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| Identifier | Subject | Date | Office | Classification | Tags |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 00LIMA2475 |
ALEJANDRO TOLEDO BIOGRAPHY: POLITICAL ASSETS AND [...] (U) CLASSIFIED BY AMBASSADOR JOHN HAMILTON, REASONS 1.5 B AND D. 2. (S) SUMMARY: PRESIDENTIAL ASPIRANT ALEJANDRO TOLEDO'S CHARISMA, ABILITY TO APPEAL TO VARIOUS AUDIENCES, INCLUDING PERU'S INDIGENOUS AND POOREST COMMUNITIES, AND POSITIVE HUMAN RIGHTS AND ECONOMIC MESSAGE HAVE HELPED TO CA [...] |
2000-04-25 12:30:00 | Embassy Lima | SECRET | PINR PGOV PREL PE SECRET PAGE LIMA OF |
| 01LIMA3418 |
TOLEDO AT THE HELM [...] (C) SUMMARY: ALEJANDRO TOLEDO WAS TENACIOUS IN HIS STRUGGLE TO REACH THE PRESIDENCY AND WILL APPLY THE SAME TENACITY TO SUCCEED IN OFFICE. HE COMES TO OFFICE WITH NO GOVERNMENT OR MANAGEMENT EXPERIENCE, HOWEVER, AND HIS PROPENSITY TO BE A ONE-MAN SHOW CAN BE A NAGGING SHORTCOMING. NONETHELE [...] |
2001-06-19 14:53:00 | Embassy Lima | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM PE |
| 01LIMA5083 |
SUPREME COURT INDICTS FUJIMORI [...] (U) SUPREME COURT JUDGE JOSE LECAROS INDICTED FORMER PRESIDENT ALBERTO FUJIMORI SEPTEMBER 13 FOR HIS ALLEGED COMPLICITY IN THE BARRIOS ALTOS (1991) AND LA CANTUTA (1992) KILLINGS AS WELL AS THE 1997 MURDER OF NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE SERVICE AGENT MARIELLA BARRETO. BEGINNING THE INVESTIGATIVE ( [...] |
2001-09-14 21:51:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM KJUS PE |
| 04LIMA126 |
PERUVIAN NARCOTRAFFICKER FERNANDO ZEVALLOS: [...] (SBU) Embassy's Department of Homeland Security (DHS) office plans to deliver two letters on January 13: -- one to suspected narcotrafficker Fernando Zevallos Gonzalez requesting that he present himself at the Embassy to make a sworn statement regarding his eligibility to enter the U.S. a [...] |
2004-01-09 16:32:00 | Embassy Lima | SECRET | CVIS SNAR PREL KCRM PINR PE |
| 04LIMA5261 |
PRESIDENT TOLEDO BLASTS JUDICIARY'S HANDLING OF [...] (U) SUMMARY: President Toledo harshly criticized the judiciary's handling of the trial of Sendero Luminoso (SL) founder Abimael Guzman and other SL leaders in a national address 11/6, after Guzman and his co-defendants were permitted to disrupt the opening of their oral trial the previous day [...] |
2004-11-09 22:00:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PINS PHUM PE |
| 05LIMA1017 |
PRESIDENT TOLEDO REALIGNS CABINET: POLS REPLACE [...] (U) President Toledo replaced four cabinet members on 2/26, bringing in new heads for the Ministries of Justice, Agriculture, Labor and Production. The new faces raise the profile of Toledo's Peru Possible party in the government -- two of the new ministers are strong party members and the th [...] |
2005-03-02 22:46:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PE ATPDEA |
| 05LIMA1062 |
Cocalero Marching Season Begins [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The annual cocalero marching season has begun with two road-blocking demonstrations in Upper Huallaga Valley areas infamous for their militancy. Leaders launched the protests with false stories of local illnesses from spraying of coca fields with chemicals. Police easily freed [...] |
2005-03-03 20:43:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SNAR ASEC EAID PGOV PE |
| 05LIMA1092 |
PERU'S IPR NEGOTIATOR RESIGNS, BUT THEN STAYS ON [...] (SBU) Summary. Infighting between the Ministry of Trade (Mincetur) and Indecopi (Peru's IPR administrative agency) over Peru's intellectual property rights position in the FTA negotiations has become increasingly heated. Following the resignation of Peru's lead IPR negotiator and Indecopi emp [...] |
2005-03-04 17:29:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KIPR ETRD ECON PGOV PE FTA |
| 05LIMA1094 |
PERU: NARCOTICS AFFAIRS SECTION, FEBRUARY 2005 [...] (SBU) On February 9, Bryan Tuttle, NAS's Deputy Port Security and Maritime Advisor, was killed in an accident while assisting a drug investigation in the Port of Callao in Lima. As part of the port security program, a Peruvian delegation visited Colombian facilities at the Bogota airport and [...] |
2005-03-04 17:44:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SNAR KCRM ASEC PREL PE |
| 05LIMA1146 |
Request for Human Rights Vetting: PNP STUDENTS [...] NAS requests human rights vetting for the following Peruvian Police personnel to participate in TRAINING AT SANTA LUCIA PNP SCHOOL. Relevant Embassy sections will conduct a search of their files. Please process vetting by MARCH 22, 2005. ALIAGA VILLOGAS, YIMBER OSWALDO ALUMNO PNP HUAN [...] |
2005-03-07 22:18:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM SNAR MASS MARR PE |
| 05LIMA1159 |
BLUE LANTERN END-USE CHECK: APPLICATION 05-888772 [...] Embassy regrets the delay in responding to Reftels, which was due to a lack of cooperation from the Peruvian Air Force and Navy. The new commands of both institutions, who took over this year, have promised to cooperate and have begun to provide answers to our Blue Lantern inquiries. 2. [...] |
2005-03-08 16:29:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED | KOMC ETTC PE |
| 05LIMA1169 |
ANDEAN NORTHERN BORDER CONFERENCE [...] Peruvian National Police (PNP) successfully sponsored with the assistance of the Lima Country Office (LCO) the Andean Northern Border Strategy Conference from Feb. 22-24, 2005. This conference centered on Counter-narcotics strategy on Amazonas Border countries and included National Police D [...] |
2005-03-08 21:11:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SNAR |
| 05LIMA1171 |
PERU: MULTI-TON COCAINE SEIZURES IN THE FIRST TWO [...] (C) BEGIN SUMMARY: In the first two months of 2005, the Peruvian National Police (PNP), supported by DEA's Lima Country Office (LCO), have tracked and seized record-breaking amounts of cocaine HCL/base - close to 5 metric tons - compared to 7.11 metric tons of cocaine HCL in the whole of 20 [...] |
2005-03-08 22:43:00 | Embassy Lima | CONFIDENTIAL | SNAR EAID PGOV PREL PE |
| 05LIMA1176 |
DEMARCHE ON OAS SOCIAL CHARTER (PERU) [...] (U) Poloff presented the demarche on the OAS Social Charter (Reftel) to Julio Garro, the Foreign Ministry's Assistant Secretary for Multilateral and Security Affairs on 3/8, Deputy Director for Multialteral Affairs Carlos Chocano, and Director of Social Affairs Maria Eugenia Echeverria were [...] |
2005-03-09 15:00:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SOCI PREL PE |
| 05LIMA1190 |
FORMER PRESIDENT ALAN GARCIA TALKS POLITICS, TRADE [...] (C) SUMMARY. The Ambassador met with former President Alan Garcia on 2/28 at APRA Party Headquarters. Garcia stressed the importance to APRA of forming inter-party alliances for the 2006 presidential campaign, and said he expected to enter into negotiations on an alliance with former Preside [...] |
2005-03-09 22:57:00 | Embassy Lima | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON EINV ETRD PE |
| 05LIMA1191 |
COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR EXIM BANK OFFICIALS [...] No summary [...] |
2005-03-10 13:54:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | BEXP EFIN OTRA CI PE EXIM |
| 05LIMA1215 |
PERU REQUESTS USG SUPPORT FOR SPANISH AWARD [...] The Foreign Ministry, by diplomatic note dated 2/25/05, requested that the United States, as a member of the International Advisory Committee of the Binational Plan for Development of the Peru-Ecuador Frontier ("Binational Plan"), support the Andean Development Corporation's (CAF) nomination [...] |
2005-03-10 21:00:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PE |
| 05LIMA1228 |
UNHCHR-61 DEMARCHE [...] No summary [...] |
2005-03-11 17:13:00 | Embassy Lima | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL PE UNHRC |
| 05LIMA1233 |
PERUVIAN PROPOSAL TO REFORM UNHRC [...] (C) ... id: 28627 date: 3/11/2005 19:08 refid: 05LIMA1233 origin: Embassy Lima classification: CONFIDENTIAL destination: header: This record is a partial extract of the original cable. The full text of the original cable is not available. ----------------- header ends ---------------- C O N [...] |
2005-03-11 19:08:00 | Embassy Lima | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL PE UNHRC |
| 05LIMA1235 |
BLUE LANTERN END-USE CHECK: APPLICATION 05-924452 [...] Answers to Ref D questions: CONFIRM THAT THE AIR FORCE RECEIVED THE COMMODITIES LISTED IN REF D, PARAGRAPH 4 BELOW FROM NEDISA PERUANA? -- Answer: Yes. The end-user, Air Force Grupo 42 Commander in Iquitos, Loreto Department, confirms receipt, and said the parts were delivered on time. IS [...] |
2005-03-14 15:06:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED | KOMC ETTC PE |
| 05LIMA1246 |
OPIUM STRATEGY PROGRESS REPORT [...] (C) The Mission strategy to combat opium production and trafficking in Peru was laid out in REF A in January. Since then, Embassy agencies including the Narcotics Affairs Section (NAS), the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and the Military Assistance Group (MAAG) have been aggressively [...] |
2005-03-14 21:05:00 | Embassy Lima | CONFIDENTIAL | SNAR EAID PGOV PREL PE |
| 05LIMA1254 |
ACTION REQUEST: COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR REAC ROSEMARIE [...] Clearance is requested for Regional Educational Advising Coordinator for South America Rosemarie C. Arens to travel to Colombia. 2.Ms. Arens will assist with the country workshop for Colombian Advisers that will be held in Armenia from April 12 through 14, 2005 where she will make several p [...] |
2005-03-15 13:43:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC KPAO SCUL PE |
| 05LIMA1259 |
PRESIDENT OF CONGRESS FLORES-ARAOZ TELLS [...] (C) SUMMARY. At a meeting with the Ambassador on 3/11, Congress President Antero Flores-Araoz said he would be a candidate for President in 2006. Flores described the ideal electoral coalition as one including: the APRA Party; a repentant leftist gravitating toward moderation, like Lambayeq [...] |
2005-03-15 17:33:00 | Embassy Lima | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ETRD PE |
| 05LIMA1272 |
FTA and culture: Peruvian response [...] Summary: In July 2004, a group of renowned Peruvian artists and intellectuals, led by congresswoman Elvira de la Puente, created the Peruvian Coalition for Cultural Diversity to defend, promote, and protect Peruvian cultural industries and patrimony. The Coalition sent President Toledo a let [...] |
2005-03-15 21:38:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP ECON KIPR PE |
| 05LIMA1291 |
PERU: CHILD MARRIAGE [...] Post has consulted local NGOs, women's organizations and relevant GOP ministries regarding request for information on child marriage (reftel). None view child marriage as a problem in Peru. 2. The legal age for marriage in Peru is 18. Peruvians under 18 and over 16 can marry, but only wi [...] |
2005-03-16 20:44:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ELAB PHUM PGOV SCUL SOCI KWMN PE |
| 05LIMA1322 |
Results Report: Target of opportunity speaker on [...] On February 9-16, Dr. Sheila Walker, Director of the African Diaspora and the World Program and Professor of Anthropology at Spelman College, visited Peru as part of PAS's activities to commemorate Black History month. Dr. Walker gave two lectures in Lima, the first organized by the Congressi [...] |
2005-03-17 21:10:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP PE |
| 05LIMA1331 |
DISCUSSING U.S. VIEWS ON DEBT RELIEF, MCA WITH [...] Acting EconCouns delivered on March 15 reftel demarche, outlining U.S. views on debt relief for poor countries, to Minister Counselor Cesar de las Casas of the Office of Commercial Promotion at the Ministry of Foreign Relations. De las Casas was accompanied by Vivian Weiner of APCI, the Peruv [...] |
2005-03-18 14:46:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID ECON EFIN SOCI PGOV PE |
| 05LIMA1344 |
(U) DRUG TRAFFICKING AND DRUG MARKETS IN PERU [...] (U) The responses in this cable reference the questions posed in Ref A. A. (S) Describe cocaine trafficking organizations in Peru? Do they typically specialize in one drug activity? What is their average size? How are they structured? Are they vertically or horizontally integrated? [...] |
2005-03-21 16:18:00 | Embassy Lima | SECRET//NOFORN | PINR SNAR PE EXIM |
| 05LIMA1346 |
Peru: 2005 ATPDEA Eligibility Report [...] The following is Post's submission of Peru's 2005 ATPDEA Eligibility Report, as requested in reftel. Effect of the ATPA/ATPDEA ------------------------- 2. The growing importance of the U.S. market for Peruvian exporters is reflected by the fact that the U.S. share of Peru's total expor [...] |
2005-03-21 16:39:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED | EINV EFIN ETRD ELAB KTDB PGOV PE OPIC USTR |
| 05LIMA1361 |
FINANCE MINISTER ON THE CURRENT SITUATION AND HIS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Finance Minister Pedro Pablo Kuczynski (PPK), during a 3/18 breakfast with the Ambassador, was uncertain whether the Toledo Administration would be able to hold the fiscal line as pressure mounts in an electoral climate to meet social demands and to show concrete progress on co [...] |
2005-03-21 22:19:00 | Embassy Lima | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ETRD ECON PGOV PE |
| 05LIMA1375 |
PARTY REGISTRATION SCANDAL CONTINUES TO HOUND [...] (U) Congress President Antero Flores-Araoz' mediation seems to have defused a potential constitutional crisis over a Congressional committee's demand to question President Toledo; the committee is investigating accusations that Toledo's Peru Posible party forged signatures in its effort to re [...] |
2005-03-22 18:51:00 | Embassy Lima | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KCRM PE |
| 05LIMA1388 |
GOP EXTENDS STATE OF EMERGENCY FOR 60 MORE DAYS [...] Via a Supreme Decree signed by President Toledo on March 18, the Government extended for two more months the State of Emergency first declared in May of 2003. The Presidential Decree carried over the State of Emergency in the same geographic area covered by the most recent extension, dated J [...] |
2005-03-22 21:22:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PINS PHUM ASEC PE |
| 05LIMA1390 |
AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES MINING AND DEVELOPMENT IN [...] (SBU) Summary. During a March 3-5 trip to Cajamarca in Northern Peru, the Ambassador met with local dignitaries to discuss mining and economic development, toured the Newmont- operated Yanacocha mine, and visited with Peace Corps volunteers. Cajamarca has more factors in its favor than virt [...] |
2005-03-23 12:55:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EMIN EINV ECON PGOV PE |
| 05LIMA1409 |
FUTURE OF OUR CN PROGRAMS AND OBJECTIVES IN PERU [...] (SBU) Summary: As reported reftels, our Mission counter- drug strategy in the short term will be focused on holding the line against expansion of coca and opium cultivation and drawing the noose around no-go coca source zones through eradication and alternative development. The advent in mid [...] |
2005-03-23 21:41:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SNAR EAID PGOV PREL PE |
| 05LIMA1418 |
THIRD NATIONAL COCALERO CONGRESS A BUST [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Third National Congress of the National Confederation of Agricultural Producers of the Coca Valleys (CONPACCP), held 3/14-18 outside Lima, was largely a bust. Cocaleros from the Monzon and parts of the Apurimac-Ene Valley (VRAE) did not attend and a group led by Elsa Malpart [...] |
2005-03-23 22:53:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV SNAR PTER PE |
| 05LIMA1564 |
GOP RESPONDS QUICKLY TO CAMPESINO UNREST IN [...] (U) SUMMARY. The GOP responded quickly to road blockages last week by campesinos around Andahuaylas, Apurimac Department, declaring a 30-day state of emergency on 4/3, substantially increasing police presence in the area and offering to send a high-level negotiating commission to address the [...] |
2005-04-05 19:06:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINS PHUM ASEC PE |
| 05LIMA1606 |
