the GOB's push for an extension of ATPDEA benefits. The Vice President's visit offers the opportunity for us to express our interest in the stabilization of democracy, the lack of [...]	2006-09-08 19:54:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	BL ECON PGOV PREL
06LAPAZ2452	CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY STALEMATE CONTINUES [...] (U) Most political and media analysts describe the regional September 8 strike as a success (see September 8 ASDAR),but the Constituent Assembly remains deadlocked, at least for the moment, over whether delegates should use a simple majority or two-thirds vote to approve constitutional change [...]	2006-09-11 19:20:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL ECON BL
06LAPAZ2457	GOB REVISES NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT PLAN [...] (SBU) Summary: The GOB is revising its National Development Plan (NDP) based on suggestions from businesses and social organizations and conducting a debt sustainability analysis with German aid. It appears that the National Development Bank will likely be a second-tier institution, but with [...]	2006-09-11 20:50:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN BL
06LAPAZ2492	GOB ON GOALS FOR NAM AND UNGA [...] (SBU) Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs Mauricio Dorfler convoked select members of the diplomatic community September 12 to review GOB goals for the NAM and the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA). Dorfler noted that Foreign Minister David Choquehuanca would serve as the NAM's vice preside [...]	2006-09-14 20:03:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED	UNGA UNSC PREL BL CU
06LAPAZ2494	BOLIVIA: NOT TERRIBLY HELPFUL ON THE NAM [...] No summary [...]	2006-09-14 20:18:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PREL PTER UNGA CU BL
06LAPAZ2495	UNSCR 1696: BOLIVIA NOT HELPFUL [...] (SBU) Poloff delivered reftel demarche to First Secretary Eduardo Gallardo of the MFA's Office of Multilateral Relations September 20. Gallardo noted our concerns and said it would be difficult to reach consensus with the large number of countries attending the NAM. While the GOB does not h [...]	2006-09-14 20:34:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PREL PTER IAEA UNSC IR USSC BL
06LAPAZ2505	BOLIVIA'S MCC FOCAL POINT EXPLAINS RESIGNATION, [...] (C) SUMMARY: Poloffs met with Bolivia's Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) point of contact, Javier Hurtado, on September 15 to discuss his still non-public resignation and to obtain his assessment of Bolivia's Millennium Challenge Account (MCA) proposal. Frustrated with inadequate finan [...]	2006-09-15 19:14:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV PREL BL
06LAPAZ2506	VENEZUELAN AND CUBAN INFLUENCE GROWING [...] (C) Two social sector leaders, Rufo Calle and Hugo Vega (protect),independently told poloff September 14 that Venezuela and Cuba are increasingly involved in Bolivian social organizations. Rufo Calle, president of a national indigenous/labor organization (CSUTCB),said the MAS is intensifyin [...]	2006-09-15 19:17:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV PREL BL CU VE
06LAPAZ251	PETROBRAS TALKS WITH GOB [...] (SBU) Summary: Petrobras, the largest player in the Bolivian hydrocarbons industry, had its first meeting with the Bolivian government on January 31 to begin discussing a new relationship. According to a Petrobras official, Arturo Castanos, the GOB representatives were cordial, but they only [...]	2006-02-02 19:32:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ENRG EPET ECON BL
06LAPAZ2511	HYDROCARBONS NATIONALIZATION FUMBLING ALONG [...] (C) Summary: The Hydrocarbons Ministry issued a Ministerial Resolution on September 12 which shifts foreign companies' hydrocarbon revenues to the Bolivian state-owned company YPFB. The Resolution is legally in line with Hydrocarbons Law 3058, but comes at a time when the GOB is negotiatin [...]	2006-09-15 21:47:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV PREL BL
06LAPAZ2515	CIVIL LIBERTIES UPDATE [...] (C) Summary: GOB-initiated legal actions and MAS efforts to seek a new constitution to its liking raise questions about GOB respect for civil liberties. An update on three leading cases underscores this issue and highlights the need for greater judicial independence as well as guarantees of [...]	2006-09-18 16:31:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV PREL BL
06LAPAZ2519	HYDROCARBONS MINISTER RESIGNS [...] (SBU) Hydrocarbons Minister Andres Soliz Rada, along with the Vice Minister and two Directors of Hydrocarbons, resigned on the evening of September 15 following Vice President Alvaro Garcia Linera's freeze of a ministerial resolution that would have shifted hydrocarbons companies' revenues to [...]	2006-09-18 18:27:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EINV ENRG EPET BL
06LAPAZ2538	GARCIA LINERA "CAUTIOUSLY OPTIMISTIC" AFTER [...] (SBU) Summary: Vice President Alvaro Garcia Linera told a leading La Paz businessman September 16 that he was "cautiously optimistic" after his September 11-13 trip to Washington, as some U.S. officials seemed to look favorably on Bolivia's push for an extension of the Andean Trade Promotion a [...]	2006-09-19 17:37:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD EINV ECON PREL PGOV BL
06LAPAZ2539	BLUE LANTERN END-USE CHECK ON LICENSE 05-967792 [...] (U) Econoff visited Bolivian National Police headquarters and a La Paz storage site September 19 to confirm continued possession of hand grenades exported September 2, 2005 to the Bolivian Ministry of Government. Econoff and NAS staff verified continued possession by the National Police of ap [...]	2006-09-19 18:29:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETTC KOMC BL
06LAPAZ2557	GARCIA LINERA URGES CAMPESINOS TO TAKE UP ARMS [...] (SBU) Although Acting President Alvaro Garcia Linera met with all nine prefects (governors) September 19 in an effort to resolve continuing stalemate over the Constituent Assembly's rules of order and to express the GOB's willingness to negotiate, he sent a very different message September 20 [...]	2006-09-21 18:26:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV PREL BL
06LAPAZ2562	SANTA CRUZ BLOCKADE FIZZLES [...] (C) The September 20 anti-opposition blockade of Santa Cruz has apparently failed. Participation was sporadic at best. Lack of support among social sectors and heavy rain contributed to low protester turnout. Press reported no more than a dozen or so protesters at each location. There was [...]	2006-09-21 20:53:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV PREL BL
06LAPAZ2563	ASSESSMENT OF NIH PROJECT FOREIGN POLICY [...] (U) Post sees no negative foreign policy implications of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) project described in reftel. Post provides a positive recommendation pending human subject approval, on the understanding that researchers will obtain verbal consent from study participants. 2. [...]	2006-09-21 20:53:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	TBIO OSCI KSCA BL
06LAPAZ2564	LA PAZ BUSINESS ASSOCIATIONS REMAIN RELUCTANT TO [...] (U) Summary: In September 20 meetings, representatives of La Paz business associations voiced concerns about the nature of Bolivia's economy, the direction of GOB economic policies, and the outcome of the Constituent Assembly. Despite their worries, representatives remain reluctant to criticiz [...]	2006-09-21 20:54:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EINV ETRD ECON PREL PGOV BL
06LAPAZ2576	INSIDERS' VIEW INTO THE CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY [...] (C) Summary: Several opposition representatives in the Constituent Assembly (CA) told poloff September 18-20 that the Assembly is in "complete chaos." Two of the delegates blamed the Assembly's inefficiency on delegate inexperience and the MAS' heavy hand. They also complained about surveilla [...]	2006-09-25 16:18:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV PREL BL
06LAPAZ2586	BOLIVIA SUPPORTS BUSH WAR ON TERRORISM SPEECH [...] No summary [...]	2006-09-25 20:51:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL ECON BL
06LAPAZ2598	GOB DELAYS SIGNING OF MUTUN CONTRACT [...] (SBU) GOB officials announced September 22 that they would delay until mid-October the signing of a joint-venture contract allowing India's Jindal Steel and Power to develop Mutun, one of the world's largest iron ore deposits. The firm won the right to exploit Mutun's estimated 40 billion ton [...]	2006-09-26 20:10:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EMIN EINV ECON PGOV BL
06LAPAZ2599	CENTRAL BANK INDEPENDENCE THREATENED [...] (C) Summary: A Central Bank Director told Econoff on September 21 that GOB cabinet members were increasingly interfering in the bank's daily policy decisions. He lamented "disarray" at the bank due to high level personnel changes and feared that the GOB would change the Central Bank Law to fo [...]	2006-09-26 20:18:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN PGOV BL
06LAPAZ2600	LAND REFORM SOWS CONFLICT [...] (SBU) Summary: The MAS administration has presented a bill to Congress to modify the 1996 Agrarian Reform (INRA) law, in line with its pre-election promises to redistribute land to the landless. Members of the administration have encouraged social sectors to mobilize marches and blockades to f [...]	2006-09-26 20:20:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAGR ECON BL
06LAPAZ2602	SANTA CRUZ: POLITICALLY AND ECONOMICALLY FED UP [...] No summary [...]	2006-09-26 20:52:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV PREL BL
06LAPAZ2603	SANTA CRUZ: FRUSTRATED AND ANNOYED WITH MORALES [...] (C) Summary: Charge visited Santa Cruz September 23-24 and met with politicians and the business community, as well as participated in the opening of Bolivia's largest trade fair, Expocruz. Virtually all interlocultors expressed frustration, annoyance, and great uncertainty when it comes [...]	2006-09-26 21:59:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV PREL BL
06LAPAZ2609	TRADE AGREEMENT COMPLIANCE AND MONITORING [...] (U) Post provides the following response to reftel: A) In the absence of USDOC or USDA representation, primary responsibility for trade agreement compliance and monitoring lies with the economic/political section, whose officers work closely with Washington counterparts. B) Economic/Commer [...]	2006-09-27 17:59:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED	ETRD EINV ECON BL
06LAPAZ2610	LLOYD AEREO BOLIVIANO: FINDING ITS WINGS? [...] (SBU) Summary: Lloyd Aereo Boliviano executives say the company may be finding its wings, as the firm has boosted its five-jet fleet with two leased aircraft and is gradually identifying and settling debts. Despite this good news, the outlook is far from certain. Rumors of interest from a UK [...]	2006-09-27 18:02:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAIR ECON PGOV BL
06LAPAZ2622	TEXTILES AND APPAREL: CONTINUED RELIANCE ON ATPDEA [...] (U) Summary: While the expiration of global textile and apparel quotas may have adversely affected small Bolivian producers, large manufacturers' exports will likely remain strong, at least as long as they benefit from Andean Trade Promotion and Drug Eradication Act (ATPDEA) preferences. If t [...]	2006-09-28 18:49:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED	ETRD ECON KTEX BL
06LAPAZ2623	JAPAN'S SUMITOMO ACQUIRES STAKE IN U.S. MINING [...] (U) Summary: Japan's Sumitomo Corporation recently acquired a 35 percent participating interest in U.S.-based Apex Silver's $800 million San Cristobal silver-zinc-lead project (reftel). Apex will receive $224 million cash and future silver and zinc payments; Sumitomo will also assume 35 perce [...]	2006-09-28 18:56:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EMIN EINV ECON BL
