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ABLD BUILDING AND GROUNDS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The acquisition, management, and operation of U.S.-owned or-leased facilities and sites both domestic and foreign. (Replaces RCHB file categories: BG, ES)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Acquisition
* AIEP
* Allotment
* Antenna
* Antiques
* Appraisals
* Architecture
* Asbestos
* Audit
* Bid Results
* Breathing Device
* Building
* Building Design
* Building Management
* Carpet
* Chancellery
* Construction Management
* Construction Security
* Consulate
* Contract Amendment Contract Award Contract Renewal Contract Termination Contractor
* Core Area
* DCR
* Deed
* Descent Device
* Electrical System
* Elevator
* Embassy
* EMR
* Energy Conservation
* EURMAC
* Fire Alarm
* Fire Detection System
* Fire Prevention
* Fire Safety
* Furnishings
* Generator
* Geotechnical
* Gift
* Hazardous Material
* Housing
* HVAC
* Improvement
* Inventory
* Lease
* Legation
* Maintenance
* Mechanical System
* NOB
* Parking
* PCC
* Post Opening
* Property Exchange
* Property Sales
* Public Access Control
* Real Property
* Reciprocity
* REMS
* Renovation
* Safety & Health Designee
* Safety Program
* Security Enhancement
* Seismology
* SHEMC
* Shielded Enclosure
* Site
* Space Management
* Survey
* WASHMAC
* Water Analysis
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AEMR EMERGENCY PLANNING AND EVACUATION
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Measures and actions implemented to protect U.S. personnel, citizens, property and information; especially related to crisis situations. (Replaces RCHB file category: EP)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Citizen Protection
* Contingency Plan EAP
* Emergency
* Evacuation
* Property
* Protection
* Records Destruction
* Rescue
* Safehaven
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AFIN FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised April 2000)

The fiscal operations of the Department, Foreign Service posts, and other Federal agencies. (Replaces RCHB file categories: ACC, BUD, FMGT)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Accounting
* Allowance
* Annuity Check
* Antideficiency
* Appropriation
* Audit
* Authentication Bank
* Account Bonding
* CAPPS
* Cash
* Cash Management
* Cashier
* Central Claim
* Commercial Claim
* Compensation
* Debt Collection
* Deficit
* Disallowances
* Disbursement
* Employee Claim
* ESF
* Exchange Rate
* Financial Management System
* Fiscal
* Fiscal Irregularities
* Foreign Currency
* FSCADP
* Fund Allotment
* Funding
* GBL
* General Ledger
* GTR
* Home Leave
* ICASS
* Leave
* Liquidation
* Local Currency
* Nonreceipt
* Over Obligation
* Pay Advance
* Pay Record
* Payment
* Payroll
* Payroll Deduction
* PCS
* Per Diem
* Personal Property
* Personal Travel
* Post MGT
* Premium Pay
* Prompt Payment
* Reimbursement
* Relocation
* Reprogramming
* Retirement
* Security Enhancement
* Taxes
* TDY
* Time & Attendance
* Transportation Request
* Travel Advance
* Travelers Checks
* Treasury Check
* Vendor
* Vouchers
* Vulnerability Assessment
* Wages
* Working Capital Fund
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AMGT MANAGEMENT OPERATIONS
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Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)

The management and organization of the Department and posts abroad and other U.S. agencies. (Replaces RCHB file category: ORG)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Administration
* Audit
* Authorities
* Background Information
* Bureau Organization
* Commissary
* Congressional Report
* Delegation of Authority
* Embassy Closing
* Embassy Opening
* Employee Association
* FCS
* FTE
* Geneva Group
* GORI
* Information System
* Inspection Report
* Inspection Team
* Internal Control
* JAO
* Management Initiative
* Management Issues
* Mission Closure
* Mission Opening
* Occupational Safety
* Office Closure
* Office Establishment
* Office Procedures
* Organization
* Overseas Post
* PCS
* Post Closing
* Post MGT
* Post Opening
* Post Operating Plan
* Reciprocity
* Recreation
* Reorganization
* Scheduling
* Staffing
* Support Services
* Survey
* Task Force
* Workload
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AORC INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS AND CONFERENCES
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Effective from January 1983

The structure and management of international or regional organizations and conferences. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL and Organization Name)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Administration
* Application
* Budget
* Candidate
* Chairman
* Charter
* Congressional Reports
* Constitution
* Donor
* Election Results
* Financial Contribution
* Geneva Group
* Host Government
* Information System
* Infrastructure
* Inspection Report
* Inspection Team
* International Organization
* International Organization Official
* Meeting Agenda
* Meeting Delegation
* Meeting Observer
* Meeting Venue
* Membership
* NGO
* Nomination
* Nonparticipation
* Office Closure
* Office Establishment
* Participation
* PERMREP
* Referendum
* Reform
* Regional Organization
* Regional Organization Official Reorganization
* Resignation from Office Seating
* Secession Secretary General Specialized Agency
* Sponsorship
* Staffing
* Vacancy Announcement
* Veto
* VOLAG
* Volunteers
* Voting
* Wages
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APER PERSONNEL
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The administration and support of the Department's Civil and Foreign

Service personnel. (Replaces RCHB file category: PER)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Adoption
* Affirmative
* Action
* Ambassador
* Appeal
* Award
* Backpay
* Benefit Plan
* Bilateral Work Agreements
* Blood Donor
* Boarding School Career Development Career Mobility
* CFC
* Civil Service
* Civil Service Reform Act
* Class Action Suit
* CLO Program
* Community Liaison Office
* Coordinators
* Compensation
* Complaint
* Complement
* Consultation
* Continuing Education
* Contract Employee
* Conversion
* CSR
* Death
* Demotion
* Dependent
* Dependent Education
* Dependent Employment
* Discipline
* Divorce
* Emergency
* Evacuation
* Employee Association
* Employee Benefit
* Employee Relations
* Employee Service
* Employee Status
* Employee Training
* Employment
* Equal Employment Opportunity
* Family Life
* Family Separation
* Family Support Services
* Fellowship
* FERS
* Foreign Born Spouses
* Foreign Service
* Foreign Service Act
* FSPS
* FTE
* Functional Training
* Grade Retention
* Grievance
* Health
* Injury
* Insurance
* International School
* Interns
* Interview
* Job Title
* Leave
* Library
* Merit Pay
* Merit Promotion
* Military Furlough
* Military Reserve
* Nomination
* Nonsensitive Critical Position
* Open Assignments
* Orientation
* Overcomplement
* Pay Record
* Performance Evaluation
* Personal Property
* Personal Travel
* Personnel
* Personnel Action
* Personnel Appointment
* Personnel Assignment
* Personnel Classification
* Personnel Conduct
* Personnel Promotion
* Personnel Reassignment
* Personnel Resignation
* Personnel Separation
* Photographer
* PIT
* Position Classification
* Position Description
* Premium Pay
* Presidential Executive Exchange Program
* Private School
* Probation
* Promotion Panel
* PSC
* Public School
* Recall
* Recruitment
* Reentry
* Relocation
* Remains Disposition
* Reprogramming
* Retired Annuitant
* Retirement
* RIF
* Sabbatical
* Savings Bond
* School Admissions
* SEF
* Selection Board
* Selection Out
* Senior Foreign Service
* SES
* Severance Pay
* Sexual Harassment
* Skill Codes
* Spouse
* Staffing
* Staffing Pattern
* Survey
* Tandem Couple
* TDY
* Tenure Board
* Termination
* Time & Attendance
* Upward Mobility
* U.S. Family Member
* Vacancy Announcement
* Wages
* Work Requirements
* Workload
* Workmen Compensation
* Workweek
* Youth Programs
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ASEC SECURITY
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The development, coordination, or administration of security policies and programs. (Replaces RCHB file category: SY)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* AIASA
* Airport Access Procedures
* Antifraud
* Antiterrorism Measures
* Armored Vehicle
* Assault
* Bugging
* Building
* Contract Guard Program
* Counterintelligence
* Debriefing
* Debugging
* Demolition
* Detection Equipment
* Dismantling
* Electronic Security Device
* Emergency Response Team
* Explosives
* Fraud
* Host Country Guards
* Host Country Police
* Identification Systems
* Information Security
* Local Guard Program
* Maps
* Mission Takeover
* Monitoring
* MSG
* Name Check
* NSU
* Personnel Protection
* Physical Security
* Police Force
* Police Investigation
* Property Protection
* Protective Security
* Public Access Control
* Regional Security
* Riot Control
* RSO
* Scheduled Reporting
* Security Assessment
* Security Clearance
* Security Crisis
* Security Enhancement
* Security Survey
* Security Violation
* Special Support Program
* Suitability
* Technical Security
* Telephone
* Tempest
* Terrorism
* Threat
* Threat Assessment
* Unit Security Procedures
* Warning System
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BEXP TRADE EXPANSION AND PROMOTION
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Efforts to promote trade and other commercial activities, including specific proposals and inquiries to establish trade relations. (Replaces RCHB file category: TP)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Best Prospect
* Bid
* Business Firm
* Businessmen
* CMP
* Commercial Action
* Commercial Association
* Consultation
* Cooperatives
* Country Commercial
* Exhibit
* Exposition
* Foreign Agent
* Foreign Market
* Target Industry
* Targeting
* Trade Fair
* Trade Promotion
* Trade Visit
* WITS
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BTIO TRADE AND INVESTMENT
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OPPORTUNITIES

Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Administrative and operational reporting on opportunities for U.S. businesses. (Replaces RCHB file categories: FN, TP)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Agribusiness
* Bid
* Business Firm
* FGT
* Foreign Markets
* GPC Implementation
* Joint Venture
* Patent
* PTO
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CASC ASSISTANCE TO CITIZENS
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Effective from May 1977 (Revised January 1983)

Consular services provided by the United States to citizens of the United States or any other country. (Replaces RCHB file categories: CON, PS)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Adoption
* Aircraft Detention
* Aircraft Registry
* Alien
* AMCIT
* Arrest Assault
* Attorney List
* Authorities
* Automation
* Child Custody
* Children Compensation
* Complaint
* Consular Assistance
* Consular Package
* Cult
* Custody
* Death Report
* Deportation
* Detention
* Direct Relay
* Drivers License
* Emergency Evacuation
* Estate
* Family
* FIMED
* Fraud Identification
* Lawyer
* Legal
* Medical Care
* Missing Person
* Murder Offenses
* Prisoner
* Prisoner Release
* Prisoner Transfer
* Prisoner Welfare
* Property
* Property Protection
* Release
* Remains Disposition
* Repatriation
* Seamen
* Ship Detention
* Ship Registry
* Spouse
* Third Country Representation
* Travel Advisory
* Trial
* Trust Account
* Trust Account Refund
* Welfare & Whereabouts
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CJAN JUDICIAL ASSISTANCE AND NOTARIAL SERVICES
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Effective from May 1983

Matters pertaining to Notarial Services and International Judicial Assistance, including the service of judicial and extra-judicial documents and obtaining evidence. (Replaces RCHB file categories: LEG, PS)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Acknowledgment
* Affidavit
* Attorney List
* Authentication
* Automation
* Deed
* Deposition
* Documentation
* Evidence
* Extradition
* Fraud
* FSIA
* Judicial Assistance
* Letters Rogatory
* Notarial
* Oath
* Official Travel
* Prisoner Transfer
* Process Serving
* Subpoena
* Testimony
* Tort Claim
* Witness
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CMGT CONSULAR ADMINSTRATION AND MANAGEMENT
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Effective from August 1983

The administrative and operational management of Consular Affairs activities. (Replaces RCHB file categories: ACC, BUD, CON, FMGT,ORG, PER)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Antifraud
* Automation
* CAS
* Consular Agent
* Consular Agreement
* Consular Conference
* Consular Equipment
* Consular Package
* Consular Service
* Consular Supplies
* Consular Treaty
* CSS
* ECR
* Fee
* Fraud
* ICARS
* IVACS
* Legislation
* MRP
* NIVCAPS
* Office Procedures
* Personnel
* PFM
* PIT
* Publication
* Space Management
* Supplies
* Support Services
* TDIS
* Third Country Representation
* Word Processor
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CVIS VISAS
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Effective from May 1973 (Revised January 1993)

Operational, procedural, and administrative functions of visa operations. (Replaces RCHB file category: V)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* AA 1 Adoption
* Advisory Opinion AIDS
* Alien
* Alien Previously Deported
* Alien Smuggler
* Allocation
* Application
* Appointment
* Arrival Notice
* Athlete Automation
* Bearer Insert
* BUSVIS
* Centralized Visa Processing
* Chargeability
* CHINEX
* CLASS
* Clearance
* CONGRINT
* Consular Package
* Crew List
* Crewman
* Crime
* Data
* Defector
* Denial
* Departure Notice
* Dependent
* Deportation
* Derivatives
* Diversity Immigrant
* DNC
* Documentation
* DV 1DVACS
* Employment Based Preference
* Employment Creation
* Entertainer
* Entitlement
* Exchange Visitor
* Exclusion
* Extraordinary Ability
* Family Preference
* Fiance
* Fiancee
* Files
* Foreign Policy Exclusion
* Forms
* Fraud
* Health Related Grounds
* ICARS
* Immediate Relative
* Immigrant
* Intercompany Transferee
* International Child Abduction
* Interview
* Issuance
* IVACS
* Labor Certification
* LB 1
* Legislation
* Medical Examination
* Moral Turpitude
* MRV
* Name Check
* Narcotics Traffic
* News Media Representative
* NIV
* NIVCAPS
* Nonimmigrant
* Numerical Control
* NVC
* Operations
* Other Worker
* Out of District Applicant
* Parole
* Permanent Resident
* Polygamist
* Portsmouth Consular Center
* Priority Date
* Private Bill
* Procedures
* Public Charge
* Reciprocity
* Refugee
* Refusal
* Religious Worker
* Renewal
* Revocation
* SAO
* Skilled Worker
* SPLEX
* Student
* Supplies Temporary Worker
* Terrorist
* 30 60 Rule
* TIVPC
* Totalitarian Party Membership
* Transfer
* Transit
* Travel Agents
* Treaty Investor
* Treaty Trader
* TTYREP
* Validity Visa
* Visa Clearance
* Visa Photograph
* Visitor for Business
* VLOB
* Waiver
* Waiver of Ineligibility
* Walk Ins
* Workload
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EAGR AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Cultivating the soil and forest, raising livestock, and producing crops. (Replaces RCHB file category: AGR)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Agricultural Development
* Agricultural Production
* Agricultural Program
* Agricultural Worker
* Agriculture
* Animal Disease
* Cocoa
* Coffee
* Corn
* Cotton
* Crop Destruction
* Crops
* Dairy Products
* Desalinization
* Disease Control
* Drought
* Erosion
* Famine
* Farm Equipment
* Farming
* Fertilizer
* Food Shortages
* Forestry
* Fruit
* Fungicide
* Grain
* Harvest
* Herbicide
* Husbandry
* Insect
* Irrigation
* Jute
* Land Conservation
* Land Management
* Land Reform
* Livestock
* Natural Fiber
* Nuts
* Oilseeds
* Pest Control
* Pesticide
* Plant Disease
* Poultry
* Preservation
* Quarantine
* Rainfall
* Rice
* Rubber
* Seeds
* Snowfall
* Soil
* Soybean
* Stockpile
* Subsidy
* Sugar
* Timber
* Tobacco
* Tropical Forest
* Vegetable
* Water Analysis
* Weather
* Wheat
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EAID FOREIGN ECONOMIC ASSISTANCE
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Foreign economic and technical assistance provided by governments, international organizations, institutions, or private individuals. (Replaces RCHB file category: AID)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Agricultural Agreement
* Agricultural Development
* Agricultural Program Airlift
* Bank
* Congressional Presentation
* Construction Equipment
* Cooperatives
* Credit
* Debt
* Development Loan
* Development Program
* Disaster Relief
* Donor
* Economic Adviser
* Economic Assistance
* Economic Development
* Economic Support Fund
* Farm Equipment
* Financial Contribution
* Food
* Foreign Assistance Agreement
* Funding
* Grant
* Industrial Development
* Industrialized Nation
* Laboratory Equipment
* LDC
* LLDC
* Loan
* Medical Care
* Medical Equipment
* North South Dialogue
* Paris Club
* PL 480
* PL 480 Title I
* PL 480 Title II
* PL 480 Title III
* Relief Effort
* Self Help
* Technical Assistance
* Water Analysis
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EAIR CIVIL AVIATION
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Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)

Commercial and private aircraft and air operations, domestic as well as international. (Replaces RCHB file categories: AV, TR)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Air Access
* Air Cargo
* Air Fare
* Air Safety
* Air Traffic
* Air Transportation
* Aircraft
* Aircraft Accident
* Aircraft Detention
* Aircraft Registry
* Airline
* Airport
* Airport Fee
* Airport Security
* Airspace
* Antiterrorism Measures
* Aviation Agreement
* Cargo Handling
* Charter Flight
* CIVAIR
* Commercial Aircraft
* Emergency Landing
* Flight Clearance
* Flight Manual
* Hazardous Cargo
* Helicopter
* Hijacking
* Insurance
* Landing Rights
* Maintenance
* Navigational Aid
* Passenger Manifest
* Pilot Training
* Private Aircraft
* Refueling
* Rescue
* Route
* Salvage
* Schedule
* Transportation Development
* Transportation Industry
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ECON ECONOMIC CONDITIONS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The status of a nation's economy. (Replaces RCHB file category: E)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Agricultural Development
* Antiinflationary Program
* Black Market
* Capital Investment
* Cost of Living
* Depression
* Economic Agreement
* Economic Assessment
* Economic Conditions
* Economic Crisis
* Economic Development
* Economic Forecast
* Economic Growth
* Economic Indicators
* Economic Program
* Economic Recovery
* Economic Reform
* Economic Report
* Economic Stability
* Economic Trend
* EEC 1992
* Employment
* Financial Profits
* GDP
* GNP
* Industrial Development
* Industrial Growth
* Industrial Reform
* Inflation
* Interest Rate
* National Debt
* NIEO
* Price Index
* Recession
* Stock Market
* Tax Law
* Unemployment
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ECPS COMMUNICATIONS AND POSTAL SYSTEMS
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Effective from March 1983

The efforts of governments, the private sector, or international organizations to manage, regulate, develop, apply, or monitor the methods and means of telecommunication, international communication policy, and the informational aspects of communication. (Replaces RCHB file categories: INF, MP, PO, PPB, PR, RAD, SP, TEL, TV)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Broadcasting
* Cable TV
* Censorship
* Clandestine Broadcast
* Direct Broadcasting Satellite
* Fiber Optics
* Frequency Allocation
* Frequency Interference
* Frequency Spectrum
* Geostationary Satellite Orbit
* High Frequency
* lnformatics Information Access
* Information Center
* Information Flow
* Information Media
* Jamming
* Light Communication
* Networking
* NWICO
* Orbit
* Postal System
* Prior Consent
* Radio
* Satellite
* Telecommunication
* Telecommunication Agreement
* Telegraph
* Telephone
* Television
* Transborder Data Flow
* Transmitters
* Undersea Cable
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EFIN FINANCIAL AND MONETARY AFFAIRS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Domestic and international financial affairs of governments and private institutions. (Replaces RCHB file category: FN)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Accounting
* Audit
* Bank
* Bank Account
* Bankruptcy
* Blocked Assets
* BOP
* Budget
* Buffer Stock
* Capital Flow
* CFF
* Commodities Exchange
* Credit
* Currency Shortage
* Debt
* Debt Equity Swap
* Debt Relief
* Debt Repayment
* Debt Repudiation
* Debt Rescheduling
* Deficit
* Devaluation
* Donor
* Drawing Rights
* Economic Growth
* Economic Recovery
* Economic Trend
* EFF
* EMS
* Exchange Rate
* Financial Agreement
* Financial Contribution
* Financial Control
* Financial Crisis
* Financial Market
* Financial Profits
* Financial Program
* Financial Reform
* Financial Reserve
* Financial Stability
* Foreign Currency
* Foreign Currency Control
* Foreign Currency Exchange
* Foreign Market
* Gold
* Grant
* IMF Standbys
* Income Tax
* Inflation
* Interest Rate
* Loan Default
* Local Currency
* London Club
* National Income
* Overpayment
* Paris Club
* Payment
* Revaluation
* Sales Tax
* SDR
* Securities
* Securities Exchange
* Stock Shares
* Tax Haven
* Tax Law
* Taxation Treaties
* Treasury
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EFIS COMMERCIAL FISHING AND FISH PROCESSING
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The breeding and catching of fish and other marine life for commercial purposes. (Replaces RCHB file categories: INCO, POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Aquaculture
* Catch
* Quota Cod
* Dispute Settlement
* Exclusive Economic
* Zone Fish
* Fisheries
* Aid Fishery
* Fishing Agreement
* Fishing Concession
* Fishing Dispute
* Fishing Ground
* Fishing Limit
* Fishing Rights
* Fishing Vessel
* Fishing Vessel
* Detention Halibut
* Herring Joint
* Venture
* Quota Salmon
* Shellfish
* Shrimp
* TEDS
* Tuna
* Whaling Industry
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EIND INDUSTRY AND MANUFACTURING
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The commercial production of goods and services, including the processing of raw materials into manufactured goods. (Replaces RCHB file category: TEL, INCO)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Aerospace Industry
* Alloy
* Aluminum
* Antitrust
* Automotive Industry
* Bankruptcy
* Business Firm
* Capital Investment
* Chemical Industry
* Clothing Industry
* Commercial Association
* Communications Industry
* Complaint
* Construction Industry
* Consumer Goods
* Cooperatives
* Copyright Agreement
* Copyright Claim
* Corruption
* Cotton
* Dairy Industry
* Data Processing Industry
* Defense Industry
* Development Program
* Drug Industry
* Dyeing Industry
* Economic Growth
* Electronic Industry
* Espionage
* Factory
* Fertilizer Industry
* Finishing Industry
* Fishing Industry
* Food Contamination
* Food Industry
* Foreign Agent
* Fraud
* Garment Industry
* Garment Production
* Garment Workers
* Industrial Accident
* Industrial Development
* Industrial Growth
* Industrial Production
* Industrial Reform
* Industrial Waste Disposal
* Insurance
* Linen
* Litigation
* Lumber Industry
* Machine Tool Industry
* Manmade Fiber
* Manufactured Product
* Merger
* Metal Industry
* Monopoly
* Nationalization
* Paper Industry
* Parastatal
* Patent
* Petroleum Industry
* Piracy
* Plastic Industry
* Power Looms
* Private Sector
* Privatization
* Processing
* Product Safety
* Product Standards
* Product Testing
* Production
* Production Control
* Public Sector
* Railroad Industry
* Ramie
* Raw Materials
* Recall
* Registration
* Rubber Industry
* Sabotage
* Salvage
* Service Industry
* Shipbuilding Industry
* Silk
* Spinning Machinery
* Steel Industry
* Stockpile
* Subsidiary
* Subsidy
* Textile Industry
* Textile Production
* Tobacco Industry
* Tourism
* Trademark
* Vegetable Fiber
* Weaving Industry
* Wood Products Industry
* Wool
* Yarns
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EINT ECONOMIC AND COMMERCIAL INTERNET
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Effective from October 1997

Economic and commercial programs, policies, and issues relating to the Internet.

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Agreement
* Censorship
* Competition
* Connectivity
* Content
* Copyright
* Data
* Democracy
* Economic Conditions
* Domain Names
* Electronic Commerce
* Encryption
* Free Flow of Information
* Information Availability
* Interconnectivity
* Internet
* Meeting
* Monopoly
* Piracy
* Policy
* Pornography
* Privacy
* Private Sector
* Reporting
* Trademark
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EINV FOREIGN INVESTMENTS
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Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)

Foreign investments made by governments or private enterprises for commercial gain. (Replaces RCHB file categories: FN, INCO)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Bank
* Bid
* BIT
* Business Firm
* Business Loss
* Business Merger
* Capital Flow
* Capital Investment
* Compensation
* Credit
* Credit Guarantee
* Disinvestment
* Economic Growth
* Foreign Investment
* Fraud
* Garment Investment
* Insurance Risk
* Investment Climate
* Investment Control
* Investment Disputes
* Investment Guarantee
* Investment Incentive
* Investment Law
* Investment Opportunity
* Joint Venture
* Loan
* Multinational Corporation
* Nationalization
* Parastatal
* Private Investment
* Private Sector
* Privatization
* Public Sector
* Subsidiary
* Textile Investment
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ELAB LABOR SECTOR AFFAIRS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised May 1995)

The labor sector, labor actors, and national labor policies and their effect on domestic and international systems and relations. (Replaces RCHB file category: LAB)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Arbitration
* Benefits
* Bonded Labor
* Child Labor
* Collective Bargaining
* Compulsory Labor
* Dock Workers
* Employee Ownership
* Employee Rights
* Employer Organization
* Employment
* Equal Pay for Equal Work
* Forced Labor
* Foreign Worker
* GSP (Worker Rights)
* Illegal Worker
* International Labor Secretariat
* Job Creation
* Job Discrimination
* Job Security
* Job Training
* Labor Agreement
* Labor Code
* Labor Competition
* Labor Confederation
* Labor Cooperative
* Labor Costs
* Labor Courts
* Labor Disputes
* Labor Federation
* Labor Law
* Labor Leader
* Labor Market
* Labor Migration
* Labor Movement
* Labor Organization
* Labor Relations
* Labor Rights
* Labor Sector
* Labor Settlement
* Labor Standards
* Labor Union
* Layoffs
* Lockout
* Manpower
* Mediation
* NAFTA Labor Cooperation
* Occupational Health
* Occupational Safety
* Pension
* Prison Labor
* Privatization
* Right of Association
* Right to Organize Slave Labor
* Social Clause (WTO)
* Social Net
* Social Security
* Strike
* Trade
* Union
* Underemployment
* Unemployment
* Unemployment Insurance
* Vocational Training
* Wages
* Work Force
* Work Permit
* Worker Rights Workers
* Working Conditions
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ELTN LAND TRANSPORTATION
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Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)

All aspects of land transportation. (Replaces RCHB file categories: IT, TR)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Antiterrorism Measures
* Automobile
* Bridge
* Bus
* Cargo Handling
* Detention
* Fee
* Hazardous Cargo
* Highway
* Highway Access
* Hijacking
* Insurance
* Land Transportation
* Maintenance
* Overland Cargo
* Public Transportation
* Railroad
* Railroad Accident
* Railway Access
* Rescue
* Schedule
* Traffic Accident
* Traffic Safety
* Transportation Development
* Transportation Industry
* Truck
* Tunnel
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EMIN MINERALS AND METALS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The exploration, discovery, and extraction of minerals and metals. (Replaces RCHB file category: INCO)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Bauxite
* Bid
* Chromite
* Coal
* Cobalt
* Copper
* Drilling
* Excavation
* Exclusive Economic Zone
* Exploration
* Factory
* Gems
* Gold
* Iron
* Magnesium
* Manganese
* Metal
* Mine
* Mineral
* Mineral Reserve
* Mining
* Mining Accident
* Mining Concession
* Nickel
* Offshore Mining
* Ore
* Quarry
* Silver
* Tin
* Tungsten
* Uranium
* Uranium Enrichment
* Zinc