PERUVIAN ARMY OFFICER TAKES HIS TROUBLES TO CITY [...] (U) A Peruvian Army Officer on 4/6 chose an unusual method to bring attention to a dispute with his superiors. Lieutenant Colonel Carlos Soto Sarmiento arrived at the Mayor's Office in the regional capital of Moquegua with 35 of his troops to denounce alleged mistreatment he had been submitted [...] |
2005-04-06 22:45:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINS MARR PE |
| 05LIMA1660 |
MOVEMENT ON THE EXXON-MOBIL DISPUTE [...] (SBU) Summary. The Economic Commission of Congress is expected to deliberate on the Ministry of Finance (MEF) amendment to the tax law in upcoming weeks. The amendment would grant Exxon-Mobil a $15 million credit over the next three and half years. The Mining and Petroleum Society (SNMPE) [...] |
2005-04-11 15:24:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINV EFIN ECON EPET KIDE PE |
| 05LIMA1728 |
ANDEAN FTA: LIMA ROUND SCENESETTER FOR A/USTR VARGO [...] (SBU) We very much look forward to your April 17-22 visit to Lima for the ninth round of the U.S.-Andean Free Trade Agreement (FTA) negotiations. Peruvian public support for the FTA, at 68 percent, continues to be the highest in the region and the government remains committed to concluding ne [...] |
2005-04-13 18:09:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECON PGOV PE |
| 05LIMA1795 |
COMMUNITY OF DEMOCRACIES: ENCOURAGING CONSTRUCTIVE [...] (SBU) On 4/15, D/Polcoun delivered reftel points with U.S. views on the April 28-30 Community of Democracies Ministerial to Foreign Ministry North American Affairs Director Nestor Popolizio, and to Human Rights and Social Affairs Director Carlos Roman. Popolizio told Emboff that he expected Fo [...] |
2005-04-18 11:57:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KDEM PREL PE |
| 05LIMA1852 |
COMMUNITY OF DEMOCRACIES: PERU ON ELECTION [...] (SBU) On 4/19, D/Polcoun delivered reftel points and concept paper on the U.S. proposal for developing election standards and assessment mechanisms to Foreign Ministry Human Rights and Social Affairs Director Carlos Roman. Roman told Emboff on 4/21 that he had forwarded the U.S. proposal to F [...] |
2005-04-21 17:04:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KDEM PREL PE |
| 05LIMA2017 |
ANOTHER ATPDEA DISPUTE OVER; LUZ DEL SUR AND [...] (SBU) Summary. Good news on three commercial disputes. Arcadis signed its contract for an environmental remediation project, completely resolving that dispute. In the Luz del Sur case, The Tax Court has a new valuation of the U.S. company's assets (similar to the firm's initial appraisal) a [...] |
2005-05-02 22:17:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINV ECON ETRD PGOV PE |
| 05LIMA2018 |
FOREIGN MINISTER CLAIMS CHARGES THAT CHILE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Foreign Minister Manuel Rodriguez told the Ambassador that the resusitation of charges that Chile supplied Ecuador with arms during the latter's 1995 border conflict with Peru would make it difficult for Peru to join consensus on the election of Chilean Jose Miguel Insulza as O [...] |
2005-05-03 11:45:00 | Embassy Lima | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PE |
| 05LIMA2025 |
CAN PERU IMPROVE COMPETITION IN TELECOMS INDUSTRY? [...] (SBU) Summary. Two recent developments in the telecommunications industry have GOP officials pointing to improved competition in the market. America Movil, a Mexican company owned by Carlos Slim, acquired the fourth mobile band on March 30 and should begin operations by early 2006. The Mi [...] |
2005-05-03 16:47:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECPS ECON ETRD EINV PE |
| 05LIMA2027 |
USTR DISCUSSES MOBILE TERMINATION RATES WITH [...] (SBU) Summary. During the ninth round of U.S.-Andean Free Trade negotiations, USTR lead telecommunications negotiator Ken Shagrin met with both the Ministry of Communications (MTC) and Osiptel (Peru's telecommunications regulator) to discuss the lack of competition in the telecommunications [...] |
2005-05-03 17:46:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECPS ECON ETRD EINV PE |
| 05LIMA2030 |
PERU PARTIES SIGN ETHICAL ELECTION PACT GEARING UP [...] SUMMARY: Twenty-one political parties and organizations signed a comprehensive "Ethical Elections Pact" (EEP) on 4/28. The EEP signatories agreed to conform to existing legal limits on when, where, and what type of political propaganda can be promoted, as well as the prohibition against usin [...] |
2005-05-03 22:46:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV PE |
| 05LIMA2053 |
WILL AEROCONTINENTE RESUME FLIGHTS? [...] (SBU) Summary. OFAC King Pin designate and owner of the now defunct AeroContinente airlines, Fernando Zevallos, recently announced plans to resume domestic service of his airline. On May 1, AeroContinente announced job openings for pilots who can fly F28s, B737s, and B727s - all planes in th [...] |
2005-05-04 21:42:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR ECON ETRD EINV CASC PE |
| 05LIMA2054 |
CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEE REPORT ON FORGED [...] (U) SUMMARY: The three opposition party members of the congressional committee investigating allegations that President Alejandro Toledo's party forged signatures to register for the 2000 elections concluded that there was massive fraud and that Toledo was responsible. The two pro-GOP memb [...] |
2005-05-04 21:43:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINS PINR PE |
| 05LIMA2055 |
REVAMPING NAS SUPPORTED ERADICATION IN THE [...] (C) Peruvian National Police (PNP), with support from the Narcotics Affairs Section (NAS) support and encouragement, decided to go after illicit coca in conflictive zones of the Huallaga Valley in CY 2005. We planned coordinated interdiction and eradication ops for March and April in the Yan [...] |
2005-05-04 22:37:00 | Embassy Lima | CONFIDENTIAL | SNAR PE |
| 05LIMA2061 |
PERU REJECTS CHILE'S RESPONSE ON ARMS SHIPMENTS TO [...] (C) SUMMARY: Prime Minister Carlos Ferrero announced at a 5/3 press conference that the GOP considered "completely unsatisfactory" the Chilean Government's response to Peru's diplomatic note protesting Chile's 1995 arms deliveries to Ecuador (Ref A). Consequently, Ferrero continued, Peru wa [...] |
2005-05-05 19:40:00 | Embassy Lima | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PE CI |
| 05LIMA2074 |
BOWEN DECISION CAUSES OUTRAGE, THREATENS PRESS [...] (U) Judge Alfredo Catacora of the 11th Criminal Court of Lima on 5/4 convicted British journalist Sally Bowen, her co-author Jane Holligan, and their publisher of criminal defamation for quoting in their book "The Imperfect Spy" an imprisoned narcotrafficker's assertion that narco-kingpin Fer [...] |
2005-05-06 15:41:00 | Embassy Lima | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PHUM PINR SCUL PE |
| 05LIMA2080 |
PERU: OAS WORKING GROUP ON RACISM [...] Poloff delivered the demarche on the proposed OAS Working Group on Racism (Reftel) to the Foreign Ministry's Director of Human Rights, Carlos Roman, and to its Director of OAS and Hemispheric Affairs, Carlos Chocano, on 5/5. Neither offered an official reply. Chocano indicated, however, that [...] |
2005-05-06 20:20:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM AORC PE USOAS |
| 05LIMA2111 |
PERU: NARCOTICS AFFAIRS SECTION, APRIL 2005 [...] (SBU) On April 7, CORAH started eradication in the hard-core zone of Polvora-Pizana north of Santa Lucia in the Huallaga Valley. The eradicators and their police security units encountered stiff resistance by some cocaleros, including rock-throwing that damaged 3 INL helicopters in 2 separat [...] |
2005-05-10 15:38:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SNAR KCRM ASEC PREL PE |
| 05LIMA2115 |
TINTAYA MINE: FROM CONFLICT TO COOPERATION [...] (SBU) Conflicts between communities and mining companies are among the most serious problems that confront Peru. One company, however, stands out as an exception: BHP Billiton, an Australian firm with a copper mine in Tintaya, has succeeded in ameliorating once highly conflictive relations w [...] |
2005-05-10 19:12:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINV EMIN SOCI ETRD ECON EAID ENRG PGOV PHUM PE |
| 05LIMA2132 |
FUROR CONTINUES IN SALLY BOWEN CASE [...] (U) British journalist Sally Bowen may have been convicted for defamation in a Peruvian court, but her cause continues to gain converts and momentum in the court of public opinion. Bowen found herself bolstered from support by a variety of sources over the weekend, including: the British and [...] |
2005-05-11 15:40:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV KPAO PE |
| 05LIMA2133 |
FUNDING FOR INITIAL ENTRY ROTARY WING TRAINING FOR [...] NAS LIMA provides fiscal data to cover 6 slots for Peruvian students for the development and implementation of an Initial Entry Rotary Wing training program to be held from June 28 through October 24, 2005 for the total amount of USD 365,910. USD 365,910 19 4611540000 00 0136407070 0136 2770 [...] |
2005-05-11 16:41:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED | SNAR EAIR ABUD PE |
| 05LIMA2158 |
COCALEROS ATTRACTIVE TO POLITICAL GROUPS BUT [...] (C) Summary: Although the various cocalero groups remain fragmented with no national leadership or strategy, they are courted by disparate radical elements in Peruvian society who view the cocaleros as potential allies. In addition, there is evidence that narcotraffickers are arming and radical [...] |
2005-05-12 18:49:00 | Embassy Lima | CONFIDENTIAL | SNAR ASEC PGOV PTER PE |
| 05LIMA2180 |
TOLEDO MAINTAINS HARD LINE ON 1995 CHILEAN ARMS [...] (U) President Alejandro Toledo is maintaining the GOP's hard line on Chile's 1995 arms deliveries to Ecuador. In a declaration made on 5/10 while attending the South American Arab Summit in Brasilia, Toledo announced that the issue will not/not be resolved and there will be no/no 2x2 meeting [...] |
2005-05-13 20:46:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PE CI |
| 05LIMA2185 |
REGIONAL PRESIDENT YEHUDE SIMON: MOVING AHEAD ON [...] (C) SUMMARY. Lambayeque Regional President Yehude Simon briefed the Ambassador 5/4 on the extensive consultations he has carried out to smooth the way for the SOUTHCOM New Horizons Exercise anticipated for next year. Simon expressed confidence he would win a referendum on creating a northern [...] |
2005-05-13 22:28:00 | Embassy Lima | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV MARR ETRD ECON PE |
| 05LIMA2187 |
KILLINGS AND KIDNAPPINGS BY INDIGENOUS GROUP [...] (SBU) Summary: The murder of four health workers followed by the kidnapping of a journalist and his assistant by indigenous Aguaruna tribesmen sparked speculation that these incidents were linked to efforts to cover up local opium cultivation and trafficking. An ongoing police investigatio [...] |
2005-05-13 22:31:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SNAR ASEC PGOV PINS PE |
| 05LIMA2222 |
IS IT PERU'S TURN TO HAVE A CONSTITUTIONAL CRISIS? [...] (C) On the afternoon of May 17, Prime Minister Carlos Ferrero asked urgently to meet with the Ambassador. Ferrero related that the government is seriously concerned that Peru,s Congress, at the instance of the APRA legislative block, might vote on May 19 to suspend President Toledo from off [...] |
2005-05-18 15:43:00 | Embassy Lima | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINS PREL PE |
| 05LIMA2223 |
PERU'S PARTICIPATION IN THE FOURTH GLOBAL FORUM ON [...] No summary [...] |
2005-05-18 15:53:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL SOCI AMGT ASEC CPAS CVIS KCRM KFRD PINR PINS PE BR |
| 05LIMA2226 |
ACTING FOREIGN MINISTER ON HANDLING OF RELATIONS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Acting Foreign Minister Armando Lecaros, in response to a query from the Ambassador during a meeting on 5/16, stated that the Foreign Ministry has worked closely with President Alejandro Toledo in handling the crisis in bilateral relations with Chile over the latter's delivery o [...] |
2005-05-18 16:11:00 | Embassy Lima | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PE CI |
| 05LIMA2235 |
AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES FREE TRADE IN PIURA [...] (SBU) Summary. During a May 5-6 trip to Piura in northern Peru, the Ambassador met with local dignitaries to discuss free trade and economic development, inaugurated a new AID-sponsored small business center, toured a local textile plant, and visited Peace Corps volunteers. Although the Wor [...] |
2005-05-18 18:52:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD EINV ECON PGOV PE |
| 05LIMA2241 |
AMBASSADOR MEETS WITH OPPOSITION LEADERS, RECEIVES [...] (C) The Ambassador, on 5/18, met separately with APRA leader Alan Garcia and Unidad Nacional Legislative Bloc leader Xavier Barron (Unidad Nacional leader Lourdes Flores had agreed to meet the Ambassador but fell ill). According to both Garcia and Barron, the opposition parties in Congress [...] |
2005-05-18 23:56:00 | Embassy Lima | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINS PREL PE |
| 05LIMA2249 |
OPPOSITION LEADERS TELL AMBASSADOR THEY WILL NOT [...] (C) The Ambassador met separately with APRA leader Alan Garcia and Unidad Nacional legislative bloc chief Xavier Barron on 5/18 to express concern over reports that opposition parties might stretch the Constitution to sanction President Alejandro Toledo over allegations that he and his Peru [...] |
2005-05-19 18:54:00 | Embassy Lima | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINS PREL PE |
| 05LIMA2250 |
OPPOSITION PARTY PROPOSALS AFFECTING PRESIDENT [...] (U) SUMMARY: Congress, on 5/19, is expected to debate at least three proposals to sanction President Alejandro Toledo for his alleged involvement in fraud in connection with the registration of his Peru Posible party for the 2000 elections. Most of the proposed sanctions are of doubtful co [...] |
2005-05-19 18:56:00 | Embassy Lima | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINS PREL PE |
| 05LIMA2254 |
GRADUATING COUNTERNARCOTICS CADETS INCREASE PNP [...] (U) SUMMARY: On May 12, almost 200 new Peruvian National Police (PNP) cadets graduated from two police academies in the heart of the coca source zones. These academies were conceived, constructed and fully equipped by Embassy NAS. The 200 graduates are the first batch of a planned 2000 more c [...] |
2005-05-19 20:49:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC SNAR EAID PGOV PE |
| 05LIMA2271 |
AN EYE FOR A VISA -- FAKING EYE INJURIES TO GET [...] (U) Summary: Post's Fraud Prevention Unit was contacted by internal auditors for the Peruvian Ministry of Women and Social Development (MIMDES) who were auditing the National Council for Integration for the Handicapped (CONADIS). During the course of their audit, they determined that someone [...] |
2005-05-20 14:46:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KFRD CVIS KCRM ASEC CMGT CJAN PE |
| 05LIMA2282 |
CONGRESS AVOIDS VOTE ON PROPOSED TOLEDO SANCTIONS, [...] SUMMARY: In a stormy plenary session that lasted nearly 16 hours, the Congress finally voted 56-47 to send the documents amassed by the committee investigating President Alejandro Toledo and his Peru Posible party for registration fraud (Villanueva Committee) to the Public Ministry for use i [...] |
2005-05-20 19:50:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PINS PREL PE |
| 05LIMA2302 |
PERU AND CHILE SETTLE DIFFERENCES OVER 1995 ARMS [...] SUMMARY: A Joint Declaration, signed by the Foreign Ministers of Peru and Chile on May 22, has settled the bilateral squabble over Chile's delivery of arms to Ecuador during the 1995 Peru-Ecuador border conflict. The Joint Declaration referred to the Chilean Foreign Ministry's Public Declar [...] |
2005-05-23 19:19:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PINS PE CI |
| 05LIMA2320 |
GOP EXTENDS STATE OF EMERGENCY FOR 60 MORE DAYS [...] Via a Supreme Decree signed by President Toledo on May 20, the Government extended for two more months the State of Emergency first declared in May of 2003. The Presidential Decree carried over the State of Emergency in the same geographic area covered by the most recent extensions, dated Ma [...] |