06LAPAZ2626	SPAIN: A BEACON OF ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY [...] (U) Summary: For many Bolivians, Spain is a beacon of economic opportunity. Newspapers highlight an upsurge in travel, airlines report full flights to Madrid, and business owners say skilled craftsmen are increasingly seeking work abroad. Bolivians' desire to escape may reflect growing polit [...]	2006-09-28 20:35:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON SOCI BL
06LAPAZ2627	BOLIVIA - PARAGUAY RELATIONS HIT A BUMP, BOUNCE [...] (C) Summary: Bolivian Interior Vice Minister Rafael Puente's September 27 statement calling Paraguayan President Nicanor Duarte a "cynical liar" caused a diplomatic roil between Bolivia and Paraguay which ended with an official apology by the GOB and Puente's dismissal. End summary. 2. [...]	2006-09-28 20:37:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV PREL BL
06LAPAZ2636	MAS MACHINATIONS AT CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY POLARIZE [...] (C) Summary: On September 28 in Sucre, on almost purely party lines, the Constituent Assembly (CA) voted in favor of Evo Morales' MAS party's proposal that it declare itself an "originary" organ, and thus theoretically superior to all other branches of government, including the legislature th [...]	2006-09-29 18:43:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV PREL BL
06LAPAZ2638	BOLIVIAN ECONOMY HUMS ALONG DESPITE UNCERTAINTY [...] Summary: Bolivia's GDP grew by 4.5 percent during the first semester of 2006 due to high international prices for the country's main exports: hydrocarbons and minerals. Exports grew by 52 percent in the first six months compared with the same period in 2005, contributing to an increase in int [...]	2006-09-29 18:57:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN EINV ENRG EPET ETRD BL
06LAPAZ2657	MORALES: WALKING A FINE LINE ON DRUGS [...] (C) Summary: Following the September 29 death of two civilians who ambushed a GOB eradication operation in Carrasco National Park in Cochabamba, the Embassy's NAS section will begin supporting GOB eradication efforts in the park at the GOB's request. President Morales started spinning the conf [...]	2006-10-02 20:18:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	SNAR PGOV PREL BL
06LAPAZ2661	GAS CONTRACT NEGOTIATIONS STUMBLE FORWARD [...] (C) Summary: Based on the May 1 hydrocarbons nationalization decree's mandate that private firms must sign new contracts by October 31 (ref A),the GOB recently provided hydrocarbons companies with draft contracts and began the first round of negotiations with companies on September 27. U.S.- [...]	2006-10-03 12:03:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EINV ENRG EPET BL
06LAPAZ2674	BOLIVIAN GLACIERS RECEDING RAPIDLY [...] (U) Summary: Bolivian glaciers are receding so rapidly, say scientists, that most could disappear within the next ten to 15 years, with alarming implications for potable water and hydroelectric energy supplies. Scientists tie the last two decades' acceleration in glacial melt to the greater i [...]	2006-10-03 21:06:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON PGOV BL
06LAPAZ2683	CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY: TRUE MAS INTENTIONS? [...] (C) Poloff met with approximately twenty Constituent Assembly representatives in Sucre September 28-29 and observed the Assembly's chaotic operations. Following the MAS' approval of Article 1 of the rules of order by simple majority (reftel),the principal debate among opposition delegates wa [...]	2006-10-04 19:02:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV PREL BL
06LAPAZ2698	DEADLY MINER CLASH IN ORURO [...] (U) On October 5, armed clashes broke out in the mining town of Huanuni, in the Department of Oruro; they are continuing now. Firefights erupted after independent miners overran the state owned Posokoni mine, demanding jobs that they alleged had been promised to them. The independent miner [...]	2006-10-05 21:36:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV PREL BL
06LAPAZ2717	CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY: PLENIPOTENTIARY DEBATE [...] (C) Nationwide debate continues over the Constituent Assembly's declared "plenipotentiary" nature, with Supreme Court President Hector Sandoval and President Morales exchanging public barbs about the other's "interference" in Assembly matters. Following MAS party leader Ramon Loayza's return [...]	2006-10-06 21:24:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV PREL BL
06LAPAZ2718	AYMARA HEARTLAND PREPARED TO MOBILIZE FOR [...] (SBU) Summary: On September 28, leaders from Omasuyos Province in La Paz department, a majority Aymara area, threatened to march to Sucre or Santa Cruz to pressure Constituent Assembly members to agree to the MAS' agenda. Leaders from the province told Emboff on October 4 that they had not yet [...]	2006-10-06 21:25:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON PGOV PREL BL
06LAPAZ2719	DEADLY MINING CLASH CONTINUES [...] (C) Summary: Fighting between cooperative miners and workers of the state-owned mining company COMIBOL broke out in Huanuni on October 5 (reftel) and continued on the 6th, despite temporary truces agreed on October 5 and 6. At this time, it appears that the second truce is holding and that fi [...]	2006-10-06 22:04:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EMIN ELAB PGOV PREL BL
06LAPAZ2723	MINING: FIGHTING ENDS, TALKS BEGIN [...] (SBU) Summary: In response to deadly clashes between state mining workers and independent cooperative miners in Huanuni, President Morales replaced the mining minister and the head of the state-owned mining company COMIBOL on October 7. A GOB commission held talks with both sides on October [...]	2006-10-10 19:42:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON ELAB EMIN PGOV PREL BL
06LAPAZ2724	TRANSIT STRIKE CONTINUES [...] (U) La Paz public transportation workers began a 24-hour strike October 9 to protest La Paz Mayor Juan del Granado's plan for redirecting downtown traffic. The city implemented the plan October 6 to improve traffic flows; transportation workers complain that the new routes are causing confusi [...]	2006-10-10 19:55:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL ECON BL
06LAPAZ2726	VENEZUELAN AMBASSADOR PLEDGES DEFENSE OF GOB; GOV [...] (C) Summary: President Morales convoked cocaleros of the Chapare October 7 to publicly demonstrate against the U.S.'s hedged certification of Bolivia on counternarcotics and to defend his coca policies. Standing at President Morales' side, Venezuelan Ambassador Julio Montes pledged to defend [...]	2006-10-10 20:57:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	SNAR PGOV PREL BL
06LAPAZ2729	MINERS THREATEN BLOCKADE; POLITICAL STAND-OFF [...] (U) Following last week,s violent conflict in Huanuni and failed talks with the government (reftel),the Cooperative Mining Federation threatened to blockade roads throughout the country or march to La Paz if the government does not agree to provide compensation for the victims, families and fo [...]	2006-10-11 20:26:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON ELAB EMIN PGOV PREL BL
06LAPAZ2730	RESPONSE TO LAC BIOFUELS INITIATIVE [...] (U) Summary: This cable responds to the questions posed in reftel on the investment climate, the energy sector and the sugar industry in Bolivia. The investment climate, particularly in natural resource industries, is poor due to legal uncertainty and increasing governmental interference. Bo [...]	2006-10-11 20:27:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EINV ENRG PREL PGOV BL
06LAPAZ2732	BOLIVIAN-VENEZUELAN MILITARY AGREEMENT [...] (C) Summary: The Bolivian senate suspended its October 10 vote on a Bolivian-Venezuelan military agreement signed by Presidents Morales and Chavez May 26, postponing further debate to the week of October 16. The agreement provides for a wide range of military cooperation, including high level [...]	2006-10-11 21:41:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV PREL BL
06LAPAZ2743	A WORRIED MORALES ATTEMPTS TO WOO THE MIDDLE CLASS [...] (U) President Morales spoke October 12 at a rally intended to "defend Bolivian democracy," as well as to close the international indigenous meeting held in La Paz October 8-12. Speaking for forty minutes to a bussed in and largely passive crowd we estimate at approximately 6,000 (but which p [...]	2006-10-12 19:37:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL ECON BL
06LAPAZ275	STAFFDEL BRENNAN: GREETING THE NEW BOLIVIA [...] (SBU) Summary: During their January 24-27 visit to Bolivia, staffdel Brennan (House International Relations Committee staff Ted Brennan, Kristen Gilley, Paul Oostburg-Sanz, Mark Walker, and Dan Getz) met with Vice President Alvaro Garcia Linera, newly-minted legislators and ministers, Santa C [...]	2006-02-06 18:36:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV SOCI ELAB BL
06LAPAZ2756	FIRST MEETING ON NEW SOFA AGREEMENT [...] (C) Summary: Embassy officials met with Bolivian Minister of Defense Walker San Miguel October 10 regarding the Embassy's pending request for return of the F-10 counterterrorism equipment and the need for an updated SOFA agreement (reftels). San Miguel expressed concern about the continuing M [...]	2006-10-13 21:56:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM PGOV MARR MASS MCAP PREL KTIA MOPS BL
06LAPAZ276	GOB TRADE POLICY REMAINS UNCLEAR [...] In conversations with USG officials, President Morales and Vice President Alvaro Garcia Linera have repeatedly said they understand the importance of free trade and may wish to negotiate Bolivia's entry into the proposed Andean Free Trade Agreement (FTA). Both have indicated their desire to im [...]	2006-02-06 18:37:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED	ETRD EINV ECON PREL BL
06LAPAZ2770	TELECOMMUNICATIONS UPDATE [...] (SBU) Summary: The Bolivian telecommunications sector has grown and increased in competitiveness significantly since privatization and market opening during the last decade. The GOB announced in June that it would seek to regain majority ownership of the former state-owned telecommunications [...]	2006-10-16 18:17:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON ECPS EINV BL
06LAPAZ2780	MORALES ANNOUNCES "SURPRISES" FOR MINING INDUSTRY [...] (SBU) Summary: President Morales announced October 15 that the mining industry should expect "surprises" permitting the state to regain control of mineral production. His comments caused anxiety among U.S. mining company executives, who said October 16 that they were "nervous" about the GOB's [...]	2006-10-16 21:15:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EMIN EINV ECON BL
06LAPAZ2781	GOVERNMENT OF BOLIVIA ALIENATES ITS POLITICAL BASE [...] (C) Summary: During an October 13 visit, Emboff met with leaders from several key social movements, including the Santa Cruz Departmental Federation of Rural Workers (FDTCSC),the Santa Cruz Federation of Neighborhood Committees (FEJUVE),and Departmental Labor Union (COD). This cable repo [...]	2006-10-17 11:35:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV PREL BL
06LAPAZ279	BANKING UPDATE: CENTRAL BANK, DEVELOPMENT BANK, [...] (SBU) Summary: Bolivia's Central Bank President plans to soon complete his 10-year stint as President, leaving the country in a stellar macroeconomic state, but with many uncertainties looming on the horizon. Several Venezuelan government officials recently met with Bolivia's Bank Superinten [...]	2006-02-06 19:29:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN PGOV BL
06LAPAZ2798	STAND-OFF BETWEEN MINERS AND GOB CONTINUES [...] (U) Summary: Nearly two weeks after October 5-6 clashes between cooperative miners and state mining employees (reftel),the stand-off between miners and the GOB continues. Cooperatives accepted a GOB proposal to provide compensation to affected families but rejected an offer to convert cooper [...]	2006-10-17 20:10:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EMIN ELAB EINV ECON PREL PGOV BL