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ENRG ENERGY AND POWER
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Government and private commercial activities in acquiring and providing energy services from all types of sources. For petroleum and natural gas, see EPET. (Replaces RCHB file categories: AE, FSE)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Coal
* Dam
* Decontamination
* Electric Energy
* Electric Power Plant
* Energy Conservation
* Energy Consumption
* Energy Reserve
* Energy Shortage
* Factory
* Fissionable Material
* Fuel
* Fuel Shortage
* Generator
* Geothermal Energy
* Hazardous Waste Disposal
* Hydroelectric Energy
* Hydroelectric Power Plant
* Nuclear Accident
* Nuclear Capability
* Nuclear Contamination
* Nuclear Energy
* Nuclear Fuel Reprocessing
* Nuclear Power Plant
* Nuclear Reactor
* Nuclear Safeguard
* Power Line
* Public Utility
* PUNE
* Radiation
* Radioactive Material
* Radioactive Material Transfer
* Radioactive Waste Disposal
* Reexport
* Solar Energy
* Spent Fuel
* Stockpile
* Technology Transfer
* Thermal Energy
* Thermal Power Plant
* Transformer
* Uranium Enrichment
* Wind Energy
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EPET PETROLEUM AND NATURAL GAS
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Effective from July 1980 (Revised January 1983)

Government and private sector activities in the exploration and extraction of petroleum and natural gas. (Replaces RCHB file categories: FSE, PET)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Bid
* Drilling
* Exploitation
* Exploration
* LPG
* Natural Gas
* Natural Gas Pipeline
* Natural Gas Production
* Natural Gas Reserve
* Offshore Drilling
* Offshore Drilling Platform
* Offshore Oil
* Oil Field
* Petroleum
* Petroleum Concession
* Petroleum Pipeline
* Petroleum Production
* Petroleum Reserve
* Petroleum Shortage
* Refinery
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ETRD FOREIGN TRADE
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Exchange of goods between nations. (Replaces RCHB file category: FT)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Alcoholic Beverage
* Aluminum
* Animal Hides
* Antidumping
* Antitrust
* Apparel Trade
* Arms
* Arms Traffic
* Barter
* BOP
* Boycott
* Buffer Stock
* Chemical
* Clothing
* Cocoa
* Coffee
* Commercial Aircraft
* Commodity
* Commodity Market
* Communications Equipment
* Computer
* Construction Equipment
* Cooperatives
* Corruption
* Cotton
* Countertrade
* Countervailing Duty
* Cross Border Trade
* Customs Agreement
* Customs Clearance
* Customs Court
* Customs Fine
* Customs Inspection
* Customs Official
* Customs Regulation
* Customs Seizure
* Dairy Products
* Debt
* Development Program
* Dispute Settlement
* Diversion
* Duty Free Entry
* East West Trade
* Economic Cooperation
* EEC 1992
* EEP
* Electronic Equipment
* Exhibit
* Export
* Fair Trade
* Farm Equipment
* FCN
* Fertilizer
* Fish
* Food
* Food Contamination
* Food Inspection
* Footwear
* Foreign Market
* Free Trade Zone
* Garment Exports
* Garment Imports
* Government Procurement
* GSP
* Harmonized System
* Helicopter
* Import
* Industrialized Nation
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Intervention
* Laboratory Equipment
* LDC
* Leather
* License
* Linen
* Litigation
* Lumber
* Machine Tool
* Manmade Fiber
* Market Access
* Meat
* Meat Inspection
* Medical Equipment
* Merger
* Metal
* MFN
* MIC
* Monopoly
* Multifiber Arrangement
* NAFTA
* Natural Fiber
* Newly Industrialized Countries
* Nonalcoholic Beverage
* Nontariff Barriers
* North South Dialogue
* Oils
* Oilseeds
* Perishable Commodities
* Petroleum Products
* Pharmaceuticals
* Plastics
* Poultry
* Private Sector
* Product Standards
* Public Sector
* Quota
* Railroad Equipment
* Ramie
* Reexport
* Rice
* Rubber
* Sanction
* Shellfish
* Silk
* Smuggling
* Soybean
* Steel
* Stockpile
* Subsidy
* Sugar
* Synthetic Fiber
* Synthetic Rubber
* Tariff
* Tariff Barriers
* Tariff Relief
* Television
* Textile Exports
* Textile Imports
* Textiles
* Tin
* Tobacco
* Trade Agreement
* Trade Balance
* Trade Complaint
* Trade Control
* Trade Concession
* Trade Discrimination
* Trade Dumping
* Trade Fair
* Trade Law
* Trade Liberalization
* Trade Opportunity
* Trade Promotion
* Trade Protectionism
* Trade Relations
* Trade Visit
* Tuna
* VAT
* Vegetable
* Vegetable Fiber
* Vegetable Oil
* Wheat
* Wine
* Wood Products
* Wool
* Yarns
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ETTC TRADE AND TECHNOLOGY CONTROLS
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Effective from April 1984

Government efforts to control the transfer of goods (i.e., equipment),services, or technologies. This includes foreign policy trade controls, strategic (National Security) trade controls, munitions controls, general West to East technology transfer issues, and efforts to circumvent U.S. or COCOM controls. (Replaces RCHB file categories: FT, STR)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Arms Traffic
* Blocked Assets
* Boycott
* COCOM Case
* COCOM List Review
* Computer
* Data Bases
* Data Processing Equipment
* Digital Switching
* Diversion
* EAA
* East West Trade
* Economic Warfare
* Electronic Equipment
* Embargo
* End Use Check
* End User
* Enforcement
* Espionage
* Exception List
* EXCON
* Export
* Export Control
* GSOIA
* GSOMIA
* High Technology Equipment
* IEEPA
* Illegal Trade
* Import Control
* ITAR
* Laboratory Equipment
* License
* Manufacturing Agreement
* Military Applications
* Military Critical Technologies
* Military Equipment
* Military Services
* Munitions Control
* NDPC
* Nonmarket Economy
* Origin Certificate
* Reexport
* Research & Development
* Sanction
* Security Survey
* Semiconductors
* SNEC
* Software
* Stockpile
* Strategic Material
* Strategic Trade Control
* Superconductor
* TCDC
* Technical Assistance Agreement
* Technology Acquisition Efforts
* Technology Gap
* Technology Transfer
* Transaction Check
* Turnkey Plant
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EWWT WATERBORNE TRANSPORTATION
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Movement of commercial and private vessels over high seas and inland waterways. (Replaces RCHB file categories: OS, TR)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Antiterrorism
* Measures Canal
* Cargo Handling
* Coast Guard
* Containerization
* Dock Workers
* Fee
* Hazardous Cargo
* Insurance
* Load Line
* Maintenance
* Marine Cargo
* Marine Safety
* Marine Transportation
* Maritime Agreement
* Maritime Flag
* Maritime Law
* Merchant Ship
* Minesweeping
* Navigational Aid
* Passenger Ship
* Patrol Boat
* Piracy
* Port
* Port Access
* Port Congestion
* Private Ship
* Refueling
* Registration
* Rescue
* River
* Route
* Salvage
* Schedule Ship Accident
* Ship Clearance
* Ship Detention
* Ship Harassment
* Ship Movement
* Ship Registry
* Shipyard
* SOLAS
* Strait
* Tonnage Measurement
* Transportation Development
* Transportation Industry
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KACT: Strategic Arms Control (ACS) Treaties
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Effective from August 2000 (Revised August 2004)

Use for all documents relating to specific, interrelated strategic (nuclear) arms control treaties and their implementation:

* ABM (i.e., anti-ballistic missile) treaty and its implementation body the SCC (Standing Consultative Commission);
* INF (i.e., Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces) Treaty and its implementation body, the SVC (Special Verification Commission);
* START (i.e., Strategic Reductions Treaty) and its implementation body, the JCIC (Joint Compliance and Inspection Commission); and the Strategic Offensive Reductions Treaty (SORT) or the Moscow Treaty and its implementing body, the BIC (Bilateral Implementation Commission).

Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: NP/EX)
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KAWC: Atrocities and War Crimes
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Effective from July 2001

Use for all documents relating to atrocities, massacres, and war crimes, including allegations, reports, investigations, and prosecutions of genocide, crimes against humanity, grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions, and violations of the laws or customs for war. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau, Info: S/WCI)
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KCFE: Conventional Armed Forces in Europe
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Effective from August 1989

Use on all documents between U.S. Vienna and the Department pertaining to CFE negotiations; documents pertaining to conventional forces in Europe including both Eastern and Western forces, their structure, posture, changes, etc.; documents pertaining to allied and Warsaw Pact conventional arms control positions, plans and related internal political situations, documents referring to the High Level Task Force (HLTF) or its subgroups; and all documents discussing congressional delegation visits to Europe that will address conventional arms control issues. (Action: EUR/RPM)
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KCIP: Critical Infrastructure Protection
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Effective from August 2001

Use for all documents reporting on critical infrastructure protection (CIP) issues, which are defined as vulnerabilities and threats, both physical and cyber, to systems and assets (particularly interconnected information systems and networks) so vital to a nation that their incapacity or destruction would have a debilitating impact on national security, national economic security, and/or national public health and safety. Use for reporting of CIP issues both as they affect host country and as they impact the United States. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)

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KCOM: Chief of Mission
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Effective from March 2004

Use for all documents addressed for action to the chief of a U.S. mission in a foreign location (e.g., ambassadors, chargés d’affaires, consuls general, or principal officers). Use KCOM in conjunction with generic PASS instructions to chiefs of mission in Department telegrams. Also use the appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KCOR: Corruption and Anti-Corruption
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Effective from August 2001

Use for all documents relating to corruption and anti-corruption, dishonesty, and unethical behavior among public officials representing local, provincial, and national governments. This would include linkages with justice, economic, social and political entities. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)

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KCRM: Criminal Activity
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Effective from April 1994 (Revised April 2000)

Use on all documents relating to criminal organizations and activities, the threat they pose to U.S. interests and/or friendly governments, and host country and U.S. Government programs to combat them. This includes international criminal organizations; money laundering and other financial crimes; illicit trafficking including alien smuggling and gun running; international stolen property theft and fencing rings; international frauds and commercial crimes; UN crime meetings and anti-crime programs; and interaction with international and regional organizations on these issues. U.S. assistance covers training of host country judicial and law enforcement agencies. Use this K TAGS with the Subject TAGS SOCI. Distinguish the use of this TAGS from AID-funded administration of justice programs in Latin America (KJUS),anti-narcotics issues and programs (SNAR),and anti-terrorism issues and programs (PTER). (Action: INL/ENT)
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KDEM: Democratization
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Effective from May 1991

Use on all documents dealing with democratization in Eastern Europe, Latin America, Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. Encouraging democratization constitutes an essential component of U.S. policy. The U.S. Government is devoting significant resources to monitor and promote regional trends away from autocratic rule and toward political pluralism. Programs designed to encourage democratization are diverse, and often are cross-discipline in nature, requiring the involvement of several U.S. Government agencies. Also use the appropriate Subject and Geo-Political TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KDRG: Detainee Repatriation from Guantanamo Bay
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Effective from December 2007

Use for all documents addressing issues connected to the repatriation and transfer of detainees in U.S. Government custody at the military detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba to their countries of origin or to third countries. Also use appropriate Subject and Country TAGS. (Action: S/WCI)
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KFRD: Fraud Prevention Programs
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Effective from August 1986

Use on all reporting that refers to efforts and activities pertaining to the prevention of fraud and deceptive practices in the issuance of visas, passports, the issuance of Federal benefits to U.S. citizens and others, and to active measures developed by the Department to oversee their legality and for reporting upon the results of antifraud and prevention measures in consular matters. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: CA/FPP)
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KGHG: Global Climate Change
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Effective from May 2007

Use for all documents addressing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, and global climate change (also referred to as global warming). This includes, but is not limited to, the economic, energy, environmental, geographic, health, scientific, social, and political linkages of global climate change. Also use appropriate Subject and Country TAGS. (Action: OES/EGC)
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KGIC: Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism
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Effective from September 2006

Use for all documents relating to the Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism. The Global Initiative works toward the prevention, detection, and response to acts of nuclear terrorism. Also use appropriate Subject Tags. (Action: ISM/WMDT)
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KHIV: Emerging Infectious Diseases and HIV/AIDS Program
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Effective from June 2000

Use for all documents relating to actual and prospective activities by the U.S. Government, alone or in conjunction with or through other entities, to combat HIV/AIDS and other infectious diseases. Also use Appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: S/GAC)
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KHLS: Homeland Security
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Effective from August 2006

Use for all documents relating to all aspects of homeland security issues, including acts of terrorism directed at the U.S. homeland, its citizens, or interests; planning and support for such acts of terrorism; capabilities of terrorist groups; activities of institutions, groups, or individuals that support such terrorism; acts of terrorism that transcend national boundaries due to the support network or nationality of the perpetrator, victim, or facility or conventional, biological, radiological, or nuclear (CBRN) terrorism; terrorist travel; actions of the host government, institutions, or individuals related to support for or opposition to U.S. Government homeland security or counter-terrorism initiatives; actions of the host government or multilateral organizations related to the establishment of host country or regional security, bureaucratic, physical, or cyber infrastructure; homeland security implications and effects of border protection, immigration, and customs policies; transportation (e.g., seaports, civil air) security; host government travel document control and standards; emergency, preparedness, and response; biodefense, science and technology development related to the above areas; reactions of host government, media, etc., to homeland security-related programs and activities in the United States, or of the U.S. Government. Also use appropriate Subject and Country TAGS. (Action: S/CT, CA, OES, A/OEM)

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KIPR: Intellectual Property Rights
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Effective from December 1988 (Revised April 2000)

Use on all documents relating to intellectual property rights which include patents, trademarks, copyrights, semiconductor designs (mask works),industrial designs, trade secrets, appellations of origin and other forms of protection to reward and encourage innovation and creativity. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: EEB/TPP/MTA/IPC)
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KIRF: International Religious Freedom
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Effective from January 1999

Use on all documents relating to all issues of religious freedom and persecution, including civil unrest where religion is a precipitating factor; changes to or enforcement of laws affecting freedom of religion; religious aspects of movements, parties or persons seeking governmental change; governmental repression of religious minorities, movements or leaders; religion playing a role in reconciling conflicts; and changes in religious demographics that may produce societal changes. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: DRL/IRF)
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KISL: Islamic Issues
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Effective from November 1988 (Revised April 2000)

Use on documents treating government involvement in recognition of or approaches to Islam; political and economic activities undertaken by private Islamic organizations or prominent individuals; and fundamentalism. Also use appropriate Subject and Country TAGS.

(Action: NEA/PPR, AF/RA, EAP/RA)
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KJUS: Administration of Justice
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Effective from May 1986 (Revised April 2000)

Use on all documents dealing with the administration of justice in host countries, particularly as it relates to U.S. objectives of promoting democracy and just economic and social development. This includes judicial reforms, political reporting on personalities and institutions involved in the administration of justice, judicial infrastructure development, criminal investigation capabilities, penal systems, legal training, and assistance and exchange programs in this field. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: WHA/PPC)
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KMCA: Millennium Challenge Account
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Effective from August 2004

Use for documents relating to all aspects of the Millennium Challenge Account, a U.S. new foreign assistance account, or the Millennium Challenge Corporation, the independent government corporation recently established to manage and oversee this assistance. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: MCC/IT)
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KMDR: Media Reaction Reporting
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Effective From October 1999

Use on all documents dealing with setting post ―Watching Briefs and on all post reporting concerning editorial content and media reaction. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: INR/R)
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KNNP: Nuclear Non-Proliferation
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Effective from April 1984

Use on all documents on U.S. policy for preventing the spread of nuclear weapons to other countries, the transfer of nuclear material, equipment of technology, agreements for cooperation on the peaceful uses of nuclear energy, matters concerning multilateral discussions on the uses of nuclear energy including the activities of the International Atomic Energy Agency, and activities in other countries related to the acquisition of nuclear explosives. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KOLY: Olympic Games Reporting
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Effective from February 1984

Use on all documents relating to issues, reports, or activities concerned with Olympic games. Also use appropriate Subject, Country, and Organization TAGS. Note: KOLY will be used in the above prescribed manner for all subsequent winter and summer Olympic games. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KPAL: Palestinian Affairs
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Effective from August 1983 (Revised April 2000)

Use on all documents relating to issues, reports, or activities concerned with the Palestinian people, as a group or in part, or the area known as Palestine. Also use appropriate Subject, Country, and Organization TAGS. (Action: NEA/PA)
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KPAO: Public Affairs Office
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Effective from May 2000

Use on all documents intended for Public Affairs sections abroad, and should be used by field Public Affairs sections abroad on all documents coming into the Department which relate to Public Diplomacy Programs. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: ECA/EX/PR)
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KPIN: Political Internationals
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Effective from November 1984

Use on all documents relating to the activities and policies of the four major Political Internationals: Socialist International, Christian Democratic International, Liberal International, and the International Democratic Union. This includes reporting on the attitudes of member parties towards the Internationals, the interaction between member parties of the Internationals, and the activities of the Internationals themselves. In addition, this TAGS should be used on all documents relating to the policies of the German (FRG) political foundations: Friederich Ebert, Konrad Adenauer, Hanns Seidel, and Friederich Naumann. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: P)
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KPKO: United Nations Peacekeeping Operations
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Effective from August 1996

Use on all documents relating to existing or potential United Nations peacekeeping activities, including proposals for and negotiations with other countries on peacekeeping activities, military support, sanctions monitoring, elections and humanitarian activities, as well as interaction with international and regional organizations on peacekeeping. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: IO)
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KPWR: Power Support Program
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Effective from March 1993

Use on all documents dealing with the Department’s electrical power support requirements. The program provides consolidated funding for generators, central uninterruptible power supply (UPS) systems, and PCB transformer abatement projects. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: OBO/PE/DE)
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KRAD: Radioactive Contamination of the Environment
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Effective from May 1997 (Revised April 2000)

Use on all documents dealing with radioactive contamination of the environment from whatever source—military or civilian use, transportation, storage, or disposal of nuclear material Appropriate Subject Terms to use with this TAGS would include nuclear contamination, radiation, radioactive material and International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) emergency notification. In connection with accidental or deliberate contamination, appropriate Terms to use with this TAGS include radioactive material transfer, radioactive waste disposal, radioactive waste management, industrial/medical radiography, medical isotope, and transfer of fissile material. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: OES/OA)

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KSCA: Science Counselors and Attachés
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Effective from February 1983

Use on all documents drafted by or sent to Science Counselors and Science Attachés. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: OES). Note: KSCA replaces the Organization SCSA.
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KSPR: Strategic, Performance and Resource Planning
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Effective from October 1997

Use on all documents dealing with the strategic planning process for all foreign affairs agencies or agencies with operations and programs abroad as well as the Department’s own strategic planning activities. This includes all resource allocation processes when associated with the Mission Performance Plan (MPP),namely: budget formulation, the Financial Plan (FINPLAN),and the field budget plan. Technical and operational messages that are purely budget-focused should only use ABUD. Use KSPR on messages regarding personnel planning in connection with the annual MPP exercises, and subjects relating to the Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA) of 1993. Operational personnel requests (e.g., new positions, classification actions, conversions of positions from FSN to PIT, etc.) should still only use APER. Suggested terms to use with KSPR are program planning, Mission Performance Plan (MPP),Resource Allocations and Budget Integration Tool (RABIT) and Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA). Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: M/P)
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KSUM: Summit Meetings
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Effective from January 1983 (Revised November 1987)

Use on all documents concerning Summit Meetings. This includes substantive and administrative arrangements for meetings, records of meetings and reports on actions by participants as a result of meetings, including preparatory meetings. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KTFN: Terrorism Finance Traffic
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Effective from July 2004

Use for documents relating to all aspects of terrorism financing; sanctions; designations of individuals under Executive Orders (E.O.) dealing with terrorism finance such as E.O. 13224; related UN resolutions; denial of funds to terrorists; and other related aspects of terrorism financing. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: EEB/ESC)
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KTIA: Treaties and International Agreements
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Effective from June 1984

Use on all documents concerning treaties, including conventions, protocols, or other International Agreements, such as exchange of notes, exchange of letters and memoranda of understanding, as well as requirements of the Case Act (11 FAM 724; 1 U.S.C. 112B). Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: L/T)
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KTIP: Trafficking in Persons
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Effective from September 2008

Use for all cables related to the topics of trafficking in persons, human trafficking, slavery, involuntary servitude, forced labor, labor migration, illegal migration, commercial sexual exploitation, prostitution, sex tourism, forced marriage, child labor, debt bondage, peonage, and child soldiering. Also use appropriate Subject and Country TAGS. (Action: G/TIP)
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KUNR: UN Reform
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Effective from November 1995

Use on all documents dealing with all efforts to reform and restructure the United Nations. Some of the reforms are: the UN budget and/or ceiling, security council expansion, managerial improvements, and strengthening the role of the UN. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: IO)
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KWBG: West Bank and Gaza
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Effective from December 1993 (Revised April 2000)

Use on all documents dealing with the implementation of the Israeli-PLO Declaration of Principles, including Palestinian interim self-rule, economic development and development assistance to the Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza. Also, use for Israeli-PLO negotiations on implementing the agreement and political developments in the West Bank and Gaza including elections for a Palestinian Council. Also use the appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: NEA/IPA)
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KWMN: Women Issues
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Effective from June 1995

Use on all documents relating to the Fourth World Conference on Women and any future World Conferences on Women. Also use this TAGS on issues concerning women’s human rights, women’s political participation, women-in-development, and any discussions of women in the United Nations or any other international organizations. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: G/CS, IO, and DRL)
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MARR MILITARY AND DEFENSE ARRANGEMENTS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Efforts to establish and maintain collective security or other international military cooperation. (Replaces RCHB file category: DEF)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Air Defense
* Air Forces
* Alliance
* Armed Forces
* Artillery
* CFE
* Collective Security
* DECA
* DMZ
* Emergency Evacuation
* Ground Forces
* Home Porting
* Host Government
* Intelligence Assessment
* Landing Rights
* Lease
* Military Advisor
* Military Agreement
* Military Base
* Military Cooperation
* Military Exercise
* Military Personnel
* Military Plan
* Military Visit
* Minesweeping
* Monitoring
* National Security
* Naval Forces
* Overflight Clearance
* Peace Plan
* Peacekeeping Forces
* Refueling
* Security Assessment
* Ship Clearance
* Ship Movement
* SOFA
* Tracking Station
* Troop Contribution
* Troop Deployment
* Troop Reduction
* Troop Withdrawal
* Truce Observer
* Weapons Deployment
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MASS MILITARY ASSISTANCE AND SALES
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The Govemment to Govemment transfer, sale, or loan of military equipment, advisers, or services. (Replaces RCHB file categories DEF, FT)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Airlift
* Arms
* Artillery
* AWACS
* Bomber Aircraft
* CAT
* Congressional Presentation
* Credit
* Debt
* Debt Repayment
* Diversion
* Donor
* Economic Support Fund
* Fighter Aircraft
* FMS
* Guidance System
* Helicopter
* IMET
* Loan
* Maintenance
* MAP
* Military Adviser
* Military Agreement
* Military Aircraft
* Military Assistance
* Military Procurement
* Military Training
* Military Vehicle
* Missile
* Reexport
* Salvage
* Spare Parts
* Surplus Weapons Disposal
* Technical Assistance
* Technology Transfer
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MCAP MILITARY CAPABILITIES
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Effective from March 1973 to June 1974 (Revised January 1983)

The nonnuclear offensive and defensive ability of the military establishment of a nation or international organization. (Replaces RCHB file category: DEF)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Advanced Weaponry
* Air Defense
* Air Forces
* Armed Forces
* Arms
* Artillery
* AWACS
* Biological Warfare
* Biological Weapon
* Biological Weapon Control
* Bomber Aircraft
* Burden sharing
* Cargo Aircraft
* Chemical Warfare
* Chemical Weapon
* Chemical Weapon
* Control Civil Defense
* Coast Guard
* Conscription
* Contingency Plan
* Conventional Weapon
* Conventional Weapon
* Control Court Martial
* Defense Industry
* Demobilization
* Fighter Aircraft
* Ground Forces
* Guidance System
* Helicopter
* Infrastructure
* Intelligence Assessment
* Landing Rights
* Logistics
* Military Aircraft
* Military Balance
* Military Budget
* Military Buildup
* Military Capability
* Military Communication
* Military Equipment
* Military Exercise
* Military Leader
* Military Personnel
* Military Plan
* Military Reserve
* Missile
* Mobilization
* National Guard
* Naval Forces
* Naval Ship
* Ordnance
* Radar
* RDF
* Security Assessment
* Strategic Plan
* Submarine
* Troop Deployment
* Troop Level
* Troop Reduction
* Troop Withdrawal
* Warhead
* Warning System
* Weapons Deployment
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MNUC MILITARY NUCLEAR APPLICATIONS
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Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)

The development and use of nuclear technology for military purposes. (Replaces RCHB file categories: AE, DEF)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Advanced Weaponry
* Antinuclear
* Arms
* Artillery
* Counterforce
* Decontamination
* Delivery Vehicle
* Fissionable Material
* Guidance System
* INF
* LRTNF
* Military Capability
* Missile
* Missile Site
* Monitoring
* Nuclear Contamination
* Nuclear Powered Ship
* Nuclear Safeguard
* Nuclear Test
* Nuclear Weapon
* Nuclear Weapon Control
* Nuclear Winter
* Plutonium
* Radiation
* Radioactive Material
* Radioactive Material Transfer
* Radioactive Waste Disposal
* Radioactive Waste Management
* Spent Fuel
* Strategic Plan
* Troop Deployment
* Troop Withdrawal
* Warhead
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MOPS MILITARY OPERATIONS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Declared or undeclared war involving two or more nations. (Replaces RCHB file categories: DEF, POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Advanced Weaponry
* Aggression
* Air Alert
* Air Forces
* Amnesty
* Armed Forces
* Artillery
* Assault
* Atrocity
* Biological Warfare
* Biological Weapon
* Biological Weapon Control
* Blockade
* Bombing
* Casualty
* Ceasefire
* Chemical Warfare
* Chemical Weapon
* Chemical Weapon Control
* Combat
* Concentration Camp
* CONTRA
* Conventional Weapon
* Conventional Weapon Control
* DMZ
* Emergency Evacuation
* Escalation
* Explosives
* Ground Forces
* Guerrilla
* Intelligence Assessment
* Intervention
* Invasion
* KIA
* Landing Rights
* Martial Law
* Massacre
* MIA
* Military Balance
* Military Buildup
* Military Plan
* Minesweeping
* Naval Forces
* No Fly Zone
* Nuclear Weapon
* Nuclear Weapon Control
* Occupied Area
* Peace Plan
* POW
* Repatriation
* Reprisal
* Rescue
* Sabotage
* Ship Movement
* Surrender
* Threat
* Troop Deployment
* Troop Level
* Troop Reduction
* Troop Withdrawal
* War
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ODIP U.S. DIPLOMATIC REPRESENTATION
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Effective from January 1983

Official representational and ceremonial activities of U.S. diplomats and U.S. Government officials; includes all aspects of privileges and immunities. Use for ceremonial activities hosted by U.S. officials. (Replaces RCHB file categories: PER, POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Accreditation
* Agrement
* Ambassador
* Ambassador Designate
* Anniversary
* Assault
* Attache
* Ceremonial Representation
* Credentials Presentation
* Diplomat
* Diplomatic Consular List
* Diplomatic Privileges
* Drivers License
* Funeral
* Gift
* Guest List
* Honorary Consul
* Invitation
* Personnel Conduct
* Real Property
* Social Reception
* Tax Exemption
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OEXC EDUCATIONAL AND CULTURAL
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EXCHANGE OPERATIONS

Effective from March 1973 (Revised April 2000)

The administration and operation of educational and cultural exchange programs. (Replaces RCHB file category: EDX)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* American Studies
* Artist
* Athlete
* Business for Russia Program
* Citizen Exchanges
* College and University Affiliation Program
* Community
* Connections
* Creative Arts Exchanges
* Cultural Exchange
* Cultural Heritage
* Cultural Property
* Cultural Specialists (Aculspecs)
* Educational Exchange
* EFL Fellows
* ETF Fellows
* Exchange Program
* Designation Festival Fund
* Film Programs
* FLEX Program
* Foreign Leader Program
* Fulbright Alumni Association
* Fulbright American Studies Institutes
* Fulbright Commissions
* Fulbright Junior Staff Development Program (JSD)
* Fulbright Scholar in Residence Program
* Fulbright Scholar Program
* Fulbright Student Program
* Fulbright Teachers Exchange Grant
* Humphrey Program
* International Visitor Program
* J Visa Program
* J William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board
* Jazz Ambassadors
* Nomination
* Performing Arts Calendar
* Ron Brown Fellowship Program
* Scientist
* Student
* Student Advising
* Study of the US
* Teacher
* The Film Service
* U.S. Artists Abroad
* Voluntary Visitor Program
* Youth Exchanges
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OFDP FOREIGN DIPLOMATS AND FOREIGN MISSIONS
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Effective from January 1983

Administrative, representational, and ceremonial matters related to non-U.S. diplomatic personnel and foreign missions; includes all aspects of privileges and immunities. Use for ceremonial activities hosted by non-U.S. diplomats. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Accreditation
* Ambassador
* Ambassador Designate
* Assault
* Attache
* Building Design
* Ceremonial Representation
* Consul
* Consulate
* Credentials Presentation
* Diplomat
* Diplomatic Consular List
* Diplomatic Privileges
* Drivers License
* Embassy
* Envoy
* Funeral
* Gift
* Guest List
* Honorary Consul
* Invitation
* NOB
* Office Closure
* Office Establishment
* Personnel Appointment
* Personnel Conduct
* Personnel Resignation
* Personnel Separation
* Post Closing
* Post Opening
* Real Property
* Recall
* Social Reception
* Staffing
* Tax Exemption
* Third Country Counterparts
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OIIP INTERNATIONAL INFORMATION PROGRAMS
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Effective from October 1999

Administrative and operational aspects of international information programs, products, and services that increase international support for U.S. policies and understanding of U.S. society.