2005-05-24 20:33:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PINS PTER PHUM ASEC PE |
| 05LIMA2324 |
Revocation Request - Visas Issued to Malafide [...] (U) Post submitted reftel reporting on mala fide applicants who obtained non-immigrant visas by faking a medical handicap. Applicants had appeared at the Embassy with one eye glued shut to simulate a vision problem requiring medical attention in the United States. The applicants paid visa fi [...] |
2005-05-25 13:25:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KFRD CVIS KCRM ASEC CMGT CJAN PE |
| 05LIMA2335 |
STRIKES BY AGRICULTURAL PRODUCERS AFFECT TEN [...] (SBU) Agricultural producers from 10 departments, all with distinct agendas, began a series of strikes and road blockages on 5/23. The GOP quickly reached an accommodation with potato growers in the south, and remains in negotiation with rice farmers from the north. Textile manufacturers and [...] |
2005-05-25 21:47:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINS EAGR ETRD CASC PE |
| 05LIMA2341 |
PERU: FISCAL RESTRAINT FOR ILO PROPOSED BUDGET, [...] No summary [...] |
2005-05-26 16:31:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED | ELAB PE AROC ILO |
| 05LIMA2342 |
OPPOSITION APRA PARTY DECIDES TO DROP PROPOSED [...] (U) APRA Congresswoman (and Chairwoman of the party's Political Committee) Mercedes Cabanillas announced 5/25 that the APRA legislative bloc had decided to drop its planned resolution calling for a "political trial" of President Alejandro Toledo on allegations that he was involved in forging [...] |
2005-05-26 16:59:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINS PE |
| 05LIMA2376 |
MORE COCALERO INFIGHTING; BOMBS SIGNAL [...] (U) SUMMARY: Monzon cocaleros' highly publicized rejection of Huallaga cocalero leader Nancy Obregon (for allegedly being too conciliatory to the GOP) is a parable for the fact that continued cocalero fragmentation is going hand-in-hand with a new radicalization. There are other disturbing si [...] |
2005-05-27 15:35:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SNAR EAID ETRD PGOV ASEC PE |
| 05LIMA2377 |
THRUSH AIRCRAFT SEARCHES FOR OPIUM POPPIES AMID [...] (U) SUMMARY: Cocalero leader Elsa Malpartida has renewed the groundless rumors of GOP coca fumigation, this time citing the presence of a U.S. Thrush surveillance aircraft. To counter these allegations, the Mission continues a concerted public affairs effort that included a tour of the Thrush [...] |
2005-05-27 15:36:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC SNAR EAID ETRD PGOV PE |
| 05LIMA2397 |
ADDITIONAL SUPPORT FOR U.S. HUMAN RIGHTS CANDIDATE [...] (C) The Ambassador reiterated our request for Peru to support the candidacy of Paolo Carozza for commissioner on the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (Ref B) to Foreign Ministry Under Secretary for Political Affairs Oscar Maurtua on 5/27. Maurtua said that Peru is being heavily lob [...] |
2005-05-27 22:13:00 | Embassy Lima | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM PE BO |
| 05LIMA2444 |
PERU'S TROUBLED FOREST CONCESSION PROCESS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Three years after Peru began implementing a modern forest concession system - to wide acclaim - concessions remain unconsolidated and problematic. Lack of concessionaire funds, delays in management plan approval, lack of GOP capacity to oversee concessions, and competing land c [...] |
2005-06-02 15:19:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV ETRD EINV ECON PGOV SNAR PE |
| 05LIMA2451 |
NEW PERUVIAN NATIONAL AIRPORT POLICE DIVISION [...] (SBU) Post's Fraud Prevention Unit (FPU) continues to actively engage with Peruvian officials to rout out corruption among the ranks of more than seven different police units operating at Lima's Jorge Chavez International Airport (JCIA). These discussions led to the idea of one, overall divis [...] |
2005-06-02 18:00:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KFRD CVIS KCRM ASEC CMGT CJAN PE |
| 05LIMA2461 |
PERU TO SUPPORT U.S. CANDIDATE FOR INTER-AMERICAN [...] No summary [...] |
2005-06-02 20:59:00 | Embassy Lima | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM PE BO OAS |
| 05LIMA2509 |
TELECOMS REGULATOR ISSUES TEMPORARY MOBILE [...] (SBU) Summary. On May 26, Peruvian telecommunications regulator OSIPTEL issued a temporary mobile termination rate of $0.2053 for all carriers. According to OSIPTEL President Edwin San Roman, OSIPTEL is still working to establish a cost-based mobile termination rate, which should be publish [...] |
2005-06-06 18:58:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECPS ECON ETRD EINV PE |
| 05LIMA2523 |
PERU'S TEXTILE EXPORTS INCREASE 13 PERCENT IN Q1 [...] (U) Summary. Peru's textile industry witnessed a 13 percent increase in exports during the first quarter of 2005 year-on-year, despite local fears that the end of the Multi- Fiber Agreement (MFA) would limit the Peruvian textile industry's ability to compete internationally. The GOP, noting [...] |
2005-06-06 22:30:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KTEX ETRD ECON PGOV PREL PE |
| 05LIMA2540 |
TINTAYA MINE: FROM CONCILIATION TO CONFLICT [...] (U) Problems remain at BHP Billiton's Tintaya Mine in the wake of the May 23-25 agricultural strike (Ref A). Protesters temporarily occupied part of the mine's facilities on 5/24, demanding that the company revise a September 2003, Oxfam America-brokered agreement with local communities where [...] |
2005-06-07 16:28:00 | Embassy Lima | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINS EAGR ETRD CASC PE |
| 05LIMA2546 |
FY 2006 Narcotics Certification for Peru [...] Peru has cooperated fully in the bilateral drug program with the United States. This report is based on the benchmarks. 2. Coca reduction - The goal is to reduce the amount of coca for illicit uses under cultivation through eradication of illegal coca to 27,800 hectares as measured by th [...] |
2005-06-07 19:16:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED | SNAR |
| 05LIMA2550 |
MYTH BUSTER: COCA-FREE WAYS TO SUPPORT YOUR FAMILY [...] Summary: A USG-funded program helps break the myth that poor farmers in Peru can only feed and educate their kids by growing coca. The Institute of Tropical Crops (ICT), supported primarily by INL, helps farmers manage an integrated mix of crops, centered on cacao. During a recent visit, [...] |
2005-06-07 21:07:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL SNAR EAID PE |
| 05LIMA2551 |
VENEZUELA MEDDLING IN PERUVIAN POLITICS [...] (S) Ambassador requested a one-on-one meeting with Foreign Minister Rodriguez Cuadros June 6 to discuss the Venezuelan government,s involvement with violent, extremist Peruvian organizations. The Ambassador noted that the Embassy had learned late last week that Venezuela,s Ambassador-desig [...] |
2005-06-07 21:15:00 | Embassy Lima | SECRET//NOFORN | PE PGOV PREL VE |
| 05LIMA2553 |
GOP RESPONSE TO AGRICULTURAL STRIKE! PROMISES, [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In a four-day strike, that ended May 27, agricultural producers in ten departments put up roadblocks demanding import controls and price supports and concessions/protections for agriculture in the FTA negotiations. However, in some areas only a 15-day pause was agreed upon, hin [...] |
2005-06-07 21:54:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OTRA EAGR EC |
| 05LIMA2554 |
FOREIGN MINISTER ON PONDERING INITIATIVE ON [...] (U) This is an action message for WHA and INL. See para 6. 2. (C) In the course of a meeting to discuss Venezuelan meddling with Peruvian extremist groups, Foreign Minister Rodriguez Cuadros told the Ambassador that the inroads Bolivarian movements have made among cocaleros in Bolivia [...] |
2005-06-07 22:06:00 | Embassy Lima | CONFIDENTIAL | PE PGOV |
| 05LIMA2565 |
GOP RESPONSE TO AGRICULTURAL STRIKE! PROMISES, [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In a four-day strike, that ended May 27, agricultural producers in ten departments put up roadblocks demanding import controls and price supports and concessions/protections for agriculture in the FTA negotiations. However, in some areas only a 15-day pause was agreed upon, hin [...] |
2005-06-08 17:03:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OTRA EAGR EC |
| 05LIMA2571 |
ANDEAN COMMUNITY ISSUES STATEMENT SUPPORTING [...] (U) Acting in his capacity as President of the Andean Community Council, Foreign Minister Manuel Rodriguez issued a statement on 6/7 expressing support for constitutional norms and democratic institutions in Bolivia. Embassy's informal translation of the statement follows: (begin text) A [...] |
2005-06-08 19:59:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PE BL |
| 05LIMA2589 |
FUJIMORI EXTRADITION CASE HAS PROBLEMS SAYS EXPERT [...] (C) The GOP's case to compel Japan to extradite former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori is poorly organized and filled with errors, according to noted human rights lawyer and former Truth and Reconciliation Executive Secretary Javier Ciurlizza (strictly protect). Foreign Minister Rodrigue [...] |
2005-06-09 19:53:00 | Embassy Lima | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PINR PREL PE |
| 05LIMA2600 |
VISIT OF STAFFDEL WALKER TO PERU [...] SUMMARY. (SBU) During a busy two-day visit, Staffdel Walker raised pending U.S. company commercial disputes, trafficking of narcotics and persons, and the benefits of an U.S.-Andean Free Trade Agreement (FTA) in discussions with Members of Congress, high-ranking government officials, and pri [...] |
2005-06-10 14:49:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECON SNAR EFIN EINV SOCI PGOV PE |
| 05LIMA2601 |
PERU PONDERS DANINO OR OTHE... [...] (SBU) At least five major Peruvian dailies, plus "The Economist," have speculated over the last week that the GOP will make a major push for the candidacy of a Peruvian to replace IDB President Enrique Iglesias, who announced his resignation May 31. (Note: Iglesias will leave his post Septem [...] |
2005-06-10 14:54:00 | Embassy Lima | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL EAID EFIN PE |
| 05LIMA2616 |
Peruvian Congressman involved in visa fraud [...] (SBU) According to a recent investigative report in the newspaper "Correo" dated March 17, 2005, Peruvian Congressman Roger SANTA MARIA Del Aguila, DPOB: September 26, 1950, Peru, appears to have been involved in visa/passport fraud by fraudulently filing a birth registration for a child who i [...] |
2005-06-10 22:28:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KFRD CVIS PGOV PE |
| 05LIMA2625 |
PERU AND CHILE AGREE TO RESUME "TWO PLUS TWO" [...] In a press release issued on June 10, Peru's Foreign Ministry announced that Peruvian FM Rodriguez and Chilean FM Walker had decided to convene a meeting on July 6 of the "2 plus 2" mechanism, the consultative group made up of the Foreign and Defense Ministers of the two countries. This step [...] |
2005-06-13 19:15:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PINS PE CI |
| 05LIMA2642 |
SEIZURE OF MAJOR COCAINE HCL LABORATORY IN APURIMAC [...] (SBU) Summary: On June 9, 2005, PNP DIRANDRO Special Operations Group, aided by NAS helicopters, seized a major cocaine HCL laboratory on the River Ene in the VRAE. At the site, the Special Ops group found half a metric ton of cocaine hcl along with 1 metric ton of cocaine base, as well as 3 [...] |
2005-06-14 14:33:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL ASEC SNAR PE |
| 05LIMA2674 |
UNODC ANDEAN COCA SURVEYS FOR 2004 SHOW EXPANSION [...] (SBU) Summary: UNODC's 2004 coca survey found a 14 pecent increase in coca cultivation over the previous year, totalling 50,300 hectares. Most of this increase occurred in the Upper Huallaga and San Gaban areas. The UNODC's findings match Embassy's observations; our current eradication sche [...] |
2005-06-15 19:04:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PE PREL SNAR UN |
| 05LIMA2686 |
UPDATE ON PERU NOMINATION FOR IDB PRESIDENCY [...] (C) Ambassador Struble spoke June 14 to Hector Quintero, Colombian Ambassador to Peru, regarding the visit of Colombian Ambassador to the U.S. Luis Alberto Moreno to Lima. Quintero explained that Ambassador Moreno had met with President Alejandro Toledo that morning to seek Peruvian support f [...] |
2005-06-16 14:31:00 | Embassy Lima | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL EAID EFIN PE |
| 05LIMA2692 |
PERUVIAN FINANCE MINISTER PPK WILL RUN FOR IDB [...] (C) Finance Minister Pedro Pablo Kuczynski (PPK) confirmed to the Ambassador in a private conversation June 16 that he will be a candidate to replace Enrique Iglesias as IDB President. PPK said that he told Toledo recently of his desire to leave the Finance Minister position in mid-August 20 [...] |
2005-06-16 16:16:00 | Embassy Lima | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL EAID EFIN PE |
| 05LIMA2698 |
MDA: CONFERENCE FOR THIRD ADDITIONAL PROTOCOL -- [...] No summary [...] |
2005-06-16 19:10:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PREF PHUM PE ICRC |
| 05LIMA2702 |
ORGANIZED CRIME GROUPS (C-CN5-00417) -- PERU [...] (C/NF) Information requested in Ref A regarding the activity in Peru of organized crimes groups based in specified countries is summarized below. The countries listed are the only ones from those cited in Ref A for which Embassy agencies possess significant background data. ------ Russia [...] |
2005-06-16 21:35:00 | Embassy Lima | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PINR PE |
| 05LIMA2720 |
VISIT OF PERUVIAN MINISTERS TO DISCUSS FTA [...] (C) Summary. Four Peruvian Ministers -- Trade, Finance, Agriculture, and Production -- will be traveling to Washington D.C. for high-level meetings with Deputy Secretary Zoellick, USTR Portman, Commerce Secretary Gutierrez, NSC Tom Shannon and several members of Congress, June 21-22. The Pe [...] |
2005-06-17 19:33:00 | Embassy Lima | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD PGOV EAGR PE ENIV |
| 05LIMA2748 |
REFORMING THE UN HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION (CHR): [...] (SBU) On 6/17, A/Polcouns delivered reftel points on CHR reform to Foreign Ministry Director of Human Rights Carlos Roman, stressing that we were aware of Peru's proposal for the creation of a body of a body of Independent Experts, and requesting a comprehensive review of the U.S. non-paper, in [...] |
2005-06-20 23:46:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL KUNR PE UNCHR |
| 05LIMA2751 |
VENEZUELAN EMBASSY'S SEMINAR ON THE SOCIAL CHARTER [...] (SBU) On 6/15, Political Section FSN Assistant attended a "Participative Forum/Workshop" sponsored by the Embassy of Venezuela in Lima entitled "The Social Charter of the Americas (SCA)." Summaries of the interventions by the scheduled speakers are provided below. 2. (U) Ambassador Jorge V [...] |
2005-06-21 17:03:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV SOCI VE PE |
| 05LIMA2791 |
AMERICAN MUSIC ABROAD [...] Post applauds the re-establishment of the formerly Jazz Ambassadors program through the American Music Abroad and would like to be considered in one of the 2006 tours. 2. We prefer the month of February and a weeklong tour (5 program days plus 2 travel days). Best days for performances i [...] |
2005-06-22 20:46:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP PE |
| 05LIMA2840 |
THE "U.S. DESIGNS ON THE AMAZON" MYTH RESURFACES [...] (S) SUMMARY. The Ambassador and a USDAO member have confronted Peruvian officials concerning a Peruvian Army officer's briefing at a bilateral intelligence conference in Quito that depicted the U.S. as the principal security threat to Peru, and alleged that the U.S. had plans to take over the [...] |
2005-06-27 15:41:00 | Embassy Lima | SECRET | PGOV PREL PINS MARR PE EC |
| 05LIMA2919 |