06LAPAZ2814	MAS TACTICS ALIENATE SANTA CRUZ NEIGHBORHOOD [...] (C) This is the second in a series of three cables reporting on Emboff's meetings with Santa Cruz social movements. On October 13 Emboff met with the leadership of the Santa Cruz Federation of Neighborhood Committees (FEJUVE). FEJUVE, in some ways analogous with a condominium association, [...]	2006-10-18 19:21:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV PREL BL
06LAPAZ2817	UPDATE ON YPFB NEGOTIATIONS WITH ARGENTINA, [...] (SBU) Summary: YPFB (Bolivia's state-owned oil company) President Juan Carlos Ortiz told Econoff on October 18 that Bolivia will sign a twenty-year natural gas supply contract with Argentina on October 19. Bolivia will agree to provide 27.7 million cubic meters per day of gas to its neighbor [...]	2006-10-18 20:09:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EINV ENRG EPET PREL BL
06LAPAZ2821	MORALES RAISES EYEBROWS WITH LE MONDE INTERVIEW [...] (U) French newspaper Le Monde published an article October 17 entitled "Bolivia: Evo Morales and the Terrible Conspiracy," in which President Morales said that "the right" (the United States and the political opposition in Bolivia) are conspiring to topple his government. Morales discussed t [...]	2006-10-18 21:14:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON PGOV PREL BL

06LAPAZ2831	CONFLICT AND GOB'S LACK OF CAPACITY HINDERS [...] (SBU) Summary: On October 17, the resident coordinator of the United Nations (UN) told the Ambassador that the UN supported the Constituent Assembly as a way to unify Bolivia's population, but was worried that it would end up dividing it instead. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) resident [...]	2006-10-19 16:57:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID ECON EFIN EINV BL
06LAPAZ2840	MAS SPLITS KEY UNION IN SANTA CRUZ [...] (C) This is the third in a series of three cables reporting on Emboff's meetings with Santa Cruz social movements. On October 13 Emboff met with Edwin Fernandes, leader of the Santa Cruz Departmental Labor Union, known by its Spanish initials COD. Each of the country's nine departments has [...]	2006-10-20 15:33:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV PREL BL
06LAPAZ2860	GOB, MINERS SIGN AGREEMENT ENDING STAND-OFF [...] (SBU) Summary: The GOB and miners signed an agreement October 23 ending the political stand-off that emerged after October 5-6 clashes between cooperative miners and state mining employees in Huanuni (reftel). Radio reports indicate that members of the region's four cooperatives accepted the [...]	2006-10-24 10:55:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EMIN ELAB EINV ECON PREL PGOV BL
06LAPAZ2880	ARGENTINA AND BOLIVIA SIGN GAS DEAL [...] (U) Argentina and Bolivia signed a twenty-year energy agreement October 19 in Santa Cruz, Bolivia (reftel) that will go into effect on January 1, 2007. In addition to increasing the volume of natural gas that Bolivia will supply to Argentina to 27.7 million cubic meters per day within three y [...]	2006-10-25 12:07:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EINV ENRG EPET PGOV PREL BL
06LAPAZ2900	HYDROCARBONS CONTRACT DEADLINE DRAWS NEAR [...] (C) Summary: The press published a copy of the model contract supposedly provided by the GOB to the hydrocarbons companies who must sign new contracts by October 28, according to the May 1 nationalization decree. The contract appears highly favorable to Bolivia's state oil company, YPFB. Pe [...]	2006-10-25 21:33:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EINV ENRG EPET BL
06LAPAZ2903	CLEAN PRODUCTION PRACTICES INCREASE EFFICIENCY, [...] (U) Summary: Clean production practices introduced by the USAID-supported Center for the Promotion of Sustainable Technologies have increased efficiency and lowered costs for more than 90 Bolivian businesses. The following case studies suggest that lower production costs provide powerful ince [...]	2006-10-26 16:20:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON ENRG BL
06LAPAZ2906	VENEZUELAN MILITARY ACCORD STALLED IN SENATE [...] (C) Summary: The Venezuelan - Bolivian military cooperation agreement, already approved by the Movement Toward Socialism (MAS) dominated lower house, appears to be stalled in the Senate Defense Commission. Four hours of closed door hearings on October 25 with the Commander of the Armed Forc [...]	2006-10-26 18:16:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV PREL BL
06LAPAZ2910	VP, AMBASSADOR DISCUSS WAYS TO IMPROVE BILATERAL [...] (C) Summary: In their first meeting since the Ambassador presented his credentials October 13, the Ambassador and Vice President Alvaro Garcia Linera engaged in a cordial exchange October 26 on U.S. assistance, extension of ATPDEA benefits, Morales' anti-American discourse, military relations a [...]	2006-10-27 13:08:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM ECON SNAR PREL PGOV BL
06LAPAZ2912	ECUADORIAN PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE TO ATTEND [...] (U) An article and a full page advertisement in the October 26 edition of the Bolivian daily La Razon states that Ecuadorian presidential candidate Rafael Correa will be attending a conference in Bolivia titled the "First Meeting of the Peoples and States for the Liberation of the Homeland -- [...]	2006-10-27 14:54:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL ECON BL
06LAPAZ2930	BLUE LANTERN PRE-LICENSE END-USE CHECK ON [...] (U) Summary: On October 26, Econoff spoke to the proprietor of foreign consignee Camping Cochabamba, having visited the business in November 2005 (ref B). Camping Cochabamba has a history of importing firearms from the United States, maintains detailed sales and customer records, and has appr [...]	2006-10-27 16:47:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETTC KOMC BL
06LAPAZ2932	INDIGENOUS INTERNS ON RACISM, NATIONALIZATION AND [...] (SBU) Three of the Mission's indigenous interns met with Poloff October 18 and expressed their views on discrimination in Bolivian society, the continued popularity of nationalization, and the reasons for anti-American sentiment in Bolivia. The root cause of discrimination, per the consensus [...]	2006-10-27 17:50:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL ECON BL
06LAPAZ2934	PILCOMAYO RIVER POLLUTION ATTRACTS NEW ATTENTION [...] (U) Summary: For centuries, mining and milling wastes from Bolivia's Potosi mining district have polluted the Pilcomayo River, an important body of water in Bolivia's southwest. A recent study indicated that many agricultural fields and waterways are contaminated with heavy metals and arsenic, [...]	2006-10-27 18:42:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED	EMIN ECON BL
06LAPAZ2943	GOB ACHIEVES KEY GOAL: NEW GAS CONTRACTS [...] (SBU) Summary: All of the private hydrocarbons exploration and production companies operating in Bolivia signed new service contracts on October 27 and 28 prior to the deadline imposed by the GOB's May 1 nationalization decree. According to the president of Bolivia's state oil company, YPFB, [...]	2006-10-30 21:23:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EINV ENRG EPET BL
06LAPAZ2944	PROPOSED MINING PLAN CONTINUES TO "SPOOK" INVESTORS [...] (SBU) President Morales' October 15 announcement of "surprises" for the mining industry (ref A) has been tempered in the last two weeks by assurances that the GOB will respect private investment. Officials' statements, however, have done little to reassure industry executives, who worry that [...]	2006-10-30 21:45:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EMIN EINV ECON BL
06LAPAZ2945	DIVIDING UP THE SPOILS: GAS REVENUE DEBATE [...] (SBU) With the signature of gas accords October 28, the GOB estimates that hydrocarbons production will generate USD 2 billion next year, with USD 1.3 billion going to the government as a result of new production contracts (septel),and USD 4 billion within four years, with USD 2.4 billion des [...]	2006-10-30 21:46:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EINV ENRG EPET PGOV BL
06LAPAZ2946	AMBASSADOR, MOD DISCUSS WAY FORWARD [...] (C) Summary: The Ambassador paid a courtesy call on Minister of Defense Walker San Miguel October 30, discussing a wide range of military issues. San Miguel told the Ambassador that the F-10 weapons have been moved to the army depository in La Paz, and that his ministry would coordinate with [...]	2006-10-30 22:16:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	KTIA MARR MASS MCAP MOPS PARM PGOV PREL SNAR
06LAPAZ2967	GAS CONTRACTS HAVE VARIABLE RETURN RATES [...] (C) Summary: The new contracts signed by hydrocarbons production and exploration companies on October 27 and 28 (ref A) contain tables of variables, including investment and production figures, which will be used to calculate company returns and the state oil company YPFB's take. The amount of [...]	2006-10-31 21:17:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EINV ENRG EPET BL
06LAPAZ2976	GOB POSTPONES MINING PLAN UNTIL 2007 [...] (U) Summary: President Morales chose not to unveil his much-hyped mining plan October 31 (ref A),instead announcing that the GOB would postpone it until 2007, ostensibly because of a lack of financing. Morales attempted to divert attention to a supreme decree authorizing the conversion of co [...]	2006-11-01 17:34:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EMIN EINV ECON PREL PGOV BL
06LAPAZ2979	ASSESSMENT OF NIH PROJECT FOREIGN POLICY [...] (U) Post sees no negative foreign policy implications of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) project described in reftel. Post provides a positive recommendation pending human subject approval, on the understanding that NIH researchers have received concurrence from related U.S. and Boliv [...]	2006-11-01 20:22:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED	TBIO OSCI KSCA BL
06LAPAZ299	AFTER BRIEF INTERRUPTION, USED CLOTHING IMPORTS [...] (U) Summary: Used clothing imports were temporarily interrupted January 31, when the supreme decree authorizing their entry expired. The issue attracted the attention of local clothing manufacturers, who claimed cheap imports undercut their operations and called for a total ban, and of used c [...]	2006-02-07 14:35:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED	ETRD EINV ECON BL
06LAPAZ2992	MORALES' SHRINKING CIRCLE OF SUPPORT? [...] (C) Summary: Evo Morales rode a wave of popularity to the Bolivian presidency, winning the December 2005 elections by the largest margin in Bolivia's democratic history. Throughout that campaign, and to a lesser extent during the July Constituent Assembly elections, his support base consisted [...]	2006-11-03 18:17:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV PREL BL
06LAPAZ2995	TERRORISM FINANCE COORDINATION OFFICER [...] (C) U.S. Embassy La Paz has designated Ecopol Chief Andrew Erickson (591-2-216-8254, EricksonAS@state.gov) as the Terrorism Finance Coordination Officer and Economic Officer Dovie Holland (591-2-216-8862, HollandDA2@state.gov) as the Deputy Terrorism Finance Coordination Officer. 2. (C) Fol [...]	2006-11-03 20:04:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN PTER KTFN BL
06LAPAZ2998	PETROBRAS' NEW CONTRACT [...] (C) Along with nine other companies, Brazil's Petrobras signed a new hydrocarbons production and exploration contract on October 28 (reftel). Petrobras executives told Econoff on November 1 that the company's rate of return would be lower than that of its original contract, but better than the [...]	2006-11-03 20:47:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EINV ENRG EPET BL
06LAPAZ3000	ALO PRESIDENTE ... MORALES? [...] (SBU) According to press reports, President Evo Morales plans to start his own weekly radio call-in program, similar to the "Alo Presidente" program hosted by Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez. Bolivian Director of Government Communications Gaston Nunez explained the show may launch as early as [...]	2006-11-06 12:40:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL ECON BL