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Advance Documents Service
* Article Alert
* Book Donations
* Book Fairs
* Book Reprints
* Book Translations
* Books and Documents List
* Computer
* Cooperative Agreements
* Copyright
* Design Services
* DVC
* Electronic Journal
* Grant
* Graphic Design
* I-Bucks
* IRC
* IRO
* Listserv
* Paper Shows
* PDQ
* Photo Coverage
* Photo Rights
* Photo Requests
* Public Diplomacy
* Publication
* Reference Requests
* Speaker
* Technology Partnerships
* Teleconference
* Translation Requests
* Washington File
* Websites
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OPDC DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE
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Effective from January 1983

Correspondence and ceremonial messages between prominent leaders and principal officers. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Acknowledgment
* Anniversary
* Appreciation Message
* Commemorative Message
* Condolence Message
* Congratulatory Message
* Invitation
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OPRC PUBLIC RELATIONS AND CORRESPONDENCE
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Effective from January 1983

Correspondence to and from the public commenting on U.S. policy and foreign incidents, requesting information and speaking engagements, and any other public relations activities. This TAGS includes routine constituent's correspondence such as employment opportunities, requests for photographs, autographs, etc. Also includes press summaries and press conferences, public opinion polls, and the administrative arrangements for press conferences. (Replaces RCHB file category: PR)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Accreditation
* Authentication
* Autograph
* Constituents Mail
* Employment
* Interview
* Invitation
* Journalist
* Photo Request
* Photograph
* Poll
* Press Relations
* Public Diplomacy
* Public Information Publication
* Speaker
* Translation
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OREP U.S. CONGRESSIONAL TRAVEL
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Administrative and operational aspects of travel by Congressmen, congressional staffers, and delegations. (Replaces RCHB file category: LEG)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Accommodation
* Arrival Notice
* Arrival Speech
* CODEL
* Departure Notice
* Departure Speech
* Itinerary
* Passenger Manifest
* Protective Security
* Staffdel
* Support Services
* Travel Advisory
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OSCI SCIENCE GRANTS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The administration of grants and disbursal of funds of U.S. Government sponsored research programs. (Replaces RCHB file category: SCI)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Foreign Currency
* Grant
* Science Grant
* Scientific Exchange
* Scientist
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OTRA TRAVEL
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Routine and operational aspects of travel and visits by other than prominent individuals and Congressmen. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL, TP, TRV)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Accommodation
* Arrival Notice
* Arrival Speech
* Businessmen
* Departure Notice
* Departure Speech
* Dependent
* Itinerary
* Journalist
* Official Travel
* Scientific Visit
* Support Services
* Trade Visit
* Travel Advisory
* Travel Locator Messages
* Travel Orders
* Travel Report
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OVIP VISITS AND TRAVEL OF PROMINENT INDIVIDUALS AND LEADERS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The administrative and operational aspects of visits or travel of U.S. and foreign leaders and prominent individuals. Use for assistant secretary level and above or foreign equivalent. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Accommodation
* Arrival Notice
* Arrival Speech
* Departure Notice
* Departure Speech
* Envoy
* Hotel
* Itinerary
* Passenger Manifest
* Protection Technical Services
* Protective Security
* Secretarys Detail
* Support Services
* Trade Visit
* Travel Advisory
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PARM ARMS CONTROLS AND DISARMAMENT
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Efforts by governments to control the acquisition, development, and production of nuclear, biological, chemical, and other advanced weaponry. Also includes the control of efforts by countries to develop nuclear capabilities. (Replaces RCHB file categories: DEF, FT, POL, STR)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* ABM Treaty
* Advance Notification
* Advanced Weaponry
* Aerial Inspection
* Antinuclear
* Arms
* Arms Buildup
* Arms Control
* Arms Control Agreement
* Arms Control Impact Statement
* Arms Talks
* Arms Traffic
* Associated Measures
* Biological Warfare Convention
* Biological Weapon
* Biological Weapon Control
* CDE
* Chemical Weapon
* Chemical Weapon Control
* CNEA
* Compliance
* Confidence Building Measures
* Constraints
* Consultation
* Conventional Weapon
* Conventional Weapon Control
* Conventional Weapon Freeze
* Cooperative Measures
* Counterforce
* Counting Rule
* CST
* CTB
* Deterrence
* Disarmament
* Diversion
* East West Relations
* Electronic Weapons Systems
* Emerging Technologies
* ENMOD
* Entry Exit Points
* Fissionable Material
* Hazardous Waste Disposal
* Hotline
* Implementation
* INF
* IOZP
* Laser Fusion
* Launchers
* Limited Test Ban Treaty
* LRTNF
* Military Budget Reduction
* Military Expenditures
* Missile
* Monitoring
* Moratorium
* Napalm
* National Guidelines Area
* No First Use
* Nonproliferation
* Nonuse of Force
* NPT
* NRR
* NTEM
* NTM
* Nuclear Agreements
* Nuclear Capability
* Nuclear Enrichment Process
* Nuclear Equipment
* Nuclear Free Zone
* Nuclear Material
* Nuclear Proliferation
* Nuclear Reactor
* Nuclear Technical Assistance
* Nuclear Technology
* Nuclear Weapon
* Nuclear Weapon Control
* Nuclear Weapon Free Zone
* Nuclear Weapon Freeze
* Particle Beam
* Peace Movement
* Plutonium
* Political Concession
* Radioactive Material
* Radioactive Material Transfer
* Radioactive Waste Disposal
* SCC
* SDI
* Simulations
* SNEC
* Spent Fuel
* START
* Stockpile
* Strategic Policy
* Technology Transfer
* Telemetry
* Tlatelolco Treaty
* Troop Level
* TTBT
* Unconventional Weapon
* Verification
* Warhead
* Weapon Destruction
* Weapon Systems Deactivation
* Weapons Deployment
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PBTS NATIONAL BOUNDARIES, TERRITORIES, AND SOVEREIGNTY
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Effective from January 1983

A territory over which dominion is exercised. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Air Alert
* Airspace
* Annexation
* Arbitration
* Archipelago
* Border Control
* Border Crossing
* Border Dispute
* Border Incident
* Boundary
* Boundary Claim
* Boundary Determination
* Canal
* Cession
* Coast Guard
* Continental Shelf
* Court Decision
* Dependency
* Dispute Settlement
* Island
* Island Claim
* Land Settlement
* Landlocked Country
* Maritime Boundary
* Mediation
* Occupied Area
* Overflight
* Piracy
* Port
* Port Access
* Province
* River
* Seabed
* Ship Detention
* Sovereignty
* Strait
* Survey
* Territorial Claim
* Territorial Reversion
* Territorial Sea Limit
* Territorial Unification
* Territorial Waters
* Trust Territory
* Water Boundary Agreement
* Water Boundary Claim
* West Bank
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PGOV INTERNAL GOVERNMENTAL AFFAIRS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised June 1983)

The form, structure, and organization of local, provincial, and national governments. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Absentee Ballot
* Administration of Justice
* Alliance
* Antigovernment
* Arbitration
* Berlin Access
* Berlin Wall
* Cabinet
* Cabinet Meeting
* Campaign
* Candidacy Support
* Candidate
* Charter
* Church State Relations
* Coalition Government
* Colonialism
* Communism
* Confederation
* Constitution
* Constitutional Law
* Corruption
* Court
* Court Decision
* Death
* Democracy
* Dictatorship
* Election
* Election Forecast
* Election Irregularities
* Election Law
* Election Observer
* Election Reform
* Election Results
* Extremist
* Federation
* First Lady
* Glasnost
* Government Agency
* Government Budget
* Government Media Relations
* Government Official
* Government Reform
* Governor
* Impeachment
* Inauguration
* Influence
* Infrastructure
* Interim Government
* Judicial Reform
* Judiciary
* Junta
* King
* Legislation
* Legislator
* Legislature
* Martial Law
* Mayor
* Minister
* Minority
* Municipal
* Nationalism
* Opposition
* Opposition Party
* Party Faction
* Party Leader
* Party Line
* Party Meeting
* Party Stability
* Party Strength
* Party Unity
* Patronage
* Perestroyka
* Political Adviser
* Political Concession
* Political Cooperation
* Political Crisis
* Political Leader
* Political Military Relations
* Political Party
* Political Trend
* Poll
* President
* Prime Minister
* Progovernment
* Province
* Queen
* Reconciliation
* Referendum
* Reorganization
* Resignation from Office
* Reunification
* Royal Family
* Ruling Party
* Self Government
* Socialism
* Special Interest Group
* State of the Union Message
* Succession
* Tenure of Office
* Totalitarian
* Trial
* Trust
* Territory
* Veto
* Vice President
* Voting
* Voting Rights
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PHSA HIGH SEAS AFFAIRS
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Effective from January 1983

Activities on the high seas, outside a country's national jurisdiction. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Continental Shelf
* Dispute Settlement
* Exclusive
* Economic Zone
* Fishing Limit
* Fishing Rights
* Freedom of Navigation
* Hazardous Cargo
* Innocent Passage
* International Waters
* LOS
* Marine Mammal
* Marine Safety
* Marine Transportation
* Maritime Agreement
* Merchant Ship
* Minesweeping
* Natural Resources
* Ocean Dumping
* Piracy
* Seabed
* Seabed Mining
* Ship Accident
* Ship Detention
* Ship Movement
* Strait
* Territorial Sea Limit
* Territorial Waters
* Transit Passage
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PHUM HUMAN RIGHTS
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Effective from January 1985

The violation of rights attributable to human beings. (Replaces RCHB file categories: POL, SOC)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Abuse
* Amnesty
* Antisemitic
* Apartheid
* Asylum
* Asylum Request
* Capital Punishment
* Childrens Rights
* Civil Rights
* Concentration Camp
* Court Decision
* Death Squad
* Deportation
* Detainee
* Detection Equipment
* Detention Development Rights
* Discrimination
* Economic Rights
* Emigration
* Emigration Control
* Ethnic Group
* EVD
* Execution
* Exile
* Family
* Forced Labor
* Harassment
* Human Rights
* Humane
* Imprisonment
* Indigenous Peoples
* Individual Rights
* Internal Exile
* Internee
* Mass Migration
* Massacre
* Minority
* Minority Rights
* Missing Person
* Mistreatment
* Murder
* Persecution
* Police Equipment
* Political Disappearance
* Political Prisoner
* Political Repression
* Political Rights
* Poverty
* Prisoner
* Prisoner Release
* Prisoner Welfare
* Proselytize
* Psychiatric Abuse
* Religion
* Religious Group
* Returnees
* Rights of Peoples
* Security Forces
* Sponsorship
* Torture
* Walk In Procedures
* Women
* Womens Rights
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PINR INTELLIGENCE
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The gathering and reporting of intelligence information, including biographic and background data. (Replaces RCHB file categories: INT, POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Aerial Reconnaissance
* Biographic Information
* Contacts
* Counterintelligence
* Covert Operations
* Disinformation
* Espionage
* Film
* Humint Collection Plan
* Information Security
* Intelligence Assessment
* Intelligence Collection
* Intelligence Services
* Maps
* Monitoring
* Olive Harvest
* PLPPR
* Remote Sensing
* Satellite
* Ship Movement
* Surveillance Aircraft
* Tracking Station
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PINS NATIONAL SECURITY
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

A regime's stability, control, or efforts to maintain itself in power, as well as activities and efforts to disrupt or overthrow the established regime by other than normal political activity. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Amnesty
* Armed Forces
* Arms
* Assassination
* Assault
* Atrocity
* Censorship
* Church State Relations
* Civil War
* Clandestine Broadcast
* Community Relations
* Concentration Camp
* Contingency Plan
* CONTRA
* Counterinsurgency
* Coup
* Court Decision
* Court Martial
* Death Squad
* Defector
* Demobilization
* Detention
* Dissident
* Emigration
* Emigration Control
* Escalation
* Ethnic Group
* Execution
* Exile
* Exiled Government
* Exit Permit
* Expulsion
* Extremist
* General Strike
* Guerrilla
* Harassment
* Hostility
* Hunger Strike
* Impeachment
* Infiltration
* Insurgency
* Intelligence Assessment
* Internal Control
* Intervention
* Land Reform
* Law Enforcement
* Liberation Front
* Martial Law
* Massacre
* Mercenary
* Minority
* Missing Person
* National Security
* Occupied Area
* Persona Non Grata
* Plot
* Police Force
* Police Investigation
* Political Assessment
* Political Crisis
* Political Military Relations
* Political Prisoner
* Political Settlement
* Political Stability
* Political Trend
* Prisoner Release
* Propaganda
* Property Protection
* Religious Group
* Repression
* Reprisal
* Riot
* Riot Control
* Sabotage
* Seizure
* Surrender
* Threat
* Travel Document
* Travel Restriction
* Treason
* Troop Deployment
* Troop Withdrawal
* Violence
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PREF REFUGEES
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Effective from January 1985 (Revised March 1995)

People who move across borders because of danger to life or fear of persecution. (Replaces RCHB file category: REF)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Admissions
* Allocation
* Asylum Policy
* Early Warning
* Emergency Response
* ESLCO
* Family Reunification
* Humanitarian Assistance
* Internally Displaced Persons
* Letter of Introduction
* ODP
* Prevention
* Refugee Camp
* Refugee Protection
* Refugee Relief
* Refugee Resettlement
* Refugee Settlement
* Refugee Status
* Repatriation
* Safe Country of Origin and Transit
* Safe Haven
* Sponsorship
* Temporary Protection
* VOLAG
* Volunteers
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PREL EXTERNAL POLITICAL RELATIONS
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Effective from January 1983

The political relations between countries, international or regional organizations both bilateral and multilateral, that assess intentions, objectives, plans, or possible courses of interaction. (Replaces RCHB file category: CSM, POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Alliance
* Ambassador
* Amity
* Antiamerican
* Anticommunism
* Antisoviet
* Bilateral Cooperation
* CBI
* Cold War
* Commitment
* Condemnation
* Consular Service
* Demarche
* Detente
* Deterrence
* Diplomatic Protest
* East West Relations
* Embassy Closing
* Embassy Opening
* Expulsion
* Extradition Treaty
* Foreign Commitment
* Foreign Relations
* Front Line States
* Government Reaction
* Hegemony
* Industrialized Nation
* Influence
* International Organization
* Intervention
* LDC
* Lobbying
* NAM
* National Security
* Neutrality
* No Fly Zone
* Nonaggression
* Nonaligned Nations
* Nonparticipation
* North South Dialogue
* Open Skies Treaty
* Opposition
* Participation
* Peace
* Peace Plan
* Persona Non Grata
* Political Concession
* Political Cooperation
* Political Initiative
* Political Settlement
* Political Trend
* Prisoner Exchange
* Prisoner Transfer
* Proamerican
* Procommunism
* Prosoviet
* Prowest
* Public Relations
* Reciprocity
* Recognition
* Reconciliation
* Regional Organization
* Relations Establishment
* Relations Interruption
* Reprisal
* Sanction
* Secession
* Signatory
* Sister City
* Third Country Representation
* Third World
* Threat
* War Claims
* West Bank
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PROP PROPAGANDA AND PSYCHOLOGICAL OPERATIONS
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Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)

The spreading of ideology, information, or rumor for the purpose of supporting or defaming nations, institutions, causes, peoples, or persons. (Replaces RCHB file categories: CSM, CUL, INF, MP, POL, PPB, RAD, TV)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Active Measures
* Antiamerican
* Anticommunism
* Antinuclear
* Antisoviet
* Brain Drain
* Brainwashing
* Broadcasting
* Campaign
* Censorship
* Clandestine Broadcast
* Disinformation
* Frequency Interference
* Harassment
* Influence
* Jamming
* Lobbying
* Proamerican
* Procommunism
* Propaganda
* Prosoviet
* Prowest
* Public Disclosure
* Public Information
* Public Relations
* Publication
* Repression
* Slander
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PTER TERRORISTS AND TERRORISM
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Effective from March 1981 (Revised January 1983)

All aspects of terrorism which transcend national boundaries due to the nationality of the perpetrator, victim, place, or the incident. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Acts of Terrorists
* Antiterrorism Measures
* Antiterrorist Forces
* Assassination
* Assault
* Bomb Threat
* Bombing
* Casualty
* Hijacking
* Hostage
* Hostility
* Infiltration
* Kidnapping
* Kidnapping Threat
* Mission Takeover
* Piracy
* Plot
* Proterrorism
* Rescue
* Sabotage
* Small Arms
* Surrender
* Terrorism
* Terrorist Activities
* Threat
* Threat Assessment
* Violence
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SCUL CULTURAL AFFAIRS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised April 2000)

Any part or totality of a nation's behavior patterns, arts, beliefs, institutions, or sociology. (Replaces RCHB file categories: CUL, EDU, MP, PPB, SOC)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* American Studies
* Anthropology
* Archaeology
* Artifact
* Artist
* Athlete
* Business for Russia Program
* Citizen Exchanges
* College and University Affiliation Program
* Commemorative Celebration
* Community Connections
* Creative Arts Exchanges
* Cultural Exchange
* Cultural Heritage
* Cultural Presentation
* Cultural Property
* Cultural Specialists (Aculspecs)
* Education
* Educational Exchange
* EFL Fellows
* ETF Fellows
* Ethnic Group
* Excavation
* Exchange Program Designation
* Exhibit
* Festival Fund
* Film Programs
* Fine Arts
* FLEX Program
* Fulbright Alumni Association
* Fulbright American Studies Institutes
* Fulbright Commissions
* Fulbright Junior Staff Development Program (JSD)
* Fulbright Scholar Program
* Fulbright Scholar in Residence Program
* Fulbright Student Program
* Fulbright Teachers Exchange
* History
* Holiday
* Humphrey Program
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* International Visitor Program
* J Visa Program
* J William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board
* Jazz Ambassadors
* Language
* Library
* Magazine
* Memorial
* Missionary
* Museum
* National Flag
* Newspaper
* Olympics
* Performing Arts Calendar
* Piracy
* Place of Worship
* Pope
* Publication
* Religion
* Religious Group
* Religious Leader
* Ron Brown Fellowship Program
* School
* Social Custom
* Social Reform
* Sports
* Student
* Student Advising
* Study of the US
* Teacher
* The Film Service
* University
* US Artists Abroad
* Voluntary Visitor Program
* Women
* Youth
* Youth Exchanges
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SENV ENVIRONMENTAL AFFAIRS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The preservation, deterioration, and conservation of natural and animal resources, the air, water, land, and space environments. (Replaces RCHB file categories: AGR, CUL, E, HLTH, INCO, OS, SOC)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Acid Rain
* Air Pollution
* Animal Conservation
* Animal Hides
* Atmosphere
* Biodiversity
* CITES
* Crop
* Destruction
* Dam
* Desertification
* Drought
* Earthquake
* Ecology
* Endangered Species
* Environment
* Erosion
* Exploitation
* Famine
* Fire
* Fish
* Flood
* Flora
* Forestry
* Fungicide
* Habitat
* Hazardous Waste Disposal
* Herbicide
* Industrial Waste Disposal
* Insect
* Land Conservation
* Marine
* Mammal
* Migratory Animals
* Monsoon
* National Park
* Natural Disaster
* Natural Resources
* Noise Pollution
* Nuclear Contamination
* Nuclear Winter
* Ocean Dumping
* Oil Spill
* Ozone
* Pest Control
* Pesticide
* Pollution Control
* Preservation
* Rainfall
* Seabed
* Sewage
* Sewage System
* Sludge
* Snowfall
* Soil
* Soil Pollution
* Species Protection
* Storm
* Tidal Wave
* Transboundary Pollution
* Tropical Forest
* Volcanic Eruption
* Waste
* Waste Disposal
* Water
* Water Analysis
* Water Conservation
* Water Pollution
* Water Supply System
* Weather
* Whales
* Wildlife
* Yellow Rain
* Zoo
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SMIG MIGRATION
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Effective from March 1995

The legal or illegal movement of people across borders, border control, and the treatment of aliens by receiving states. (Replaces RCHB file category: REF)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Alien Interdiction
* Border Control
* Cross Border Migration
* Economic Migration
* Emigration
* Environmental Migration
* Family Reunification
* Illegal Migration
* Immigration
* Labor Migration
* Migration
* Migration and Development Policy
* Nationality and Citizenship
* Readmission Agreements
* Remittances
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SNAR NARCOTICS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 2008)

The illegal production, distribution, and use of narcotic drugs. (Replaces RCHB file categories: INCO, SOC)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Aircraft Registry
* Cocaine
* Crop Destruction
* Crop Substitution
* Crops
* Customs Agreement
* Customs Inspection
* Customs Regulation
* Customs Seizure
* Demand Reduction
* Detection
* Equipment
* Eradication
* Exhibit
* Foreigners
* Hashish
* Herbicide
* Heroin
* Illicit
* Immigration
* Interdiction
* Law Enforcement
* Legal
* Marijuana
* Money Laundering
* Morphine
* Narcotics
* Narcotics Abuse
* Narcotics Control
* Narcotics Detection
* Narcotics Seizure
* Narcotics Traffic
* Opium
* Patrol Boat
* Psychotropic Drugs
* Seizure
* Ship Registry
* Smuggling
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SOCI SOCIAL CONDITIONS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The conditions and factors that affect the social welfare of a community. (Replaces RCHB file category: HLTH, SOC)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Abortion
* Administration of Justice
* Adoption
* AIDS
* Birth Rate
* Black Market
* Census
* Child
* Custody
* Children
* Civil Disobedience
* Community Relations
* Concentration Camp
* Consumer Protection
* Crime
* Crime Control
* Cult
* Demography
* Disease
* Disease Control
* Divorce
* Educational Reform
* Elderly
* Epidemic
* Family
* Family Planning
* Food
* Fugitive
* Genocide
* Glasnost
* Health
* Housing
* Housing Shortage
* Humanitarian Assistance
* Hunger Strike
* Illegal Alien
* Immigrant
* Immigration Control
* Infant
* Infrastructure
* Inoculation
* Insurance
* Law Enforcement
* Life Expectancy
* Marriage
* Medical Care
* Medical Facility
* Mental Health
* Minority
* Modernization
* Mortality Rate
* Murder
* Penal System
* Police Force
* Police Investigation
* Population
* Population Growth
* Pornography
* Prison
* Prisoner
* Prisoner Release
* Prisoner Transfer
* Prisoner Welfare
* Prostitution
* Public Safety
* Public Transportation
* Public Welfare
* Quarantine
* Recall
* Reform
* Rehabilitation
* Riot
* Riot Control
* Rural Area
* Sanitation
* Sewage
* Sewage System
* Sex Ratio
* Sexual Crime
* Sexual Harassment
* Social Development
* Social Reform
* Social Security
* Social Service
* Social Trend
* Special Interest Group
* Standard of Living
* Sterilization
* Theft
* Urban Area
* Violence
* Volunteers
* Water Supply System
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TBIO BIOLOGICAL AND MEDICAL SCIENCE
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The anatomy, physiology, chemistry, and psychology that affect living organisms and the mechanisms of their expression. (Replaces RCHB file categories: HLTH, SCI)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* AIDS
* Animals
* Biology
* Biotechnology
* Chemistry
* Disease
* Disease Control
* Eradication
* Food
* Genetic Engineering
* Hormones
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Laboratory Equipment
* Medical Science
* Nuclear Contamination
* Parapsychology
* Pest Control
* Pharmaceuticals
* Quarantine
* Research & Development
* S & T Agreement
* S & T Cooperation
* S & T Development
* STRIDE Technology
* Technology
* Transfer
* Vaccine
* Zoology
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TPHY PHYSICAL SCIENCES
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Research and development in any of the physical sciences. (Replaces RCHB file category: SCI)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Atmosphere
* Chemistry
* Geodesy
* Geology
* Hydrology
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Laboratory Equipment
* Maps
* Materials Science
* Meteorology
* Metrology
* Microwave
* Minerology
* Ocean Drilling
* Oceanography
* Physics
* Research & Development
* Research Vessel
* S & T Agreement
* S & T Cooperation
* S & T Development
* Satellite
* Scientific Cooperation
* Scientific Visit
* Seismology
* STRIDE
* Survey
* Technology
* Technology Transfer
* Volcanology
* Weather
* Weather Station
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TRGY ENERGY TECHNOLOGY
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Effective from July 1980 (Revised January 1983)