PRESIDENTIAL ADVISORS ON POLITICAL SCENE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Two top presidential political counselors recently reviewed the political scene with Polcouns. They were optimistic that President Alejandro Toledo and the GOP will work out a modus vivendi with the opposition parties on a new Congress President and a smooth transition to the [...] |
2005-07-05 15:26:00 | Embassy Lima | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV EFIN PREL PINS PE |
| 05LIMA3006 |
FINANCE MINISTER NOMINATED FOR IDB PRESIDENCY [...] On July 8, the Foreign Ministry convoked the diplomatic corps to announce the GOP's nomination of Finance Minister Pedro Pablo Kuczynski (PPK) as its candidate to replace Enrique Iglesias as President of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB). At the end of the day, Post received a diplom [...] |
2005-07-11 15:01:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN PGOV PREL PE |
| 05LIMA3075 |
PERU ON G-4 FRAMEWORK RESOLUTION FOR UN REFORM [...] (SBU) Ambassador delivered reftel demarche on 7/13 to Foreign Minister Manuel Rodriguez. Ambassador stressed that it would be counterproductive to call for a vote now on the G-4 resolution on Security Council (UNSC) expansion -- the resolution is contrary to the interests of many important co [...] |
2005-07-14 16:23:00 | Embassy Lima | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PE UNSC |
| 05LIMA3113 |
AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES UN REFORM PRIORITIES WITH [...] (SBU) On 7/13, the Ambassador discussed Ref B talking points on overall UN reform priorities of the USG with Foreign Minister Manuel Rodriguez; their exchange on Security Council Reform and the G-4 Resolution was reported in Ref A. The Ambassador emphasized the critical nature of the reform pr [...] |
2005-07-15 23:02:00 | Embassy Lima | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KUNR AORC PE UNSC |
| 05LIMA3250 |
PERU STILL UNDECIDED ON G-4 RESOLUTION [...] No summary [...] |
2005-07-26 21:11:00 | Embassy Lima | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KUNR PE UNSC UNGA |
| 05LIMA3252 |
PRESIDENT TOLEDO HAS NOT YET DECIDED ON G-4 [...] No summary [...] |
2005-07-26 22:36:00 | Embassy Lima | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KUNR PE UNSC UNGA |
| 05LIMA3253 |
WAY-AHEAD FOR CREATING THE UN PEACEBUILDING [...] No summary [...] |
2005-07-26 22:47:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KUNR KPKO PE UNSC UNGA ECOSOC |
| 05LIMA3256 |
FOOD AID AND THE WTO [...] On Friday July 1 Ambassador J. Curtis Struble met with Foreign Relations Minister Ambassador Manuel Rodriguez Cuadros of Peru and delivered the talking points in reftel. Subsequently, a translation of the talking points was sent in a letter from the Ag Attache to the Ministers of Economy and [...] |
2005-07-27 18:01:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID EAGR ETRD WTRO |
| 05LIMA3261 |
GOVERNING PARTY CANDIDATE ELECTED AS PRESIDENT OF [...] (U) On July 26, 2005, the Peruvian Congress elected Marcial Ayaipoma, the candidate of President Alejandro Toledo,s ruling Peru Posible (PP) Party, as its new President, succeeding Antero Flores Araoz. Although Ayaipoma ran unchallenged, his election proved difficult. The opposition APRA and U [...] |
2005-07-27 18:44:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR PE |
| 05LIMA3289 |
PERUVIAN GOVERNMENT STRENGTHENS ANTI-PIRACY EFFORTS [...] (SBU) Summary. The GOP, recognizing that intellectual property violations have escalated in recent years, is making a concerted effort to improve its anti-piracy efforts. Indecopi, Peru's IPR administrator, continues to work closely with the tax agency SUNAT and the police and has conducted [...] |
2005-08-01 20:19:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD KIPR PE |
| 05LIMA3331 |
UN HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL: GAINING SUPPORT FOR USG [...] Poloff delivered the demarche on gaining support for the USG proposal to create a UN Human Rights Council to replace the UN Human Rights Commission to Carlos Roman, the Foreign Ministry's Director of Human Rights, on 8/2. Roman said Peru supported the principles behind the U.S. initiative, bu [...] |
2005-08-03 20:11:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL PE UNCHR UNGA |
| 05LIMA3337 |
TOLEDO'S STATE OF THE NATION SPEECH [...] A confident President Alejandro Toledo delivered his annual State of the Nation speech on 7/28, in which he touted his administration's economic, political and social successes; emphasized that these accomplishments were achieved in conjunction with the Congress, political parties and the pop [...] |
2005-08-03 21:39:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV ECON PREL PHUM PE |
| 05LIMA3341 |
EU AMBASSADOR PROVIDES READOUT ON SOUTH AMERICAN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Ambassador met with EU Ambassador Mendel Goldstein on 7/27 to convey concerns about statements attributed to EU External Relations Commissioner Benita Ferrero-Waldner that appeared to criticize U.S. counternarcotics policies in the Andes. Goldstein stated that Ferrero-Waldne [...] |
2005-08-03 21:48:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SNAR PREL ETRD PTER EU PE |
| 05LIMA3366 |
DGAC GRANTS AEROCONTINENTE FLIGHT PERMISSIONS [...] (SBU) Summary. The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGAC) in mid-June presented OFAC-listed Narcotics Kingpin Fernando Zevallos documentation granting flight permissions to Zevallos' new airline, AeroContinente EIRL. AeroContinente, which plans to use five planes - two Fokkers and 3 Ai [...] |
2005-08-04 20:44:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR ECON ETRD EINV CASC PE |
| 05LIMA3375 |
CAMISEA GREENLIGHT: REPSOL TO EXPORT LNG [...] (U) SUMMARY: Hunt Oil's liquefied natural gas project cleared its last major hurdle to securing financing for its planned Peru plant. On August 1,Spanish firm Repsol agreed to buy the 4 million annual tons of LNG for 18.5 years. Hunt hopes to secure financing and begin construction of the LNG [...] |
2005-08-05 12:39:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG SENV EPET SOCI EINV ECON ETRD PGOV PE |
| 05LIMA3379 |
NEW PRO-CHAVEZ PUBLICATION IN LIMA [...] SUMMARY: A pro-Chavez, leftist publication entitled "Wankar" ("the Song of the People" in Quechua) recently appeared in Lima. The first issue has a slick paper cover with a dramatic color photo of Chavez sporting his commando cap, his fist raised in the air. The masthead of the magazine as [...] |
2005-08-05 15:28:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PINR PREL PE VE |
| 05LIMA3414 |
Peru's Evangelicals: A Rising Force [...] (SBU) This is the first in a three-part series on Peru's Evangelical Christians. This cable traces the recent history of this key emerging sector. The second will delineate the Evangelicals' political strategy for the upcoming presidential and congressional elections. The final cable will [...] |
2005-08-08 22:28:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV PE |
| 05LIMA3415 |
Peru's Evangelicals: Political Strategy [...] (U) This is the second in a three-part series on Peruvian Evangelicals. It will delineate their political strategy for the upcoming presidential and congressional elections. -------- Summary: -------- 2. (U) Peruvian Evangelical Christians fervently believe that Peru needs thoroughg [...] |
2005-08-08 22:30:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV PE |
| 05LIMA3416 |
CUZCO COCA REGULATION - NO LEGAL IMPACT BUT [...] No summary [...] |
2005-08-09 14:18:00 | Embassy Lima | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC PGOV SNAR ETRD PE |
| 05LIMA3419 |
Letter of Agreement of Narcotics Control between [...] Post has completed discussions with the GOP on the text for an amendment to the 1996 Operating Agreement for the Project for Control of Narcotics last amended in September 2004 (Reftel). The amendment would incorporate Fiscal Year 05 funds in the amount of 57,932,000 dollars. We have agree [...] |
2005-08-09 15:22:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED | SNAR PREL PGOV PE |
| 05LIMA3429 |
SECRETARY RUMSFELD'S VISIT TO PERU: SCENESETTER [...] (C) Mr. Secretary, both my country team and the Peruvian Government are delighted that you are able to visit Peru. Within hours of learning that you would be stopping in Lima, President Toledo called me to say how important your visit is to him. The President has recently become concerned about [...] |
2005-08-09 18:34:00 | Embassy Lima | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON ETRD MARR PE |
| 05LIMA3434 |
PERUVIAN COMMITMENT TO UN MISSION IN HAITI [...] (C) Peruvian Defense Minister Roberto Chiabra, in recent conversations with Emboffs (most recently on 8/5 with the Ambassador), has echoed the concern expressed by UN SRSG Valdes that Chile and Argentina are leaning towards withdrawing their troops from MINUSTAH by June 2006 (Reftel). According to [...] |
2005-08-09 21:54:00 | Embassy Lima | CONFIDENTIAL | KPKO MARR PREL ASEC PE AA UN |
| 05LIMA3447 |
PLOTTING ANOTHER COME-BACK: DOES FORMER PRESIDENT [...] (C) SUMMARY. Former President Alberto Fujimori has done a masterful job maintaining his standing as a major political force in Peru, despite the fact that he remains exiled in Japan, is prohibited from holding public office here, and is the subject of extradition requests by the GOP. His sup [...] |
2005-08-10 17:23:00 | Embassy Lima | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINS KCRM PE |
| 05LIMA3466 |
SEEKING SUPPORT FOR REVISED U.S. APEC RADIOACTIVE [...] No summary [...] |
2005-08-11 14:41:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED | KNNP KSTC PARM ETTC EAID ETRD ECIN |
| 05LIMA3468 |
IRAN/IAEA: URGING SUPPORT FOR FIRM ACTION AGAINST [...] No summary [...] |
2005-08-11 16:44:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED | PARM PREL PE |
| 05LIMA3474 |
Peru: Human Rights Update [...] The following report provides a mid-year update on the Human Rights situation in Peru. It is not meant to be comprehensive, but rather to identify emerging trends and highlight key issues. Peru's human rights situation, in terms of the GOP's respect for the human rights of citizens, continu [...] |
2005-08-11 20:51:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PGOV PE |
| 05LIMA3476 |
APPOINTMENT OF FERNANDO OLIVERA AS FOREIGN [...] (U) SUMMARY: President Alejandro Toledo appointed coalition ally Fernando Olivera as Foreign Minister on 8/11; Prime Minister Carlos Ferrero and Housing Minister Carlos Bruce resigned in response. Health Minister Pilar Mazzetti and Justice Minister Eduardo Salhuana reportedly boycotted Oliv [...] |
2005-08-11 23:07:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PINR PE |
| 05LIMA3489 |
CABINET CRISIS AN INTERGOVERNMENTAL AFFAIR FOR [...] (C) SUMMARY: The 8/11 resignation of Prime Minister Carlos Ferrero, in response to the appointment of Fernando Olivera as Foreign Minister, forced the resignation of the entire Cabinet and resulted in a serious political dilemma for President Alejandro Toledo. It remains an intergovernment [...] |
2005-08-12 20:55:00 | Embassy Lima | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MARR PINR PE |
| 05LIMA3497 |
PROGRAM REPORTING: SPEAKER "THE IMPORTANCE OF ETHICS IN [...] Hiram Morales Lugo, Executive Director of the Puerto Rican Office of Government Ethics, and Vivian Sanes, Director of the Financial Reports Auditing Bureau of the same office, visited Peru from 21-22 July to conduct a workshop on financial disclosure reporting. The purpose of the program was [...] |
2005-08-12 22:14:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP PE |
| 05LIMA3498 |
DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON REMAINING IN HAITI FOR THE [...] No summary [...] |
2005-08-12 22:55:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KPKO MARR HA PE |
| 05LIMA3500 |
TERRORISM FINANCE: UNSCR 1617 IMPLEMENTATION [...] No summary [...] |
2005-08-15 11:56:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED | KTFN EFIN PTER PE |
| 05LIMA3501 |
RESULTS REPORT: DVC "FINANCIAL DISCLOSURE REPORTING FOR [...] As part of Post's efforts to aid the Peruvian government in their anti-corruption initiatives, PAS Lima organized a DVC on Financial Disclosure Reporting on 4 August. U.S. speaker, Carol E. Dixon, Counsel of the House of Representatives Committee on Standards of Official Conduct, shared inf [...] |
2005-08-15 13:06:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP PE |
| 05LIMA3502 |
REQUEST FOR A U.S. SPEAKER ON CULTURAL PROPERTY AND [...] Program description: In January 2002, a colonial altarpiece was stolen from Challapampa, Puno, a city on the banks of Lake Titicaca in the highlands of southern Peru. Thanks to law enforcement efforts by the FBI and DHS and to the legal framework provided by the Convention on Cultural Proper [...] |
2005-08-15 13:56:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP PE |
| 05LIMA3518 |
RESIGNATION OF FOREIGN MINISTER ENDS [...] (U) SUMMARY: The intergovernmental political crisis resulting from the resignation of Prime Minister Carlos Ferrero on 8/11, following the appointment of Fernando Olivera as Foreign Minister, was resolved the evening of 8/12, when President Alejandro Toledo asked Olivera to step down. Tole [...] |
2005-08-15 21:08:00 | Embassy Lima | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR PE |
| 05LIMA3534 |
AMERICA MOVIL BUYS PERU'S SECOND LARGEST MOBILE [...] (SBU) Summary. America Movil, one of the largest mobile telecommunications providers in South America, expanded its infant operations in Peru on August 11 with the $503 million purchase of TIM Peru. Although TIM, Peru's second largest mobile provider with 31 percent of the market, recently [...] |
2005-08-16 18:04:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECPS ECON ETRD EINV PE |
| 05LIMA3548 |
NEW PRIME MINISTER, FOREIGN MINISTER AND DEFENSE [...] (C) New Prime Minister-designate Pedro Pablo Kuczynski (PPK) phoned the Ambassador on the morning of 8/16 to confirm press reports that he would be sworn-in later that day as Prime Minister. The Ambassador inquired as to other Cabinet changes that might affect upcoming meetings with SECDEF. P [...] |
2005-08-16 21:59:00 | Embassy Lima | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PREL MARR PE |
| 05LIMA3549 |
CABINET INCLUDES SIX NEW FACES [...] (U) President Toledo swore in his new cabinet of ministers on 8/16. Pedro Pablo Kuczynski, previously Minister of Economy and Finance, became the Prime Minister. Six new cabinet members were approved: Oscar Maurtua Romana as Minister of Foreign Relations, Marciano Rengifo Ruiz as Minister of [...] |
2005-08-16 22:12:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PINR PREL ECON MARR PE |
| 05LIMA3554 |
PERU RESUMES FTA NEGOTIATIONS WITH THAILAND [...] (U) Summary. After almost 10 months of delay, the GOP resumed free trade talks with Thailand on August 15. During round six, held in Lima August 15-17, the GOP and GOT will negotiate chapters on market access, rules of origin, customs procedures and safeguards. GOP officials view Thailand [...] |
2005-08-17 16:00:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECON EAGR PGOV PREL PE |
| 05LIMA3555 |
NAMING OF KUCZYNSKI CABINET CALMS POLITICAL [...] SUMMARY: President Alejandro Toledo's 8/16 swearing-in of a new Cabinet, headed by Prime Minister Pedro Pablo Kuczynski (PPK), received a warm welcome from politicians across the political spectrum, the business sector and the media; calmed the recent political turbulence; and should not/not [...] |
2005-08-17 17:40:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PINR ECON SCUL PE |
| 05LIMA3562 |
PERU: PRESIDENT BUSH'S DEMOCRACY EVENT AT UN IN [...] No summary [...] |
2005-08-17 18:00:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL UNGA |
| 05LIMA3571 |
MAJAZ ANTI-MINING VIOLENCE ON ECUADOR BORDER [...] No summary [...] |
2005-08-17 21:24:00 | Embassy Lima | CONFIDENTIAL | EMIN PGOV SNAR ASEC EINV ENRG PE |
| 05LIMA3575 |
PERU SIGNS ON TO CNIES [...] On August 17, the Peruvian Ministry of External Affairs returned a diplomatic note to the Embassy signing on to the CNIES agreement. Final texts and diplomatic note will be e-mailed and pouched separately. The agreement provides for a regime of common rules for sorting and identifying suspec [...] |