06LAPAZ3008	COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR NASA'S LESLIE BEBOUT [...] Embassy La Paz is pleased to grant country clearance to Leslie Bebout, Ames Research Center, NASA to travel to Bolivia's Laguna Verde Refuge November 10-22, 2006 to conduct field work at Earth's highest altitude lakes and ponds. Clearance is granted on the understanding that Ms. Bebout has [...]	2006-11-06 20:04:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED	APER ASEC OTRA TSPA BL
06LAPAZ3019	VICE MINISTER OF ENVIRONMENT DESCRIBES [...] (SBU) Bolivia's vice minister of environment recently described a "cosmocentric-holistic" vision of environmental management, declaring that the state should direct a collective development process to ensure shared, broadly beneficial access to natural resources. The vice minister argued that [...]	2006-11-07 20:03:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON PREL PGOV BL
06LAPAZ3032	THE GOB'S MINING PLAN: NO "TRUE" NATIONALIZATION? [...] (SBU) GOB officials declared November 7 and 8 that the Morales administration will not "nationalize" the mining sector, providing assurances that the GOB has no intention of expropriating company assets. Instead, the government will reportedly concentrate on implementing a three-part vision of [...]	2006-11-08 21:27:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EMIN EINV ECON PREL PGOV BL
06LAPAZ3040	THE PUSH FOR MONEY LAUNDERING LEGISLATION [...] (SBU) Bolivia's current anti-money laundering regime fails to comply with international norms and is ineffective. Based on INL's recommendations, post has encouraged the GOB to enact a comprehensive money laundering law, including terrorism finance provisions, has formed an informal working g [...]	2006-11-09 20:39:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN BL
06LAPAZ3041	LOWER HOUSE APPROVES FRAMEWORK FOR LAND REFORM [...] (SBU) Summary: The framework of the Morales administration's controversial bill to modify the 1996 agrarian reform (INRA) law (reftel) was approved by the lower house on November 7, after a week-long march by several hundred indigenous people in the eastern lowlands. The chamber of deputies m [...]	2006-11-09 20:40:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED	EAGR ECON KJUS SMIG SOCI BL
06LAPAZ3051	IN COCHABAMBA, BUSINESS AS USUAL [...] (U) Cochabamba business association representatives told Econoff November 9 that business continues as usual, despite ongoing political and economic uncertainty. They noted that while they share a desire for economic stability and judicial security with their La Paz and Santa Cruz counterparts [...]	2006-11-13 20:35:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD EINV ECON PREL PGOV BL
06LAPAZ3053	A NEW OUTLOOK FOR BOLIVIA'S NATIONAL CARRIER? [...] (SBU) Lloyd Aereo Boliviano's general manager recently predicted a new outlook for Bolivia's national carrier, noting that the firm now has seven jets, up from one a few months ago, and has renewed service to a range of domestic and international destinations. Executives have made progress id [...]	2006-11-14 15:32:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAIR ECON PGOV BL
06LAPAZ3056	AMBASSADOR GOLDBERG'S VISIT TO POTOSI [...] (SBU) Ambassador Goldberg made his first official visit to the city of Potosi November 6. During the one-day trip he was welcomed by the president of the Independent Miners' Association of Potosi and received the highest honor (the coat of arms of the Villa Imperial) ever given to an ambass [...]	2006-11-14 16:29:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV PREL BL
06LAPAZ3060	COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR NASA'S COMPTON TUCKER [...] Embassy La Paz is pleased to grant country clearance to Compton J. Tucker, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, to travel to Santa Cruz, Bolivia December 5-16, 2006 for analysis of global positioning system and satellite data from glacial areas. Clearance is granted on the understanding th [...]	2006-11-14 19:54:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED	AMGT AFIN ASEC TSPA OTRA BL
06LAPAZ3061	CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY- VOTING ON VOTING [...] (SBU) After months of stalemate, the Constituent Assembly (CA) will take up its final pending rule of order-- its voting mechanism-- November 14-15. Morales' Movement Toward Socialism (MAS) party has publicly declared that if it cannot reach consensus with the opposition on its "mixed proposal [...]	2006-11-14 21:48:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV PREL BL
06LAPAZ3062	GARCIA LINERA'S RADICAL PAST RESURFACES [...] (SBU) Vice President Alvaro Garcia Linera's membership in the indigenous-based terrorist group the Tupak Katari Guerilla Army (EGTK),the armed wing of the Tupak Katari Revolutionary Liberation Movement (MRTKL),resurfaced recently as press reports focused on the progress of his petition with [...]	2006-11-14 21:51:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PTER PGOV PREL PHUM BL
06LAPAZ3063	MAS CONGRESS: SIGNS OF RADICALIZATION [...] (C) Summary: At its annual congress in Cochabamba November 11-13, President Morales' Movement Toward Socialism (MAS) party re-elected Morales as the party leader, after which he chastised the party for infighting. The congress then decided to tighten party discipline and declare that MAS poli [...]	2006-11-14 21:58:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV PREL BL
06LAPAZ3071	BOLIVIA'S TITLE II ASSISTANCE HELPS SLASH [...] (U) Tens of thousands of Bolivian children, many in isolated rural areas, suffer from chronic malnutrition. Many simply lack appropriate food, while others suffer from parasites and infectious diseases that hamper the body's ability to retain nutrients. With PL 480 Title II support, administ [...]	2006-11-15 18:04:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID EAGR ECON PREL PGOV BL
06LAPAZ3079	FINANCE AND PLANNING MINISTERS LAY OUT GOB [...] (C) Summary: In a meeting on November 10, Finance Minister Arce told the Ambassador that Bolivia has a positive fiscal balance, but that the government must resolve the inequitable distribution of resources among the central government and regional governments. Arce said that the ministry is [...]	2006-11-15 21:15:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	EAID ECON EFIN EINV BL
06LAPAZ3080	HYDROCARBONS: A NATIONALIZATION IN NAME ONLY? [...] (C) A British Gas executive told Econoff that he thought the company's new operation contract (reftel) was equitable and would allow BG to recoup its investment and invest more in the future. Opposition leaders and leftist radicals agree that Bolivia's "nationalization" was in fact a national [...]	2006-11-15 21:39:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EINV ENRG EPET BL
06LAPAZ3081	AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES COCA, MONEY LAUNDERING, AND [...] (C) In a meeting on November 15, President of the Chamber of Deputies, Edmundo Novillo told the Ambassador that he supported rationalization of coca, but also depenalization and industrialization of the coca leaf. Novillo acknowledged the importance of an effective money laundering regime and [...]	2006-11-15 21:44:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ECON BL
06LAPAZ3085	AMBASSADOR GOLDBERG'S VISIT TO TARIJA [...] (U) Ambassador Goldberg made his first official visit to the city of Tarija November 6-7. During the two-day trip the Ambassador met with national and local Tarijeno politicians, the Tarija city council, businessmen, academics, Fulbright alumni, Peace Corp volunteers, and farmers. The city [...]	2006-11-16 12:05:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV PREL BL
06LAPAZ3090	GOB SHRINKS FROM THREATS AGAINST SWISS MINING FIRM [...] (SBU) President Morales announced October 23 that the GOB would unveil plans for the mines and mills of Swiss mining powerhouse Glencore International, whose Bolivian subsidiary controls properties once held by former President Gonzalo "Goni" Sanchez de Lozada. The GOB later backed away from i [...]	2006-11-16 17:34:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EMIN EINV ECON PREL PGOV BL
06LAPAZ3096	LOWER HOUSE PASSES LAND REFORM BILL [...] (SBU) Movement Toward Socialism (MAS) members of the lower house of congress approved a land reform bill on November 15 after opposition members abandoned the session. The bill will now go to the senate, where it is likely to be blocked by the political opposition. The bill provides for the [...]	2006-11-16 20:35:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAGR ECON PGOV BL
06LAPAZ3098	BOLIVIA: ADVANCING U.S. EFFORTS ON WATER AND [...] (U) Significant numbers of Bolivians lack access to clean water and sanitation. GOB authorities at all levels recognize the problem and have committed to expanding access to basic services; many have worked closely with U.S. and other international donors to boost water and sanitation coverag [...]	2006-11-17 18:53:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID PREL PGOV SENV BL
06LAPAZ3107	AMBASSADOR AND SENATE PRESIDENT DISCUSS BILATERAL [...] (C) In a meeting with the Ambassador on November 15, Senate President Santos Ramirez stated his support for the passage of money laundering legislation, but made it clear that his focus is on the rapid passage of an anti-corruption bill. The Ambassador explained the humanitarian goals of the [...]	2006-11-20 14:54:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ECON MASS MCAP KTIA MOPS BL
06LAPAZ3128	AMBASSADOR GOLDBERG NOVEMBER 9 COCHABAMBA VISIT [...] (SBU) Ambassador Goldberg traveled November 9 to Cochabamba to meet with the mayor, social sector leaders, business leaders, the local American population, and local media and political analysts. The trip received extensive press coverage and provided an opportunity to publicly highlight ou [...]	2006-11-20 19:41:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV PREL BL
06LAPAZ3131	SIX OF NINE GOVERNORS "BREAK TIES" WITH GOB [...] (SBU) On November 17, the GOB announced a new plan, comprised of a law and supreme decree, which would permit the Bolivian congress to supervise and censure department prefects (governors). The GOB argues the plan is meant to provide assurances to the public that local authorities spend funds [...]	2006-11-20 21:00:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL ECON BL
06LAPAZ3132	MAS PUSHES FORWARD WITH SIMPLE MAJORITY [...] (C) Over the objections of the political opposition, President Morales' Movement Toward Socialism (MAS) party imposed its proposal for a simple majority vote for constitutional changes, with a two-thirds vote on the final text of the constitution and a limited "veto" for the opposition, on No [...]	2006-11-20 21:19:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV PREL ECON BL
06LAPAZ3147	BOLIVIA HOSTS INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS CONFERENCE [...] (SBU) From October 24-26, Bolivia's eastern city of Santa Cruz hosted a conference of National Human Rights Institutions (NHRIs) from over eighty countries. The theme of the conference was "respecting the human rights of migrants." The Santa Cruz Declaration, the conference's main product, f [...]	2006-11-22 16:21:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL ECON PHUM BL
06LAPAZ3148	COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR OPIC'S JEAN ADEN [...] Embassy La Paz is pleased to grant country clearance to Jean Aden, Director, OPIC Office of Accountability, to travel to Santa Cruz, Bolivia December 2-4, 2006 to speak at "Strengthening Environmental Law and Enforcement in the Americas," an OAS-sponsored side event to the December 4-5 Min [...]	2006-11-22 16:25:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED	AMGT AORC EINV OTRA OPIC BL
06LAPAZ3152	GOB WILL SEEK CONSENSUS FOR IAEA DECISION [...] No summary [...]	2006-11-22 18:07:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL ECON BL