Research and development of energy sources. (Replaces RCHB file categories: AE, DEF, FSE, PET, SCI)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Electric Energy
* Energy Conservation
* Exploration
* Fissionable Material
* Fuel
* Geothermal Energy
* Hazardous Waste Disposal
* Hydroelectric Energy
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Laboratory Equipment
* Magnetic
* Nuclear Accident
* Nuclear Contamination
* Nuclear Energy
* Nuclear Reactor
* Nuclear Safeguard
* Nuclear Test
* Petroleum
* PUNE
* Radiation
* Radioactive Material
* Radioactive Material Transfer
* Radioactive Waste Disposal
* Research & Development
* S & T Agreement
* S & T Cooperation
* S & T Development
* Solar Energy
* Spent Fuel
* SSC
* STRIDE
* Synthetic Fuel
* Technology
* Technology Transfer
* Thermal Energy
* Transmitters
* Wind Energy
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TSPA SPACE ACTIVITIES
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Research and development leading to and resulting in the exploration and utilization of outer space. (Replaces RCHB file categories: DEF, SP, TEL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Astronaut
* Astronomy
* Communications Satellite
* Direct Broadcasting Satellite
* ELV
* Exploration
* Geostationary Satellite Orbit
* High Technology Equipment
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Landing Rights
* Navigational Aid
* Orbit
* Outer Space
* Outer Space Commercialization
* Peaceful Use of Outer Space
* Reentry
* Research & Development
* S & T Agreement
* S & T Cooperation
* S & T Development
* Salvage
* Satellite
* Scientific Cooperation
* Space Agreement
* Space Fragment
* Space Law
* Space Liability
* Space Program
* Space Station
* Spacecraft
* Spacecraft Recovery
* Spaceflight
* STRIDE
* Technology
* Technology Transfer
* Telecommunication
* Tracking Station
* UFO
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08SANTIAGO976CHILEAN CENTRAL BANK PRESIDENT DE GREGORIO UPBEAT
[...] (C) Chilean Central Bank Governor Jose De Gregorio told Ambassador Simons October 29 he is optimistic about the state of the Chilean economy in the face of the global financial turmoil, noting liquidity was not an issue for Chilean banks and the GOC would not need assistance from international [...]
2008-10-30 21:02:00Embassy SantiagoCONFIDENTIALECIN ECON EFIN EINV ETRD PGOV PREL CI
08SANTIAGO979 TREASURY DAS MCDONALD AND CHILEAN MINISTER OF PUBLIC WORKS
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Treasury DAS McDonald and Minister of Public Works Sergio Bitar agreed, September 30, on next steps to build an Infrastructure Finance Expert Corps with U.S. and Chilean experts. END SUMMARY. 2. (U) Ambassador Simons, U.S. Treasury DAS Larry McDonald, Treasury Associate Dire [...]
2008-11-03 21:37:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOVIP EAID ECON EFIN EINV ECIN PGOV PREL CI
08SANTIAGO98INDIGENOUS RIGHTS, SOCIAL ISSUES, ENERGY SHORTAGES
[...] (C) Secretariat General of the Presidency Minister Viera Gallo told the Ambassador January 30 that the GOC - and Chilean society - are only belatedly taking seriously a growing problem with Chile's indigenous (largely Mapuche) population, which has never been fully integrated and is becoming increa [...]
2008-01-31 20:14:00Embassy SantiagoCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PINR PREL SOCI CI
08SANTIAGO980DESIGNATION OF ADDITIONAL IRANIAN ENTITIES UNDER
[...] No summary [...]
2008-11-04 15:16:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDPREL MNUC PARM EFIN KNNP IR GM CI
08SANTIAGO982FORMER CHILEAN CENTRAL BANK GOVERNOR CORBO
[...] (C) Vittorio Corbo told Ambassador Simons October 30 he is confident Chile can withstand the global financial crisis, although there will be a significant impact on the real economy. The Central Bank had built up reserves that could act as a cushion, foreign denominated debt was low, and the [...]
2008-11-04 19:51:00Embassy SantiagoCONFIDENTIALECIN ECON EFIN EINV ETRD PGOV PREL CI XR
08SANTIAGO985REQUEST FROM CHILEAN PRESIDENT BACHELET
[...] (SBU) President Bachelet called the Ambassador on November 4 at her initiative to convey her congratulations on the U.S. electoral process and to express her desire that our bilateral relations continue to strengthen in the transition to a new U.S. administration. 2. (C) During the convers [...]
2008-11-05 20:00:00Embassy SantiagoCONFIDENTIALECIN ECON EFIN EINV PGOV PREL CI
08SANTIAGO986 POSITIVE REACTION IN CHILE TO OBAMA'S ELECTION
[...] Summary: Every Chilean daily on November 6 gave extensive coverage to reactions about Barack Obama's election, including remarks by President Bachelet and local political party leaders. The Ambassador also received calls about the election results from an exuberant Senate President Adolfo Zald [...]
2008-11-06 20:04:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO PGOV OPRC PREL CI
08SANTIAGO987CODEL ENGEL VISIT TO CHILE: NOVEMBER 9-11, 2008
[...] Embassy Santiago warmly welcomes Representative Eliot Engel (D-NY),Chairman of the Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere, House Foreign Affairs Committee, and his congressional delegation, from 11/09/2008 to 11/11/2008 as requested reftel. The purpose of the visit is to meet with governmen [...]
2008-11-07 18:18:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDOVIP OREP AMGT ASEC AFIN PA PE CI
08SANTIAGO989 CHILE: ECONOMIC HIGHLIGHTS WEEK OF NOVEMBER 3
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: This continues a series of regular updates on major developments in Chile's economy since the acceleration of global financial turmoil. By week's end, November 7, there was a decrease in copper prices, some appreciation in the exchange rate, and losses/gains in the stock market [...]
2008-11-07 21:21:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN ETRD EINV ECIN PGOV PREL CI
08SANTIAGO99FM FOXLEY EMPHASIZES BILATERAL COOPERATION,
[...] (C) FM Foxley told the Ambaassador January 31 that Chile seeks to maximize cooperation with the U.S. in 2008, even as the U.S. enters into its "electoral transition period." Chile wants to work to reinvigorate a partnership with California, with a focus on innovation. Development of a joint e [...]
2008-01-31 21:06:00Embassy SantiagoCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL CI
08SANTIAGO999 CHILE MEDIA REPORT - NOVEMBER 12
[...] Front page headlines focused on pension system loses (more than $25 billion) because of the international financial crisis; the strike of public employees who are demanding higher wages; and the ongoing scandal about individuals that tested positive for HIV but who had not been notified by the [...]
2008-11-13 10:43:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO PGOV OPRC PREL SNAR CI
08SEOUL2177MOFAT-WHA CONSULTATIONS: ROK'S EXPANDING TIES TO
[...] (C) SUMMARY: South Korea is actively expanding ties with Latin America through trade, investment, overseas development assistance and high-level engagement, according to ROK Foreign Ministry officials who met with WHA A/S Thomas A. Shannon on October 15 for consultations. The Ministry's Lati [...]
2008-11-06 22:38:00Embassy SeoulCONFIDENTIALPREL EAID EINV ETRD SK BR BL CU CI MX PE
08STATE100138AIRCRAFT DIPLOMATIC CLEARANCE REQUEST: ISLA DE
[...] (U) This is an action request. See para 12. 2. (U) The National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) plans to operate a National Science Foundation (NSF) Gulfstream GV research aircraft, Tail Number and Call Sign N677F, in support of the HIPPO/GLOBAL project to study global distribution [...]
2008-09-18 21:05:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDCI KRVC KSCA OTRA PE NSF TPHY
08STATE130257BLUE LANTERN LEVEL 3: PRE-LICENSE END-USE CHECK
[...] This is an Action Request. See paragraphs 2-4. 2. The Department's Office of Defense Trade Controls Compliance (PM/DTCC) requests post's assistance in conducting a pre-license check on application 050135240 for the export of UH-1H helicopter parts to Chile. Post is requested to complete t [...]
2008-12-11 18:10:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDETTC KOMC CI
08STATE54504SOUTHERN CONE COM CONFERENCE: OES REPSONSES TO
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: This cable contains OES' responses to Southern Cone Ambassadors' requests in reftel for more information on OPIC's energy investment fund and the Latin America Energy Initiative; for more public diplomacy materials on biofuels, specifically on the time frame for second generat [...]
2008-05-21 19:13:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSENV KPAO BR CI PA PE UY
08STATE72005JOINT LETTER TO G8 ON MATERNAL HEALTH AND INFANT
[...] (C) Summary: Norway,s Charge d,Affaires Aud Kolberg met EEB PDAS David Nelson July 2 to present a letter (text in para 7) from leaders of Norway and six other countries to Japanese Prime Minister Fukuda urging Japan to lead the G8 in devoting greater attention and funding to combating materna [...]
2008-07-03 21:38:00Secretary of StateCONFIDENTIALBR CI EAID EINV ENRG ETTC JA LI MZ NO SG SOCI TZ
08TEGUCIGALPA1131HONDURAS LIKES THE IDEA OF A LATIN AMERICAN
[...] No summary [...]
2008-12-16 21:25:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDAR BB BR CI EC MX PE PREL UNESCO VC
09BEIJING3061NOVEMBER 5 MFA PRESS BRIEFING: MILITARIZATION OF SPACE,
[...] Key points at the November 5 MFA press briefing: -- China's position on the militarization of outer space remains unchanged. China opposes the militarization of outer space and will not engage in any arms race in outer space. -- China will continue to take "effective measures" to combat c [...]
2009-11-05 23:17:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL PARM MOPS KGHG TSPA CN CI SO KN
09BRUSSELS353AREAS FOR POTENTIAL U.S.-EU COOPERATION ON CHINA
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The U.S. and EU share strong interests in coordinating economic engagement with China over a broad range of sectors, including health and safety, competition, ICT policy, trade, IPR and investment concerns. The EU is working with China actively in these areas, and seeks greate [...]
2009-03-12 15:22:00USEU BrusselsUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ECIN ECPS KIPR ETRD EFIN CI EUN
09LAPAZ38UN DROPS PANDO "BOMB" ON MFA
[...] (C) Summary: Bolivian Ministry of Foreign Affairs sources indicate the UN is preparing a report on the violent events in Pando in September, which will be much less to the government's liking than the Unasur's report released December 3. According to MFA Legal Advisor Paola Melendres (strictl [...]
2009-01-09 20:43:00Embassy La PazCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KTIA PINR CI BL
09LIMA1699PERU: CHINESE TANKS, PEACE PROPOSALS AND U.S. MILITARY
[...] (C/NF) Summary: Peru is reportedly poised to purchase Chinese tanks with an eye towards replacing its aging tank fleet and building up its "dissuasive" defense posture, and to buy aircraft from Brazil as well as MANPADS and anti-tank weapons from other countries. These defense acquisitions [...]
2009-12-15 23:08:00Embassy LimaCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL MOPS PARM PTER SNAR PBTS CI PE
09PARIS1732CHILE PASSES HURDLES TO BECOME OECD MEMBER
[...] (SBU) Summary: On December 15 the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) invited Chile to become the 31st member of the organization (and the first South American OECD member). Chile completed the rigorous accession process in a record two and a half years, submitting to [...]
2009-12-21 10:07:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAORC ECON CI OECD
09SANJOSE283Reaction: Vice-President Biden in Costa Rica
[...] Summary: Vice President Joseph R. Biden traveled to Costa Rica March 29-30 to meet with Central American leaders following a trip to Chile where he attended a Progressive Governance Summit in Via del Mar. There was an overwhelming interest in covering the Vice-Presidential trip to Costa Rica [...]
2009-04-06 17:46:00Embassy San JoseUNCLASSIFIEDPAO KMDR KPAO PGOV ECON PREL SNAR EFIN CI
09SANJOSE497 U.S.-CHILEAN JOINT INFRASTRUCTURE ASSISTANCE LAUNCHES IN
[...] From May 18-21, a Treasury Department team from the Office of Technical Assistance (OTA) met with Costa Rican government leaders and private sector officials to consider how to meet Costa Rica's national infrastructure challenges. The meetings represented the first step of Treasury's and the [...]
2009-06-17 12:35:00Embassy San JoseUNCLASSIFIEDECON EFIN EINV PGOV PREL CS CI
09SANJOSE686 U.S.-CHILEAN JOINT INFRASTRUCTURE ASSISTANCE IDENTIFIES
[...] SUMMARY. From July 13-16, a Treasury Department team from the Office of Technical Assistance (OTA) and a representative of Chile's Ministerio de Obras Publicas (GOC MOP) met with GOCR leaders and private sector officials to consider how to deliver infrastructure technical assistance (TA). Bot [...]
2009-08-13 12:36:00Embassy San JoseUNCLASSIFIEDECON EFIN EINV PGOV PREL CS CI
09SANTIAGO1 Fifth Annual Meeting of U.S. - Chile Free Trade
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The fifth annual U.S.-Chile Free Trade Commission (FTC) met December 12 in Santiago, Chile. The FTC discussed: 1) the effects of the U.S.-Chile Free Trade Agreement (FTA) on trade and investment between the two countries, 2) the FTA institutional framework, 3) FTA implementati [...]
2009-01-02 11:02:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EINV EFIN ETRD KIPR EFTA CI
09SANTIAGO10INSULZA WITHDRAWS FROM CHILEAN PRESIDENTIAL RACE
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Socialist party leader Jose Miguel Insulza formally announced January 5 that he would not run for president, ending months of indecision and vague, and at times contradictory, statements concerning his political aspirations. During a January 4 conversation with the Ambassador, [...]
2009-01-05 19:39:00Embassy SantiagoCONFIDENTIALPGOV ECON CI
09SANTIAGO1002Santiago Oct. 22 Media Report
[...] The National Teachers Association will go on an indefinite national strike tomorrow that will affect public schools. Teachers claim the government owes them a special bonus to pay for the paychecks and jobs lost when the administration of public schools was moved from the Ministry o [...]
2009-10-22 18:18:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDECON KMDR KPAO PGOV PREL SNAR EFIN CI
09SANTIAGO1014Santiago Oct. 23 Media Report
[...] Public school teachers began an indefinite strike today. In this context, the government instructed schools to remain open and deliver lunches, the Ministry of Education said it would deduct from teacher's paychecks those days they are on strike, and mayors said they would request l [...]
2009-10-23 17:41:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDECON KMDR KPAO PGOV PREL SNAR EFIN CI
09SANTIAGO1016Santiago Oct. 26 Media Report
[...] The public school teachers' strike forced the government to postpone the national assessment test for fourth and eighth graders (Conservative, independent La Tercera, 10/24). U.S. Related News ---------------------- 2. Brazilian daily "O Globo" said yesterday that Pr [...]
2009-10-26 20:06:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDECON KMDR KPAO PGOV PREL SNAR EFIN CI
09SANTIAGO1018Santiago Oct. 27 Media Report
[...] After three months of negotiation, the Ministers of the Environment and Finance signed an agreement with the heads of the political alliances in Congress to speed up the project that creates a ministry and regulatory agency for the environment. Senator Pablo Longueira (USI) labeled t [...]
2009-10-27 19:45:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDECON KMDR KPAO PGOV PREL SNAR EFIN CI
09SANTIAGO102CHILE: MILGP REQUEST FOR HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR SOUTHERN
[...] (U) This is an action request. See paragraphs 2 and 3. 2. (SBU) Action request: Embassy requests the Department assist in conducting a Leahy Amendment Human Rights review, as well as a general name check, of the following Chilean Army unit and its commanding officer which have been nomin [...]
2009-02-03 19:15:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMARR MASS PREL PHUM CI
09SANTIAGO1022FRAUD SUMMARY - CHILE
[...] Chile is a democratic country with a developing free-market economy. Chile is a key U.S. partner in promoting democracy, human rights, and free trade in the region and beyond. The United States and Chile have a Free Trade agreement that took effect January 1, 2004. Compared to other countr [...]
2009-10-29 18:07:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDCVIS KFRD CPAS CMGT ASEC CI
09SANTIAGO1028Santiago Oct. 30 Media Report
[...] The Ministry of Education warned public teachers who are on strike that it could be forced to extend classes until December 29 to complete the days required for any given academic year (Conservative, independent, La Tercera, 10/30). Chile-U.S. 2. President Obama invi [...]
2009-10-30 20:04:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDECON KMDR KPAO PGOV PREL SNAR EFIN CI
09SANTIAGO1032CHILE: INCSR 1 Submission
[...] Per reftel, please find below Embassy Santiago's INCSR 1 submission. Post will also submit via email. 2. Chile I. Summary Chile is a transit country for Andean cocaine shipments destined for Europe and has a domestic marijuana consumption problem. In a new development that surfaced [...]
2009-11-02 18:37:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDSNAR CI
09SANTIAGO1034Santiago Nov. 2 Media Report
[...] Undersecretary of the Interior Patricio Rosende denounced the use of children as shields in illegal land occupations and demonstrations by Mapuche indigenous communities. Video material confirming his remarks was shown to the Senate's Constitutional Committee last week (Conservative, [...]
2009-11-02 20:26:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDECON KMDR KPAO PGOV PREL SNAR EFIN CI
09SANTIAGO1044Santiago, November 3 Media Report
[...] Public Teachers' strike puts at risk completion of school year in 530 schools (Conservative, independent, La Tercera, 11/3) Chile-U.S 2. In his visit to Iquique, U.S. Ambassador to Chile Paul Simons placed a courtesy call on Acting Mayor Maria Angelica Vega. At the m [...]
2009-11-03 15:06:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDECON KMDR KPAO PGOV PREL EFIN CI
09SANTIAGO1046CHILE CONSIDERING WTO REMANUFACTURING INITIATIVE
[...] No summary [...]
2009-11-03 16:58:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDETRD ECON WTRO CI
09SANTIAGO1058Santiago Nov. 4 Media Report
[...] An explosive device detonated at the Marriott Hotel's parking lot on Ave. Kennedy at 1:57 p.m. yesterday. The device was left in the hotel's bathroom but was taken outside by a hotel guard. One guard was injured and five other people suffered hearing trauma. No organization has c [...]
2009-11-04 17:14:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDECON KMDR KPAO PGOV PREL SNAR EFIN CI
09SANTIAGO106CHILEANS, HUNGRY FOR CHANGE, EYE PRESIDENTIAL
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Progressive Chilean leaders admit that their Concertacion coalition's nearly twenty year rule has left the Chilean public largely uninspired by the prospect of another Concertacion president and has led to stale party politics. Concertacion has been hurt by a series of relative [...]
2009-02-04 10:35:00Embassy SantiagoCONFIDENTIALPGOV ECON SOCI CI
09SANTIAGO1062Santiago Nov. 5 Media Report
[...] The director of the Foreign Ministry's International Economic Relations Bureau, Carlos Furche, will file next Tuesday with the Chile-U.S. Free Trade Agreement Administrator a complaint on behalf of local wood producers over the tax exemptions that U.S. cellulose producers will start rece [...]
2009-11-05 19:52:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDECON KMDR KPAO PGOV PREL SNAR EFIN CI
09SANTIAGO1064Santiago Nov. 6 Media Report
[...] Extensive coverage of the rampage at Fort Hood that left 12 dead (All dailies, 11/6). U.S.-Related News 2. Republican Senator Jim DeMint said he would lift the block on Arturo Valenzuela and Tom Shannon's nominations now that the Obama administration had ag [...]
2009-11-06 19:13:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDECON KMDR KPAO PGOV PREL SNAR EFIN CI
09SANTIAGO107 CHILE MEDIA REPORT - FEBRUARY 4
[...] Dailies highlight that former Air Force Commander-in-Chief Ramon Vega is free on bail in the Mirage aircraft case. Dailies also highlight the death of an 18-year-old woman who presumably fell off the balcony of a ninth-floor apartment owned by a promising young soccer player during an early mo [...]
2009-02-04 14:53:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO PGOV ECON PREL SNAR EFIN CI
09SANTIAGO1070Santiago Nov. 9 Media Report
[...] The national scholastic test for fourth graders shows that only 24% have the level of language skills required for that grade. The test also confirms that the gap that exists between private and public education remains unchanged; only 12% of low-income school students achieved adva [...]
2009-11-09 20:12:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDECON KMDR KPAO PGOV PREL SNAR EFIN CI
09SANTIAGO1074CHILE: MONTHLY ECONOMIC HIGHLIGHTS - SEPTEMBER AND OCTOBER
[...] SUMMARY: Despite recent positive signs, Chile's economy is still working through the negative effects of its recession. Economic activity contracted again in August and September. The unemployment rate in Chile decreased to 10.2% for the first time after nine increases in a row. Although in [...]
2009-11-10 19:14:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDECON EFIN ETRD EINV ECIN CI
09SANTIAGO1076Santiago Nov. 10 Media Report
[...] Television station Channel 13 aired its presidential debate last night. Unlike previous ones, this debate allowed the candidates to challenge each other and to respond. This brought to the forefront the most sensitive issues in this campaign. 2. Sebastian Pinera a [...]
2009-11-10 20:23:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDECON KMDR KPAO PGOV PREL SNAR EFIN CI
09SANTIAGO1080Santiago Nov. 12 Media Report
[...] Centro de Estudios Publicos poll for the presidential election: Sebastian Pinera 36 percent, Eduardo Frei 26, Marco Enriquez Ominami 19, and Jorge Arrate 5 percent (Conservative, influential El Mercurio, 11/12). U.S.-Related News 2. Arturo Valenzuela was sworn in yest [...]
2009-11-12 20:01:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDECON KMDR KPAO PGOV PREL SNAR EFIN CI
09SANTIAGO1088Santiago Nov. 13 Media Report
[...] Today is the beginning of the electoral propaganda period for the December 13 presidential and parliamentary election (All dailies 11/13). U.S.-Related News 2. With a notification to Congress, the USG authorized the sale of 100 AMRAAM missiles to Chile. With the autho [...]
2009-11-13 17:27:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDECON KMDR KPAO PGOV PREL SNAR EFIN CI
09SANTIAGO109 CHILE MEDIA REPORT - FEBRUARY 6
[...] Dailies highlighted figures released by the Central Banks that economic growth for the last quarter of 2008 amounted to 1.1% of GDP, the lowest in six years. Coverage included another case of a falsely-identified disappearance victim from the Military government era. U.S.-Related News --- [...]
2009-02-06 15:49:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO PGOV ECON PREL SNAR EFIN CI
09SANTIAGO1098Slow Progress for Chile's TIP Legislation
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: A draft law on Trafficking in Persons (TIP) that would bring Chile into compliance with international standards remains pending in the Chilean Senate. Post's efforts, including outreach to key Senators and meetings with several Ministers, have succeeded in raising awareness am [...]
2009-11-16 20:14:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV KTIP CI
09SANTIAGO11 CHILE MEDIA REPORT - JANUARY 3-5
[...] Dailies highlighted OAS Secretary General Jose Miguel Insulza's final decision not to run for the presidency of Chile; Israel's offensive in the Palestinian territories; and the case of relatives of detained and disappeared people who erroneously received increased government pension payments [...]
2009-01-06 12:30:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO PGOV ECON PREL SNAR EFIN CI
09SANTIAGO1102Santiago Nov. 16 Media Report
[...] Headline: "Bachelet and Obama Push Transpacific Trade" Sub-headline: U.S. President supports initiative to expand (commercial) trade in the Pacific Rim. If there was one topic that President Bachelet highlighted at APEC it was President Obama's support for developing a transpacific agreeme [...]
2009-11-17 15:05:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDECON KMDR KPAO PGOV PREL SNAR EFIN CI
09SANTIAGO1108Santiago Nov. 18 Media Report
[...] President Bachelet said that Alan Garcia's remarks over the alleged espionage case are "offensive and bombastic and do not contribute at all to the integration and cooperation that should exist among neighbor countries" (El Mercurio, 11/18). Chile-Peru 2. In answ [...]
2009-11-18 18:16:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDECON KMDR KPAO PGOV PREL SNAR EFIN CI
09SANTIAGO111 CHILE: ECONOMIC HIGHLIGHTS WEEK OF FEBRUARY 2
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: This continues a series of updates on major developments in Chile's economy since the acceleration of global financial turmoil. By February 6, copper prices showed a steady rise, the Peso remained stable against the Dollar, and the stock market closed higher. Inflation fell to [...]
2009-02-09 10:21:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN ETRD EINV ECIN PGOV PREL CI
09SANTIAGO1114STAFFDEL MEACHAM - CHILE'S ECONOMY AND DEVELOPMENT
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Senior Senate Foreign Relations Committee Staff Member Carl Meacham traveled to Chile October 26-28 to review the state of the economy, the history of Chile's development, and the work of international financial institutions (IFIs) in country. The Chilean economy suffered a rece [...]
2009-11-18 20:17:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN ETRD EINV PREL OVIP CI
09SANTIAGO1116Santiago Nov. 19 Media Report
[...] The Chamber of Deputies and the Senate expressed their support to President Bachelet in the impasse with Peru and expressed concern over Lima's "communications offensive to portray Chile as an aggressive and bellicose country" (Conservative, influential newspaper-of-record El Mercurio, 11/ [...]
2009-11-19 19:08:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDECON KMDR KPAO PGOV PREL SNAR EFIN CI
09SANTIAGO1118CHILE'S RENEWABLE ENERGY WEEK INCLUDES U.S. EXPERTS IN SOLAR
[...] SUMMARY: Chile, which is looking to boost its use of renewable energy as a means to improve energy security and combat the effects of climate change, hosted a week of renewable energy events October 5-9 focused on two areas where Chile appears to have comparative natural advantages: solar an [...]
2009-11-20 16:09:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDENRG ECON EINT TRGY DOE CI
09SANTIAGO1120Santiago Nov. 20 Media Report
[...] The Chilean Ministry began reviewing the dossier delivered by Peru on the alleged espionage case and said it would answer to Lima's verbal note of protest next week. Peru is assessing whether to recall its ambassador, which is a step prior to suspending diplomatic relations (Conserva [...]
2009-11-20 19:12:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDECON KMDR KPAO PGOV PREL SNAR EFIN CI
09SANTIAGO1122AES-GENER: Chilean Minister of Housing Promises to Resolve
[...] (SBU) Summary: The Minister of Housing assured the Ambassador that by year's-end she will resolve the regulatory confusion that has undermined a large investment by AES-Gener, a U.S. electric company. In delivering a letter from Commerce Secretary Locke to President Bachelet on AES, the Amba [...]
2009-11-20 19:46:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEINV ECON ENRG PGOV SENV CI
09SANTIAGO1128Santiago Nov. 21-23 Media Report
[...] Peruvian Foreign Minister Jose Antonio Garcia Belaunde said that the government of Peru was not responsible for leaking the information to the press about the alleged espionage. He added that his government does not agree with reviewing the FTA with Chile over this incident as proposed by [...]
2009-11-23 19:53:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDECON KMDR KPAO PGOV PREL SNAR EFIN CI
09SANTIAGO1132U.S. Support for Chile's OECD Accession
[...] (U) Summary. Chile is ideally qualified to join the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) as its first South American member. U.S. support for Chile's accession this December will recognize Chile's remarkable economic, social, and political achievements over the past [...]
2009-11-23 21:11:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON OECD EFIN ECIN KIPR PREL PGOV AORC CI
09SANTIAGO1136Santiago Nov. 24 Media Report
[...] The dollar exchange rate dropped to 492 pesos, the lowest in the last 16 months. Meanwhile, copper reached a new record of 3.15????, the highest since September 2008 (Conservative, influential El Mercurio, 11/24). 2. U.S.-Related News 2. In his debut before the OAS Permanent Co [...]
2009-11-24 19:31:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDECON KMDR KPAO PGOV PREL SNAR EFIN CI
09SANTIAGO1142Santiago Nov. 25 Media Report
[...] Chile provided an answer yesterday to Peru's diplomatic note on the alleged espionage case (All dailies, 11/25). Chile-Peru 2. Chile handed Peru yesterday a diplomatic note responding to Lima's note over allegations of espionage. In its note, Chile objects to the tone of Pe [...]
2009-11-25 16:39:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDECON KMDR KPAO PGOV PREL SNAR EFIN CI
09SANTIAGO1154Santiago Nov. 30 Media Report