2005-08-18 14:15:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED | MOPS PREL SNAR PE |
| 05LIMA3578 |
TRANSPORT MINISTER WILL NOT ATTEND WHTI MEETING [...] (U) Per reftel B, we have ascertained that Minister of Transportation and Communications Jose Ortiz will not/not attend the Western Hemisphere Transportation Initiative (WHTI) in Brazil, August 25-26. Vice Minister of Transportation Nestor Palacios will act as the GOP's lead delegate. 2. [...] |
2005-08-18 15:41:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR AORC ELTN EWWT PE |
| 05LIMA3588 |
FOREIGN MINISTRY EXPRESSES CONCERN OVER PERUVIAN [...] Embassy has received the following dip note from the Peruvian Foreign Affairs Ministry regarding the case of Edgar Vera Monte, a Peruvian who is on life support following an altercation with police in Allen, Texas on 8/4. "The Ministry of Foreign Relations, Office of the Secretary of Peruvi [...] |
2005-08-18 20:36:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM PREL PE |
| 05LIMA3593 |
NEW HOUSING MINISTER RUDECINDO VEGA [...] Summary. New Housing Minister Rudecindo Vega has served the last three years as Chief of Staff to outgoing Housing Minister Carlos Bruce. Since 2003, he also served as Technical Secretary to the GOP Interministerial Commission on Social Issues. Vega is a respected technocrat. He has had s [...] |
2005-08-18 22:14:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV ECON PE |
| 05LIMA3594 |
INTRODUCING MINISTER OF FINANCE FERNANDO ZAVALA [...] (SBU) Summary. On August 16, President Toledo appointed former Vice Minister of Economy Fernando Zavala Lombardi to replace Pedro Pablo Kuczynski as the Minister of Economy and Finance. Zavala, prior to his position as Vice Minister, served as General Manager of Indecopi (Peru's IPR Administ [...] |
2005-08-18 22:15:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN PGOV PREL PE ENIV |
| 05LIMA3609 |
MINING COMPANIES WORRIED ABOUT SECURITY [...] (SBU) Summary: The U.S. and Canadian Ambassadors hosted a meeting on August 11 for representatives of international mining companies to review their operating difficulties in Peru and to coordinate efforts to improve the investment climate. Consensus among the companies is that radical forces [...] |
2005-08-19 18:20:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EMIN ETRD SNAR PTER ECON EINV PGOV PE |
| 05LIMA3643 |
Peru: TIP Update [...] The following report traces GOP actions against Trafficking in Persons (TIP) and TIP-related events in Peru for the first half of 2005. The GOP continues to move against TIP. Nonetheless, as Peru advances from an initial strong start against human trafficking, the hard work of building inst [...] |
2005-08-22 19:51:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PGOV PE |
| 05LIMA3687 |
PERU BUYS BACK $1.5 BILLION IN PARIS CLUB DEBT [...] (U) Summary. The Peruvian Government on August 16 issued a $1.5 billion buyback of its Paris Club debt, sending checks to 13 Paris Club countries. The GOP expects the buyback to lighten the government's service burden over the next few years by an average of $360 million annually during the [...] |
2005-08-25 16:35:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN PREL PE ENIV |
| 05LIMA3784 |
A NEW INTERVIEW WITH SL LEADER COMRADE "ARTEMIO" [...] (C) SUMMARY. A Peruvian newspaper and a TV news program made public an interview with Sendero Luminoso (SL) Commander "Artemio," head of the largest SL faction still involved in combat operations. Leading daily La Republica published a portion of the interview on 8/28. Later that evening, Cuart [...] |
2005-09-01 14:57:00 | Embassy Lima | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER ASEC SNAR PINS PGOV PE |
| 05LIMA3794 |
ELI LILLY STRUGGLING WITH PATENT PIRACY [...] (SBU) Summary. Eli Lilly, one of the ten pharmaceutical companies that hold patents in Peru, continues to combat the piracy of one of its best selling products, Zyprexa. According to Eli Lilly representatives, two local distributors, Ozone and PharmaIndustria, are selling copies of Zyprexa o [...] |
2005-09-01 21:40:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD KIPR PE |
| 05LIMA3798 |
UPDATE ON ANTI-TERRORISM TRIALS IN PERU [...] (C) SUMMARY: According to Anti-Terrorism judges, convictions are expected in the "megatrials" of the Movimiento Revolucionario Tupac Amaru (MRTA) and Sendero Luminoso (SL) leaders. The defendants in the El Polo bombing case may be acquitted, however, but should remain in jail on other charges [...] |
2005-09-01 22:11:00 | Embassy Lima | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER KJUS PREL ASEC PE |
| 05LIMA3807 |
DEVELOPMENTS IN PERU'S RELATIONS WITH CHILE [...] (U) The Peruvian Ministry of Foreign Relations has posted several items on its website documenting Foreign Minister Oscar Maurtua's 8/23 visit to Santiago. Maurtua called on GOC officials, including President Lagos and Senate President Sergio Romero, as well as an extensive working meeting wit [...] |
2005-09-02 15:17:00 | Embassy Lima | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PE CI |
| 05LIMA3810 |
PERU: NARCOTICS AFFAIRS SECTION, JULY 2005 [...] (SBU) The Peruvian police (PNP), strengthened by the influx of graduates from NAS police academies in May, have been giving CORAH unprecedented support in eradication operations, allowing eradicators to continue despite stiff local resistance. Police support has also allowed CORAH to run si [...] |
2005-09-02 16:06:00 | Embassy Lima | CONFIDENTIAL | SNAR KCRM ASEC PREL PE |
| 05LIMA3813 |
ANTI-TERRORISM COURT ISSUES VERDICTS IN EL POLO [...] The National Anti-Terrorism Court convicted Wilbert Elqui Meza Magino of participating in the planning of the 3/20/2002 bombing at the El Polo shopping center across the street from the U.S. Embassy, and sentenced him to a 30-year prison term. Seven other co-defendants were acquitted of invol [...] |
2005-09-02 17:47:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED | PTER PINS ASEC KJUS PE |
| 05LIMA3824 |
DEMARCHE REQUEST: SUMMIT OF THE AMERICAS [...] Polcouns delivered the demarche on the Summit of the Americas Declaration and Plan of Action (Reftel) to Julio Garro, the Foreign Ministry's Director of Multilateral Affairs, and to Carlos Chocano, the Ministry's Director of OAS Affairs and Action Officer for the Summit of the Americas, on 9/ [...] |
2005-09-02 21:31:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED | KSUM ECON PGOV PE |
| 05LIMA3825 |
DEMARCHE ON DECLARATION ON INNOVATIVE SOURCES OF [...] Polcouns delivered the demarche on the Declaration on Innovative Sources of Financing for Development to Julio Garro, the Foreign Ministry's Director of Multilateral Affairs, on 9/2. Garro had no substantive comment to make on the declaration or on the USG's views of that document, but state [...] |
2005-09-02 21:32:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED | ECIN EAIR EAID EFIN PE UNGA |
| 05LIMA3826 |
DEVELOPMENT ISSUES IN THE UN HIGH LEVEL GENERAL [...] No summary [...] |
2005-09-02 21:34:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID ECIN PREL PE UNGA |
| 05LIMA3831 |
PERU OFFERS MEDICAL ASSISTANCE FOR VICTIMS OF [...] President Toledo and Foreign Minister Maurtua called the Ambassador on September 3, to offer assistance to the victims of Hurricane Katrina. They said that the GOP is prepared to send a plane carrying 80-100 doctors, as early as September 3, to treat Peruvian and non-Peruvians in Louisiana an [...] |
2005-09-03 13:40:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED | AEMR KPAO AMGT PREL PE |
| 05LIMA3832 |
UPDATE ON OFFER OF ASSISTANCE FROM PERU FOR [...] The Government of Peru, after being informed by the Ambassador of the priority needs listed in Ref B, is developing an assistance package likely to be composed of canned seafood (in lieu of MREs), sheets, t-shirts and non-pharmaceutical medical and veterinary supplies. (Note: President Aleja [...] |
2005-09-05 18:18:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED | AEMR EAID PREL PE |
| 05LIMA3838 |
IAEA COMMITTEE ON SAFEGUARDS AND VERIFICATION [...] Polcouns delivered the demarche on the IAEA Committee on Safeguards and Verification (Reftel) to Julio Garro, the Foreign Ministry's Director of Multilateral Affairs, on 9/2. Garro expressed satisfaction on the creation of the Committee. He added that while Peru will leave the IAEA Board at t [...] |
2005-09-06 15:10:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED | KNNP AORC TRGY ENRG PE |
| 05LIMA3847 |
CHANGING TACTICS:EXPLOSIVE DEVICES FOUND IN [...] (C) Summary: Between August 27-31, a total of 9 explosive devices were found by police and CORAH eradicators in the field during operations in the Santa Rosa area near Santa Lucia. One CORAH worker was hit and hospitalized when he triggered a device but the injuries were not life-threateni [...] |
2005-09-06 21:34:00 | Embassy Lima | CONFIDENTIAL | SNAR ASEC PREL PE |
| 05LIMA3854 |
TFUS01: SPECIFICS ON PERUVIAN OFFER OF ASSISTANCE [...] Foreign Minister Oscar Maurtua informed the Ambassador on 9/6, that Peru greatly desires to provide assistance to Hurricane Katrina victims soonest. Later that day, the Foreign Ministry's Action Officer for Hurricane Katrina assistance, Director of Secuirty and Defense Affairs Daul Matute, i [...] |
2005-09-07 11:51:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED | AEMR EAID PREL PE |
| 05LIMA3862 |
TFUS01: UPDATED SPECIFICS ON PERUVIAN OFFER OF [...] No summary [...] |
2005-09-07 19:14:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED | AEMR EAID PREL PE |
| 05LIMA3870 |
INVITATION FOR SECSTATE TO SPEAK BEFORE [...] Alejandro Miro Quesada, the President of the Inter-American Press Association (IAPA) and publisher of Peru's leading daily "El Comercio," has invited Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to address the opening session of the IAPA's General Assembly on 10/10 in Indianapolis, Indiana. A previous [...] |
2005-09-08 01:23:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED | OPDC PHUM PREL SOCI PE |
| 05LIMA3887 |
TFUS01: SOUTH AMERICAN COMMUNITY OF NATIONS [...] The Peruvian Foreign Ministry, on 9/5, issued a communique on behalf of the South American Community of Nations (CSN), over which Peru currently presides, expressing that organizations' solidarity with the American people in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, the willingness of its member sta [...] |
2005-09-08 20:21:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED | AEMR EAID PREL PE |
| 05LIMA3888 |
THE TOLEDO-URIBE MEETING AND PERU'S GAME PLAN FOR [...] (SBU) Summary: In separate meetings with the Ambassador the Ministers of Trade, Foreign Relations and Production described Toledo's one-day trip to Colombia as productive. The GOP believes Uribe was not previously aware of how much Colombia's FTA team is out of sync with Peru's. Peruvian bus [...] |
2005-09-08 20:57:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECON EINV PGOV PREL PE |
| 05LIMA3907 |
Request for speaker on Intellectual Property Rights [...] Program Description: The American Chamber of Commerce has requested our support in co-sponsoring the tenth annual conference on intellectual property rights to be held on October 19, 2005. The theme of this year's conference concerns the development and opportunities of IPR in international [...] |
2005-09-09 19:26:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP PE |
| 05LIMA3914 |
NEW PERM REP TO OAS [...] A Supreme Resolution published on 9/7 in the GOP's "Legal Norms" named Fernando de la Flor Arbulu as Peru's Permanent Representative to the Organization for American States (OAS). A subsequent Ministerial resolution will determine the date upon which De la Flor will assume responsibility. 2. [...] |
2005-09-09 20:45:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PINR PGOV PE OAS |
| 05LIMA3923 |
THREE PRESIDENTS INAUGURATE INTEROCEANIC HIGHWAY [...] (SBU) Summary. The Presidents of Peru, Bolivia and Brazil met in Madre de Dios, Peru on September 8, to inaugurate the $810 million Interoceanic Highway project, which will connect Brazil's Atlantic coast to Peru's Pacific coast. The governments expect the highway to be completed by 2010. [...] |
2005-09-09 22:02:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KTEX ETRD ECON PGOV PREL PE |
| 05LIMA3924 |
PERU WILL JOIN-DEMARCHE REPLY - AVIAN FLU [...] No summary [...] |
2005-09-09 22:18:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR ASEC EAID KSCA TBIO ECON PREL SOCI PE KSTH WHO |
| 05LIMA3925 |
TFUS01: ACCEPTANCE OF OFFER FOR ASSISTANCE FROM [...] Polcouns, on 9/11, informed Daul Matute, the Foreign Ministry's Director of Security and Defense Affairs (and Peru's coordinator for Hurricane Katrina assistance) of the USG's acceptance at this time of Peru's offer to provide 1600 bandages, and of its continuing review of Peru's other offers [...] |
2005-09-11 22:15:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED | AEMR EAID PREL US PE |
| 05LIMA3926 |
WHY AN URIBE/TOLEDO MEETING WITH PRESIDENT BUSH IS [...] (C) We understand that Peruvian Ambassador Ferrero soon will call on PDAS Shapiro and U/S Burns to request an October meeting between Presidents Toledo, Uribe and Bush. According to Foreign Minister Maurtua, the two Andean leaders decided during their September 5 consultations in Bogota (re [...] |
2005-09-11 22:16:00 | Embassy Lima | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ETRD PGOV PE CO |
| 05LIMA3974 |
ZEVALLOS ADVISOR HAS CLOSE TIES TO PERUVIAN [...] (C) Summary. OFAC-listed Narcotics Kingpin Fernando Zevallos, who sold two planes to cargo carrier Air Guinea in January, has enlisted Ricardo Hernandez as a front man in the transaction. Hernandez is a close advisor of Peruvian Congressman Victor Valdez, Chairman of the Congressional Transp [...] |
2005-09-13 22:31:00 | Embassy Lima | CONFIDENTIAL | EAIR SNAR CASC PGOV PE |
| 05LIMA3983 |
Eradication and Interdiction Program Status - [...] (SBU) With a backdrop of increased coca hectarage and cocaine production in Peru, NAS is facing challenges to step up eradication levels in a more conflictive environment. There have been two distinct phases in eradication and interdiction efforts this year. From January until the end of Ma [...] |
2005-09-14 15:28:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SNAR PE KPRP |
| 05LIMA3998 |
APRA LEADER SUPPORTS ERADICATION, REELS IN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: APRA Party leader (and former President) Alan Garcia, on 9/9, publicly declared illegal coca should be eradicated and that coca eradication policy is the purview of the GOP, not regional governments. Garcia was responding to warnings by La Libertad Regional President Homero Burg [...] |
2005-09-15 15:59:00 | Embassy Lima | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV SNAR PE |
| 05LIMA4002 |
GOP ACCEPTS INL FY 05 FUNDS [...] (U) Post has received a diplomatic note (No 6-3/326) from the Foreign Ministry advising the Government of Peru's acceptance of the text of the USG-proposed amendment (No 37) to the Bilateral Agreement to Combat the Abuse, Production and Illicit Trafficking of Drugs subscribed to by the USG a [...] |
2005-09-15 17:26:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED | SNAR AMGT PE |
| 05LIMA4008 |
PERU AND AVIAN FLU -- OPPORTUNITY TO COLLABORATE [...] Summary: The GOP is slowly progressing on its action plan to combat the Avian Flu threat, but the Health and Agriculture Ministries have insufficient resources to implement it. Public health capacity is already stretched thinly across a wide range of needs. Peru is at risk due to expanding [...] |
2005-09-15 19:19:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR EAID KSCA PREL SOCI KTDB ECON PE UNGA |
| 05LIMA4023 |
DEMARCHE URGING SUPPORT FOR SUA NONPROLIFERATION [...] No summary [...] |
2005-09-16 16:09:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KNNP MNUC PARM PREL KTIA PHSA EWWT PE |