06LAPAZ3155	SENATE BOYCOTT OVER LAND REFORM [...] (SBU) Members of the political opposition are blocking discussion of a land reform bill (ref A) in the senate by not attending sessions. Marches in favor of and against the reforms are intensifying throughout the country. Vice Minister of Agriculture Freddy Condo told Econoff on November 22 t [...]	2006-11-22 21:09:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAGR ECON PGOV BL
06LAPAZ3161	11/22 MEETING WITH MINING MINISTER DALIENCE [...] (C) On November 22, Ambassador Goldberg met with Minister of Mining and Metallurgy Dr. Jose Guillermo Dalience. The Ambassador sought assurances regarding the protection of American investment in the mining sector and an explanation of the GOB's plan for the mining industry. Minister Dalien [...]	2006-11-24 18:41:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV PREL BL
06LAPAZ3176	CATHOLIC CHURCH STEPS INTO THE POLITICAL FRAY [...] (U) On November 26, the Catholic Church took steps to calm Bolivia's current political impasse; however it may have also opened itself up to renewed attacks by the ruling Movement Towards Socialism (MAS) party. In response to the present political stalemate in which opposition party members ar [...]	2006-11-27 21:53:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL BL
06LAPAZ3177	EXXON MOBIL SELLS BOLIVIAN ASSETS [...] No summary [...]	2006-11-27 21:55:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EINV ENRG EPET BL
06LAPAZ3178	MAS INSIDERS SPECULATE ABOUT MORALES' INTENTIONS [...] (C) Summary: Two MAS insiders independently told poloff November 22 that President Morales intends to close congress and the courts in January 2007. Both said the GOB is gearing up for the next presidential elections, which will likely be set for early 2008. One said if Morales stumbles poli [...]	2006-11-28 12:13:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV PREL BL
06LAPAZ3191	CIVIC GROUPS THREATEN WIDESPREAD DISOBEDIENCE [...] (U) Eight of Bolivia's nine civic committees and five of the country's prefects met in Cochabamba on November 27 to discuss measures to oppose the GOB's handling of the Constituent Assembly, land reform, and the proposed censuring of prefects. Police used tear gas to disperse protests organ [...]	2006-11-28 21:19:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL ECON BL
06LAPAZ3204	MORALES RAILROADS LAND REFORM BILL THROUGH SENATE [...] (SBU) Indigenous peoples from across Bolivia who had been marching for land reform for the past four weeks finally reached La Paz on November 28. A poloff who attended the marchers' rally in La Paz's Plaza San Francisco estimated the attendance at 4000, less than the 10,000 expected. Presiden [...]	2006-11-29 17:35:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL ECON BL
06LAPAZ3222	SENATE APPROVES VENEZUELAN MILITARY COOPERATION [...] No summary [...]	2006-11-29 19:26:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	MARR MASS PGOV PREL KTIA BL
06LAPAZ3223	PDAS SHAPIRO MEETS WITH INDIGENOUS LEADERS, [...] (C) Summary: In a November 28 meeting with indigenous leaders and analysts, PDAS Charles Shapiro thanked the group for meeting with USG representatives, stressing that the United States is eager to hear their perspectives. The majority of participants voiced support for a democratic, inclusiv [...]	2006-11-29 19:28:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV PREL BL
06LAPAZ3224	CONGRESS APPROVES HYDROCARBONS CONTRACTS [...] (SBU) The senate approved the 44 new hydrocarbons contracts that were signed with private production and exploration companies at the end of October (ref A) late on November 28. Only 14 of the 27 senators were present, as the opposition had abandoned the session in protest over the GOB's conf [...]	2006-11-29 19:59:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EINV ENRG EPET BL
06LAPAZ3229	WHA PDAS SHAPIRO MEETS VICE PRESIDENT GARCIA LINERA [...] (C) On November 29th WHA PDAS Charles Shapiro, the Ambassador and WHA Special Advisor Tamburri met with Vice President Garcia Linera to review recent developments in Bolivia and the bilateral agenda. (President Morales was traveling abroad.) Shapiro reiterated U.S. support for democracy and [...]	2006-11-29 20:29:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON MOPS PGOV PHUM PREL USAID BL
06LAPAZ324	LLOYD PILOTS ON STRIKE, NO RESOLUTION IN SIGHT [...] (U) Members of Lloyd Aero Boliviano's pilots' association declared an indefinite strike February 2, demanding that the airline honor its estimated $10 million pension obligations and reinstate 15 recently fired colleagues. The strike grounded all domestic flights and limited international ope [...]	2006-02-09 15:17:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED	EAIR ELAB ECON BL
06LAPAZ3244	LAND REFORM BILL AIMS TO FACILITATE REDISTRIBUTION [...] (SBU) The senate approved the GOB's land reform bill late on November 28 in a controversial legislative maneuver with just over half of its members present. The bill provides that if property is deemed unproductive through biannual reviews, it will revert to the state. It also centralized th [...]	2006-12-01 13:50:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	EAGR ECON PGOV BL
06LAPAZ3245	SENATE MEETS IN DARK OF NIGHT [...] (C) Following a series of questionable but probably legal maneuvers to attain a quorum, the Bolivian senate met late in the night of November 28 and rapidly approved five new laws, including the controversial land reform bill (INRA) and a Bolivian-Venezuelan military agreement. Within hours [...]	2006-12-01 14:06:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV PREL PHUM BL
06LAPAZ325	NOMINATION FOR RESOURCE ECONOMICS SEMINAR [...] (U) Post would like to nominate Economic/Commercial Officer Colleen Crenwelge for the Foreign Service Institute's July 12-14 Resource Economics Seminar. Ms. Crenwelge has primary responsibility for the Bolivian mining sector, one of the country's most important, and serves as U.S. mining comp [...]	2006-02-09 15:18:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED	AFSI APER EMIN ECON BL
06LAPAZ3258	THE MEDIA LUNA DECEMBER 1 CIVIC STRIKE [...] (U) On December 1 the departments of Santa Cruz, Beni, and Tarija began a one day civic strike in response to frustration with recent GOB moves on a variety of fronts. The strike is also being partially observed in Pando, Cochabamba, and parts of Chuquisaca. The strike is due to end at 6 p.m. [...]	2006-12-01 20:26:00	Embassy La Paz	SECRET	ECON PGOV PREL BL
06LAPAZ3276	CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY ON HOLD WHILE NEGOTIATIONS [...] (U) President Morales met December 3 with civic committee representatives from seven of Bolivia's nine departments regarding the continuing political stalemate over the Constituent Assembly's (CA) voting mechanism. The opposition is holding out for a two-thirds vote for each stage of approval [...]	2006-12-04 20:33:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL ECON BL
06LAPAZ3289	GOB EQUALIZES JET FUEL PRICES [...] (U) In an unexpected move, the GOB issued a Supreme Decree November 20 equalizing jet fuel prices for foreign and domestic air carriers operating international routes. Fuel taxes remain, but domestic carriers servicing international routes no longer enjoy access to reduced-price fuel, as they [...]	2006-12-05 20:22:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAIR ECON EINV ETRD PGOV PREL BL
06LAPAZ3291	ATPDEA: NOT SO IMPORTANT AFTER ALL? [...] (U) In a December 1 presentation, Vice President Garcia Linera minimized the importance of Andean Trade Promotion and Drug Eradication Act (ATPDEA) benefits for Bolivian exporters, noting that products relying exclusively on ATPDEA trade preferences represented only 13 percent of total exports [...]	2006-12-05 21:03:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD EINV ECON PREL PGOV BL
06LAPAZ3294	GOB ON IRAN-- MIXED SIGNALS [...] (SBU) Movement Towards Socialism (MAS) Deputy Javier Zabaleta announced in early November that Bolivia would support Iran's nuclear activities and oppose U.S. policy on Iran. Zabaleta criticized the United States' "double edged" policy and said the matter should be resolved via peaceful means [...]	2006-12-06 12:28:00	Embassy La Paz	SECRET//NOFORN	PGOV PREL KNNP MNUC PARM BL VE IR
06LAPAZ3295	AMBASSADOR CHARLES SHAPIRO NOVEMBER 28-29 LA PAZ [...] (SBU) During November 28-29 travel to La Paz, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary Charles Shapiro and WHA Senior Advisor Maria Tamburri met with USG and GOB officials on counter narcotics issues, spoke with local indigenous leaders, met with Bolivian Vice President Garcia Linera, and reviewed [...]	2006-12-06 14:28:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV PREL BL
06LAPAZ3299	COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR KEVIN HEALY [...] Embassy La Paz is pleased to grant country clearance to Inter-American Foundation (IAF) representative Kevin Healy to travel to Santa Cruz, Cochabamba, Sucre, and La Paz, Bolivia December 11-20, 2006 to visit projects funded by the IAF. Clearance is granted on the understanding that Mr. H [...]	2006-12-06 18:12:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED	AFIN AMGT ASEC OREP OTRA BL
06LAPAZ3301	HUNGER STRIKES TURN VIOLENT, PRESSURE MOUNTS [...] (C) Violence erupted during the afternoon of December 5 when Movement Toward Socialism (MAS) militants confronted a group of hunger strikers in La Paz's historic San Francisco church. Meanwhile, the hunger strike in support of a two-thirds voting mechanism in the Constituent Assembly (CA) is [...]	2006-12-06 21:21:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	BL ECON PGOV PHUM PREL
06LAPAZ3302	GOB TOUTS SUCCESS OF PEOPLES' TRADE AGREEMENT [...] (SBU) In a December 2 newspaper insert, the GOB touted the early success of its April 29 Peoples' Trade Agreement with Venezuela and Cuba (reftel),highlighting the disbursement of approximately $4 million of a $100 million Venezuela-financed development fund. The money has been distributed (o [...]	2006-12-07 13:29:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD EINV ECON PREL PGOV BL
06LAPAZ3312	MORALES REPEATS VOWS TO NATIONALIZE FORESTRY, [...] (U) Echoing past declarations, President Morales vowed December 5 to "recover" Bolivia's forests for the state and "nationalize" the mining industry in 2007. The announcement paralleled past threats to Bolivia's forests (ref A) and mineral resources (refs B and C). 2. (C) Comment: Morales' [...]	2006-12-07 18:22:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	EMIN EINV ECON PREL PGOV BL
06LAPAZ3314	MORALES: A POTENT FORCE DESPITE SHRINKING SUPPORT [...] (C) While President Morales' popularity has dropped from a May high of 81 percent, his current 67 percent approval demonstrates he remains a potent force. To maintain his standing, Morales has engaged in a propaganda strategy of ads espousing his accomplishments, rhetorical attacks aimed at u [...]	2006-12-07 19:58:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ECON BL
06LAPAZ3321	BOLIVIA: INPUT FOR REVIEW OF TITLE III OF THE [...] No summary [...]	2006-12-08 13:35:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV PREL BL
06LAPAZ3324	SOUTH AMERICAN SUMMIT [...] (SBU) The Second Summit of the Community of South American Nations (CSN) is scheduled to take place December 8-9 in Cochabamba. Reports differ on how many presidents will attend, but on December 7, the GOB claimed that 11 South American presidents have confirmed their attendance, although we [...]	2006-12-08 15:01:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL ECON BL
06LAPAZ3325	UPDATE ON SOFA NEGOTIATIONS [...] (C) DCM met with Foreign Minister David Choquehuanca and Vice Minister Mauricio Dorfler November 27 to seek GOB input on the draft Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) we provided various GOB officials in late October. The Foreign Minister thanked the DCM for U.S. military assistance and appeare [...]	2006-12-08 15:10:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	KTIA MARR MOPS PGOV PREL BL