[...] Just two weeks after the Fulbright commission questioned the method used by "Becas Chile" to issue scholarships, the German Academic Exchange Service has asked the Chilean organization to change its application system (Conservative, independent La Tercera 11/29). 2. The U.S [...]
2009-11-30 19:50:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDECON KMDR KPAO PGOV PREL SNAR EFIN CI
09SANTIAGO1156Ambassador's Trip to Iquique: Positive Engagement on Drug
[...] (U) SUMMARY: The Ambassador visited Chile's 1st region October 28-29 to meet local leaders and strengthen ties to an important economic area of the country. Iquique, a city in far northern Chile built on the once-booming nitrate industry, is now home to one of Chile's two free trade zones. I [...]
2009-12-01 15:24:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON KIPR TRGY DEA CI BL
09SANTIAGO1158CHILE SUPPORTS U.S. CANDIDACY FOR WHO EXECUTIVE BOARD
[...] No summary [...]
2009-12-01 15:45:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAORC PREL TBIO EAID WHO CI
09SANTIAGO116 CHILE MEDIA REPORT - FEBRUARY 7-9
[...] Dailies had extensive coverage of Bachelet's trip to Cuba, of a possible meeting with Fidel Castro, and the disappointment of Cuban dissident organizations with whom the President will not meet. Dailies also reported on the demonstrations of the people of Chaiten in opposition to the governmen [...]
2009-02-09 19:56:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO PGOV ECON PREL SNAR EFIN CI
09SANTIAGO1162Santiago Dec 2 Media Report
[...] All Santiago major news dailies covered President Obama's announcement on Afghanistan. While both conservative, influential El Mercurio and conservative, independent La Tercera ran front-page headlines on the announcement, El Mercurio headline highlighted the withdrawal of troops starting [...]
2009-12-02 13:38:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDECON KMDR KPAO PGOV PREL SNAR EFIN CI
09SANTIAGO1164CHILE STILL CONSIDERING PROPOSAL FOR INCREASING TRANSPARENCY
[...] No summary [...]
2009-12-02 18:48:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDECON EFIN ETRD WTRO CI
09SANTIAGO1166Chile: Demarche on President's Announcement on the Way
[...] No summary [...]
2009-12-02 19:51:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL CI AF PK
09SANTIAGO1170Visit to Arica: Strong Bilateral Cooperation on the
[...] Summary: The Ambassador got a close-up view of the close ties Chile has with southern Peru during his November 14-17 visit to Arica. Local leaders noted the close integration between people and business and excellent law enforcement cooperation. The Ambassador met with local officials, u [...]
2009-12-03 11:25:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDPREL EAGR ECON EINT ETRD ENRG OPRC SCUL SENV CI PE
09SANTIAGO1174Santiago Dec. 3-4 Media Report
[...] A Gallup poll conducted in 17 Latin American countries shows that in Chile 72% of those polled have a positive image of President Obama and 59% approve of the U.S. government. This is 30% higher than the same poll in 2008 when George W. Bush was in office. The positive perception of the US [...]
2009-12-04 18:15:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDECON KMDR KPAO PGOV PREL SNAR EFIN CI
09SANTIAGO1176Embassy Santiago Nomination for International Woman of
[...] Post nominates Maria Antonieta Saa Diaz, Chilean parliamentarian, for the Secretary's International Woman of Courage Award for 2010. Deputy Saa has been a fierce advocate for women's issues throughout her political career, spanning from her clandestine activism during the Pinochet dictatorshi [...]
2009-12-04 18:35:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV KWMN SOCI CI
09SANTIAGO118 CHILE MEDIA REPORT - FEBRUARY 10
[...] La Moneda spokesman Francisco Vidal criticized the banking sector for conducting massive layoffs and urged the private sector to do its share in helping lower the effects of the financial crisis. Vidal also urged the Central Bank to lower interest rates. Dailies continued to report on the dema [...]
2009-02-10 16:24:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO PGOV ECON PREL SNAR EFIN CI
09SANTIAGO1180CHILE: SUPPORTIVE OF POLITICAL OUTCOME AT COP-15 IF IT SETS
[...] (SBU) Summary: Environment Minister Uriarte told the Ambassador that Chile expects the outcome of the COP-15 in Copenhagen to be a political agreement, but that she hopes it will have some substance. As an emerging economy, Chile expects to be a bridge between the developed and developing cou [...]
2009-12-04 20:44:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ENRG SENV PGOV KGHG UN CI
09SANTIAGO1188Elections in Chile: Media Impact on Public Opinion
[...] SUMMARY: Despite extensive and well-developed media in Chile, there is little evidence that it has played a large role in shaping public opinion in the national elections of 2009. While even-handed coverage of the main presidential candidates is indicative of a healthy and free press in demo [...]
2009-12-07 16:55:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV ECON KMDR KPAO CI
09SANTIAGO1190Santiago Dec. 7 Media Report
[...] President Bachelet will meet with Governor Pawlenty next week in Santiago. Pawlenty is "the most probable Republican contender against Obama in 2012" (Conservative, afternoon daily La Segunda, 12/4). 2. Interview with Mary Wilson, president of the League of Women Voters entit [...]
2009-12-07 19:14:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDECON KMDR KPAO PGOV PREL SNAR EFIN CI
09SANTIAGO1194Santiago Dec. 9 Media Report
[...] Governor of Minnesota Tim Pawlenty will meet with President Michelle Bachelet, Minister of Energy Marcelo Tokman, and Santiago Mayor Pablo Zalaquett on Thursday. Governor Pawlenty is heading a trade delegation of 30 businessmen and government officials. (Diario Financiero 12/7) Hond [...]
2009-12-09 20:21:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDECON KMDR KPAO PGOV PREL SNAR EFIN CI
09SANTIAGO1198CHILEAN REACTION TO PRESIDENT OBAMA'S ANNOUNCEMENT ON TPP
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Rodrigo Contreras, Director for Bilateral Relations at Chile's trade ministry equivalent (DIRECON) welcomed President Obama's announcement on joining the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP). He though TPP could bring order to the mix of trade agreements in the Pacific reg [...]
2009-12-10 18:38:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETRD ECON CI
09SANTIAGO12 CHILE MEDIA REPORT - JANUARY 6
[...] Dailies highlighted President Michelle Bachelet's announcement of a USD 4 billion program to reactivate the economy; and OAS Secretary General Jose Miguel Insulza's official statement declining to run for the presidency of Chile. U.S.-Related News ----------------------- 2. OAS Secretary [...]
2009-01-06 18:59:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO PGOV ECON PREL SNAR EFIN CI
09SANTIAGO1200SUBJECT: CHILE: Presidential Candidates' Energy Platforms -
[...] SUMMARY: The energy platforms of Chile's three leading presidential candidates aim to improve Chile's energy security while supporting economic growth and, to a lesser extent, include environmental protection and social welfare components. There are significant shared elements: diversificat [...]
2009-12-10 19:51:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDECON ENRG SENV TRGY PGOV CI
09SANTIAGO1204Santiago Dec. 10 Media Report
[...] President Bachelet will celebrate the International Human Rights Day today with a visit to Talagante, the location where the first victims of the military regime were found in 1978. Bachelet and presidential candidate Eduardo Frei have been highlighting human rights in the final portion o [...]
2009-12-10 20:15:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDECON KMDR KPAO PGOV PREL SNAR EFIN CI
09SANTIAGO1206Santiago Dec. 11 Media Report
[...] All presidential campaigns concluded last night with rallies in different parts of the city (All dailies, 12/11). U.S. and Latin America 2. The United States is fully aware of the "distancing" from Venezuela, but wants to establish a "positive" and "constructive" dialogue with [...]
2009-12-11 19:01:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDECON KMDR KPAO PGOV PREL SNAR EFIN CI
09SANTIAGO1208Chile's Presidential Elections: Pinera Easily Comes Out on
[...] (U) Summary: Preliminary results of Chile's December 18 election show opposition candidate Sebastian Pinera firmly leading Chile's presidential election, but without the greater than 50% support necessary to avoid a runoff election. According to the early results, Pinera will face Concertaci [...]
2009-12-14 00:16:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV ECON CI
09SANTIAGO1210Santiago Dec. 12-14 Media Report
[...] Results of Sunday's presidential election: Right-wing Sebastian Pinera 44.03%; center-left ruling coalition candidate Eduardo Frei 29.62%; independent Marco Enriquez-Ominami 20.12%, and Socialist Party candidate Jorge Arrate 6.21%. This means that Pinera and Frei will go to a runoff on Janu [...]
2009-12-15 11:59:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDECON KMDR KPAO PGOV PREL SNAR EFIN CI
09SANTIAGO1216Santiago Dec. 15 Media Report
[...] Minister Carolina Toha, the government's spokesperson, resigned yesterday to head Eduardo Frei's campaign for the January runoff election (Conservative, independent La Tercera, 12/15). U.S.-Related News 2. Excerpts of an interview with U.S. Ambassador Paul Simons: "One of Presi [...]
2009-12-15 20:08:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDECON KMDR KPAO PGOV PREL SNAR EFIN CI
09SANTIAGO1224Santiago Dec. 16 Media Report
[...] The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) officially invited Chile to join (All dailies, 12/16). OECD 2. After over two years of work and six million Euros spent on missions and reports, the Bachelet administration achieved one of its major goals: Chile [...]
2009-12-17 11:55:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDECON KMDR KPAO PGOV PREL SNAR EFIN CI
09SANTIAGO1226Santiago Dec. 17 Media Report
[...] Paul Fontaine, chief economist of independent presidential candidate Marco Enriquez Ominami, joined Sebastian Pinera's campaign team. Cristian Larroulet, of Pinera's Economic Council, underscored similarities with Enriquez-Ominami's economic program, adding that some of those proposals cou [...]
2009-12-17 18:59:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDECON KMDR KPAO PGOV PREL SNAR EFIN CI
09SANTIAGO1234Chile's Election Results: Conservatives Win Symbolic
[...] (SBU) Summary: For the first time in 20 years, the Chile's center-right coalition, Alianza, won more seats in Congress than did the governing center-left coalition, Concertacion. Despite this symbolic loss, the overall balance in Congress did not change dramatically. The Concertacion regain [...]
2009-12-18 12:51:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV CI
09SANTIAGO1238Santiago Dec. 18 Media Report
[...] "Why didn't the FBI detect mustard gas in 2005, when Justice Madrid claims there are (traces of it)?" At the end of 2004, the judge investigating the death of former President Eduardo Frei Montalva, Alejandro Madrid, requested the FBI's assistance to confirm if the exhumed remains belong [...]
2009-12-18 19:54:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDECON KMDR KPAO PGOV PREL SNAR EFIN CI
09SANTIAGO124CHILE'S AMBITIOUS PLANS FOR DEFENSE REFORM
[...] (SBU) Summary: Although it has received only periodic attention in the press, President Bachelet has encouraged a far-reaching series of defense reforms which, if approved, would dramatically restructure the Ministry of Defense, usher in significant changes to military procurement, and create [...]
2009-02-10 20:11:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMARR PGOV PHUM SOCI CI
09SANTIAGO1246Santiago Dec. 22 Media Report
[...] The results o the National College Admissions Tests confirm once again the gap that exists between private and public schools (Conservative, afternoon La Tercera, 12/22). U.S.-Related News 2. Forensic expert Laura Borgel, owner of the Servitox laboratory, explained how it was t [...]
2009-12-22 17:49:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDECON KMDR KPAO PGOV PREL SNAR EFIN CI
09SANTIAGO125KOSOVO DEMARCHE TO CHILE WOULD BE COUNTERPRODUCTIVE
[...] No summary [...]
2009-02-11 14:43:00Embassy SantiagoCONFIDENTIALPREL AORC ICJ KV CI
09SANTIAGO1250Santiago Dec. 24 media report
[...] Christmas sales are up 10% compared to 2008 and reached levels prior to the fall of Lehman Brothers, according to the National Chamber of Commerce (Conservative, independent La Tercera, 12/24). Former President Frei's Death 2. The Supreme Court's second Room has asked to see t [...]
2009-12-24 14:06:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDECON KMDR KPAO PGOV PREL SNAR EFIN CI
09SANTIAGO1252CHILEAN FM RESPONDS TO FOLLOW-UP LETTER ON U.S.-COLOMBIA
[...] On December 22, Post received Diplomatic Note number 016054 dated December 18, from the Chilean Ministry of Foreign Affairs transmitting the following letter from Foreign Minister Fernandez to Secretaries Clinton and Gates. Paragraph two is Post's informal translation of the letter. Original [...]
2009-12-28 15:58:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDPREL MARR KTIA US CO CI
09SANTIAGO1254Media Report December 25-28, 2009
[...] The FBI's report has gained unexpected prominence in the probe on the death of former President Eduardo Frei Montalva. While the plaintiffs lack its validity, the defendants cite it as a proof to delegitimize the thesis about his poisoning. The confusion rests on the confidentiality with w [...]
2009-12-28 16:02:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDECON KMDR KPAO PGOV PREL SNAR EFIN CI
09SANTIAGO1256Media Report December 29
[...] For the first time in 13 years, the workers at Chile's state-owned copper mine Chuquicamata voted to go on strike and rejected a final wage and benefit offer. Work stoppage will start on December 31. (12/29) Chile-U.S. 2. Chile's Foreign Ministry released its pub [...]
2009-12-29 15:29:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDECON KMDR KPAO PGOV PREL SNAR EFIN CI
09SANTIAGO1262Media Report December 30
[...] Chile's state-owned copper mine Codelco dismissed raising its final wage and benefit offer to avoid a workers' strike in Chuquicamata. The company is activating a contingency plan to face the work stoppage that will start on January 4. Arms Race 2. Minister of De [...]
2009-12-30 13:46:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDECON KMDR KPAO PGOV PREL SNAR EFIN CI
09SANTIAGO1268Media Report December 31 December
[...] The presidents of political parties PPD (Parties for Democracy) and PRSD (Radical Social Democratic Party) -both prominent members in the Concertacion government coalition-resigned their posts, triggering a controversy and division within the coalition. U.S.-Terrorist Threat [...]
2009-12-31 13:59:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDECON KMDR KPAO PGOV PREL SNAR EFIN CI
09SANTIAGO127 CHILE MEDIA REPORT - FEBRUARY 11
[...] Dailies highlighted that President Bachelet now has a scheduled meeting with Fidel Castro on Friday. Front page news included President Obama's rescue package, noting "disappointment" in the plan triggered a drop in stock markets worldwide. U.S.-Related News ----------------- 2. In inter [...]
2009-02-11 16:10:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO PGOV ECON PREL SNAR EFIN CI
09SANTIAGO1270Chile Working Avidly to Comply with TSA Security Directives
[...] Summary: Since Saturday, December 26, Post has been in regular contact with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA),Chile's General Directorate of Civil Aviation (DGAC) and the three airlines (LAN Chile, Delta, and American) that operate non-stop flights to the United States. Although legal c [...]
2009-12-31 17:53:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDECON PGOV EAIR PTER PINS CI
09SANTIAGO128CHILE: EPOL REQUEST FOR HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR
[...] (U) This is an action request. See paragraphs 2 and 3. 2. (SBU) Action request: Embassy requests the Department assist in conducting a Leahy Amendment Human Rights review, as well as a general name check, of the following Chilean Police officers who have been nominated for U.S. funded tr [...]
2009-02-11 18:16:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PHUM CI
09SANTIAGO13 CHILE MEDIA REPORT - JANUARY 6
[...] Dailies highlighted the December inflation rate of minus 1.2%, and the total 7.1% attained in Chile during 2008; the Paris-Dakar automobile race that this year is taking place in Argentina and Chile; and the Israeli military attacks in Gaza. U.S.-Related News ----------------------- 2. W [...]
2009-01-07 17:07:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO PGOV ECON PREL SNAR EFIN CI
09SANTIAGO130WAIT 'TIL NEXT YEAR- CHILE'S DIGITAL TV DELAY
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Despite lengthy studies and a draft law on the regulatory framework of digital TV, Chile does not/not appear close to selecting a digital TV standard in 2009. Government and industry contacts agree the Bachelet administration will put off the decision, leaving it for a future go [...]
2009-02-11 21:53:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EINV PREL ECPS ITU OVIP TSPL TINT CI
09SANTIAGO132 CHILE MEDIA REPORT - FEBRUARY 12
[...] Dailies report that the Central Bank is likely to lower the interest rates today. Other front-page news highlighted the U.S. dollar exchange rate, which dropped below 600 pesos for the first time since late last year. Dailies also ran front-page photographs of Bachelet with Cuban President R [...]
2009-02-12 16:34:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO PGOV ECON PREL SNAR EFIN CI
09SANTIAGO135 CHILE MEDIA REPORT - FEBRUARY 13
[...] Front-page news highlighted the Central Bank's decision to lower the interest rate to 4.75% (lowest in three years) and President Bachelet's meeting with Fidel Castro yesterday afternoon. Dailies also reported that private clinics failed to notify the central health authority of 104 HIV/AIDs [...]
2009-02-13 17:27:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO PGOV ECON PREL SNAR EFIN CI
09SANTIAGO137HOW CHILE'S RIGHT SEES THE PRESIDENTIAL
[...] (C) Summary: Conservative political leaders and analysts see both their own presidential candidate, Sebastian Pinera, and the rival Concertacion candidate, Eduardo Frei, as ho-hum choices who are unlikely to arouse much voter enthusiasm. Frei benefited greatly from his father's legacy when he [...]
2009-02-17 19:36:00Embassy SantiagoCONFIDENTIALPGOV ECON CI
09SANTIAGO138 CHILE'S COMPETING ECOMOMIC VISIONS: A POSSIBLE PREVIEW OF
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Chile 21 Foundation (a think tank affiliated with Chile's Socialist party) organized a seminar late last month to discuss the current global economic situation and its impact on Chile. Minister of Finance Andres Velasco reviewed the GOC's economic policy designed to combat [...]
2009-02-17 19:40:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN ETRD EINV ECIN PGOV PREL CI
09SANTIAGO14CHILE: NGOS PARTICIPATE IN UNHRC PERIODIC REVIEW
[...] Per reftel, EPolOff surveyed NGO and civil society contacts and learned that several organizations participated in the UN Universal Periodic Review process for Chile. Amnesty International, the Corporation for the Promotion and Defense of People's Rights (CODEPU),and the Humanas Foundation s [...]
2009-01-07 18:29:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PHUM UNHRC CI
09SANTIAGO141 CHILE MEDIA REPORT - FEBRUARY 14-17
[...] Chilean dailies ran extensive coverage of reactions to Fidel Castro's column published after he met with President Bachelet, in which he endorsed Bolivia's maritime demand for access to the sea. Front-page news also highlighted a helicopter crash that killed 12 fire fighters who were being tra [...]
2009-02-17 20:40:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO PGOV ECON PREL SNAR EFIN CU CI
09SANTIAGO142 CHILE MEDIA REPORT - FEBRUARY 18
[...] Stock markets worldwide fall due to doubts in the effectiveness of the bailout plan for the automobile industry in the United States. Finance Minister Andres Velasco's two-year old daughter accidentally fell into a swimming pool yesterday, and is on an induced comma to prevent further neurolo [...]
2009-02-18 14:35:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO PGOV ECON PREL SNAR EFIN CI
09SANTIAGO145 CHILE MEDIA REPORT - FEBRUARY 19
[...] Chile and Bolivia scheduled a meeting of Foreign Affairs officials to lower the tension over the impasse created by Fidel Castro's endorsement of Bolivia's sea access claim and Evo Morales' subsequent remarks that he would like the international community to become involved. Dailies also repo [...]
2009-02-19 15:56:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO PGOV ECON PREL SNAR EFIN CI
09SANTIAGO149 CHILE MEDIA REPORT - FEBRUARY 20
[...] The Chaiten volcano in southern Chile erupted again yesterday. The town was evacuated, except for several individuals who have refused to leave. Dailies also report that after a meeting with his Chilean counterpart in Santiago, the Foreign Affairs Deputy Secretary of Bolivia said his country [...]
2009-02-20 14:44:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO PGOV ECON PREL SNAR EFIN CI
09SANTIAGO156 CHILE: 2009 TIP REPORT
[...] (U) The following information is Post's submission per ref A. Post will continue to gather information on TIP and submit relevant updates prior to April 15. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: The GOC made progress during the reporting period in its efforts to confront TIP. Individual agencies, most notably [...]
2009-02-20 19:51:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM KTIP ELAB KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF KCRM CI
09SANTIAGO157PRESIDENT BACHELET IN CUBA -- A FOREIGN POLICY
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Fidel Castro's statement bashing Chile following a private meeting with President Bachelet has generated unusually heated debate in Santiago. Critics -- including the Concertacion's Christian Democrats -- call the visit an "embarrassing" policy setback, some contending the sole [...]
2009-02-20 20:06:00Embassy SantiagoCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM CU CI
09SANTIAGO16CHILE: APPROVED HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR ILEA BCBP RISK
[...] Per reftel A, Embassy verifies that as of January 6, 2009, the Department of State possesses no credible evidence or information of gross human rights violations by the Chilean candidates cited in reftel B. 2. Acting E/Pol Counselor Alexander Kasanof certifies the above statement. SIMO [...]
2009-01-08 12:48:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PHUM PINR CI
09SANTIAGO160 CHILE MEDIA REPORT - FEBRUARY 23
[...] Volcanologists warn that the Chaiten volcano in southern Chile could collapse, burying the town of Chaiten under ashes, volcanic material, and mud slides. The Minister of Interior underscores that that it is not possible at this stage to rebuild Chaiten and local government authorities starte [...]
2009-02-23 17:49:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO PGOV ECON PREL SNAR EFIN CI
09SANTIAGO161 CHILE: ECONOMIC HIGHLIGHTS WEEK OF FEBRUARY 16
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: This continues a series of updates on major developments in Chile's economy since the acceleration of global financial turmoil. By February 20, copper prices slid backward as copper production fell, the Peso remained stable against the Dollar, and the stock market closed lower. [...]
2009-02-23 19:55:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN ETRD EINV ECIN PGOV PREL CI
09SANTIAGO164 CHILE MEDIA REPORT - FEBRUARY 24
[...] Dailies highlighted an investigation in Uruguay that revealed an Argentine agent, Ivan Velazquez, had hacked into e-mails of at least eight Chilean government officials in 2007, including that of former Defense Minister Jaime Ravinet. The GOC has asked Uruguay for additional information. Ano [...]
2009-02-24 18:06:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO PGOV ECON PREL SNAR EFIN CI
09SANTIAGO166CHILE SUPPORTS U.S. ON DURBAN, STRATEGIZES ON
[...] (U) This is an action request for IO/RHS and DRL/MLGA. Please see paragraph 10. 2. (C) Summary: Chile supports U.S. positions at the Durban Conference, but does not consider anti-Israeli language to be a key issue. MFA Human Rights official Eduardo Chihuailaf said Chile is eager to work [...]
2009-02-24 18:57:00Embassy SantiagoCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREL UNHRC CI
09SANTIAGO167CHILE SCENESETTER FOR CHAIRMAN OF JOINT CHIEFS OF
[...] (C) The U.S. Mission in Santiago welcomes your visit to Chile on March 2-3. Your presence is an excellent opportunity to further strengthen military-to-military relations and to encourage Chile to exercise greater regional leadership. We have had several successful high-level defense and security-r [...]
2009-02-24 19:45:00Embassy SantiagoCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL OVIP MASS MARR CI
09SANTIAGO170 DAS MCMULLEN MEETS WITH ECONOMIC, ENERGY, AND BUSINESS
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: DAS Christopher McMullen met with officials at the Ministry of Finance, the National Energy Commission, business leaders, and the Central Bank Governor during his visit to Chile February 12-13. Senior Finance Ministry staff told DAS McMullen that Chile's process to accede to th [...]
2009-02-25 18:56:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ENVR ENRG EFIN ETRD EINV PGOV PREL CI
09SANTIAGO174 CHILE MEDIA REPORT - FEBRUARY 25
[...] A U.S. Federal court sentenced Chilean Felipe Moreno to 25 years in prison on charges of terrorism in connection to arms deals carried out by Monzer al Kassar. Dailies also reported on remarks by the FED President that the recession will end in 2009 and the economy will recover in 2010 if the [...]
2009-02-25 20:16:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO PGOV ECON PREL SNAR EFIN CI
09SANTIAGO176 CHILE MEDIA REPORT - FEBRUARY 26
[...] Finance Minister Andres Velasco's two-year old daughter has come out of an induced coma and is interacting normally with her parents. Dailies also report the government's announcement to rebuild the town of Chaiten 12 kilometers from the volcano. U.S.-Related News ----------------- 2. T [...]
2009-02-26 16:48:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO PGOV ECON PREL SNAR EFIN CI
09SANTIAGO178 CHILE MEDIA REPORT - FEBRUARY 27
[...] Two Chilean students were murdered and three others injured in a shooting spree by an emotionally disturbed man in Florida. Dailies also report on the GOC's reaction to the Department of State human rights report. U.S.-Related News ----------------- 2. Two students from Chile in the Uni [...]
2009-02-27 16:27:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO PGOV ECON PREL SNAR EFIN CI
09SANTIAGO181CHILE: APPROVED HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR ILEA TRAFFICKING
[...] Per reftel A, Embassy verifies that as of February 26, 2009, the Department of State possesses no credible evidence or information of gross human rights violations by the Chilean candidates cited in reftel B. 2. E/Pol Counselor Timothy Stater certifies the above statement. SIMONS [...]
2009-03-02 11:05:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PHUM PINR CI
09SANTIAGO182 CHILE: PRESS, GOC SPOKESMAN CRITICIZE HUMAN RIGHTS REPORT
[...] (SBU) This year's human rights report garnered much more press coverage than the 2007 report. The media characterized the report as "criticizing" and "questioning" Chile on human rights issues. This was largely prompted by Government spokesman Vidal, who referred to Guantanamo when he comment [...]
2009-03-02 11:32:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV PHUM CI
09SANTIAGO183CHILE: APPROVED HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR ILEA TRAFFICKING
[...] Per reftel A, Embassy verifies that as of February 26, 2009, the Department of State possesses no credible evidence or information of gross human rights violations by the Chilean candidates cited in reftel B. 2. E/Pol Counselor Timothy Stater certifies the above statement. SIMONS [...]
2009-03-02 13:16:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PHUM PINR CI
09SANTIAGO187 CHILE MEDIA REPORT - FEBRUARY 28-MARCH 2
[...] Weekend dailies ran extensive coverage on the murder of two Chilean students in Florida last week. Dailies also highlighted that the two-year old daughter of Finance Minister has no apparent neurological damage and was discharged from the hospital. Human Rights Report ------------------- [...]
2009-03-02 19:02:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO PGOV ECON PREL SNAR EFIN CI
09SANTIAGO188 CHILE - INPUT FOR 2009 SPECIAL 301 REVEW
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Post recommends Chile remain on the 2009 Special 301 Priority Watch List (PWL) for a third year. There was less progress on intellectual property rights (IPR) than hoped for in 2008. Post has identified four priority areas for GOC action: anti-piracy and counterfeiting, data [...]
2009-03-02 19:32:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EINV ETRD KIPR PREL CI
09SANTIAGO189 CHILE'S ENERGY HIGHLIGHTS FEBRUARY 2009
[...] (U) SUMMARY: This cable provides highlights of activity in the Chilean energy sector during February 2009. Chile's Energy Minister met with Secretary of Energy Chu in Washington to discuss collaboration on renewable energy and energy efficiency. Supported by recent profits and regulatory imp [...]