| 05LIMA4024 |
IRAN/IAEA: SEEKING SUPPORT FOR EU3 EFFORTS TO [...] No summary [...] |
2005-09-16 16:12:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KNNP PARM PREL TRGY MNUC IR EU PE IAEA |
| 05LIMA4033 |
ANOTHER ATPDEA DISPUTE NEAR RESOLUTION [...] (SBU) Summary. According to GOP's Commercial Dispute Coordinator, Aurelio Loret de Mola, the Luz del Sur/PSEG dispute should be resolved shortly, pending SUNAT valuation of any back taxes owed by the company. The remaining ATPDEA cases -- Engelhard, Princeton Dover, and LeTourneau -- are st [...] |
2005-09-16 19:19:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINV ECON ETRD PGOV PE |
| 05LIMA4041 |
TFUS01: ADDITIONAL PERUVIAN OFFER OF ASSISTANCE [...] No summary [...] |
2005-09-16 21:37:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PINS AEMR MARR CASC PE |
| 05LIMA4070 |
DGAC EXPLAINS ZEVALLOS' FLIGHT PERMISSIONS [...] (C) Summary. Despite pledges by the DGAC to ensure that OFAC-listed Narcotics Kingpin Fernando Zevallos paid off previous debts of his former companies, AeroContinente and NuevoContinente, Zevallos received flight permissions for his new company, AeroContinente EIRL in June. The Director Gen [...] |
2005-09-19 19:42:00 | Embassy Lima | CONFIDENTIAL | EAIR SNAR PGOV EINV PE |
| 05LIMA4071 |
CLEARANCE FOR NIH'S PROPOSED AWARD OF RESEARCH [...] No summary [...] |
2005-09-19 20:14:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED | TBIO OSCI KSCA ECON PE |
| 05LIMA4078 |
SECURITY ENVIRONMENT PROFILE QUESTIONNAIRE (SEPQ) [...] (SBU) In response to Reference A, Embassy Lima provides the following information for use in the preparation of the DS/DSS/ITA Security Environment Threat List (SETL). Responses are cued to questions posed in the SEPQ reporting guideline: ------------------ POLITICAL VIOLENCE -------------- [...] |
2005-09-19 22:04:00 | Embassy Lima | SECRET | ASEC PTER PE |
| 05LIMA4108 |
GOP TO HEAR PUBLIC COMMENTS ON MOBILE TERMINATION [...] (SBU) Summary. On July 20, Osiptel, Peru's telecommunications regulator, published its model for the reduction of mobile termination rates. After a 40-day public comment period, Osiptel will hold a public hearing, scheduled for September 26, where companies will have the opportunity to reac [...] |
2005-09-21 15:56:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECPS ETRD EINV ECON PE |
| 05LIMA4129 |
HIGH UNDER-EMPLOYMENT DESPITE SOLID MACRO SHOWING [...] Summary: Despite doubling yearly exports since 2001, (projected to reach $15 billion in 2005) and 49 consecutive months of GDP growth, Peru's labor force remains largely informal and under-employed. In Lima, the average rate of open unemployment through July 2005 was 9.58 percent, up slightl [...] |
2005-09-22 18:46:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED | ELAB ECON PGOV ETRD PE |
| 05LIMA4130 |
SUPREME COURT DECIDES THAT REBEL LEADER ANTAURO [...] (U) SUMMARY. Peru's Supreme Court ruled 9/21 that Ethno-Cacerist leader Antauro Humala and his followers should be tried in Andahuaylas, the site of their murderous January uprising, and not in Lima. The National Director of Prisons said he would not comply with the Court's ruling on transfe [...] |
2005-09-22 19:08:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINS PE |
| 05LIMA4131 |
PERU ADDS CLOTHING TO OFFER FOR HURRICANE KATRINA [...] No summary [...] |
2005-09-22 19:17:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PINS AEMR MARR CASC PE |
| 05LIMA4132 |
FAR LEFT, INSPIRED BY CHAVEZ, SEEKING TO RIDE [...] (C) Most of Peru,s far-left Marxist parties, movements, and labor organizations are attempting to unite forces for the 2006 general elections under the banner of a "Frente Amplio" (Broad Front). They hope their standard bearer will be Ollanta Humala, leader of the fascistic Nationalist Peruv [...] |
2005-09-22 19:23:00 | Embassy Lima | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR PE |
| 05LIMA4139 |
PERU AMONG WORLD'S MOST INFORMAL ECONOMIES [...] Summary: The World Bank ranks Peru as the world's fifth most informal economy. In urban Peru, nearly 70 percent of workers (62 percent in Lima) are employed informally, the third highest rate in Latin America. Bureaucratic barriers largely account for Peru's informality, generating problems [...] |
2005-09-22 22:02:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED | ELAB ECON PGOV ETRD PE |
| 05LIMA4163 |
BENEFIT PACKAGE DEFUSES TALK OF POLICE STRIKE, BUT [...] (C) SUMMARY: President Alejandro Toledo, on 9/19, defused growing talk of a nationwide police strike by announcing a 284 million Soles (USD 86 million) package of back-pay, salary increases, benefits and operational funding. Police sources tell us that, while the immediate crisis has passe [...] |
2005-09-23 22:54:00 | Embassy Lima | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINS ASEC PE |
| 05LIMA4176 |
PERU: NARCOTICS AFFAIRS SECTION, AUGUST 2005 [...] (SBU) Hostile crowds and random gunshots have not stopped eradication efforts in Mazamari and the Huallaga in August. Eradication continues despite having discovered improvised explosive devices in the fields, rigged to explode when a plant is uprooted. As of August 31, CORAH has eradicated a [...] |
2005-09-26 19:05:00 | Embassy Lima | CONFIDENTIAL | SNAR KCRM ASEC PREL PE |
| 05LIMA4179 |
EMBASSY AND EVANGELICALS: BREAKING NEW GROUND [...] (U) This is the third in a three-part series on Peru,s Evangelical Christians. Reftels described the history and contemporary political strategy of this key emerging group. This cable discusses Embassy outreach. -------- Summary: -------- 2. (U) Peru,s rapidly-growing population of [...] |
2005-09-26 20:15:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PINR PHUM PGOV PE |
| 05LIMA4184 |
PERU: UPDATED TEXTILE AND APPAREL INFORMATION [...] (SBU) Summary. Peru's textile and apparel sectors have grown rapidly in the past few years, due primarily to benefits under the Andean Trade Promotion and Drug Eradication Act (ATPDEA). While textile and apparel exports values increased from $823 million in 2003 to $1.09 billion in 2004, thi [...] |
2005-09-27 13:56:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KTEX ETRD ECON EINV PE |
| 05LIMA4188 |
PERU: TERRORISM FINANCE COORDINATOR OFFICER AT POST [...] No summary [...] |
2005-09-27 14:30:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED | KTFN KVPR EFIN PTER ETTC PREL PE |
| 05LIMA4190 |
FORMER ANTI-CORRUPTION COURT HEAD BELIEVES [...] (C) SUMMARY. A series of personnel transfers in Lima's courts were announced 9/1, including that of Saul Pena, who had served as Chief Judge of an Anti-Corruption Court Chamber the past four years. Pena told Emboff on 9/16 that pressure from the GOP, linked to his persistent investigation of [...] |
2005-09-27 16:18:00 | Embassy Lima | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KJUS PE |
| 05LIMA4212 |
CHEMICAL WEAPONS CONVENTION: PERU UNLIKELY TO PAY [...] (U) Polcouns presented the demarche on persuading Peru to pay its dues to the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (Reftel) to Julio Garro, the Foreign Ministry's Director of Multilateral Affairs, on 9/27. 2. (C) Garro said that it was highly unlikely that Peru would pay [...] |
2005-09-28 13:56:00 | Embassy Lima | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL PE CWC |
| 05LIMA4217 |
CONSTITUTIONAL TRIBUNAL RULES REGIONAL COCA [...] SUMMARY: The Constitutional Tribunal (TC), on 9/27, ruled unconstitutional the pro-coca ordinances issued by the Cuzco and Huanuco regional governments. While siding with the GOP on the main legal point -- that coca policy is exclusively within the national government's domain -- the TC als [...] |
2005-09-28 17:40:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED | SNAR PGOV PINS PE |
| 05LIMA4226 |
PUBLIC COMMENTS ON PERU'S MOBILE TERMINATION [...] (SBU) Summary. On September 26, Osiptel, Peru's telecommunications regulator, hosted a public audience to hear comments on its model for the reduction of mobile termination rates. Osiptel officials began the conference by explaining how the model was derived and justified the need for a thr [...] |
2005-09-28 20:12:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECPS ETRD EINV ECON PE |
| 05LIMA4228 |
ANOTHER ATPDEA DISPUTE RESOLVED [...] (SBU) Summary. The General Manager of Luz del Sur (owned by New Jersey-based PSEG and Californian Sempra Energy) informed us that the company's dispute with Peru's tax authority, SUNAT, is fully resolved. SUNAT determined that Luz del Sur owed 929,000 soles (approximately $282,000) in back ta [...] |
2005-09-28 20:23:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINV ECON ETRD PGOV PE |
| 05LIMA4261 |
DENSITY OF COCA CULTIVATION: NEW MEASUREMENT [...] Eradication of coca in Peru has historically been measured and reported in hectares (2.47 acres). Embassy has reported on an expansion in the area under coca cultivation in Peru: UN figures for 2004 released in May show an increase of 14 percent over the previous year. In addition, on-the-gr [...] |
2005-09-29 21:34:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED | SNAR PE |
| 05LIMA4265 |
FINALLY, AN OMBUDSMAN [...] After almost five years of frustrated attempts to reach a consensus on a candidate, the Peruvian Congress selected former Prime Minister Beatriz Merino on 9/29 to be the country's next Public Ombudsman (Defensora del Pueblo). Merino replaces the "interim" incumbent Walter Alban, who had been [...] |
2005-09-30 16:06:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PE |
| 05LIMA4267 |
DEMARCHE REQUEST: SUMMIT OF THE AMERICAS [...] (U) With Foreign Minister Oscar Maurtua unavailable (he attended a decentralized Cabinet meeting in Tacna on 9/27 and was departing with President Toledo for the South American Community of Nations Summit in Brasilia on 9/29), the Ambassador raised the USG's concerns over the Summit of the A [...] |
2005-09-30 16:09:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED | KSUM ECON PGOV PE |
| 05LIMA4270 |
CHEMICAL WEAPONS CONVENTION: PRIME MINISTER AGREES [...] (C) The Ambassador, on 9/28, phoned Prime Minister Pedro Pablo Kuczynski (who was out of the country) to explain why it is so important that Peru pay 68,600 Euros towards its OPCW dues. Kuczynski grasped the point immediately when the Ambassador mentioned that the chair might otherwise fall [...] |
2005-09-30 17:13:00 | Embassy Lima | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL PE CWC |
| 05LIMA4271 |
MORE ON OLLANTA HUMALA'S PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDACY [...] (C) Sociologist Jaime Antesana, an expert in cocalero politics working for a USAID contractor, during a 9/21 meeting with Emboffs said that the cocalero movement appears to be coalescing in support of ultra-nationalist Ollanta Humala's presidential candidacy. Antesana added that he met with [...] |
2005-09-30 17:29:00 | Embassy Lima | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINS PREL PE VE |
| 05LIMA4273 |
TRADE MINISTER FORESHADOWS FTA RED LINES [...] (SBU) Summary: In meetings with the Ambassador, Trade Minister Ferrero and Peru's Chief FTA Negotiator de la Flor highlighted two red lines for Peru in the U.S.-Andean FTA negotiations. They warned that Peru's Congress would not accept an FTA that permitted the importation of used clothing o [...] |
2005-09-30 20:42:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECON EINV PGOV PREL PE |
| 05LIMA4278 |
GOP JUSTIFIES USED CLOTHING LAW [...] (SBU) Summary. In a meeting on September 27 with the DCM, Vice Minister of Industry Antonio Castillo cited three arguments to justify Peru's ban on the imports of used clothing imports, Law 28514. First, the Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes, to [...] |
2005-10-03 13:43:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KTEX ETRD ECON EINV PE |
| 05LIMA4294 |
PRESIDENT TOLEDO ANNOUNCES NATIONAL CITIZEN [...] SUMMARY. New public security measures announced by President Toledo on 9/29 include more police patrols in high crime areas, vehicle purchases, prison reforms, a focus on highway robberies, and new training academies. Although some of the resources required will be generated internally thro [...] |
2005-10-04 14:04:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PINS KCRM PE |
| 05LIMA4314 |
CLEARANCE FOR NIH'S PROPOSED AWARD OF RESEARCH [...] No summary [...] |
2005-10-05 15:04:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED | TBIO OSCI KSCA ECON PE |
| 05LIMA4335 |
DEMARCHE ON TELECOMMUNICATIONS CIRCUIT BLOCKAGE [...] No summary [...] |
2005-10-06 18:21:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED | ECPS ECON ETRD PE |
| 05LIMA4341 |
PERUVIAN PARTICIPATION AT APEC EXPORT CONTROL [...] This is an action request. Please see para 3. 2. As requested in reftel, we spoke with Ambassador Juan Capunay, Director of the APEC office at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on October 3. Capunay confirmed that Peru will send three participants to the November 1-3 APEC conference on "Eff [...] |
2005-10-06 20:42:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD KCOR PE APECO |
| 05LIMA4361 |
GLOBAL FUND [...] No summary [...] |
2005-10-07 20:19:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID KHIV SOCI TBIO PE |
| 05LIMA4370 |
CONGRESS PASSES EXXON-MOBIL TAX AMENDMENT [...] (SBU) Summary. After almost a year of anticipation, the Congressional Plenary voted on October 6 in favor of the Ministry of Finance (MEF) amendment to the tax law, thereby granting Exxon-Mobil a $15 million credit over the next three years. Under Peruvian law, President Toledo must approve [...] |
2005-10-11 18:01:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINV EFIN ECON EPET KIDE PE |
| 05LIMA4377 |
PERUVIAN FOREIGN POLICY UNDER TOLEDO [...] (C) SUMMARY: Under the Toledo Administration, Peru's foreign policy has become more aligned with that of the United States than it has probably been at any time since the 1968 Velasco coup. While Peru continues to advocate policies that we disagree with, such as adherence to the Internation [...] |
2005-10-11 18:25:00 | Embassy Lima | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PE US |
| 05LIMA4393 |
Tim Laughlin Jazz Quartet Tours Peru [...] "We can't go back to our homes right now, so we thought we would bring a little bit of our home town- New Orleans- to the good people of Peru." With that simple but powerful statement, clarinetist Tim Laughlin captured the hearts of audiences during a four-city concert tour of Peru Oct. 1-11, [...] |
2005-10-12 20:55:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO PE |
| 05LIMA4394 |
LATIN AMERICA MISSING PERSONS (LAMP) NETWORK [...] (C) The authors of the Peruvian website for Missing Persons, www.peruanosdesaparecidos.com, are now establishing a series of similar and interlinked web pages for missing persons in other countries called the Latin American Network for Missing Persons (LAMP). The system has already helped s [...] |
2005-10-12 20:58:00 | Embassy Lima | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR PE |
| 05LIMA4411 |
HIP-HOP ANTI-DRUG PROGRAM [...] From October 1 to 4, 2005, PAS and Peruvian anti-drug NGO Cedro organized a five-day Hip-Hop/rap program with U.S. group Havikoro in underpriveleged neighborhoods in Lima, Callao, and the provincial city of Trujillo. The program sent a positive anti- drug message to disadvantaged Peruvian yout [...] |
2005-10-13 16:46:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO PE |
| 05LIMA4441 |
COCALEROS INCREASINGLY RADICAL BUT STILL FRACTURED [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Fifteen hundred cocaleros met in Ayacucho at the fourth Congress of the National Confederation of Agriculture Producers of the Coca Valleys of Peru (CONPACCP) in another failed attempt to create a unified national movement. Supporters of the Humala brothers tried to participat [...] |
2005-10-13 22:06:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SNAR PGOV PINS PE |
| 05LIMA4477 |
DEMARCHE ON WORLD CUSTOMS ORGANIZATION DELIVERED [...] No summary [...] |