06LAPAZ3331	BFIF PROJECTS EMPHASIZE BILATERAL EXCHANGE, LOCAL [...] (U) Post recently completed three Business Facilitation Incentive Fund (BFIF) projects. This cable outlines outcomes and expenditures for an indigenous entrepreneurs' learning mission to Washington; a Tarija financial fair; and a series of consultations with Partner Post Santiago. End summary [...]	2006-12-08 19:04:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED	ABUD AFIN BEXP BTIO ECON ETRD BL
06LAPAZ3337	COMMUNITIES DEMAND CLEAN-UP OF LAKE TITICACA [...] (U) Since May 2005, communities on Lake Titicaca have demanded that the GOB reduce the lake's increasing contamination. Human activity has negatively affected plant and animal species and threatened the lake's fragile ecosystem. GOB officials say the Morales administration is committed to re [...]	2006-12-08 20:23:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON PREL PGOV BL
06LAPAZ3346	IDB AND IMF DISCUSS ENGAGEMENT STRATEGIES WITH [...] (SBU) The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) is realigning its USD 400 million of loans in the pipeline for Bolivia with the country's national development plan. The IDB is preparing an interim strategy for Bolivia and hopes to implement a more permanent strategy after the constituent asse [...]	2006-12-11 21:16:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID ECON EFIN EINV BL
06LAPAZ3355	SOUTH AMERICAN SUMMIT: ALL HYPE NO SUBSTANCE [...] (SBU) On December 8-9, Cochabamba played host to the Second Summit of the South American Community of Nations (CSN). Despite Bolivia's current political turmoil (reftel),nine presidents attended the conference. Cochabamba's lack of experience hosting such a high-profile event was obvious, [...]	2006-12-12 21:49:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV PREL ECON BL
06LAPAZ336	SIGNS OF EVO'S AUTOCRATIC BENT [...] (C) Summary: The MAS government has moved to control a range of institutions, including nominally independent ones, and many observers believe President Morales plans to use the Constituent Assembly (CA) to consolidate this control. Other worrying signs include the substantial halting of forc [...]	2006-02-09 21:25:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV PREL ELAB BL
06LAPAZ3361	HYDROCARBONS REGULATIONS NEEDED TO STIMULATE [...] (SBU) British Gas (BG) Bolivia President Jose Magela told Emboffs on December 11 that he thinks the operating contract BG signed with Bolivia's state oil company YPFB at the end of October is reasonable. He argued that the contracts provide necessary, but not sufficient, conditions for investm [...]	2006-12-13 12:47:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EINV ENRG EPET BL
06LAPAZ3368	OPPOSITION ABANDONS CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY [...] (C) Due to the increasing intransigence of President Morales' Movement Towards Socialism (MAS) and its refusal to negotiate on the voting mechanism in the Constituent Assembly (CA),96 opposition delegates (Podemos, National Unity-UN, Leftist Revolutionary Movement-MIR and the Road to Change-C [...]	2006-12-13 18:01:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV PREL BL
06LAPAZ3369	LARGE SCALE ASSEMBLIES PLANNED FOR DECEMBER 15 [...] (SBU) As its next measure opposing recent GOB strong-arm tactics in the Constituent Assembly (CA) and congress, the eastern departments of Santa Cruz, Beni, Pando and Tarija (known collectively as the half-moon states) are planning large-scale assemblies ("cabildos" in Spanish) to support depa [...]	2006-12-13 18:06:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV PREL BL
06LAPAZ3370	BOLIVIA REACTS ENTHUSIASTICALLY TO ATPDEA EXTENSION [...] (SBU) Bolivian government and business representatives reacted enthusiastically to news of the extension of the Andean Trade Promotion and Drug Eradication Act. President Morales and other GOB officials expressed satisfaction and promised to send a team to Washington in January to begin negot [...]	2006-12-13 18:17:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD EINV ECON PREL PGOV BL
06LAPAZ3375	BOLIVIA'S FIRST STEPS AT ABOLISHING MODERN SLAVERY [...] (U) The International Labor Organization (ILO) estimates that over seven thousand Guaranis live in forced labor situations on ranches in Bolivia's Chaco, which overlaps the departments of Chuquisaca, Santa Cruz and Tarija. Men's wages are usually between $1.25 to $1.75 USD per day. Women re [...]	2006-12-14 16:25:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM BL
06LAPAZ3378	PRE-LICENSE CHECK COMPLETED, APPLICATION NUMBER [...] (SBU) Reftel requested a pre-license check on Riberalta-based Comercial Safari, a Bolivian firm seeking to import various brands and powers of hunting and sport shooting scopes from Ohio-based Outdoor Sports Headquarters, Inc. 2. (SBU) At post's request, two police investigators attempted [...]	2006-12-15 16:11:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	BEXP ETRD ETTC BL
06LAPAZ3400	WILL THE REAL OPPOSITION LEADER PLEASE STAND UP? [...] (C) Evo Morales' election in December 2005 was a political earthquake in Bolivia, sweeping aside political expectations that have defined Bolivian politics for generations and at the same time breaking open fissures and offering up new possibilities. While President Morales' popularity has rise [...]	2006-12-18 21:07:00	Embassy La Paz	SECRET//NOFORN	ECON PGOV PREL BL
06LAPAZ3401	A YEAR AFTER ELECTIONS: WHAT IS NEXT? [...] (C) December 18 marks the first anniversary of the presidential elections that brought Evo Morales to power. The anniversary comes at a time of high political tension, especially between the western highlands and eastern lowlands. On December 15 more than one million people, took to the str [...]	2006-12-18 21:41:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV PREL BL
06LAPAZ3402	2007 DEVELOPMENT PLAN TO BE RELEASED DECEMBER 31 [...] (U) President Morales will announce the government's economic development plan for 2007 on December 31. The government will encourage production through the founding of a national development bank, perhaps with Venezuelan funding, and by government purchase of products and the creation of "pr [...]	2006-12-19 13:08:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EAID EFIN EINV EAGR BL
06LAPAZ3408	BOLIVIAN AUTONOMOUS DEMOCRATIC BOARD MEETS IN [...] (U) The prefects and civic organizations of the departments of Santa Cruz, Tarija, Beni, and Pando convened the first meeting of the Bolivian Autonomous Democratic Board (reftel) in the city of Tarija on December 18. La Paz Prefect Jose Luis Paredes also participated. During the meeting th [...]	2006-12-19 19:44:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV PREL BL
06LAPAZ3449	REACTIONS TO BOLIVIA'S NEW COCA STRATEGY [...] (C) On December 20, the DCM met with European Union chief of mission Ambassador Andrew Standley and United Nations representative Jose Manuel Martinez Morales to discuss reactions to the GOB's new coca strategy which was announced at a December 18 ceremony in the Chapare. Poloff also attended [...]	2006-12-21 19:28:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV PREL SNAR BL
06LAPAZ3457	MAS SEEKS TO UNDERMINE COCHABAMBA OPPOSITION [...] (C) On December 14, Prefect Manfred Reyes Villa led a march attended by over 50,000 people in favor of autonomy and a two-thirds vote on constitutional articles in the pivotal department of Cochabamba. In response to the march, the Regional Workers Federation (COD) held a protest on December [...]	2006-12-21 21:11:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL BL
06LAPAZ351	GOB INTERVENES TO END LLOYD PILOTS' STRIKE [...] (U) Summary: President Evo Morales intervened February 9 to end a strike by members of Lloyd Aero Boliviano's pilots' association (reftel),issuing a supreme decree authorizing the newly appointed superintendent of transportation to designate a controlling executive to oversee the airline's op [...]	2006-02-10 19:19:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAIR ELAB ECON PGOV BL
06LAPAZ386	BOLIVIAN DEBT ANALYSIS AND FINANCE MINISTRY UPDATE [...] Summary: The GOB appears committed to maintaining the technical capacity of the Finance Ministry, while transferring political control over financial policy to the new Planning Ministry. Bolivia's external debt reached USD 4.9 billion by year-end 2005, with the World Bank being Bolivia's larg [...]	2006-02-14 14:17:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	BL ECON EFIN PGOV
06LAPAZ406	ECONOMIC PLANNING MINISTER VAGUE ON PLANS [...] (SBU) Summary: In a courtesy call with the Ambassador on February 10, Minister of Development Planning Carlos Villegas, President Morales' paramount advisor on economic issues, spoke of the GOB's plan to achieve "productive development and social inclusion," but gave few concrete details about [...]	2006-02-15 18:14:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON PGOV ENGR EPET EAIR BL

06LAPAZ409	MIN. OF GOVERNMENT OFFERS INSIGHT INTO GOB PLANS [...] (C) Summary: In a February 14 meeting with poloff, Minister of Government Alicia Munoz said that with international assistance (primarily Venezuelan),her top priority is to provide government identity documents to as many people as possible before the Constituent Assembly. On coca, Munoz sa [...]	2006-02-15 20:26:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV PREL PINR SNAR BL
06LAPAZ413	NATIONAL ELECTORAL COURT PRESIDENT TO RESIGN [...] (C) Summary: President of the National Electoral Court Oscar Hassenteufel told Poloff February 15 he was concerned about the government's seeming intention to control even autonomous Bolivian institutions -- and in particular to purge the Electoral Court and dominate the Constituent Assembly [...]	2006-02-16 17:43:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL SOCI PHUM BL
06LAPAZ417	MINISTER OF PRESIDENCY ON COCA, ERADICATION, AND [...] (C) Summary: Minister of the Presidency Juan Ramos de la Quintana told the Ambassador February 15 that the GOB wanted USG agencies to continue their programs in the Chapare, though implementation methods may need to be modified. He acknowledged that the GOB's counternarcotics policies were sti [...]	2006-02-16 23:10:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ECON SNAR PINR PHUM EAID BL
06LAPAZ428	BIZARRE CUBAN AID ENCOUNTER [...] (C) Santa Cruz Business Chamber (CAINCO) President Gabriel Dabdoub related to the Ambassador on February 15 a strange encounter he witnessed between President Evo Morales, Santa Cruz Prefect Ruben Costas and Cuban Ambassador to Bolivia Luiz Felipe Vazquez. According to Dabdoub, the Cuban Amb [...]	2006-02-17 20:10:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	EAID PREL ECON BL
06LAPAZ438	SANTA CRUZ BUSINESSMEN MAKE PROMISES, REITERATE [...] (U) Summary: In February 15 meetings, Santa Cruz businessmen made two promises: first, that they will support President Evo Morales as long as he protects private enterprise and avoids substantive policy changes; and second, that they will act if the administration shifts radically leftward. [...]	2006-02-21 17:35:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EPET ENRG EAGR ETRD EINV ECON PGOV PREL BL
06LAPAZ439	BIDDING ON MUTUN IRON ORE PROJECT DELAYED AGAIN [...] (U) Summary: Shortly before an earlier sixty-day delay expired, the GOB announced plans to postpone for an additional ninety days international bidding on the rights to develop Mutun, one of the world's largest iron ore deposits. Interested firms may now be expected to fund not only the extrac [...]	2006-02-21 17:36:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EMIN ECON EINV PGOV BL
06LAPAZ440	FUEL TAX DEMARCHE DELIVERED [...] (U) Econoffs delivered reftel talking points to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs' Maria Luisa Ramos, Vice Minister of Economic Relations and Foreign Trade, on February 13, 2006. Ramos said she was unfamiliar with the issue but promised to speak to GOB counterparts in relevant ministries, aski [...]	2006-02-21 17:37:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED	EAIR PREL BL