2009-03-02 19:53:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ENRG KNNP SENV TRGY PGOV CI
09SANTIAGO191 CHILE MEDIA REPORT - MARCH 3
[...] Dow Jones industrial average dropped to its lowest level in twelve years, affecting stock markets worldwide. Chile's Central Bank anticipates lowering interest rate for a third consecutive time. U.S.-Related News ----------------- 2. Admiral Michael Mullen, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs [...]
2009-03-03 13:19:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO PGOV ECON PREL SNAR EFIN CI
09SANTIAGO196U.S. PROGRAMS TO ADDRESS ILLICIT TRAFFICKING IN
[...] No summary [...]
2009-03-04 11:49:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDPARM MASS EAIR ETTC PREL OAS PE CI
09SANTIAGO197GLOBAL INITIATIVE TO COMBAT NUCLEAR TERRORISM,
[...] No summary [...]
2009-03-04 11:52:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDPARM PREL PTER KGIC CI
09SANTIAGO199 AMBASSADOR VISITS VALDIVIA, SPEAKS AT CONSERVATION FINANCE
[...] Summary: The Ambassador recently visited Valdivia -- a forestry and scientific research hub in southern Chile -- to deliver remarks at the closing session of a Harvard-affiliated conference, "Conservation Capital in the Americas," at the Universidad Austral. In his first visit to the recently- [...]
2009-03-04 18:47:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDECON SENV ENRG PGOV TRGY CI
09SANTIAGO200 CHILE MEDIA REPORT - MARCH 4
[...] The opposition in Peru claims the FTA signed by that country and Chile is unconstitutional because it was not approved by Congress. Several Deans criticize private universities that issue law degrees after just three years. U.S.-Related News ----------------- 2. Interview with the Chairm [...]
2009-03-04 18:51:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO PGOV ECON PREL SNAR EFIN CI
09SANTIAGO202 CHILE: READY FOR AN ENERGY PARTNERSHIP, PLANS RENEWABLE
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In recent conversations with the Ambassador, Energy Minister Tokman has outlined Chile's desire to be a strong partner under the proposed Energy Partnership of the Americas and its interest in increasing U.S.-Chile collaboration on energy efficiency and renewable energy. Tokman [...]
2009-03-04 19:57:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDECON ENRG KNNP SENV TRGY PGOV CI
09SANTIAGO207 CHILE MEDIA REPORT - MARCH 5
[...] Former government official Patricio Rojas testified in the framework of a long-lasting investigation regarding the autopsy of former President Frei (father of the current candidate) in 1982. The recent stabbing of a teacher by a student has prompted reports on violence against teachers. U.S [...]
2009-03-05 18:10:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO PGOV ECON PREL SNAR EFIN CI
09SANTIAGO213 CHILE MEDIA REPORT - MARCH 6
[...] The government is open to implementing yet another economic reactivation plan given the most recent economic statistics, which show the lowest growth rates in the last ten years. Adimark survey shows a 58% rate of approval for President Bachelet, the highest since 2006. U.S.-Related News [...]
2009-03-06 15:16:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO PGOV ECON PREL SNAR EFIN CI
09SANTIAGO214 EMBASSY SCIENCE FELLOWS PROGRAM IN CHILE
[...] (U) Embassy Santiago would like to submit the following two proposals for Embassy Science Fellows (ref a). The requests are separate and independent of each other. 2. (U) The point of contact for the proposals is ESTH officer Mary Brett Rogers-Springs; rogers-springsmb@state.gov; telephone: [...]
2009-03-06 18:31:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ENRG SENV TRGY PGOV CI
09SANTIAGO215 CHILE'S NATIONAL PARKS LACK INFRASTRUCTURE, AMERICAN HELPS
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Ambassador recently met with Chile's National Tourism Service (SERNATUR) and National Forestry Commission (CONAF) to provide feedback on his January trip to Chilean Patagonia. He inquired about resources for improving the infrastructure in Torres del Paine National Park, on [...]
2009-03-06 18:51:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ENVR EAID EAGR ETRD TBIO CI
09SANTIAGO217 CHILE: BIWEEKLY ECONOMIC HIGHLIGHTS
[...] SUMMARY: This continues a series of updates on major developments in Chile's economy since the acceleration of global financial turmoil. President Bachelet said publicly that Chile's economic growth will slow in 2009, but remain positive. Chile's economy contracted by 1.4%. The unemploymen [...]
2009-03-09 10:22:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDECON EFIN ETRD EINV ECIN PGOV PREL CI
09SANTIAGO22 CHILE MEDIA REPORT - JANUARY 8-9
[...] Dailies highlighted the Central Bank's announcement of a historic interest rate reduction from 8.25% to 7.25%; the reprimand issued by the Senate Ethics Commission on PPD Senator Guido Girardi for his misconduct in a case involving a highway patrol officer; and the gathering of President Bush a [...]
2009-01-09 16:28:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO PGOV ECON PREL SNAR EFIN CI
09SANTIAGO220 CHILE MEDIA REPORT - MARCH 9
[...] One major Santiago daily reported that the Vice President Biden plans to attend the Progressive Leaders' summit in Chile, March 27-28. Consumer habits in Chile have changed drastically in view of the economic crisis. Lowering the consumer tax (IVA) is among the proposals in the government's [...]
2009-03-09 19:38:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO PGOV ECON PREL SNAR EFIN CI
09SANTIAGO221JCS MULLEN IN CHILE: LATIN AMERICAN ENGAGEMENT A
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Mike Mullen emphasized the priority of U.S. engagement with Latin America during his March 3 visit to Chile. In meetings with President Bachelet, Minister of Defense Goni, and Chief of National Defense Ewing, Chairman Mullen praised th [...]
2009-03-09 19:53:00Embassy SantiagoCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM MARR SOCI CI
09SANTIAGO227 CHILE MEDIA REPORT - MARCH 10
[...] The government is requesting Congress approve US$1.47 billion to finance Santiago's public transportation system through 2014. The Central Bank's economic growth estimates for 2009 dropped to 0.2%, down from 2-3% estimates. U.S.-Related News ----------------- 2. Editorial "Poisoned Grape [...]
2009-03-10 18:56:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO PGOV ECON PREL SNAR EFIN CI
09SANTIAGO228BACHELET'S TRIP TO CUBA: TOP OFFICIALS PUT ON A
[...] (C) Summary: Two key foreign policy makers--presidential advisor Marcos Robledo and the MFA's #3 ranked official, Juan Pablo Lira--maintain that President Bachelet's February trip to Cuba was very successful, a contrast to the negative press coverage it received. Bachelet raised human rights [...]
2009-03-11 16:26:00Embassy SantiagoCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM ECON PGOV CI CU
09SANTIAGO23 CHILE'S ECONOMIC STIMULUS PACKAGE
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On January 5, President Bachelet announced a $4 billion economic stimulus plan designed to create 100,000 jobs and maintain a GDP growth rate of 2-3% in 2009. The plan calls for increased public infrastructure spending, temporary tax cuts for businesses, direct payments to low- [...]
2009-01-09 17:00:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN ETRD EINV ECIN PGOV PREL CI
09SANTIAGO230CHILE: APPROVED HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR POST BOMB BLAST
[...] Per reftel A, Embassy verifies that as of March 10, 2009, the Department of State possesses no credible evidence or information of gross human rights violations by the Chilean candidates cited in reftel B. 2. E/Pol Counselor Timothy Stater certifies the above statement. SIMONS [...]
2009-03-11 18:27:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PHUM PINR CI
09SANTIAGO233 CHILE MEDIA REPORT - MARCH 11
[...] Following yesterday's global market gains, Chile's stock market registered its most significant rise in the last five months. Dailies also report that according to a University of Lima survey, 59% of Peruvians approve of the free trade agreement between Peru and Chile. U.S.-Related News -- [...]
2009-03-11 19:02:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO PGOV ECON PREL SNAR EFIN CI
09SANTIAGO241 CHILE MEDIA REPORT - MARCH 12
[...] All dailies reported on UDI Senator Jovino Novoa's election as Senate President. Dailies also report that the government's announcement to hand out 15,000 computers to municipal schools triggered accusation of "electoral intervention" by the opposition alliance. U.S.-Related News -------- [...]
2009-03-12 19:08:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO PGOV ECON PREL SNAR EFIN CI
09SANTIAGO243 CHILE PROPOSES JOINT CHILE-U.S. FUND FOR SOLAR ENERGY;
[...] (U) This is an action request - see paragraph 11. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: In a recent conversation with the Ambassador, Energy Minister Marcelo Tokman proposed a joint "U.S.-Chile Fund for the Development of Solar Energy," financed by US$15 million from each country, to be announced at the Summit [...]
2009-03-13 10:27:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ENRG KNNP SENV TRGY PGOV CI
09SANTIAGO245 CHILE MEDIA REPORT - MARCH 13
[...] Late morning on-line dailies report that La Moneda confirmed Vice President Joe Biden's participation at the Progressive Governance Summit, March 27-28 in Chile. Dailies also ran extensive coverage on Foreign Minister Alejandro Foxley's departure and the subsequent cabinet shuffle. Dailies al [...]
2009-03-13 15:43:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO PGOV ECON PREL SNAR EFIN CI
09SANTIAGO248 CHILE MEDIA REPORT - MARCH 16
[...] Dailies highlighted that Wall Street is beginning to show signs of economic recovery. Dailies also reported on the plebiscite held in the Municipality of Vitacura to vote on the community's urban development projects. This is the first ever such plebiscite held in Chile. U.S.-Related News [...]
2009-03-16 20:25:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO PGOV ECON PREL SNAR EFIN CI
09SANTIAGO250CHILEANS HOPE TO ATTEND NUCLEAR TERRORISM MEETING
[...] No summary [...]
2009-03-16 21:45:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMNUC PARM PREL PTER KGIC CI KS
09SANTIAGO251FOREIGN MINISTER'S SURPRISE DEPARTURE LEADS TO
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Former Foreign Minister Alejandro Foxley stepped down on March 12 after three years in office in a move that took the public, political insiders, and even his successor by surprise. His departure led to a small wave of other changes as the Chilean Ambassador to the U.S., Mariano [...]
2009-03-16 22:31:00Embassy SantiagoCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL MASS KPAO CI
09SANTIAGO252 CHILE'S LITHIUM: WORLD'S LEADING PRODUCER EXPANDING
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Chile is the leading lithium chemical producer in the world. Two companies, Sociedad Qumica y Minera de Chile S.A. (SQM) -- the world's biggest producer of iodine and lithium -- and Chemetall of Germany, dominate the production of lithium carbonate, largely by exploiting brine [...]
2009-03-17 12:20:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ENVR EAID EAGR ETRD TBIO CI
09SANTIAGO253 CHILE MEDIA REPORT - MARCH 17
[...] Concerns have been raised over the appointment of a non-elected PPD official to fill the Chamber of Deputy seat vacated by Congresswoman Toha, who joined the Bachelet cabinet as press spokesperson. This has triggered debate about the replacement process and calls for it to be reviewed. Daili [...]
2009-03-17 15:46:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO PGOV ECON PREL SNAR EFIN CI
09SANTIAGO254BRAZIL, CHILE LED EFFORT TO CREATE NEW UNASUR
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Brazil and Chile played leading roles in creating the new South American Defense Council (SADC),which was inaugurated last week at a meeting of all 12 UNASUR Defense Ministers in Santiago. The new body, which is not/not a military alliance, aims to develop relationships and bu [...]
2009-03-17 18:04:00Embassy SantiagoCONFIDENTIALMARR PREL XR CI
09SANTIAGO255 CHILE MEDIA REPORT - MARCH 18
[...] All dailies report on President Bachelet's trip to India and announcements that negotiations are underway for the signature of a Chile-India FTA. Dailies also reported on the increase in the construction of homes in the United States, which has "injected optimism" into global markets. U.S.- [...]
2009-03-18 17:40:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO PGOV ECON PREL SNAR EFIN CI
09SANTIAGO26FREI FRIENDSHIP MAIN FACTOR BEHIND INSULZA
[...] (C) Insulza's close personal friendship with Eduardo Frei was the main reason behind his decision to withdraw from the presidential race, Insulza confidante and Chilean Ambassador to the U.S. Mariano Fernandez told Ambassador on January 6. Fernandez confirmed Insulza's earlier comments to the [...]
2009-01-09 18:24:00Embassy SantiagoCONFIDENTIALPGOV CI
09SANTIAGO262 CHILE MEDIA REPORT - MARCH 19
[...] Dailies highlighted that Chile has 90 days to rebut Peru's claim at the International Court of Justice in The Hague regarding their maritime borders. Dailies also noted that on April 20, twenty state companies will publish the salaries of their CEOs, complying with a law on access to public i [...]
2009-03-19 17:11:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO PGOV ECON PREL SNAR EFIN CI
09SANTIAGO264CONCERTACION AIMS FOR COMPREHENSIVE DEFENSE
[...] (C) SUMMARY. The Concertacion has proposed an extensive re-organization of Chile's Defense Ministry, transforming civilian contractors into direct-hire employees, moving from a service branch-based structure to a joint structure, and developing a position similar to the Chairman of the Joint [...]
2009-03-19 20:45:00Embassy SantiagoCONFIDENTIALMARR PGOV CI
09SANTIAGO269CHILE: FREI RUNS TO REFORM THE CONSTITUTION
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Presidential candidate Eduardo Frei (DC) has announced an ambitious proposal to overhaul the 1980 constitution and cultivate a new "constitutional patriotism" in Chile. The proposed "Bicentennial Constitution" offers specific recommendations designed to re-energize politics, dec [...]
2009-03-20 12:06:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV CI
09SANTIAGO270CHILE: FREI RUNS TO REFORM THE CONSTITUTION
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Presidential candidate Eduardo Frei (DC) has announced an ambitious proposal to overhaul the 1980 constitution and cultivate a new "constitutional patriotism" in Chile. The proposed "Bicentennial Constitution" offers specific recommendations designed to re-energize politics, dec [...]
2009-03-20 12:07:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV CI
09SANTIAGO272 CHILE MEDIA REPORT - MARCH 20
[...] As anticipated, Peru filed with the International Court of The Hague a claim to change maritime and land borders with Chile. U.S.-Related News ----------------- 2. La Tercera published a letter to the editor by acting Minister of Interior Patricio Rosende, saying the daily had misquoted h [...]
2009-03-20 21:22:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO PGOV ECON PREL SNAR EFIN CI
09SANTIAGO276 CHILE MEDIA REPORT - MARCH 20
[...] The opposition alliance is pressuring Bachelet to meet with presidential candidate Sebastian Pinera to discuss Peru's maritime claim with The Hague. Lima made the content of its claim public. Progressive Governance Summit ----------------------------- 2. Interview with U.S. Ambassador Pa [...]
2009-03-23 19:08:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO PGOV ECON PREL SNAR EFIN CI
09SANTIAGO281 CHILE MEDIA REPORT - MARCH 24
[...] Stock markets worldwide reacted positively to President Obama's new financial plan. Dailies also reported on the seizure of more than a ton of the chemical ephedrine in an operation to dismantle a narcotics operation tied to Mexico. Chile's Rating Upgraded ----------------------- 2. Moo [...]
2009-03-24 17:02:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO PGOV ECON PREL SNAR EFIN CI
09SANTIAGO282SCENESETTER FOR THE VISIT OF VICE PRESIDENT BIDEN
[...] (C) Embassy Santiago warmly welcomes you to Chile -- the first visit to Latin America by a senior Obama White House representative. Your participation in the Progressive Governance Summit and subsequent bilateral meeting with President Bachelet will bolster our relationship with a close ally whos [...]
2009-03-24 19:37:00Embassy SantiagoCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINR PREL PHUM CI
09SANTIAGO287FORMER DEFENSE MINISTER: PROUD OF REFORMS,
[...] (C) Summary: Former Defense Minister Goni was pleasantly surprised by his assignment as the Chilean Ambassador to Washington, and plans to continue to play an active role in U.S.-Chilean defense relations. He is proud of the defense reforms passed under his watch, and hopeful that another ke [...]
2009-03-25 19:08:00Embassy SantiagoCONFIDENTIALPREL MARR MASS CI BL PE
09SANTIAGO297 CHILE MEDIA REPORT - MARCH 31
[...] There was extensive coverage on the scandal caused by the revelation that Chile's most prominent pharmacy chains Ahumada, Salcobrand, and Cruz Verde, colluded to hike prices on more than 200 products since 2005. The National Economic Attorneys' Office is investigating the alleged collusion. [...]
2009-03-31 18:45:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO PGOV ECON PREL SNAR EFIN CI
09SANTIAGO299MEDIA REPORT: VICE PRESIDENT BIDEN IN CHILE
[...] Summary: Vice President Biden's participation at the March 27-28 Progressive Governance Summit in Vina del Mar and his bilateral with President Bachelet in Santiago produced extremely positive media coverage in Chile. Articles and TV news highlighted Biden's stature as the "second man in the [...]
2009-03-31 19:52:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO PGOV ECON PREL SNAR EFIN CI
09SANTIAGO3 CHILE'S PRESIDENTIAL RACE: PINERA STILL LEADING, FREI
[...] (SBU) Summary: The latest poll on possible presidential candidates shows that former president Eduardo Frei is very competitive with OAS SecGen Jose Miguel Insulza to receive the nod as the Concertacion candidate. But both trail opposition leader Sebastian Pinera by a sizeable margin, althoug [...]
2009-01-02 16:22:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV ELAB SOCI ECON CI
09SANTIAGO30 CHILE: RECENT ECONOMIC HIGHLIGHTS
[...] SUMMARY: This continues a series of updates on major developments in Chile's economy since the acceleration of global financial turmoil. Between December 22, 2008, and January 9, 2009, copper prices recovered from their lows in early December 2008, the Peso rose modestly against the Dollar, a [...]
2009-01-12 10:47:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDECON EFIN ETRD EINV ECIN PGOV PREL CI
09SANTIAGO304CONCERTACION CHALLENGER GOMEZ MAKES A NAME FOR
[...] (SBU) Summary: Through tireless old-fashioned campaigning and an extensive internet effort, upstart presidential contender Jose Antonio Gomez has emerged as a persistent progressive leader and irritant to Concertacion front runner Eduardo Frei. Gomez, who is a senator and president of the [...]
2009-04-01 20:42:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV SENV ECON CI
09SANTIAGO306 CHILE MEDIA REPORT - APRIL 1
[...] The national unemployment rate for the December-February period reached 8.5 percent, which is 1.2 percent higher than in 2008. Chile plays Uruguay this evening and could qualify for the 2010 World Soccer Cup if it wins. U.S.-Related Articles --------------------- 2. Minister Counselor Ca [...]
2009-04-01 21:15:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO PGOV ECON PREL SNAR EFIN CI
09SANTIAGO310CHILE: CONCERTACION PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES FACE
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On April 5, the center-left Concertacion coalition will hold primaries in Chile's O'Higgins (VI) and Maule (VII) regions between former President and current Senator Eduardo Frei and upstart challenger Senator Jose Antonio Gomez. The Concertacion has no set process for choosi [...]
2009-04-02 15:59:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV CI
09SANTIAGO311U.S.-CHILE MARCH 28 BILATERAL DURING VICE
[...] (U) March 28, 2009; 7:45 pm; La Moneda, Santiago, Chile. 2. (U) Participants: U.S. Antony Blinken, National Security Advisory to the Vice President Brian McKeon, Deputy National Security Advisor to the Vice President Paul Simons, U.S. Ambassador to Chile Dan Restrepo, Senio [...]
2009-04-02 19:50:00Embassy SantiagoCONFIDENTIALOVIP PREL ENRG PGOV ECON CI JOSEPH BIDEN
09SANTIAGO313 CHILE MEDIA REPORT - APRIL 2
[...] Chile tied 0-0 with Uruguay yesterday in a qualifying match for the 2010 World Soccer Cup. Dailies continue to report extensively on the status of the collusion investigation of pharmacy chains that allegedly hiked prices beginning in 2005. U.S.-Related News ----------------- 2. Editoria [...]
2009-04-02 20:08:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO PGOV ECON PREL SNAR EFIN CI
09SANTIAGO316GOC LAUNCHES NEW INITIATIVE TO STIMULATE CREDIT
[...] SUMMARY: On March 29, the GOC announced a new "Pro-Credit Initiative" designed to stimulate bank and non-bank credit by generating an extra US$3.6 billion in private loans. The Initiative comes in the face of worsening unemployment and industrial output and places an emphasis on increasing co [...]
2009-04-03 22:11:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDECON EFIN ETRD EINV ECIN PGOV PREL CI
09SANTIAGO319CHILE: APPROVED HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR SMALL UNIT LEADER
[...] Per reftel A, Embassy verifies that as of March 30, 2009, the Department of State possesses no credible evidence or information of gross human rights violations by the Chilean candidates cited in reftel B. 2. Political Officer Jennifer Spande certifies the above statement. [...]
2009-04-03 22:12:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDMARR MASS PREL PHUM CI
09SANTIAGO321 CHILE MEDIA REPORT - APRIL 3
[...] Dailies noted the G-20 Summit agreement produced "euphoria" in global stock markets. Other stories highlighted that large agricultural producers in southern Chile are concerned with the appearance of bands of thieves in the region. U.S.-Related News ----------------- 2. The U.S. Embassy [...]
2009-04-03 22:13:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO PGOV ECON PREL SNAR EFIN CI
09SANTIAGO322CHILE: APPROVED HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR THE TECHNOLOGY FOR
[...] Per reftel A, Embassy verifies that as of March 30, 2009, the Department of State possesses no credible evidence or information of gross human rights violations by the Chilean candidates cited in reftel B. 2. Political Officer Jennifer Spande certifies the above statement. [...]
2009-04-03 22:15:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDMARR MASS PREL PHUM CI
09SANTIAGO323CHILE: APPROVED HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR PERSPECTIVE ON
[...] Per reftel A, Embassy verifies that as of March 30, 2009, the Department of State possesses no credible evidence or information of gross human rights violations by the Chilean candidates cited in reftel B. 2. Political Officer Jennifer Spande certifies the above statement. [...]
2009-04-03 22:15:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDMARR MASS PREL PHUM CI
09SANTIAGO326 CHILE MEDIA REPORT - APRIL 6
[...] The death of an 11-year old boy who was waiting for a heart transplant has brought to the forefront the problems with organ donations and transplants in Chile. The Llaima volcano has become active again and the Region of Araucania is on red alert. U.S.-Related News ----------------- 2. [...]
2009-04-06 21:05:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO PGOV ECON PREL SNAR EFIN CI
09SANTIAGO327MAJOR EDUCATION REFORM LAW APPROVED BY CHILEAN CONGRESS;
[...] (SBU) Summary: Both houses of Chile's Congress on April 1 passed a new General Law for Education (LGE) that aims to broadly reform primary and secondary public education. The LGE is based on a widely-applauded bipartisan agreement signed between the Concertacion government and opposition lea [...]
2009-04-06 21:25:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV SOCI SCUL CI
09SANTIAGO328 POST REPORT ON CHILE'S REGIONAL CONCEPCION TV CO-OP:
[...] Summary: A team from Chile's TV network "Canal 9 Regional" in Concepcion spent two weeks in the United States learning about the importance of climate change, it effects on people's lives, and the growing demand for renewable energies. The team met with government officers, NGOs, utility com [...]
2009-04-07 15:39:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDKPAO ENRG ENVR PGOV ECON EFIN CI
09SANTIAGO330 CHILE MEDIA REPORT - APRIL 7
[...] Economic activity in February declined 3.9%, the worst drop since 1999. The Llaima volcano continues to spew ashes and lava. One-hundred people have been evacuated from the surrounding areas. U.S.-Related News ----------------- 2. U.S. Royal Gold will buy the Andacollo gold mine in the [...]
2009-04-07 20:47:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO PGOV ECON PREL SNAR EFIN CI
09SANTIAGO332FREI WINS CONCERTACION PRIMARY, AS EXPECTED
[...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Please handle accordingly. 2. (SBU) Summary: Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle on April 5 won the Concertacion regional primary in the Maule and O'Higgins regions with a difference of nearly 30 percentage points, meeting the conditions to cancel further regional pri [...]
2009-04-08 11:41:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV CI
09SANTIAGO333 CHILE MEDIA REPORT - APRIL 8
[...] Opposition presidential candidate Sebastian Pinera is setting up a blind trust to administer the holdings he has in several companies. All dailies report on the 25-year sentencing of former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori. U.S.-Related News ----------------- 2. Editorial: "Obama di [...]
2009-04-08 16:36:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO PGOV ECON PREL SNAR EFIN CI
09SANTIAGO334 ECONOMY MINISTER LAVADOS DISCUSSES AMERICAS
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In a meeting with Economy Minister Hugo Lavados, the Ambassador praised Chile's ongoing preparations to host the Americas Competitiveness Forum (ACF) in late September and discussed continuing IPR concerns. Minister Lavados indicated he very much wants Commerce Secretary Locke [...]
2009-04-08 20:13:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON KIPR EFIN ETRD EINV ECIN PGOV PREL CI
09SANTIAGO337 CHILE MEDIA REPORT - APRIL 10
[...] The Central Bank's consistent decrease of interest rates since January has significantly lowered the costs of mortgage loans and increased real estate sales by up to 50 percent. U.S. - Related News ------------------- 2. Foreign Affairs Minister Mariano Fernandez has requested to meet wi [...]
2009-04-09 17:55:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO PGOV ECON PREL SNAR EFIN CI
09SANTIAGO339CHILE PREPARES ITS CASE IN MARITIME DISPUTE WITH
[...] (C) Summary: Now that Peru has presented its case about the disputed maritime border with Chile, Chile has a year to study Peru's arguments and make their own case at the International Court of Justice. According to Chile's Director for Border Affairs, Chile plans to point to treaties and a [...]
2009-04-09 20:20:00Embassy SantiagoCONFIDENTIALPBTS ECON PREL PGOV CI PE
09SANTIAGO34 CHILE MEDIA REPORT - JANUARY 10-12
[...] Chilean dailies highlighted the detection of a new corruption network operating within Chilean courts; information identifying 10 Chileans with FARC ties provided by Colombia; and the Paris-Dakar automobile rally that is taking place in Argentina and Chile this year. U.S.-Related News ---- [...]
2009-01-12 17:47:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO PGOV ECON PREL SNAR EFIN CI
09SANTIAGO342 CHILE MEDIA REPORT - APRIL 13
[...] Final figures are not yet in, but Holy Week holiday is expected to leave close to US$200 million in profits for the tourism industry. Market analysts say that Chile's forestry and retailing sectors are most vulnerable to the economic crisis. U.S.-Related News ----------------- 2. Editor [...]
2009-04-13 21:17:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO PGOV ECON PREL SNAR EFIN CI
09SANTIAGO344 CHILE MEDIA REPORT - APRIL 14
[...] As part of an agreement with the Economic Prosecutor's Office, pharmacy chain FASA will be fined US$1 million for collusion with other pharmaceutical chains to hike prices. The agreement excludes FASA from further charges. Dailies also highlighted that the Health Ministry traced the recent o [...]
2009-04-14 18:49:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO PGOV ECON PREL SNAR EFIN CI
09SANTIAGO346FRAUD SUMMARY - SANTIAGO (SEPTEMBER 2008 - FEBRUARY 2009)
[...] Chile is a democratic country with a developing free-market economy. Chile is a key U.S. partner in promoting democracy, human rights, and free trade in the region and beyond. The United States and Chile have a Free Trade agreement that took effect January 1, 2004. There is relatively littl [...]
2009-04-14 20:48:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDKFRD CVIS CPAS CMGT ASEC CI
09SANTIAGO347CHAVEZ CRITICISM BOLSTERS BIPARTISAN SUPPORT FOR
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Chileans united behind President Bachelet following Hugo Chavez,s criticism of her invitation to Vice President Joseph Biden to join the Progressive Governance Leadership Summit. Chavez,s statements provoked wide-spread public support across political parties for President Ba [...]