2005-10-17 19:05:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD ECON EAID PE |
| 05LIMA4487 |
PROGRAM REPORTING: SPEAKER "YOUTH PARTICIPATION IN [...] Veronica de la Garza, former Executive Director of the Youth Vote Coalition, visited Lima under PAS auspices from October 3-6, 2005 to conduct a workshop on the importance of youth participation to strengthen democratic processes. The program, organized with the National Committee of Youth an [...] |
2005-10-17 21:56:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP PE |
| 05LIMA4504 |
TOLEDO AND URIBE ENCOURAGE PRESIDENT TO SUPPORT FTA [...] On October 17, we received a fax transmittal of a letter from President Toledo and President Uribe to President Bush regarding the subsequent conclusion of the U.S.-Andean FTA negotiations. Presidents Toledo and Uribe have instructed their negotiators to quickly conclude negotiations. As su [...] |
2005-10-18 21:34:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD ECON EINV EAGR PE |
| 05LIMA4521 |
PETROANDINA FALTERING? [...] (C) SUMMARY: GOP Hydrocarbon Director Gustavo Navarro told Econoff on October 13 that an Andean Community meeting to discuss PetroAndina failed to materialize. At the preliminary meeting at the subministerial level, Venezuela wanted PetroAndina to be a vehicle to help only the poor. Navarro a [...] |
2005-10-19 21:42:00 | Embassy Lima | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG ETRD PREL ECON VE PE |
| 05LIMA4538 |
DGAC WELCOMES FAA IASA REASSESSMENT [...] As requested in Reftel, we met with Roberto Rodriguez, Director General of Civil Aviation, and Juan Crovetto, Director of Aviation Security, on October 20 to discuss the impending FAA International Aviation Safety Assessment (IASA) and deliver the letter from James Ballough. Rodriguez noted t [...] |
2005-10-20 21:05:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED | EAIR ECON ETRD EINV CASC PE |
| 05LIMA4539 |
CHINESE INVEST IN PERU,S ENERGY SECTOR [...] (C) Summary. Chinese investment in Peru in 2004 totaled $122 million and several Chinese companies have recently expressed their interest in increasing investment in Peru in the next year. Sapet Development Peru, a subsidiary of China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC), recently inked a [...] |
2005-10-20 21:18:00 | Embassy Lima | CONFIDENTIAL | EINV ENRG ECON ETRD PREL EFIN PE |
| 05LIMA4544 |
PERU ON DEMONSTRATING PUBLIC SUPPORT FOR IRAQ [...] (SBU) Ambassador discussed this subject with Foreign Ministry Undersecretary for the Americas Pablo Portugal on 10/14. Portugal said the GOP would make a public statement of support for the constitutional process in Iraq at some point in the future. Portugal had been briefed on the reftel ta [...] |
2005-10-21 14:54:00 | Embassy Lima | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM KPAO PREL PGOV IZ PE |
| 05LIMA4548 |
NEW LABOR MINISTER [...] (U) President Alejandro Toledo, on 10/7, swore in Carlos Alberto Almeri Veramendi as Minister of Labor and Job Promotion. A bio for Minister Almeri follows. 2. (U) Almeri was elected to Congress in 2001 as a representative from Loreto Department for the ruling Peru Posible (PP) party. In [...] |
2005-10-21 16:44:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR PE |
| 05LIMA4565 |
ISRAEL AT UNGA - I: HOLOCAUST REMEMBRANCE [...] No summary [...] |
2005-10-24 16:44:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PE UNGA |
| 05LIMA4566 |
ISRAEL AT UNGA - II: OPPOSING ANTI-ISRAEL BIAS [...] No summary [...] |
2005-10-24 16:49:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PE UNGA |
| 05LIMA4567 |
AMBASSADOR AND DIPLOMATIC CORPS SHOW PUBLIC [...] Summary: The Ambassador hosted a luncheon and press event with members of Peru's Truth and Reconciliation Commission (CVR) and the Diplomatic Corps. Members of the CVR, including Chairman Salomon Lerner, have received an increasing number of death threats, which they believe are linked to cri [...] |
2005-10-24 17:39:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PGOV KDEM PE |
| 05LIMA4568 |
WHA/AND DIRECTOR'S MEETINGS WITH LEADING [...] (C) SUMMARY: WHA/AND Director Philip French, accompanied by the Ambassador and DCM, on 10/17, met separately with leading presidential hopefuls Lourdes Flores (Unidad Nacional alliance) and Alan Garcia (APRA party); the third principle contender, former Interim President Valentin Paniagua, [...] |
2005-10-24 18:00:00 | Embassy Lima | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON SNAR PE |
| 05LIMA4569 |
WHA/AND DIRECTOR'S MEETINGS ON BILATERAL [...] (C) In meetings with Foreign Ministry, congressional, economic, trade, counternarcotics, and human rights officials/activists on 10/17-18, visiting WHA/AND Director Philip French received a briefing on Peruvian views on bilateral relations (termed excellent, with a plug for a Toledo-POTUS me [...] |
2005-10-24 18:00:00 | Embassy Lima | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL SNAR ETRD PHUM PTER PE |
| 05LIMA4574 |
FOREIGN MINISTRY CONCURS WITH PERU TIP TIER 2 [...] Polcouns delivered the demarche on the Peru TIP Tier 2 Action Plan for 2005-2006 (Reftel) to the Foreign Ministry's Director of Multilateral Affairs, Julio Garro, and Director of Human Rights Affairs, Carlos Roman, on 10/24. 2. Roman said that the Foreign Ministry concurs with the Action [...] |
2005-10-24 20:18:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED | KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG PREL PE |
| 05LIMA4577 |
DEMARCHE REQUEST: OCTOBER 3-7 SUMMIT OF THE [...] Action Request - see paragraph 4. 2. Polcouns delivered the demarche on the October 3-7 Summit of the Americas Negotiating Session (Reftel) to the Foreign Ministry's Director of Multilateral Affairs, Julio Garro, and Action Officer for the OAS and Summit of the Americas, Romulo Acurio, on [...] |
2005-10-24 21:12:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED | KSUM ECON PGOV PE |
| 05LIMA4578 |
DEMARCHE: SUMMIT OF THE AMERICAS STAND ALONE [...] Polcouns delivered the demarche on the "Summit of the Americas Stand Alone Statements" to the Foreign Ministry's Director of Multilateral Affairs, Julio Garro, and Action Officer for the OAS and Summit of the Americas, Romulo Acurio, on 1024. 2. Garro said that he thought Peru would likel [...] |
2005-10-24 21:20:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED | KSUM ECON PGOV PE |
| 05LIMA4590 |
FOLLOWING UP ON 2004 APEC ADDITIONAL PROTOCOL [...] (C) Econoff delivered the demarche "Following Up on the 2004 APEC Additional Protocol Commitments" (Reftel) to Amb. Juan Carlos Capunay, Peru's Ambassador to APEC, on 10/20. Capunay proudly noted that Peru has already signed and ratified the Additional Protocol, agreed that Brunei, Papua New [...] |
2005-10-25 16:06:00 | Embassy Lima | CONFIDENTIAL | KNNP PARM ETTC KSTC EAID ETRD ECIN PE APECO |
| 05LIMA4596 |
PUBLIC DEBATE IN PERU OVER CONTRACTING OF SECURITY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Peruvians going to Iraq to work as contract security specialists for a U.S. company have become the focus of wide-spread media and official interest. Several hundred Peruvians have signed contracts with Peruvian representatives of the U.S. firm Triple Canopy Inc. The President [...] |
2005-10-25 21:28:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PARM KPAO PE |
| 05LIMA4599 |
REQUEST FOR GUIDANCE IN RESPONDING TO DIPLOMATIC [...] (U) This is an action request. Post requests guidance on how to respond to the Foreign Ministry's Diplomatic Note (DGL/CJE) 6-3/367 of October 13, 2005 regarding a request from the Superior Court of Justice of Lima (Corte Superior de Justicia de Lima) to the Peruvian Foreign Ministry concernin [...] |
2005-10-25 21:54:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KJUS PE |
| 05LIMA4629 |
SUCCESSFUL IPR CONFERENCE HIGHLIGHTS BORDER [...] (SBU) Summary. Post, in collaboration with the U.S. Patent and Trade Office and U.S. Customs and Border Protection, hosted a two-day conference October 24-25, highlighting the urgent need for Peru to better protect intellectual property rights. During the conference, 70 officials from Peruv [...] |
2005-10-27 21:28:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KIPR ECON EINV ETRD PE |
| 05LIMA4633 |
DECENTRALIZATION: MAKING DEMOCRACY WORK IN PERU, [...] Peru will hold referenda in 16 of its 25 departments on 10/30, in which voters will decide whether to consolidate their departments into up to five macro-regions. The formation of macro-regions would be a major step forward in Peru's ongoing decentralization process, which is aimed at devolv [...] |
2005-10-27 22:18:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PINR PREL PE |
| 05LIMA4634 |
DECENTRALIZATION: MAKING DEMOCRACY WORK IN PERU, [...] This is the second in a two-part series on Peruvian decentralization. It focuses on the 10/30 referenda on forming macro-regions, current opinions, and possible outcomes. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. SUMMARY. On the eve of the 10/30 referenda on the formation of macro-regions, the GOP fi [...] |
2005-10-27 22:47:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PINR PREL PE |
| 05LIMA4644 |
FOREIGN MINISTER ON SUMMIT OF THE AMERICAS ISSUES [...] (C) The Ambassador, accompanied by DCM and Polcouns, discussed the pressing Summit of the Americas issues (Reftels) with Foreign Minister Oscar Maurtua, U/S for the Americas Pablo Portugal, Director of North American Affairs Nestor Popolizio, and the Foreign Minister's Chief of Staff Alfredo [...] |
2005-10-28 18:06:00 | Embassy Lima | CONFIDENTIAL | KSUM PREL PE |
| 05LIMA4645 |
PERU PRESSING FOR PRO-FTA STATEMENT FOLLOWING [...] (C) Foreign Minister Oscar Maurtua, during a 10/28 breakfast hosted by the Ambassador, reiterated Peru's interest in using the meeting at the Summit of the Americas between the Andean Presidents and POTUS to advance the FTA process. The Ambassador noted that USTR Portman is the person who w [...] |
2005-10-28 18:09:00 | Embassy Lima | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ETRD KSUM PE |
| 05LIMA4650 |
ATTEMPT TO FACILITATE PASSAGE OF MACRO-REGION [...] Despite a furious last-minute push from President Alejandro Toledo, with support from presidential hopefuls Lourdes Flores and Valentin Paniagua, proponents of legislative changes to facilitate the passage of the 10/30 macro-region referenda (Refs) failed to obtain the necessary 61-vote absol [...] |
2005-10-28 20:32:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PINR PE |
| 05LIMA4654 |
FOREIGN MINISTER RAISES ISSUE OF CONSULAR SERVICES [...] (U) Action Request in paragraph 3. 2. (SBU) Foreign Minister Oscar Maurtua, during a 10/28 breakfast hosted by the Ambassador, said that during his attendance at Congress the previous day, many legislators had approached him with concerns over how the Foreign Ministry intends to safegua [...] |
2005-10-28 21:17:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL MOPS PE |
| 05LIMA4661 |
MACRO-REGION REFERENDA FAIL - DECENTRALIZATION [...] With 90 percent of the ballots counted, the referenda to form five macro-regions failed in 15 of Peru's 16 departments. Only in Arequipa did a majority of voters support the proposal. (Note: Since the other departments considering consolidation with Arequipa, Tacna and Puno, voted the referen [...] |
2005-10-31 21:06:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PINR PE |
| 05LIMA4662 |
PERU SURPRISED BY CHILEAN REACTION ON DRAFT [...] (C) Embassy Santiago's reporting (Ref) has laid out the Chilean perception of what the GOP is doing with its draft "Law on the Bases of Maritime Control," which is now under review by the Peruvian Congress. In our view the GOP impulse behind the law is far more anodyne; it was part of an effo [...] |
2005-10-31 21:21:00 | Embassy Lima | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PREL EC PE |
| 05LIMA4673 |
CONTROVERSY CONTINUES REGARDING PERU'S DRAFT [...] (C) SUMMARY: The controversy between Peru and Chile over the GOP's introduction of legislation defining its maritime limits continues, although Foreign Minister Oscar Maurtua informed the Ambassador that the two countries are talking and should eventually calm things down. Meanwhile, the F [...] |
2005-11-02 22:08:00 | Embassy Lima | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PREL CI EC PE |
| 05LIMA4674 |
DEMARCHE: SUMMIT OF THE AMERICAS DOHA STAND ALONE [...] (U) Polcouns followed up with Foreign Ministry Director of Multilateral Affairs Julio Garro on the demarche dealing with the "Summit of the Americas Doha Stand Alone Statement" (Ref A) on 11/02. Garro stated that the Ministry would be reviewing the proposed statement with the Foreign Trade [...] |
2005-11-02 22:10:00 | Embassy Lima | CONFIDENTIAL | KSUM ECON PGOV PE |
| 05LIMA4677 |
ICJ ELECTIONS FOLLOW UP DEMARCHE (PERU) [...] No summary [...] |
2005-11-02 22:34:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED | PE UNGA UNSC |
| 05LIMA4692 |
DEMARCHE -IRANIAN PRESIDENT'S INCREASING EXTREMISM [...] Iranian President Ahmadi-Nejad's public call for Israel to be "wiped off the map" (Ref A) was discussed at a 10/28 breakfast hosted by the Ambassador for Foreign Minister Oscar Maurtua and leading Foreign Ministry officials (Ref B). Maurtua expressed disapproval of the Iranian leader's statem [...] |
2005-11-03 16:15:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PTER PHUM PE IR |
| 05LIMA4696 |
PROGRAM EVALUATION: Jackson Hole Wildlife Film [...] DESCRIPTION OF THE ACTIVITY: Mr. BRACK participated in subject program on federal natural resource management issues, wildlife and forest management concessions and tourism. The program included meetings with public agency officials, NGO representatives and tribal representatives to focus on [...] |
2005-11-03 17:41:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED | KSCA SENV TBIO KPAO PE |
| 05LIMA4703 |
PROGRAM EVALUATION: Funded Voluntary Visitor Program on [...] DESCRIPTION OF THE ACTIVITY: Voluntary Visitors (VV) Franz GRUPP and Zully MERCADO participated in subject program to increase their knowledge of protection and preservation of cultural heritage in the United States. This program enhanced their understanding of governmental and non-government [...] |
2005-11-03 20:29:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED | OEXC SCUL KPAO PE |
| 05LIMA4704 |
PROGRAM EVALUATION: FY-2005 RP: "COUNTERTERRORISM AND [...] DESCRIPTION OF THE ACTIVITY: The program was designed to introduce participants to initiatives employed in the United States to fight terrorism and international crime. Participants traveled to three different regions of the country and focused on topics including financial crime, border and [...] |
2005-11-03 20:30:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED | OEXC SCUL KPAO PE |
| 05LIMA4706 |
REQUEST FOR PL-480, TITLE I PROGRAM FOR PERU [...] Post requests a USD 10 million PL-480, Title I program for Peru in FY 2006. The program could consist entirely of soybean meal or crude soybean oil, or a mix of both depending on global market conditions. Peru has experience importing these two commodities. 2. Funds generated from resale [...] |
2005-11-03 20:33:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR EAID PE |
| 05LIMA4713 |
PROGRAM EVALUATION: FY-2005 RP: "The FTAA and [...] DESCRIPTION OF THE ACTIVITY: IV Elizabeth TABOADA participated in subject program to have an overview of the current status and trends in the FTAA. These included: implications for future development; perspectives of the different actors involved in and affected by economic integration throu [...] |
2005-11-04 14:25:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED | OEXC SCUL KPAO PE |
| 05LIMA4721 |
MANIFEST REVIEW UNIT ALERT RESULTS IN FURTHER [...] (SBU) Lima NAS/DEA Manifest Review Unit (MRU) and NAS US Customs and Border Protection (USCBP) Officers, working at the Port of Callao, continue to provide illicit narcotics alerts to US Law Enforcement entities leading to seizures and controlled deliveries of cocaine originating from Peru. [...] |