06LAPAZ443	CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY: EYE ON THE PRIZE [...] (SBU) Summary: The Constituent Assembly (CA) is shaping up to be Bolivia's grand political prize and the Evo Morales administration has devoted itself almost exclusively to passing legislation assuring near total control of the process to the MAS (the governing party),including with threats [...]	2006-02-21 17:56:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SOCI PGOV BL
06LAPAZ451	FIRST MEETING WITH EVO AS PRESIDENT [...] (C) SUMMARY: During a nearly two hour conversation with the Ambassador at the Presidential Palace on February 18, Evo Morales would not be pinned down on details of eradication but showed interest in at least limited cooperation on broader counternarcotics and anti-corruption issues. The Am [...]	2006-02-21 21:35:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV SNAR ECON PINR EAID BL
06LAPAZ458	VICE PRESIDENT CALLS FOR "INTELLIGENT" TRADE [...] (U) Summary: In a February 17 speech to participants in a GOB-sponsored trade seminar, Vice President Alvaro Garcia Linera called for "intelligent" trade protectionism, arguing that Bolivia should follow the historical model of developed countries by seeking open access to foreign markets while [...]	2006-02-22 18:32:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD EINV ECON USTR BL
06LAPAZ459	CHALLENGES FOR SUCRE [...] (C) Summary: As Sucre prepares to host the Constituent Assembly (CA) as early as August this year, it and Chuquisaca, the department in which it is contained, face more than just structural and logistical challenges. The newly-elected MAS prefect, David Sanchez, appears to be a party outsider [...]	2006-02-22 19:14:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV PREL BL
06LAPAZ522	GROWING TENSION OVER CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY [...] (C) Summary: The first days of March are shaping up to be a showdown over the Constituent Assembly (CA),as Congress begins debate on the conflict-ridden draft proposal forwarded by the congressional committee to the floor. If Congress doesn't reach consensus by March 4, the National Electora [...]	2006-03-01 20:14:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV PREL BL
06LAPAZ544	BUSINESSMEN PUSH FOR FTA, SEEK TO INFLUENCE MORALES [...] (SBU) Summary: In a February 23 meeting, members of the Private Businessmen's Confederation urged President Evo Morales to secure Bolivia's entry into the proposed Andean Free Trade Agreement (FTA),emphasizing the negative consequences to industry and labor of Bolivia's failure to sign. Conf [...]	2006-03-02 20:25:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD EINV ECON PREL BL
06LAPAZ567	BOLIVIAN NATIONAL AIRLINE FIGHTS FOR SURVIVAL [...] (U) Summary: Since the end of an early February pilots' strike (reftel),Lloyd Aero Boliviano has encountered a string of difficulties. Two U.S.-based firms, Aviation Capital Group and Pegasus Aviation, have repossessed or are in the process of repossessing leased aircraft, and the GOB has ma [...]	2006-03-03 20:34:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAIR ECON PGOV BL
06LAPAZ584	CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY LAW PASSED [...] (C) Summary: Late March 4, Congress passed the enabling law for the Constituent Assembly (CA) as well as parallel legislation for a legally binding referendum on autonomy to take place on July 2. Morales, claiming victory for meeting the March 4 deadline to approve the CA legislation, celeb [...]	2006-03-06 18:41:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV PREL BL
06LAPAZ587	DISSENT IN EVO'S RANKS [...] (C) Giovanny Hervas, a social sector leader from the altiplano, told poloff on March 2 that there is a growing discontent among his peers with the Morales government. Hervas, who is associated with the Fejuve of El Alto (and will soon run for the presidency of that organization),the Yungas co [...]	2006-03-06 19:41:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV PREL SNAR SOCI BL
06LAPAZ597	REPRESENTATIVE LOWEY VISITS BOLIVIA AND MEETS WITH [...] (SBU) Summary: Representative Nita Lowey (D-NY) accompanied by House Appropriations Clerk Nisha Desai and State Department Congressional Liaison Cherith Norman, visited La Paz and Santa Cruz February 23-25. The delegation met with President Morales who complained about the 2004 visa revocatio [...]	2006-03-07 19:20:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV EAID ECON SNAR ETRD USTR BL
06LAPAZ598	SOY PRODUCERS CRITICIZE GOB'S FAILURE TO PROTECT [...] (U) Summary: Bolivian soy producers have criticized the GOB for failing to protect Andean markets, saying officials should have raised objections to provisions governing the treatment of U.S. exports of soy and its derivatives in free trade agreements with Colombia and Peru. Producers say they [...]	2006-03-07 19:26:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD EAGR EINV ECON PGOV PREL SNAR USTR BL
06LAPAZ599	EXECUTIVE KEEPING TIGHT REINS ON CONSTITUENT [...] (C) Summary: In a March 6 meeting with international donors, Vice-President Alvaro Garcia Linera complimented the Bolivian Congress for approving the enabling legislation for the Constituent Assembly (CA),stating that two things are clear: the Morales government has a solid plan for action, [...]	2006-03-07 19:29:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV PREL BL
06LAPAZ6	INITIAL MEETING WITH EVO MORALES: BRASS TACKS [...] (C) Summary: In a January 2 "breaking the ice" meeting with the Ambassador, President-elect Evo Morales claimed he had not publicly maligned President Bush (at least not in the post-election period) and expressed deep resentment about being branded a "narco-terrorist" by U.S. officials. Moral [...]	2006-01-03 16:25:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ECON EINV ENRG SOCI ELAB BL SIPDIS
06LAPAZ600	GOB PROPOSES "DIGNITY TARIFF" FOR ELECTRICITY [...] (U) Summary: GOB officials recently announced plans to lower electricity rates to a still undetermined "dignity tariff," demanding that businesses make services less expensive for rural populations and the poor. Leaving little room for discussion, the GOB presented a three-point proposal to i [...]	2006-03-07 19:32:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD EINV ECON PGOV BL
06LAPAZ604	PRAGMATIC INDIGENOUS LEFTIST RENE JOAQUINO ON THE [...] (C) Summary: Embassy officials had lunch with mayor of Potosi and former presidential aspirant Rene Joaquino on March 3. Joaquino is organizing a new political party that will be based out of Potosi, Chuquisaca, and Oruro, and will tap into the region's indigenous Quechua majority. His main [...]	2006-03-07 20:07:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	BL ECON PGOV PINR PREL
06LAPAZ615	FIRESTORM OVER EMBASSY CUTTING SUPPORT FOR [...] (C) Summary: In response to our ending support for a specialized Bolivian military counter-terrorism (CT) unit, President Evo Morales publicly blasted the U.S. for interfering in Bolivia's internal affairs. The decision to sever ties with the outfit was taken after the GOB appointed as comman [...]	2006-03-07 21:40:00	Embassy La Paz	SECRET	PGOV PREL PTER PINS PARM BL
06LAPAZ626	MNR CONFIDENT ABOUT THE CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY [...] (C) Summary: In a meeting with Embassy officials on March 8, MNR Senator Miguel Majluf and MNR deputy Michiaki Nagatani expressed confidence about their party's prospects for the Constituent Assembly (CA) and satisfaction with the opposition's efforts to limit MAS power in the CA. They said [...]	2006-03-08 20:57:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV PREL PTER PARM PINR BL
06LAPAZ627	GOB SEEKS TO GAIN CONTROL OVER PRIVATIZED COMPANIES [...] Summary: According to press reports, the GOB intends to gain control over ten companies, which were partially privatized in the 1990s, by persuading or compelling private investors to sell their shares. Four of these companies are majority owned by U.S. investors, and none has received offici [...]	2006-03-08 21:21:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EINV ENRG EPET BL
06LAPAZ644	MORALES TO FOCUS ON ECONOMIC ISSUES WITH SECRETARY [...] (C) Summary: In a March 8 meeting, President Evo Morales told the Ambassador he would raise Bolivia's threatened soy markets, the extension of U.S. trade preferences and the Millennium Challenge Account in his discussion with Secretary Rice in Chile. The Ambassador said the Secretary would l [...]	2006-03-09 21:12:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ECON EPET EINV ELAB PMAR BL
06LAPAZ657	JET FUEL DEADLINE PASSES, GOB ASKS FOR MORE TIME [...] (U) Summary: In a March 8 letter to the Ambassador, the GOB acknowledged the expiration of the 14-day deadline to eliminate taxes on jet fuel uplifted by U.S.-registered air carriers (reftel) but asked for more time, noting that institutional reorganization had delayed consideration of the iss [...]	2006-03-10 19:39:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAIR PREL BL
06LAPAZ680	AGRICULTURE MINISTER FOCUSES ON LAND TITLING [...] (SBU) Summary: In a March 8 meeting with the Ambassador, Minister of Agriculture Hugo Salvatierra explained that the new Ministry of Rural Development and Agriculture had taken over the tasks of two and a half ministries, and was currently consulting with civil groups for their input into the [...]	2006-03-13 18:43:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED	EAGR ECON ETRD PINR PGOV PREL EAID BL
06LAPAZ691	BUSINESSMEN EXPAND PUSH FOR FTA, STRUGGLE WITH [...] (SBU) Summary: In recent meetings with GOB officials, business representatives have expanded their push for Bolivia's entry into the proposed Andean Free Trade Agreement (reftel),urging the Morales administration to pursue comprehensive trade negotiations rather than an extension of the Andea [...]	2006-03-14 19:29:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD EINV ECON PREL PGOV BL
06LAPAZ692	BOLIVIA AND URUGUAY SIGN ENERGY AGREEMENT [...] Summary: The Presidents of Uruguay and Bolivia signed an agreement to strengthen energy cooperation between the two nations on March 13. The agreement provides for the future sale of Bolivian natural gas, thermoelectricity, and liquid petroleum gas (LPG) to Uruguay. Although the agreement ex [...]	2006-03-14 19:48:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED	ENRG PREL ECON BL
06LAPAZ7	MORE INFO ON EVO [...] (C) Evo Morales rose to the presidency on a wave of ethnic identification and widespread frustration, embodying the aspirations of his own indigenous majority and signaling for the middle class a break from the corrupt, inept political elite and the social upheaval it increasingly produced. Mo [...]	2006-01-03 19:28:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ECON PINR BL
06LAPAZ70	SANTA CRUZ: ANXIETY ABOUT UNCERTAIN FUTURE [...] (SBU) Summary: Many Santa Cruz civic representatives, stunned by the MAS's decisive electoral victory, are anxious about Bolivia's uncertain future. Some believe the MAS government will immediately begin dismantling the market-based economic model while postponing (for tactical reasons) its [...]	2006-01-11 21:02:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ECON EPET EINV ENRG SOCI ELAB BL
06LAPAZ712	URIBE TELLS MORALES "NO" ON SOY [...] (SBU) Summary: President Evo Morales' March 14 meeting with his Colombian counterpart, Alvaro Uribe, appears not to have gone Bolivia's way. Uribe reportedly told Morales he could not guarantee continued access to Colombia's market for Bolivian soy because the free trade agreement (FTA) with [...]	2006-03-15 19:49:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	ETRD EAGR EINV ECON PGOV PREL USTR BL
06LAPAZ726	MORALES VOWS NEVER TO NEGOTIATE AN FTA [...] (U) Summary: President Evo Morales vowed March 15 never to negotiate a "free trade agreement," proposing instead a People's Trade Agreement to benefit Bolivian small producers (ref A). Business representatives reacted strongly, declaring Morales' announcement "a shame" and reiterating demands [...]	2006-03-17 13:23:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD EINV ECON PREL PGOV BL