2009-04-15 17:26:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV VE CI
09SANTIAGO349 CHILE'S ENERGY HIGHLIGHTS MARCH 2009
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: This cable provides highlights of activity in the Chilean energy sector during March 2009. Energy Minister Tokman discussed potential collaboration on renewable energy with Vice President Biden's delegation. Expert teams from the International Energy Agency (IEA) and the Asia [...]
2009-04-15 19:59:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ENRG KNNP SENV TRGY PGOV CI
09SANTIAGO352CHILE: RESPONSE TO STATE 28885
[...] Per STATE 28885, this cable provides information on Chile's budget and U.S. foreign assistance. 2. The government of Chile is expected to receive U.S foreign assistance using FY09 funds. Yes, Chile's budget is publicly available. Yes, incomes and expenditures are included in the publicl [...]
2009-04-15 20:02:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EAID PREL CI
09SANTIAGO353CHILE WILL VOTE NO OR ABSTAIN ON KOSOVO'S IMF AND
[...] No summary [...]
2009-04-15 20:49:00Embassy SantiagoCONFIDENTIALECON EFIN PREL CI KV
09SANTIAGO354 CHILE MEDIA REPORT - APRIL 15
[...] Presidential candidate Sebastian Pinera, who sought to console the family of a 16-year old girl who died from a gunshot wound, was told to leave a wake by the girl's relatives; they accused the candidate of using the event for political gain. Dailies also reported Congressmen contend the US$1 [...]
2009-04-15 20:53:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO PGOV ECON PREL SNAR EFIN CI
09SANTIAGO358 CHILE HOSTS APEC ENERGY EFFICIENCY AND INTERNATIONAL
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Chile recently hosted two energy-related visits by international organizations engaged in comprehensive reviews of the country's energy sector. The Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation forum (APEC) energy efficiency peer review took place March 16-20 and the results will be presen [...]
2009-04-16 16:03:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ENRG KNNP SENV TRGY PGOV CI
09SANTIAGO361 CHILE MEDIA REPORT - APRIL 16
[...] An elder woman died from bacteria a few days after the Health Ministry warned of an outbreak in Santiago. Dailies also reported on yet another corruption scandal involving Investigations Police (PDI); former PDI official denounced the presence of official cars outside a well-known and expensiv [...]
2009-04-16 21:09:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO PGOV ECON PREL SNAR EFIN CI
09SANTIAGO364 CHILE MEDIA REPORT - APRIL 17
[...] FASA pharmacy chain announced it would compensate consumers who bought any of the 220 products listed in the collusion suit. U.S.-Related News ----------------- 2. La Moneda views President Obama's meeting with UNASUR tomorrow as a validation of the bloc. However, it is concerned with th [...]
2009-04-17 19:11:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO PGOV ECON PREL SNAR EFIN CI
09SANTIAGO367FREI ADVISORS PREDICT A SECOND ROUND VICTORY
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Two key advisors to Eduardo Frei recently told the Ambassador that they expect the Concertacion candidate will win the upcoming Presidential election in a second round run-off against Alianza candidate Sebastian Pinera. The advisors agreed that third party candidates will stay in [...]
2009-04-20 11:42:00Embassy SantiagoCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV CI
09SANTIAGO368 CHILE: ECONOMIC HIGHLIGHTS MARCH 6-APRIL 17
[...] SUMMARY: This continues a series of updates on major developments in Chile's economy. Economic activity fell for the second straight month, contracting by 3.9%. The unemployment rate increased for the third time in a row to 8.5%. Annual inflation fell to 5%, despite a small increase in Mar [...]
2009-04-20 12:16:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDECON EFIN ETRD EINV ECIN PGOV PREL CI
09SANTIAGO374 CHILE MEDIA REPORT - POSITIVE COVERAGE OF SUMMIT OF THE
[...] SUMMARY: Chilean dailies gave front-page coverage to the interaction between Presidents Obama and Bachelet at the Summit of the Americas in Trinidad. Commentary about U.S. policy toward Cuba and Venezuela also figured prominently, including the photograph of President Obama extending his han [...]
2009-04-20 22:14:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO PGOV ECON PREL CI
09SANTIAGO377 CHILE MEDIA REPORT - APRIL 21
[...] Dailies reproduced information published by government agencies of what their officials earn, in accordance the new Transparency law. Dailies also report that presidential candidate Eduardo Frei named 27-year old Sebastian Bowen to head his presidential campaign. Bowen is the former director [...]
2009-04-21 19:47:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO PGOV ECON PREL SNAR EFIN CI
09SANTIAGO378 CHILE MEDIA REPORT - APRIL 21
[...] Dailies reproduced information published by government agencies of what their officials earn, in accordance the new Transparency law. Dailies also report that presidential candidate Eduardo Frei named 27-year old Sebastian Bowen to head his presidential campaign. Bowen is the former director [...]
2009-04-21 19:52:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO PGOV ECON PREL SNAR EFIN CI
09SANTIAGO379CHILE: APPROVED HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR TERRORIST CRIME
[...] Per reftel A, Embassy verifies that as of April 7, 2009, the Department of State possesses no credible evidence or information of gross human rights violations by the Chilean candidates cited in reftel B. 2. Political Officer Jennifer Spande certifies the above statement. [...]
2009-04-22 15:52:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDMARR MASS PREL PHUM CI
09SANTIAGO380CHILE: APPROVED HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR TERRORIST CRIME
[...] Per reftel A, Embassy verifies that as of April 7, 2009, the Department of State possesses no credible evidence or information of gross human rights violations by the Chilean candidates cited in reftel B. 2. Political Officer Jennifer Spande certifies the above statement. [...]
2009-04-22 16:00:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDMARR MASS PREL PHUM CI
09SANTIAGO381CHILE: APPROVED HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR NONCOMMISSIONED
[...] Per reftel A, Embassy verifies that as of April 7, 2009, the Department of State possesses no credible evidence or information of gross human rights violations by the Chilean candidates cited in reftel B. 2. Political Officer Jennifer Spande certifies the above statement. [...]
2009-04-22 16:00:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDMARR MASS PREL PHUM CI
09SANTIAGO382CHILE: APPROVED HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR TERRORIST CRIME
[...] Per reftel A, Embassy verifies that as of April 8, 2009, the Department of State possesses no credible evidence or information of gross human rights violations by the Chilean candidates cited in reftel B. 2. Political Officer Jennifer Spande certifies the above statement. [...]
2009-04-22 16:00:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDMARR MASS PREL PHUM CI
09SANTIAGO383 CHILE MEDIA REPORT - APRIL 22
[...] Information revealed under the new Transparency Law has ignited debate on how the government spends it funds. The information also revealed the practice among some agencies of hiring more contract workers than salaried employees, which is in violation of the law. U.S.-Related News -------- [...]
2009-04-22 19:28:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO PGOV ECON PREL SNAR EFIN CI
09SANTIAGO385TERRORISM FINANCE COORDINATION OFFICER
[...] Per reftel, Embassy Santiago's Terrorist Finance Coordination Officer is: Patrick Fischer, EPOL Officer, x3394, FischerPJ@state.gov, FischerPJ@state.sgov.gov URBAN [...]
2009-04-23 12:13:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ETTC KTFN PTER CI
09SANTIAGO390 CHILE MEDIA REPORT - APRIL 23
[...] The IDB has frozen loans to Chile until the government reimburses the bank for a loan issued to finance the public transportation system, Transantiago. Dailies also reported that the new Transparency Law revealed that the government issued -- without a bidding process -- half a million dollar [...]
2009-04-23 18:22:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO PGOV ECON PREL SNAR EFIN CI
09SANTIAGO391CHILE'S STEADY TIP PROGRESS WARRANTS TIER 2
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: As the GOC is making significant progress in eliminating trafficking in persons, Post strongly recommends that Chile remain a Tier 2 country. GOC prosecution and prevention efforts are substantial and noteworthy, with the number of new cases opened up 10 percent and large-scale [...]
2009-04-23 18:51:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM KTIP ELAB KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF KCRM CI
09SANTIAGO393 CHILE MEDIA REPORT - APRIL 24
[...] Unemployment figures in the Metropolitan Region reached a record high of 12.8% in March. Peak unemployment is expected between June and August during Chile's winter months. U.S.-Related News ----------------- 2. Chile's Wood Corporation (CORMA),which encompasses about 200 private forest [...]
2009-04-24 16:59:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO PGOV PTER ECON PREL SNAR EFIN CI
09SANTIAGO395CHILE: APPROVED HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR TERRORIST CRIME
[...] Per reftel A, Embassy verifies that as of April 8, 2009, the Department of State possesses no credible evidence or information of gross human rights violations by the Chilean candidates cited in reftel B. 2. Political Officer Jennifer Spande certifies the above statement. [...]
2009-04-24 23:15:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDMARR MASS PREL PHUM CI
09SANTIAGO398 CHILE MEDIA REPORT - APRIL 27
[...] Presidential candidate Sebastian Pinera placed all his assets into a blind trust, with the exception of television station Chilevision. Pinera did, however, resign from the TV station's board of directors. U.S.-Related News ----------------- 2. President Bachelet invited Governor Arnold [...]
2009-04-27 21:09:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO PGOV ECON PREL SNAR EFIN CI
09SANTIAGO401 CHILE MEDIA REPORT - APRIL 28
[...] Chile's Health Ministry has implemented nationwide measures, equivalent to the World Health Organization's (WHO) level 4 alert, to identify and contain any outbreak of swine flu in the country. Thus far, suspicious cases have all tested negative. Dailies also reported extensively on the impact [...]
2009-04-28 20:32:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO PGOV ECON PREL SNAR EFIN CI
09SANTIAGO404CHILE 2009 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS PRIMER
[...] (U) Summary: Chile's presidential elections will take place in December 2009. While the two main coalitions have their candidates -- Eduardo Frei for the ruling Concertacion coalition and Sebastian Pinera for the opposition coalition Alianza -- a number of other contenders remain in the game. [...]
2009-04-29 11:37:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV CI
09SANTIAGO409 TV CO-OP NOMINATIONS FROM SANTIAGO, CHILE
[...] SUMMARY: Following are two PAS Santiago proposals for TV CO-OPs during FY 2010. In priority order the topics are: (a) renewable energy: the generation of fuels from forest residual, such as sawdust, tree trunks, and other organic materials; and (b) volcanic eruptions and natural disasters. [...]
2009-04-29 18:09:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDKPAO ENRG ENVR PGOV ECON EFIN CI
09SANTIAGO410 CHILE MEDIA REPORT - APRIL 29
[...] Chile has no confirmed cases of swine flu. Dailies also report that Chile's Air Force bought 18 F16s from Holland, making Chile's fleet the largest in Latin America. U.S.-Related News ----------------- 2. The President of industrial holding COPEC, Roberto Angelini, commented on the subsi [...]
2009-04-29 20:20:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO PGOV ECON PREL SNAR EFIN CI
09SANTIAGO414 CHILE MEDIA REPORT - APRIL 30
[...] Peru has confirmed its first case of H1N1 flu in a woman who recently traveled to Mexico. Dailies also report that Ecuador has aligned with Chile concerning Peru's maritime border claim. U.S.-Related News ----------------- 2. Two weeks ago Foreign Affairs and Intellectual Property Institut [...]
2009-04-30 19:57:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO PGOV ECON PREL SNAR EFIN CI
09SANTIAGO415 SCENESETTER FOR CAPSTONE COURSE
[...] (SBU) The Embassy looks forward to your visit to Santiago, which comes as Chile's presidential campaign begins to heat up. President Michelle Bachelet -- who is currently enjoying the highest approval ratings of her presidency -- is constitutionally precluded from seeking a second term. The e [...]
2009-04-30 21:10:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV ECON PREL ENRG CI
09SANTIAGO422 CHILE MEDIA REPORT - MAY 4
[...] Colombia has confirmed a case of AH1N1 influenza, the first in South America. Chile has no cases of the disease and high risk groups have been vaccinated for seasonal influenza. U.S.-Related News ----------------- 2. The USTR placed Chile on its Priority Watch List for lack of IPR prote [...]
2009-05-04 21:37:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO PGOV ECON PREL SNAR EFIN CI
09SANTIAGO425 CHILE MEDIA REPORT - MAY 5
[...] Polls show that PS Congressman Marco Enriquez-Ominami is just 14 points behind the Concertacion's presidential candidate Eduardo Frei. Dailies also report that a Mapuche organization has claimed responsibility for the arsonist attack on a building owned by the Association of Chilean Farmed Sa [...]
2009-05-05 17:39:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO PGOV ECON PREL SNAR EFIN CI
09SANTIAGO432CHILEAN CONGRESSIONAL ELECTIONS 101
[...] (SBU) Summary: All 120 Chamber of Deputy seats and 18 of the 38 Senate seats are in play in Chile's congressional elections, which will occur in December together with the presidential election. Chile's "binomial" system, designed by the Pinochet military government, favors the right. The Co [...]
2009-05-06 18:23:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV CI
09SANTIAGO433ACTION REQUEST: CHILE REQUESTS USG ENGAGEMENT IN
[...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 5. 2. (C) In an April 20 meeting, Jorge Chocair, Director of the Public Prosecutor's International Cooperation and Extradition Division, requested that the USG become more involved in international fora for public prosecutors. He identi [...]
2009-05-06 20:51:00Embassy SantiagoCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KCRM KSUM IR GT VE CI
09SANTIAGO434 CHILE MEDIA REPORT - MAY 6
[...] The government will announce a package of measures to help lower unemployment that would include a solidarity fund and a subsidy for low-income non-working women. Dailies also report that there are signs of economic recovery, as Chile's monthly economic growth rate for March declined significa [...]
2009-05-06 21:05:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO PGOV ECON PREL SNAR EFIN CI
09SANTIAGO435CHILE GIVES THUMBS UP TO OBAMA'S SUMMIT MEETING
[...] (C) Summary: Top MFA officials described the Summit of the Americas as a success notable for its positive atmosphere and frank exchange of views, and were relieved that their fears of possible outbursts by Hugo Chavez, Evo Morales, or others never came to pass. Even these polemical president [...]
2009-05-06 21:48:00Embassy SantiagoCONFIDENTIALPREL XM XL XS CI
09SANTIAGO436CHILE: DEMARCHE ON IMO SHIP RECYCLING
[...] (SBU) Epoloff delivered reftel demarche with Australian DCM Maree Ringland to MFA Counselor for Environmental Affairs Jose Fernandez and Chief of Sustainable Development and Trade Edda Rossi on May 6. Both officials expressed support for Australia's proposed paper and noted that many multilater [...]
2009-05-07 13:46:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EIND ETRD EWWT IMO KTIA PREL SENV CI
09SANTIAGO438 CHILE MEDIA REPORT - MAY 7
[...] The National Scholastic Test for fourth graders shows an overall increase in language skills, but not in math. Dailies continue to report on the decision of Senator Fernando Flores -- a former Allende government official and military regime political prisoner -- to join the campaign of right- [...]
2009-05-07 18:12:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO PGOV ECON PREL SNAR EFIN CI
09SANTIAGO44PRESIDENT BACHELET'S TRIP TO CUBA SPARKS
[...] (SBU) Summary: President Michelle Bachelet's visit to Cuba, scheduled for February 11 to 13, has been the subject of heated debate. Bachelet will attend the opening of the Havana Book Festival, which will feature Chile this year, but could also be perceived as a celebration of the fiftieth a [...]
2009-01-15 11:45:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PHUM CI CU
09SANTIAGO442 Chile Wants Free Trade Commission Meeting To Review Pulp
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Chile's wood and pulp industry association (CORMA),one of the nation's leading export industries, is pressuring the GOC to address a tax credit received by U.S. pulp and paper companies for use of alternative fuels. In response, the GOC on April 29 sent a letter to USTR reques [...]
2009-05-08 17:39:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EINV EFIN ETRD KIPR EFTA CI
09SANTIAGO443 CHILE MEDIA REPORT - MAY 8
[...] The Saieh family holding bought 20% of the Ripley department store for an estimated US$170 million. The Saieh holding already owns a supermarket chain (Unimark) and six malls. The Central Bank lowered the interest rate to 1.25%. U.S.-Related News ----------------- 2. Ambassador Simons s [...]
2009-05-08 17:59:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO PGOV ECON PREL SNAR EFIN CI
09SANTIAGO447 CHILE: ECONOMIC HIGHLIGHTS APRIL 17 - MAY 8
[...] SUMMARY: This continues a series of updates on major developments in Chile's economy. Economic activity fell for the fifth straight month, contracting by a less than expected 0.7%. The unemployment rate increased for the third period in a row to 9.2%. Annual inflation fell to 4.5%, resumi [...]
2009-05-08 21:40:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDECON EFIN ETRD EINV ECIN PGOV PREL CI
09SANTIAGO448 CHILE'S LEFTIST PARTIES HAVE CONGRESSIONAL DREAMS
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Several minor leftist political parties without seats in either the Senate or the Chamber of Deputies continue to seek their own path to greater representation in the upcoming national elections. A coalition of three leftist parties have joined together under the banner of a s [...]
2009-05-12 11:33:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM CI
09SANTIAGO45BACHELET'S CUBA TRIP TO EMPHASIZE CULTURAL TIES,
[...] (C) During a farewell call January 12, departing E/Pol Counselor raised with Ambassador Carlos Appelgren, Director of the MFA's Office for North American and Caribbean Affairs, the upcoming February 2009 visit to Cuba of President Bachelet (reftel). E/Pol Counselor noted press reports that Ba [...]
2009-01-15 13:50:00Embassy SantiagoCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV CI CU
09SANTIAGO450 CHILE MEDIA REPORT - MAY 12
[...] Former cabinet member, Ambassador, and strong opponent to the military regime -- Claudio Huepe (DC party) -- died yesterday from a heart attack in Venezuela. U.S.-Related News ------------------- 2. PA release: Ambassador Paul Simons will attend the 50th anniversary commemoration of the [...]
2009-05-12 18:06:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO PGOV ECON PREL SNAR EFIN CI
09SANTIAGO451 CHILEAN MILITARY LOOKS TOWARD THE FUTURE
[...] Summary: Anxious to maintain its reputation as the most professional military in the region, the Chilean armed forces engage in continual modernization. Current initiatives include investing in more efficient technologies and training programs, closing loopholes in the pension system, creat [...]
2009-05-12 20:11:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDMASS PGOV PREL ELAB CI
09SANTIAGO452 CHILE MEDIA REPORT - MAY 11
[...] The National Scholastic Test (SIMCE) shows a significant gap between private and public school students, which increases largely during the sophomore year. Dailies also report that pharmacy chains will have to stock 255 generic products, making them available to the public at all times. U.S [...]
2009-05-12 21:50:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO PGOV ECON PREL SNAR EFIN CI
09SANTIAGO455 CHILE MEDIA REPORT - MAY 13
[...] Health authorities are facing criticism for decreeing only a "preventive smog alert" in Santiago when the levels of pollution recorded was "critical" in the community of Cerro Navia and "poor" in fou others. As in previous years, the poorest areas of the city had the worst levels of air pollu [...]
2009-05-13 20:28:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO PGOV ECON PREL SNAR EFIN CI
09SANTIAGO456 CHILE MEDIA REPORT - MAY 14
[...] The Central Bank projects an economic recession for 2009, with an estimated growth rate that ranges between -0.75 to 0.25%. Dailies also reported that all undersecretaries and 600 other high-ranking government offices will be drug tested regularly for use of illegal substances. Those who tes [...]
2009-05-14 19:38:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO PGOV ECON PREL SNAR EFIN CI
09SANTIAGO47CHILE: APPROVED HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR STRATEGY AND
[...] Per reftel A, Embassy verifies that as of January 9, 2009, the Department of State possesses no credible evidence or information of gross human rights violations by the Chilean candidate cited in reftel B. 2. E/Pol Counselor Juan Alsace certifies the above statement. SIMONS [...]
2009-01-15 17:23:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDMARR MASS PREL PHUM CI
09SANTIAGO48CHILE: APPROVED HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR ADVANCED SECURITY
[...] Per reftel A, Embassy verifies that as of January 9, 2009, the Department of State possesses no credible evidence or information of gross human rights violations by the Chilean candidates cited in reftel B. 2. E/Pol Counselor Juan Alsace certifies the above statement. SIMONS [...]
2009-01-15 17:23:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDMARR MASS PREL PHUM CI
09SANTIAGO480COUNTRY REVIEW FOR LIBERTAD ACT -- CHILE
[...] (U) Post provides the following information in response to Ref A request. Responses are keyed to the specific questions identified in Ref A. Refs B-E are Post's reporting covering the preceding six-month period. Promotion of Democracy and Human Rights ------------------------------------- [...]
2009-05-20 20:20:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETRD ETCC PREL CU CI
09SANTIAGO482 CHILE MEDIA REPORT - MAY 20
[...] Health authorities confirmed 16 cases of AH1N1, which makes Chile the leader in South America for the number of cases. Dailies also report that Prison Guards are on strike, confining themselves in the prisons and refusing to take prisoners to the courts for their hearings. The government is [...]
2009-05-20 20:59:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO PGOV ECON PREL SNAR EFIN CI
09SANTIAGO483CHILE: UNSC 1718 DESIGNATION DELIVERED
[...] (SBU) EPoloff delivered Reftel information to Rodrigo Toledo at the Ministry of Foreign Affair's International Security Bureau and to Tamara Agnic at the Treasury Ministry. Post will report any substantive response regarding the information. SIMONS [...]
2009-05-20 22:11:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN ETTC KNNP PREL PARM XE ZO KN CI
09SANTIAGO484BATTLE FOR CONGRESSIONAL NOMINATIONS FEATURES OLD FACES, STOKES COALITION TENSIONS
[...] (U) Summary: In Chile's unusual congressional voting system, the two major coalitions are virtually guaranteed to each receive one of the two seats in each voting district. Because of this structure, decisions within coalitions about which candidates to run in which districts are contentious [...]
2009-05-22 12:09:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV CI KWMN
09SANTIAGO486GLOBAL THREAT REDUCTION INITIATIVE EFFORTS TO REMOVE
[...] SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of Energy/National Nuclear Security Administration (DOE/NNSA),Global Threat Reduction Initiative (GTRI),met with the Chilean Nuclear Energy Commission (CCHEN) from April 21-23 to begin planning for the removal of the British- and French-origin highly enriched ur [...]
2009-05-22 15:57:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPARM KNNP TRGY CI
09SANTIAGO489 CHILE: CENTRAL BANK CONFIRMS ECONOMY HIT HARDER THAN
[...] SUMMARY: Chile's Central Bank announced it had sharply downgraded projections for economic growth in 2009, due to the stronger than expected impact of the international financial crisis. The Central Bank predicts GDP growth in 2009 will be between 0.25% and negative growth of -0.75%. In the [...]
2009-05-22 18:18:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDECON EFIN ETRD EINV ECIN PGOV PREL CI
09SANTIAGO49CHILE: MILGP REQUEST FOR HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR COMBINED
[...] (U) This is an action request. See paragraphs 2 and 3. 2. (SBU) Action request: Embassy requests the Department assist in conducting a Leahy Amendment Human Rights review, as well as a general name check, of the following Chilean Navy officer who has been nominated to participate in U.S. [...]
2009-01-15 17:23:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMARR MASS PREL PHUM CI
09SANTIAGO491 CHILE MEDIA REPORT -- MAY 22
[...] All dailies highlighted the annual May 21 Presidential address to the nation, which Bachelet gave at the Congress in Vina del Mar. Dailies also noted health authorities confirmed 29 AH1N1 cases in Chile, the most in South America. U.S.-Related News ----------------- 2. Captioned photograp [...]
2009-05-22 20:49:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO PGOV ECON PREL SNAR EFIN CI
09SANTIAGO492 CHILE MEDIA REPORT -- MAY 26
[...] A 27-year old anarchist died when an explosive device in his backpack detonated. Dailies ran extensive coverage of the incident itself, the funeral, and the investigation opened by the police on the possible ties with terrorist organizations abroad. Dailies also report that Health Authorities [...]
2009-05-26 19:21:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO PGOV ECON PREL SNAR EFIN CI
09SANTIAGO493AMBASSADOR'S OUTREACH IN PUNTA ARENAS AND TORRES DEL PAINE
[...] (U) Summary: The Ambassador visited Punta Arenas and Torres del Paine National Park, May 12-13, to celebrate the Park's 50th anniversary and to give a speech about the first 100 days of the Obama administration at the University of Magallanes (UMAG). In Punta Arenas, the Ambassador also stop [...]
2009-05-26 20:05:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV SENV PREL CI
09SANTIAGO495 CHILE MEDIA REPORT -- MAY 27
[...] Health Authorities have confirmed 119 cases of AH1N1 nationwide, which ranks Chile number seven worldwide for the number of confirmations. Dailies also report the confession of a now-retired soldier who witnessed the assassination of singer Victor Jara in 1973 and who revealed the name of a l [...]
2009-05-27 17:06:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO PGOV ECON PREL SNAR EFIN CI
09SANTIAGO496 CHILE'S ENERGY HIGHLIGHTS -- APRIL 2009
[...] (U) SUMMARY: This cable provides highlights of activity in the Chilean Energy sector during April 2009. Ambassador Simons gave a keynote address in California at a GOC-hosted solar energy seminar, at which Chile's Minister of Energy announced bid solicitations for two solar power plants. Chi [...]
2009-05-27 21:36:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ENRG KNNP SENV TRGY PGOV CI
09SANTIAGO498 CHILE MEDIA REPORT -- MAY 28
[...] Health Authorities have confirmed 168 cases of AH1N1 nationwide and has moved to a new strategy. The disease is showing a very fast pace of contagion and except for two cases, mild symptoms. Dailies also report that former UDI presidential candidate Joaquin Lavin traveled to Caracas to attend [...]
2009-05-28 18:05:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO PGOV ECON PREL SNAR EFIN CI
09SANTIAGO5 CHILE HOSTS IBERIAN-AMERICAN SUMMIT ON TIP
[...] SUMMARY: Approximately 150 public prosecutors, NGO leaders, and other government officials from 21 Latin American countries gathered at the recent Iberian-American Public Prosecutor's summit to discuss Trafficking in Persons (TIP) investigations, prosecutions, victims' assistance, and preventi [...]
2009-01-02 20:28:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL KTIP XM XL CI
09SANTIAGO50CHILE: APPROVED HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR F-16 ENGINE
[...] Per reftel A, Embassy verifies that as of January 9, 2009, the Department of State possesses no credible evidence or information of gross human rights violations by the Chilean candidates cited in reftel B. 2. E/Pol Counselor Juan Alsace certifies the above statement. SIMONS [...]
2009-01-15 17:23:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDMARR MASS PREL PHUM CI
09SANTIAGO514 CHILE MEDIA REPORT - JUNE 1
[...] Chilean health authorities have confirmed 276 cases of AH1N1. Given the spread of the disease, the authorities are no longer screening at the airport and have instructed that now all cases of influenza as should be treated as if it were AH1N1. U.S.-Related News ----------------- 2. Chilea [...]
2009-06-02 18:19:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO PGOV ECON PREL SNAR EFIN CI