2005-11-04 18:16:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SNAR PE |
| 05LIMA4732 |
ECONOMIC EXPANSION BEGINNING TO REDUCE POVERTY [...] No summary [...] |
2005-11-04 21:24:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECON EINV PGOV PREL PE |
| 05LIMA4733 |
CONGRESS PASSES, TOLEDO PROMULGATES NEW LAW ON [...] President Alejandro Toledo, on 11/3, promulgated the Law on Peruvian Maritime Domain Boundary Lines (Ley de Lineas de Base del Dominio Maritimo del Peru), hours after the measure passed Congress unanimously (98-0). The new law was published in the official "Legal Norms" on 11/4 and enters in [...] |
2005-11-04 22:36:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL EWWT PE CI |
| 05LIMA4739 |
C-26 HANDOVER CEREMONY [...] Summary: Two C-26Bs, donated to the Peruvian Air Force (FAP) by the USG in 1997, were officially dedicated to CN missions October 31 in a ceremony with Ambassador Struble and senior Peruvian officials. The USG, through Embassy NAS, gave $3.5 million to refurbish the two aircraft that will r [...] |
2005-11-07 15:07:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED | PE PREL SNAR MAS |
| 05LIMA474 |
COLOMBIAN AND VENEZUELAN FOREIGN MINISTERS MEET IN [...] Peruvian Foreign Minister Manuel Rodriguez hosted an hour-long discussion between Colombian FonMin Carolina Barco and Venezuelan FonMin Ali Rodriguez on 1/27, aimed at advancing a rapprochement between Colombia and Venezuela. Barco and Ali Rodriguez were in Lima to attend a meeting between An [...] |
2005-01-28 16:49:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL CO VE PE |
| 05LIMA4744 |
PROGRAM EVALUATION: FY-2005 RP: "ADMINISTRATION OF [...] DESCRIPTION OF THE ACTIVITY: IV Miluska CANO participated in subject program to examine the underlying principles of the U.S. judicial and legal systems, and the culture of lawfulness; to deepen understanding of the criminal justice system; and to examine the administration of courts, case mana [...] |
2005-11-07 18:39:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED | OEXC SCUL KPAO PE |
| 05LIMA4748 |
FORMER PRESIDENT FUJIMORI'S ARRIVAL, ARREST IN [...] (C) SUMMARY. Former President Fujimori's surprise arrival in Santiago over the weekend adds another complex issue to the strained Peruvian-Chilean bilateral agenda. A Chilean court quickly acted to detain Fujimori, and the GOP is sending a high-level delegation to Santiago to argue for Fujimori's [...] |
2005-11-07 19:22:00 | Embassy Lima | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KJUS PE CI JA |
| 05LIMA4754 |
PROGRAM EVALUATION: FY-2005 RP: "ADMINISTRATION OF [...] DESCRIPTION OF THE ACTIVITY: IV Miluska CANO participated in subject program to examine the underlying principles of the U.S. judicial and legal systems, and the culture of lawfulness; to deepen understanding of the criminal justice system; and to examine the administration of courts, case mana [...] |
2005-11-07 20:38:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED | OEXC SCUL KPAO PE |
| 05LIMA4755 |
U.S. PHOTOGRAPHER IN INTERNATIONAL PHOTO FESTIVAL IN [...] PAS sponsored the visit of U.S. photographer Jay Manis to participate in the International Photo Festival, held in Lima during October and November 2005. During his visit, Mr. Manis presented an exhibition at the Miraflores City Hall Gallery, gave a conference on his 9/11 public art project, a [...] |
2005-11-07 20:41:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO PE |
| 05LIMA4773 |
A NEW ANDEAN DIALOGUE [...] (U) Summary: In a meeting with Ambassador Struble, Andean Community Secretary General Allan Wagner proposed several ideas for strengthening the relationship between the United States, the Andes and Latin America as a whole. The Andean Community would play a central role in the process. Wagner [...] |
2005-11-08 16:33:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN ENRG ETRD PE PGOV |
| 05LIMA4775 |
PROGRAM EVALUATION: FY-2005 RP: "THE ROLE OF THE MEDIA [...] DESCRIPTION OF THE ACTIVITY: IV Luis Miguel GONZALEZ participated in subject program to examine the role of the media in the U.S., to explore how freedom of the press and freedom of speech are translated into reporting on activities of the government, public institutions and officials, busines [...] |
2005-11-08 20:14:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED | OEXC SCUL KPAO PE |
| 05LIMA4777 |
PERU'S CHIEF FTA NEGOTIATOR ON FINAL ISSUES [...] (SBU) Summary: Peru's Chief FTA Negotiator Pablo de la Flor told the Ambassador that Peru is ready to conclude the U.S.-Andean FTA negotiations by Thanksgiving, pending resolution of specific IPR and Agriculture concerns. De la Flor warned that Peru's Health Minister would resign -- creating [...] |
2005-11-08 21:26:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECON EINV PGOV PREL PE |
| 05LIMA4779 |
PRESIDENT TOLEDO TELLS AMBASSADOR THAT FUJIMORI'S [...] (C) During an 11/7 phone call initiated by President Toledo about another matter, Ambassador asked the President what he thought Fujimori's game plan was. Toledo said that it was ""sophisticated and complex."" (COMMENT: This may be another way of saying he did not yet feel he had fully figured it [...] |
2005-11-08 22:09:00 | Embassy Lima | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KJUS PE CI JA |
| 05LIMA478 |
CHINESE VICE PRESIDENT ZENG QINGHONG'S VISIT TO [...] (U) Chinese Vice President Zeng Qinghong, accompanied by a delegation of 124 persons, paid an official visit to Peru on January 26 to 28. The visit here was the second leg of a five-nation sojourn within Latin America and the Caribbean, which also includes Mexico, Venezuela, Trinidad and Tobag [...] |
2005-01-28 18:07:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL ETRD ECON PE CH |
| 05LIMA4780 |
CLEARANCE FOR NIH'S PROPOSED AWARD OF RESEARCH [...] No summary [...] |
2005-11-08 22:10:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED | TBIO OSCI KSCA ECON PE |
| 05LIMA4781 |
CLEARANCE FOR NIH'S PROPOSED AWARD OF RESEARCH [...] No summary [...] |
2005-11-08 22:10:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED | TBIO OSCI KSCA ECON PE |
| 05LIMA4783 |
PERU: DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON UN THIRD COMMITTEE [...] No summary [...] |
2005-11-08 22:40:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL PE UNHRC |
| 05LIMA4784 |
AID CONTRACTORS ABDUCTED AND RELEASED BY SENDERO [...] Summary: On Sunday, November 6, 2005, 10 employees of AID alternative development contractor, Chemonics, were abducted and briefly held by a heavily armed group of Sendero Luminoso operatives near the village of Santa Rosa de Yanajanca, in the department of San Martin. After being forced to m [...] |
2005-11-08 23:16:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PE |
| 05LIMA4788 |
SUPREME COURT DECIDES THAT ANTAURO HUMALA WILL BE [...] Peru's Supreme Court, on 11/7, decided that Ethno-Cacerist leader Antauro Humala and 159 of his followers will stand trial in Lima for their participation in the January 2005 armed rebellion in Andahuaylas that resulted in the death of four policemen (Ref B). The Court reversed its original [...] |
2005-11-09 15:42:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PINS KJUS PE |
| 05LIMA4797 |
SCENESETTER FOR CODEL SMITH [...] Post warmly welcomes Congressman Smith's visit to Peru and greatly appreciates his interest in both trafficking in persons (TIP) and women's and children's health issues. Over the last two years, the Peruvian Government has awakened to the TIP problem and has taken serious steps to combat it. [...] |
2005-11-09 19:17:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM PREL PE |
| 05LIMA4818 |
PROGRAM EVALUATION: FY-2005 MRP: "YOUTH LEADERSHIP II" [...] DESCRIPTION OF THE ACTIVITY: IV Marithza ALDAZABAL participated in subject program to examine how young U.S. citizens acquire leadership skills to improve their communities and influence public policy at their local, national, and international levels; explore youth education and training to [...] |
2005-11-10 21:50:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED | OEXC SCUL KPAO PE |
| 05LIMA4819 |
PROGRAM EVALUATION: FY-2005 MRP: ELECTRONIC COMMERCE [...] DESCRIPTION OF THE ACTIVITY: The program was designed to examine the scope and influence of electronic commerce in the national and global economy; review the U.S. economic system, current trends and economic policies, and the current efforts of government and business to promote electronic co [...] |
2005-11-10 21:51:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED | OEXC SCUL KPAO PE |
| 05LIMA4820 |
PROGRAM EVALUATION: FY-2005 SPECIAL MRP: [...] DESCRIPTION OF THE ACTIVITY: IV Lucy Harman participated in subject program to familiarize herself with U.S. organizations involved in disaster relief, emergency management, and humanitarian assistance. She learned how U.S. society responds to global and local crises and observed the many in [...] |
2005-11-10 21:55:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO OEXC SCUL PE |
| 05LIMA4821 |
PERU PLANS ON SEEKING REVISION OF INTERNATIONAL [...] (U) Action Request in paragraph 5. 2. (C) SUMMARY: Peru is moving forward on signing and ratifying the International Convention Against the Recruitment, Use, Financing and Training of Mercenaries, and plans to submit a report to the UN Secretary General that will recommend revising the [...] |
2005-11-14 12:38:00 | Embassy Lima | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM PARM MOPS PE |
| 05LIMA4822 |
PROGRAM EVALUATION: SPECIAL WINTER FY-05 [...] DESCRIPTION OF THE ACTIVITY: The program was designed to provide grantees with a variety of perspectives on issues of U.S. National Security and Foreign Policy. The group visited think-tanks, international organizations, non- governmental organizations, and governmental agencies. 2. DATE, [...] |
2005-11-14 12:41:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED | OEXC SCUL KPAO PE |
| 05LIMA4842 |
PRESIDENTIAL ADVISORS ON FUJIMORI, MARTIME [...] (C) Top presidential political advisors Juan de la Puente and Juan Sheput, in recent meetings with Polcouns, addressed the principle political issues of the moment as follows: -- Ex-President Alberto Fujimori's extradition: Peru will have a hard time preparing an adequate extradition req [...] |
2005-11-14 20:34:00 | Embassy Lima | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KSUM PE |
| 05LIMA4848 |
LAUNCHING PHASE II OF THE DIGITAL FREEDOM [...] (SBU) Summary. The Ambassador and Peruvian Minister of Production David Lemor signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) on November 8 to launch Phase II of the Digital Freedom Initiative (DFI) as well as underscore the GOP's renewed interest in the program. Both the Minister and the Ambass [...] |
2005-11-15 18:04:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECPS ETRD EINV ECON PE |
| 05LIMA4854 |
HUMALA FEINTS TO THE CENTER, BUT CONTINUES TO [...] (C) Peruvian ultra-nationalist and Chavez admirer Ollanta Humala has recently made efforts to position himself -- at least rhetorically -- closer to the political center. Over the last month, he has publicly rejected the New Years Eve 2004 rebellion his brother, Antauro Humala, led in Andahu [...] |
2005-11-15 18:54:00 | Embassy Lima | CONFIDENTIAL | PINR PREL PGOV PE |
| 05LIMA4861 |
FUJIMORI UPDATE: CONSPIRACY CONCERNS A SWIPE AT JAPAN BUILDING AN EXTRADITION CASE LABOR/HUMAN RIGHTS GROUPS SUPPORT EXTRADITION PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES LARGELY MUM FUJIMORISTA PARTIES IN DISARRAY [...] (C) Former President Alberto Fujimori's arrest in Chile, pursuant to a Peruvian request for his preventive detention pending submission of an extradition request, continues to be the major domestic political issue in the country. President Alejandro Toledo and Foreign Minister Oscar Maurtua susp [...] |
2005-11-15 21:37:00 | Embassy Lima | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KCRM PE CI |
| 05LIMA4867 |
PERUVIAN CONGRESS REAFFIRMS SUPPORT FOR [...] (SBU) Summary. After a month of delay and renewed Embassy advocacy, the Congressional Plenary voted on November 10 to reaffirm its support a law granting Exxon- Mobil a $15 million credit over the next three years. Under Peruvian Congressional procedure, the law, which dealt with economic i [...] |
2005-11-16 14:24:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINV EFIN ECON EPET KIDE PE |
| 05LIMA4889 |
PERU: INTERNATIONAL MARITIME ORGANIZATION DEMARCHE [...] No summary [...] |
2005-11-17 18:50:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AORC EWWT PHSA KTIA PE IMO |
| 05LIMA4897 |
PERU: NARCOTICS AFFAIRS SECTION, OCTOBER 2005 [...] (SBU) The eradication/interdiction juggernaut moved to San Gaban on October 4 and we are well on our way to surpassing our 8,000 hectare goal for this year. Opposition continues to be light thanks to a large contingent of PNP drug police (DIRANDRO) and a proactive community outreach program [...] |
2005-11-17 21:34:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SNAR KCRM ASEC PREL PE |
| 05LIMA4899 |
CLEARANCE FOR NIH'S PROPOSED AWARD OF RESEARCH [...] No summary [...] |
2005-11-17 21:40:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED | TBIO OSCI KSCA ECON PE |
| 05LIMA4910 |
PERU: DEMARCHE CONCERNING CCAMLR TOOTHFISH ISSUES [...] No summary [...] |
2005-11-18 15:46:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AY EFIS SENV ETRD PE |
| 05LIMA4915 |
APRA CONGRESSIONAL LEADERS PESSIMISTIC ON [...] (C) At a 12/15 meeting with Emboffs, leading APRA Congressmen Maurico Mulder and Luis Gonzales Posada said that: -- They were pessimistic about the GOP's ability to prepare a convincing case for getting former President Fujimori extradited from Chile; -- APRA strongly opposed initiating a [...] |
2005-11-18 17:41:00 | Embassy Lima | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KJUS ETRD PE |
| 05LIMA4925 |
PERU: DEMARCHE ON NEW REQUIREMENTS SWORDFISH AND [...] (U) SUMMARY: Econoff delivered Reftel demarche in English and Spanish to the GOP Foreign Ministry and Fisheries section of the Production Ministry on November 5, and met with the GOP fisheries team on November 16. Industry and government contacts contend that Peruvian vessels comply with IATT [...] |
2005-11-18 22:13:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD EFIS SENV PE IATTC |
| 05LIMA4933 |
BEATRIZ MERINO SWORN IN AS OMBUDSMAN [...] Former Prime Minister Beatriz Merino was sworn in as the new Public Ombudsman on 11/16. On the very day of her swearing in, Merino demonstrated her political clout by obtaining assurances from Prime Minister Pedro Pablo Kuczynski to countermand proposed budget cuts that would have forced the [...] |
2005-11-21 17:15:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PINR PGOV PREL PE |
| 05LIMA4934 |
PERU'S UN AMBASSADOR ON IRAQ [...] Peru's new Ambassador to the United Nations, Oswaldo de Rivero, who will represent Peru on the Security Council Starting in January, recently authored an article entitled, "Is Iraq Another Vietnam?" in the Lima intellectual journal "Quehacer." De Rivero's piece criticizes U.S. policy in Iraq [...] |
2005-11-21 17:15:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PINR PHUM PREL PE |
| 05LIMA4947 |
ACTION REQUEST: FY-2006 TEN-DAY FUNDED VOLVIS FOR [...] Post requests a ten-day funded Voluntary Visitor program for three (3) Peruvian Archaeologists/Curators in Archaeological Projects, Victor Armando "PIMINCHUMO," Carmen Cecilia "GAMARRA," and Dulce Maria "DELGADO" 2. We request program dates on March 20-30, 2006. 3. Contact in Lima i [...] |
2005-11-21 22:25:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO OEXC SCUL PE |
| 05LIMA4962 |
Peru's 2006 National Trade Estimate Report [...] The following is Post's submission of the National Trade Estimate, as requested in reftel. Trade Overview -------------- 2. The U.S. trade deficit with Peru was $1.6 billion in 2004, an increase of $895 million from the 2003 trade deficit of $710 million. U.S. goods exported in 2004 t [...] |
2005-11-22 19:38:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD ECON EINV |