06LAPAZ729	LANDLESS MOVEMENT TRIED TO STRONG ARM GOB [...] (C) The Landless Movement (Movimiento Sin Tierra or MST in Spanish) used dynamite to take control of the Justice Ministry for several hours on the afternoon of March 13, seeking the release of its members jailed for the June 2004 lynching of Ayo Ayo Mayor Benjamin Altamirano (see human rights [...]	2006-03-17 17:37:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV PREL BL
06LAPAZ732	MAS DISCREDITING STRING OF EX-PRESIDENTS [...] (SBU) Summary: Bolivia's MAS-friendly Attorney General Pedro Gareca (who recently resigned and then withdrew his resignation) is instituting proceedings against four of Bolivia's ex-presidents: Eduardo Rodriguez for the Chinese MANPADS transfer to the U.S., and Jorge "Tuto" Quiroga, Carlos Mes [...]	2006-03-17 19:46:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV PREL BL
06LAPAZ733	MAS ONLY PARTY READY FOR CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY [...] (C) Summary: President Morales' Movement Toward Socialism (MAS) party is mobilizing its formidable machinery for the Constituent Assembly (CA) and is forming new alliances with various social and political groups. The MAS is allegedly "buying" votes via the Venezuelan-backed program to issue [...]	2006-03-17 19:48:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV PREL BL
06LAPAZ734	MORALES SEARCHING FOR WAY FORWARD ON TRADE [...] (C) Summary: Over lunch March 16 President Morales and Vice President Garcia Linera told the Ambassador that the GOB was distressed about the loss of the Colombian soy market for Bolivian producers and they wished to press this concern in Washington. The Ambassador explained that the Colombi [...]	2006-03-17 19:49:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ECON ETRD PINR SNAR BL
06LAPAZ767	LITERACY AND IDENTIFICATION DOCUMENT CAMPAIGNS [...] (SBU) Summary: The Cuban-led national literacy campaign was kicked off to great fanfare on March 20, with President Morales pledging to eradicate illiteracy in 30 months. High-level Cuban and Venezuelan officials who participated in the ceremony accused past Bolivian governments of failing to [...]	2006-03-21 14:50:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL SOCI PINR BL
06LAPAZ769	COLOMBIAN AMBASSADOR SAYS BOLIVIAN SOY PRODUCERS [...] (SBU) Summary: Colombia's Ambassador to Bolivia, Edgar Papamija, met with Ambassador Greenlee March 17 to express concern that Bolivian government officials had inaccurately spun President Uribe's recent message about the FTA (ref A),and to receive a read-out of Greenlee's meeting with Presi [...]	2006-03-21 18:31:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD EAGR EINV ECON PGOV PREL USTR BL
06LAPAZ810	MORALES ACCUSES U.S. OF BEING BEHIND DEADLY [...] (C) Summary: The deadly bombings in downtown La Paz late March 21 appear to be the isolated handiwork of a mentally unstable U.S. citizen and his Uruguayan partner (refs A and B). But that hasn't stopped observers in Bolivia's political cauldron from speculating wildly about the hidden politi [...]	2006-03-23 19:42:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL SOCI PTER ECON ETRD BL
06LAPAZ816	LLOYD LIMPS ALONG [...] (U) Summary: Mid-way through a 90-day government intervention, Bolivian national airline Lloyd Aero Boliviano is barely limping along. With its chief executive under attack, its finances increasingly shaky, and a U.S.-based company initiating legal proceedings to repossess the four aircraft L [...]	2006-03-23 20:09:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAIR ECON PGOV BL
06LAPAZ817	GOB ESTABLISHES ELECTRICITY "DIGNITY TARIFF" [...] (U) Summary: The GOB established an electricity "dignity tariff" March 21, introducing a 25 percent reduction in rates for consumers who use fewer than 70 kilowatt hours of electricity per month. The 16 companies comprising Bolivia's national electricity network agreed to accept the rates and [...]	2006-03-23 20:10:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD EINV ECON PGOV BL
06LAPAZ83	GOB SETTLES INVESTMENT DISPUTE INVOLVING BECHTEL [...] (U) Summary: The legal chapter of the 2000 Cochabamba "water war" has come to a close, with the GOB and two international shareholders (one of them half owned by U.S. engineering multinational Bechtel) settling their long-festering investment dispute. Under the agreement, the GOB will purchas [...]	2006-01-13 20:05:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EINV ETRD ECON PGOV BL
06LAPAZ831	TUTO QUIROGA TRYING TO ACTIVATE OPPOSITION [...] (C) Summary: In a meeting with the Ambassador on March 22, former president Jorge "Tuto" Quiroga was nonchalant about the possible criminal case against him for signing hydrocarbons contracts without congressional approval, but worried about the far-reaching consequences of the politically-mo [...]	2006-03-24 14:25:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV PREL EPET ENRG BL
06LAPAZ837	BOLIVIA'S NATIONAL INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY [...] (SBU) Summary: The acting director of Bolivia's National Intellectual Property Service recently told us the organization is in "revolution." Structure, scope, and staffing are under review, as are various units' efficiency. Significant changes could put at risk the organization's USAID-suppo [...]	2006-03-24 19:34:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KIPR EINV ECON BL
06LAPAZ84	IDB PREOCCUPIED BY UNCERTAINTY OF U.S. AND GOB [...] (SBU) Summary: Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) Resident Representative, Joel Branski, told the DCM and Econoffs on January 11 that IDB staff has not met with the MAS' transition team, but that an IDB delegation plans to visit Bolivia at the end of January after the Presidential inaugura [...]	2006-01-13 20:06:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID ECON EFIN BL
06LAPAZ854	BOLIVIAN DEMOCRACY UNDER THREAT [...] (C) Summary: Two months in office and Evo Morales has done little to burnish his democratic credentials. Attacks on the press, judiciary and other institutions are beginning to look more like pieces of an emerging autocratic strategy aimed at the upcoming constituent assembly than the missteps [...]	2006-03-27 19:25:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV PREL BL
06LAPAZ859	CONTINUED GOVERNMENT INSINUATIONS OF U.S. ROLE IN [...] (C) Summary: Bolivian Government officials, including President Morales, have continued to suggest a possible USG role in the deadly La Paz bombings March 21 (ref). While Morales has persisted in professing ignorance about any formal expression of U.S. displeasure, March 26 news articles out [...]	2006-03-28 14:00:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ECON EPET SOCI ELAB PTER BL
06LAPAZ868	POLOFF'S FIRST HAND LOOK AT VENEZUELAN [...] (C) On a March 18 group tour to Lake Titicaca Poloff witnessed first hand rudimentary indoctrination efforts of the Venezuelan government officials towards Bolivians. By chance, the only other people on the tour were two female employees of PDVSA, the Venezuelan government owned oil company [...]	2006-03-29 14:14:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV PREL BL PINR
06LAPAZ869	GOB PLANS TO NATIONALIZE HYDROCARBONS IN APRIL [...] (SBU) Summary: The GOB recently announced that it intends to nationalize the hydrocarbons sector in April and launch a revamped YPFB (state oil company) by July. Hydrocarbons Minister Andres Soliz Rada confirmed these plans in a meeting with the Ambassador on March 28. U.S.-owned hydrocarbons [...]	2006-03-29 14:21:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EINV ENRG EPET PGOV BL
06LAPAZ870	GOB ENDS LLOYD INTERVENTION [...] (U) Summary: The GOB ended its intervention in Lloyd Aero Boliviano (reftels) on March 24, one day after Bolivia's Constitutional Tribunal granted a petition requesting the suspension of the GOB-appointed controller's authority. The GOB relinquished control to Ernesto Asbun, Lloyd's chief exe [...]	2006-03-29 14:23:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAIR ECON PGOV BL
06LAPAZ886	EVO AND HIS ADVISORY CIRCLE (PART 1 OF 3) [...] (C) Summary: President Morales is an astute domestic political operator but lacks confidence in his economic and international relations abilities. As a result, Morales has surrounded himself with three compartmented groups of advisers. The first are domestic political operators who implement [...]	2006-03-30 16:47:00	Embassy La Paz	SECRET	ECON PGOV PREL BL PINR
06LAPAZ890	POLITICIZED JUSTICE: THE CASE OF REPSOL [...] (SBU) Summary: The Government of Bolivia has pursued a highly politicized legal case against Spanish/Argentine-owned Repsol YPF, accusing Bolivia's second-largest gas producer of contraband and tax evasion. Repsol Bolivia President, Julio Gavito, was arrested for these charges on March 15, and [...]	2006-03-30 19:43:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EINV ENRG EPET PGOV BL
06LAPAZ901	JUDICIARY RESISTS MAS ATTACKS [...] (SBU) Summary: Following the Constitutional Tribunal's (TC) ruling against GOB intervention in the Lloyd Airlines' case (reftel A),President Morales and Vice-President Garcia Linera went on the offensive against the court, claiming it had accepted bribes from the airline's president. In one [...]	2006-03-30 20:16:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL ECON BL
06LAPAZ902	LLOYD EMPLOYEES BLOCK RUNWAYS, DEMAND GOB [...] (U) Lloyd Aero Boliviano employees blocked airport runways in La Paz, Cochabamba, and Santa Cruz today, March 30, calling on the GOB to resume the intervention it suspended on March 24 (reftel). Police used tear gas to disperse protesters and clear runways in Cochabamba, but demonstrators con [...]	2006-03-30 20:19:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAIR ECON PGOV BL
06LAPAZ906	THE ROLE EVO'S "INTELLECTUALS" PLAY (PART 2 OF 3) [...] (C) Summary: President Evo Morales' circle of Bolivian intellectual advisers occupies half of the President's Cabinet, including the top three positions: the Vice President, the Minister of the Presidency, and the Minister of Sustainable Development and Planning. While the intellectuals have m [...]	2006-03-31 13:26:00	Embassy La Paz	SECRET	ECON PGOV PREL BL PINR
06LAPAZ908	EVO'S POLITICAL ADVISERS (PART 3 OF 3) [...] (C) Summary: President Evo Morales keeps several close advisers who facilitate and carry out his personal agenda but have limited influence on the President's decisionmaking. They are split between those who work behind the scenes to facilitate Morales' vision and those who are charged with in [...]	2006-03-31 14:07:00	Embassy La Paz	SECRET	ECON PGOV PREL BL PINR
06LAPAZ913	POLICE AND MILITARY CLEAR RUNWAYS, GUARANTEE [...] (U) Summary: Bolivian police and military cleared airport runways in La Paz, Cochabamba, and Santa Cruz late yesterday, March 30, and ended day-long protests organized by Lloyd Aero Boliviano employees demanding that the GOB resume the intervention it suspended March 24 (reftel). The flight d [...]	2006-03-31 17:37:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAIR ECON PGOV BL
06LAPAZ93	DEALING WITH THE MAS-LED BOLIVIAN GOVERNMENT [...] (C) As the Washington policy community meets on January 17 for a Deputies Committee meeting on Bolivia, Embassy La Paz submits the following reflections on how to best engage, or limit our engagement, with the new GOB and President Evo Morales, as well as other suggestions concerning potential [...]	2006-01-17 15:45:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ECON SOCI BL
06LAPAZ937	IMF AGREEMENT ENDS [...] Summary: Bolivia's Standby Agreement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) expired on March 31, and the GOB has indicated that it does not want to sign a new agreement with the Fund. The lack of a Fund agreement could jeopardize donations from multilateral and bilateral institutions and [...]	2006-04-03 20:35:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED

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