09SANTIAGO515BACHELET'S FINAL PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS HAILS SOCIAL
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In a May 21 State of the Union speech, President Bachelet hailed her government's achievements in promoting social protection, focusing on improvements in healthcare, housing, and education. She took credit for Chile's deft handling of the global financial crisis and said the c [...]
2009-06-03 12:13:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV ECON SOCI PREL PHUM ELAB KTIA CI
09SANTIAGO516 CHILE MEDIA REPORT - JUNE 2
[...] Chilean health authorities have confirmed 313 cases of AH1N1. All dailies report on the search operations to locate the Air France commercial flight that disappeared over the Atlantic Ocean. U.S.-Related News ----------------- 2. In accordance to Chapter 19 of the Chile-U.S. FTA and the E [...]
2009-06-03 13:36:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO PGOV ECON PREL SNAR EFIN CI
09SANTIAGO517 CHILE MEDIA REPORT - JUNE 2
[...] Chilean health authorities have confirmed 313 cases of AH1N1. All dailies report on the search operations to locate the Air France commercial flight that disappeared over the Atlantic Ocean. U.S.-Related News ----------------- 2. In accordance to Chapter 19 of the Chile-U.S. FTA and the E [...]
2009-06-03 13:43:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO PGOV ECON PREL SNAR EFIN CI
09SANTIAGO519CHILE: APPROVED HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR POLICE LEADERS
[...] Per reftel A, Embassy verifies that as of June 2, 2009, the Department of State possesses no credible evidence or information of gross human rights violations by the Chilean candidates cited in reftel B. 2. Political Officer Patrick Fischer certifies the above statement. SIMONS [...]
2009-06-04 13:00:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDPTER PREL PHUM CI
09SANTIAGO521ALARM BELLS RING IN CHILE OVER EPHEDRINE LINKED TO
[...] This is an action request. Please see paragraph 11. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: Alarmed by recent events that culminated with the March 23 seizure of 1100 kgs of ephedrine linked to Mexico, the GOC is taking steps to strengthen precursor chemical controls. Ephedrine-based drugs now require a docto [...]
2009-06-04 13:01:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL SNAR PGOV CI
09SANTIAGO522 CHILE MEDIA REPORT - JUNE 3
[...] A 37 year-old man suffering from heart problems died from the AH1N1[JLV1] virus. This makes Chile the first South American country to have a victim of the virus and the fifth worldwide. U.S.-Related News ----------------- 2. The New York Times reports that President Obama has authorized [...]
2009-06-04 14:26:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO PGOV ECON PREL SNAR EFIN CI
09SANTIAGO523 CHILE MEDIA REPORT - REACTION TO OAS RESOLUTION ON CUBA --
[...] The OAS resolution on reincorporating Cuba received front-page coverage. The media also reported on Chile's 369 cases of AH1N1. Of the seven patients in serious condition, six are from Puerto Montt, in Chile's far south. The Ministry of Health sent a team of experts to determine why the viru [...]
2009-06-04 22:05:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO PGOV ECON PREL SNAR EFIN CI
09SANTIAGO524CHILE'S SURPRISE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: HERE TO
[...] (C) Summary: Marco Enriquez-Ominami, a 35-year old Socialist parliamentarian and former filmmaker, has burst onto Chile's presidential scene in recent weeks. Known as one of the "unruly" parliamentarians from the ruling Concertacion coalition, Enriquez-Ominami is running against his party (and the [...]
2009-06-05 13:44:00Embassy SantiagoCONFIDENTIALPGOV SOCI ECON SNAR CI BO
09SANTIAGO53 CHILE MEDIA REPORT - JANUARY 16
[...] Chilean dailies highlighted the death of a Hamas leader in Gaza, and the emergency water-landing of a U.S. Airways aircraft in New York's Hudson River. U.S.-Related News ----------------- 2. Article on Chilean Finance Minister Andres Velasco's advisors in the United States. Taking into [...]
2009-01-16 14:02:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO PGOV ECON PREL SNAR EFIN CI
09SANTIAGO530 CHILE MEDIA REPORT - JUNE 5
[...] Chile has a total of 393 cases of AH1N1 influenza; 53% of them are 5-14 year olds. Dailies continue to report on a TVN special report that denounced an array of bad practices among congressmen in the Chamber of Deputies, such as leaving immediately after arriving, voting for others, surfing t [...]
2009-06-05 20:56:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO PGOV ECON PREL SNAR EFIN CI
09SANTIAGO532CHILE WILL CONSIDER PROPOSAL FOR INCREASING
[...] No summary [...]
2009-06-05 22:12:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDECON EFIN ETRD CI
09SANTIAGO533 CHILE: ECONOMIC HIGHLIGHTS MAY 8 - JUNE 5
[...] SUMMARY: Chile has officially entered a recession, as the Central Bank reported June 5 that economic activity fell for the sixth straight month. President Bachelet stated publicly that the news demonstrated the size of the challenge facing Chile. She clarified that it also demonstrated that [...]
2009-06-08 11:53:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDECON EFIN ETRD EINV ECIN PGOV PREL CI
09SANTIAGO535 CHILE'S ENERGY HIGHLIGHTS -- MAY 2009
[...] SUMMARY: This cable provides highlights of activity in the Chilean energy sector during May 2009. The Ambassador participated as a panel speaker at the 8th annual ElecGas conference in Santiago. At the event, experts noted new generation projects may create transmission bottlenecks for Chil [...]
2009-06-08 19:55:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDECON ENRG KNNP SENV TRGY PGOV CI
09SANTIAGO537 CHILE MEDIA REPORT -- JUNE 8
[...] A 56-year old man died from AH1N1, marking Chile's second casualty. He suffered from an array of heart and respiratory conditions due to his obesity. Chile now leads South America for AH1N1-related deaths. U.S.-Related News ----------------- 2. Interview with Deputy Assistant Secretary [...]
2009-06-08 20:29:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO PGOV ECON PREL SNAR EFIN CI
09SANTIAGO538FOREVER SUMMER - SANTIAGO'S J1 SUMMER WORK AND TRAVEL
[...] Santiago's Fraud Prevention Unit (FPU) conducted a validation study of its FY 2008 and FY 2009 Summer Work Travel (SWT) J1 visa program. The results show a steady increase in issuances, but a slight decrease in overstay rates. While FY08 saw an overstay rate of about 4.4%, FY09 results show a [...]
2009-06-08 20:32:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDKFRD CVIS CMGT CI
09SANTIAGO54 CHILE MEDIA REPORT - JANUARY 13
[...] Chilean Dailies highlighted: 1) dramatic losses affecting the Chilean Private Social Security System (AFP) during 2008; 2) Chilean physicians outranking their foreign counterparts in a national exam; and 3) Paris-Dakar automobile rally taking place in Argentina and Chile. U.S.-Related News [...]
2009-01-16 16:33:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO PGOV ECON PREL SNAR EFIN CI
09SANTIAGO540CHILE SUPPORTS EXTENDING SUDAN RAPPORTEUR MANDATE
[...] No summary [...]
2009-06-08 21:20:00Embassy SantiagoCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREL AORC CI SU XA
09SANTIAGO543 CHILE MEDIA REPORT -- JUNE 9
[...] President Hugo Chavez postponed an official visit to Chile in June. He rescheduled the event for July, coinciding with the next UNASUR summit. Dailies also report that Chile has 890 cases of AH1N1, 10 are considered to be in serious condition. Venezuela --------- 2. President Hugo Chav [...]
2009-06-09 16:01:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO PGOV ECON PREL SNAR EFIN CI
09SANTIAGO546 CHILE MEDIA REPORT -- JUNE 10
[...] Chile has a total of 1,694 cases of AH1N1. Only 2 people have died from the virus, which is expected to reach its peak next week. While most have recovered (63%),less than 2% have needed hospitalization. Dailies report that health services are "collapsing" given the demands to address the AH [...]
2009-06-10 18:49:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO PGOV ECON PREL SNAR EFIN CI
09SANTIAGO547 CHILE MEDIA REPORT -- JUNE 11
[...] Chile is on the verge of qualifying for the 2010 World Cup (soccer) with its 4-0 victory over Bolivia in Santiago last night. Dailies also reported Chile has a total of 1,694 cases of AH1N1, and an expert from the Center for Disease Control (CDC) from Atlanta arrived in Santiago to analyze the [...]
2009-06-11 18:19:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO PGOV ECON PREL SNAR EFIN CI
09SANTIAGO548CHILE'S PRESIDENTIAL RACE: ECONOMIC GROWTH
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Opposition presidential candidate and business leader Sebastian Pinera believes that successive Concertacion governments have been complacent in managing Chile's economy, missing opportunities for structural change and modernization, and creating an extensive and pricey social s [...]
2009-06-11 20:07:00Embassy SantiagoCONFIDENTIALECON PGOV PREL SOCI KIPR CI
09SANTIAGO55 CHILE MEDIA REPORT - JANUARY 14
[...] Chilean dailies highlighted the 41% drop in car sales in Chile last December; the participation of the Chairman of Chile's Production and Trade Confederation in the official delegation to Cuba; and the accidents and suspension of the last leg of the Dakar automobile Rally in Chile due to weath [...]
2009-01-16 16:33:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO PGOV ECON PREL SNAR EFIN CI
09SANTIAGO557 CHILE MEDIA REPORT -- JUNE 12
[...] The Health Ministry issued a decree as a result of the WHO's declaration of a pandemic, placing human influenza as the first priority in terms of resources, allocation of medical personnel and medications. Dailies also report that the Investigations Police suspended six of its detectives in [...]
2009-06-12 17:52:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO PGOV ECON PREL SNAR EFIN CI
09SANTIAGO558 CHILE MEDIA REPORT - JUNE 15
[...] Chile has 2,335 confirmed cases of AH1N1, but only two deaths. The Health Ministry informed that it will stop the daily count of cases and will now issue reports only on Tuesdays and Fridays. President Bachelet signed the Health Emergency Decree that empowers the Ministry of Health special mea [...]
2009-06-15 19:39:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO PGOV ECON PREL SNAR EFIN CI
09SANTIAGO56 CHILE MEDIA REPORT - JANUARY 15
[...] Chilean dailies highlighted an audit on Chile's National Registry Service that revealed repeated mismanagement and embezzlement during former Director Guillermo Arenas' administration; Chile's Central Bank's predictions of a 2% to 3% economic growth in 2009; and the latest developments in the [...]
2009-01-16 16:34:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO PGOV ECON PREL SNAR EFIN CI
09SANTIAGO560 CHILE MEDIA REPORT - JUNE 16
[...] Santiago dailies noted that the Government Coalition and the Communist Party (PC) signed an agreement to collaborate in the upcoming presidential campaign. Front pages also reported on President Michelle Bachelet's announcement to allocate approximately $34 million dollars to fully renovate th [...]
2009-06-16 16:40:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO PGOV ECON PREL SNAR EFIN CI
09SANTIAGO563 CHILEAN ENERGY MINISTER TOKMAN ENTHUSIASTICALLY SUPPORTS
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Ambassador personally relayed ref points to Chilean Minister of Energy Marcelo Tokman June 11. Econoff and Econ Specialist delivered the demarche to Carlos Pina, head of international affairs at the Chilean National Energy Commission (CNE). Tokman told the Ambassador that [...]
2009-06-16 21:12:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ENRG KGHG KNNP SENV TRGY CI
09SANTIAGO564 CHILE MEDIA REPORT - JUNE 17
[...] Front-page headlines: The Central Bank lowered the benchmark interest rate to 0.75 percent; sources in the salmon industry estimate the Chilean salmon industry's bulky debt to be USD 4 billion dollars, which could open a new flank in the financial crisis. U.S.-Related News ----------------- [...]
2009-06-17 15:40:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO PGOV ECON PREL SNAR EFIN CI
09SANTIAGO565PINERA ADVISORS: A FREE MARKET APPROACH AND
[...] (SBU) Summary: A strong belief in free markets and the importance of the private sector is a consistent thread in economic, social, energy, and political policies articulated by advisors to opposition presidential candidate Sebastian Pinera. In describing plans to fight poverty, improve edu [...]
2009-06-17 19:56:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV ECON SOCI ELAB SENV PREL CI
09SANTIAGO566SCENESETTER FOR PRESIDENT BACHELET'S VISIT TO
[...] (C) Chilean President Michelle Bachelet's June 23-24 visit to Washington represents an opportunity to broaden and deepen the "equal partnership" we enjoy with one of the hemisphere,s most successful democracies. Chile is off to a strong start with the Obama Administration. The Vice President,s Marc [...]
2009-06-17 19:57:00Embassy SantiagoCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL ECON ETRD MARR CI ENRG SOCI
09SANTIAGO570 CHILE MEDIA REPORT - JUNE 18
[...] Front-page headlines: Chile's Investigative Police discharged two high-ranking officials for their involvement in a prostitution ring; the Chamber of Deputies is considering the dismissal of a legislator accused of mishandling funds assigned for office-space rental; President Obama launched the [...]
2009-06-18 16:51:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO PGOV ECON PREL SNAR EFIN CI
09SANTIAGO573 CHILE MEDIA REPORT - JUNE 19
[...] A Center for Public Studies (CEP) poll showed a tie in a runoff between opposition, conservative candidate Sebastian Piera (41%) and the current government coalition's nominee Eduardo Frei (39%). U.S.-Related News ---------------- 2. Presidents Michelle Bachelet and Barack Obama's meeting i [...]
2009-06-19 18:04:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO PGOV ECON PREL SNAR EFIN CI
09SANTIAGO575STAFFDEL MEACHAM - CLIMATE CHANGE, WATER, AND U.S.
[...] SUMMARY: Senior Senate Foreign Relations Committee Staff Member Carl Meacham on May 27-June 3 met with Chilean officials, NGOs, as well as academics to review the effects of climate change. He also conducted a site visit to the El Maule region, which has been impacted by climate change. All [...]
2009-06-19 20:43:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDENVR ETRD PGOV PREL OVIP CI
09SANTIAGO579CHILE'S PRESIDENTIAL RACE: AMBASSADOR'S
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Senator Eduardo Frei, Concertacion presidential candidate, received the Ambassador at his home June 17, hours before re-launching his campaign at a massive rally. The Senator predicted that he would win against Alianza candidate Sebastian Pinera in a second-round run-off. He cr [...]
2009-06-19 22:40:00Embassy SantiagoCONFIDENTIALECON ENRG PGOV PHUM PREL SOCI CI
09SANTIAGO584 CHILE MEDIA REPORT -- June 22
[...] The media highlighted President Michelle Bachelet plan to call for an early retirement of Investigative Police Director Arturo Herrera as a result of his undistinguished performance in removing high-ranking officials involved in a prostitution ring. Newspapers also noted the Chamber of Deputi [...]
2009-06-22 16:20:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO PGOV OPRC PREL SNAR CI
09SANTIAGO589 CHILE MEDIA REPORT -- June 23
[...] The World Bank's forecast of a cut in global growth affected stock markets worldwide and in Chile. In addition, the dramatic drop in the rate exchange in Chile has caused exporters to react and claim for the Ministry of Finance's intervention. The Government of Chile will submit a draft bill to [...]
2009-06-23 19:03:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO PGOV OPRC PREL SNAR CI
09SANTIAGO592 CHILE MEDIA REPORT -- June 24
[...] All dailies highlighted the first official visit to the United States by Chilean President Michelle Bachelet, and focused on her meeting with President Obama in the Oval Office. Also widely reported were stories on the dramatic increase in the number of patients with respiratory diseases, incl [...]
2009-06-24 20:02:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO PGOV OPRC PREL SNAR CI
09SANTIAGO594CHILE: APPROVED HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR CRITICAL INCIDENT
[...] Per reftel A, Embassy verifies that as of June 25, 2009, the Department of State possesses no credible evidence or information of gross human rights violations by the Chilean candidates cited in reftel B. 2. Political Officer Patrick Fischer certifies the above statement. SIMONS [...]
2009-06-25 18:25:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDPTER PREL PHUM CI
09SANTIAGO607 CHILE MEDIA REPORT - JUNE 26
[...] The director of Chile's Investigations Police (PDI),Arturo Herrera, resigned yesterday amid a series of scandals involving PDI detectives since March. U.S.-Related News ----------------- 2. Editorial: "The President with Obama": President Obama gave Bachelet a warm welcome. We saw appr [...]
2009-06-30 13:04:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO PGOV ECON PREL SNAR EFIN CI
09SANTIAGO61 CHILE MEDIA REPORT - JANUARY 17-20
[...] Chilean dailies gave extensive coverage to inauguration preparations in Washington and President-elect Obama's activities. Newspapers also highlighted Israel's cease fire in Gaza and the arrest of Chile's Air Force (FACH) retired General Ramon Vega for allegedly receiving illegal payments duri [...]
2009-01-21 11:39:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO PGOV ECON PREL SNAR EFIN CI
09SANTIAGO610CHILE: Over 5,100 Confirmed A/H1N1 CASES;
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: As of June 23, Chile's Ministry of Health (MINSAL) reported 5,186 cases of A/H1N1 confirmed by laboratory testing and related 7 deaths. If clinically diagnosed cases are included, the total number of infected people is significantly higher. According to MINSAL, emergency measur [...]
2009-06-30 15:02:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL CI
09SANTIAGO611SANTIAGO B1/B2 VALIDATION STUDY CONFIRMS LOW OVERSTAY RATE
[...] Santiago's Fraud Prevention Unit (FPU) conducted a validation study of all 46,705 B1/B2 tourist/business visa applicants from CY 2008. The results confirm a low overstay rate of 1%, despite an 11% increase in applications over the previous year. Post's average refusal rate of 9% and an activ [...]
2009-06-30 20:26:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDKFRD CVIS CMGT CI
09SANTIAGO612 CHILE'S CONGRESS: PRIORITIES AND HOPES FOR U.S.
[...] (SBU) Summary. The new leaders of both houses of Chile's Congress are interested in strengthening ties with the U.S., and hope to visit Washington in September and re-invigorate the moribund U.S.-Chile Senate Caucus. Electoral reform; transparency and anti-bribery legislation required for OE [...]
2009-07-02 11:21:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM KTIA KTIP ELAB CI
09SANTIAGO614 CHILE MEDIA REPORT - JULY 1
[...] National unemployment rate was 10.2% for March-May, the highest for this period since 2004. Six of the fifteen regions have two-digit unemployment rates and highest is in the 15-24 age bracket (23.4%). Chile-U.S. ---------- 2. Chilean and U.S. government sources say that the bilateral m [...]
2009-07-02 13:20:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO PGOV ECON PREL SNAR EFIN CI
09SANTIAGO615CHILE'S PRESIDENTIAL RACE: POLL POINTS TO A PHOTO
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: According to the well-respected Center for Public Studies (CEP) poll released on June 18, Chile's presidential race is headed for a run-off between the opposition Alianza coalition's Sebastian Pinera and the governing Concertacion coalition's Eduardo Frei. Analysts agree that t [...]
2009-07-02 13:36:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV CI
09SANTIAGO618 CHILE MEDIA REPORT - JULY 2
[...] The prosecutor's office has made public an array of e-mails which reveal that pharmaceutical chains not only colluded amongst themselves to hike prices of medical products, but also with pharmaceutical laboratories, who suggested on their part to raise "base" prices of an array of medications. [...]
2009-07-02 21:32:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO PGOV ECON PREL SNAR EFIN CI
09SANTIAGO62 CHILE MEDIA REPORT - JANUARY 21
[...] Chilean dailies prominently featured the Inauguration ceremony of President Barack Obama. All newspapers highlighted the event with front-page headlines, photos, and excerpts of the President's inaugural address. U.S. -Related News ------------------ 2. The front-page headlines read: "T [...]
2009-01-21 16:43:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO PGOV ECON PREL SNAR EFIN CI
09SANTIAGO623 CHILE MEDIA REPORT - JULY 6
[...] All dailies ran front-page stories on the latest development in Honduras, highlighting that demonstrations left at least two dead. Chile-U.S. ---------- 2. Photo coverage of the July 4 reception at Ambassador Paul Simons' residence: "Hundreds of guests arrived at the residence for the r [...]
2009-07-06 19:51:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO PGOV ECON PREL SNAR EFIN CI
09SANTIAGO625 CHILE MEDIA REPORT - JULY 7
[...] The monthly Economic Activity Index, IMACEC, shows an economic contraction of 4.4% in May compared to the same period in 2008. Dailies also report there are 8,160 cases of AH1N1 in Chile, but only 22 deaths. A team of experts from the Center for Disease Control (CDC) from Atlanta will arrive [...]
2009-07-07 15:40:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO PGOV ECON PREL SNAR EFIN CI
09SANTIAGO629CHILE: IMPLEMENTATION OF UNSCR 1874
[...] No summary [...]
2009-07-07 20:38:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDECON EFIN PARM PREL MNUC MTCRE KNNP KN CI
09SANTIAGO632 CHILE MEDIA REPORT - JULY 8
[...] President BacheletQed a second dQree in a month related to AH1N1. The decree instructs clinics and hospitals to give priority to individuals with respiratory diseases and regulates the indiscriminate sale and distribution of antiviral medication. It also grants regional health officials the au [...]
2009-07-08 18:29:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO PGOV ECON PREL SNAR EFIN CI
09SANTIAGO639 CHILE MEDIA REPORT - JULY 9
[...] The Health Ministry has instructed public hospitals to postpone 5,000 surgeries so that the respective physicians and resources can be used to treat the high number of patients with respiratory emergencies related to the outbreak of AH1N1. Chile-U.S. Military Sales ------------------------- [...]
2009-07-09 20:43:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO PGOV ECON PREL SNAR EFIN CI
09SANTIAGO641 CHILE'S ENERGY HIGHLIGHTS - JUNE 2009
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: This cable provides highlights of activity in the Chilean energy sector during June 2009. Chile and the U.S. signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to collaborate on alternative clean power development, a new renewable energy center (REC),and solar power plants, all in Chi [...]
2009-07-10 15:25:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ENRG KNNP SENV TRGY PGOV CI
09SANTIAGO643 CHILE MEDIA REPORT - JULY 10
[...] The Central Bank lowered the interest rate from 0.75 to 0.5%, which will also lower the cost of consumer loans and mortgages. The bank will maintain this rate for at least six months. Chile-Russia Military --------------------- 2. Defense Minister Francis Vidal confirmed there have been t [...]
2009-07-10 18:49:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO PGOV ECON PREL SNAR EFIN CI
09SANTIAGO648 CHILE: ECONOMIC HIGHLIGHTS JUNE 6 - JULY 10
[...] SUMMARY: Chile's economy contracted for the seventh straight month by 4.4%, the Central Bank reported July 3. The Finance Minister claimed Chile's economy has stabilized, but a noted economist associated with the opposition disagreed. The unemployment rate increased for the sixth period in [...]
2009-07-13 14:21:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDECON EFIN ETRD EINV ECIN PGOV PREL CI
09SANTIAGO652 CHILE MEDIA REPORT - JULY 13
[...] Secretary Hillary Clinton informed the Bachelet government that the United States would not support Jose Miguel Insulza's reelection to the OAS. The United States reiterated its position just before Bachelet's visit to Washington. Sources in Washington and of the GOC confirmed on Friday (7/1 [...]
2009-07-13 20:38:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO PGOV ECON PREL SNAR EFIN CI
09SANTIAGO654CHILE'S SEMI-ANNUAL INL UPDATE
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Government of Chile demonstrated its commitment to anti-narcotics efforts in the first half of 2009, but several high-profile seizures revealed the difficult challenges facing Chilean law enforcement agencies. Chile's National Drug Control Commission (CONACE) assumed a lead [...]
2009-07-14 15:02:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL AFIN KCRIM SNAR CI
09SANTIAGO656 CHILE MEDIA REPORT - JULY 14
[...] Several Investigations Police detectives under investigation for their participation in a children's prostitution network have been reincorporated into the force, igniting controversy. Chile-U.S. and Insulza ---------------------- 2. In answer to a request for an interview with Secretary C [...]
2009-07-14 18:35:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO PGOV ECON PREL SNAR EFIN CI
09SANTIAGO664 CHILE MEDIA REPORT - JULY 15
[...] The government and the opposition reached an agreement to provide US$3.4 billion to finance the public transportation system (Transantiago) in the capital city until 2014. Insulza and the OAS ------------------- 2. Conservative sectors in the region are lobbying to discredit OAS Secretary [...]
2009-07-15 19:18:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO PGOV ECON PREL SNAR EFIN CI
09SANTIAGO665NORTHERN EXPOSURE: COCAINE TRAFFICKING ON THE RISE
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Law enforcement contacts in northern Chile report that cocaine trafficking from Bolivia to Chile has increased in the past six to eight months -- a development that some officials link to the departure of DEA agents from Bolivia. Chilean police complain that they lack sufficient [...]
2009-07-15 20:07:00Embassy SantiagoCONFIDENTIALPGOV SNAR KCRM CI
09SANTIAGO666 2009 REPORT ON INVESTMENT DISPUTES AND EXPROPRIATION
[...] No summary [...]
2009-07-15 20:16:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDECON CASC EINV KIDE OPIC PGOV EFIN ETRD CI
09SANTIAGO672 CHILE MEDIA REPORT -- JULY 16-17, 2009
[...] 1. Secretary Hillary Clinton's letter to Chile's Foreign Minister regarding OAS Secretary General Jose Miguel Insulza's candidacy for reelection garnered front-page headlines in Chilean dailies. High importance was also given to the agreement reached by the opposition and the government coaliti [...]
2009-07-17 15:36:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO PGOV OPRC PREL SNAR CI
09SANTIAGO680 CHILE MEDIA REPORT - JULY 20
[...] Last week President Bachelet said she was willing to "review" the possibility of extending her authority to pardon convicted individuals to military officers sentenced for human rights violation, setting off a controversy that she tried to conclude yesterday by saying that she had had "never co [...]
2009-07-20 20:05:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO PGOV ECON PREL SNAR EFIN CI
09SANTIAGO682 CHILE MEDIA REPORT - JULY 21
[...] The recent murder of a youth by a teenager promoted a group of congressmen to submit a draft bill that would extend the civil responsibility of individuals 16 years or younger to their parents (El Mercurio, conservative, influential newspaper-of-record, 7/21). Honduras -------- 2. The d [...]
2009-07-21 17:14:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO PGOV ECON PREL SNAR EFIN CI
09SANTIAGO686 CHILE MEDIA REPORT - JULY 22
[...] Health authorities report that Chile has 11,293 cases of AH1N1, and only 68 deaths. The number of cases is beginning to decline in all regions, except two: Arica-Parinacota and Vaparaiso (La Nacion, 7/22). Chile-U.S. ---------- 2. Russian-American mathematician Boris Weisfeiler disappeare [...]
2009-07-22 14:58:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO PGOV ECON PREL SNAR EFIN CI
09SANTIAGO69CHILE'S O'HIGGINS REGION: ABUNDANT IN COPPER,
[...] SUMMARY: (SBU) On January 14, the Ambassador visited Chile's 6th region to meet local leaders and strengthen ties with an important economic and cultural area. The 6th region, also called the O'Higgins Region after Chilean liberator Bernard O'Higgins, is located approximately 90 km south of S [...]
2009-01-22 11:43:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV ECON CI
09SANTIAGO690CHILE'S NORTHERN FREE TRADE ZONE: A PLATFORM FOR
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Free Trade Zone of Iquique (ZOFRI) is an essential part of Chile's northern economy, providing 25 percent of jobs in the city of Iquique. Already Chile's largest free trade zone, officials are extremely upbeat about the ZOFRI's future because of its strategic location, infr [...]
2009-07-23 13:25:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ETRD KIPR PGOV PREL CI
09SANTIAGO697 CHILE MEDIA REPORT - JULY 23
[...] Eduardo Frei's campaign advisors want National Television Network TVN to review anchorwoman Karen Doggenweiler's contract. The anchor, "a station symbol," is married to presidential candidate Marco Enriquez Ominami and "can be influential," they argue. The station backed Doggenweiler: "Karen h [...]
2009-07-23 19:15:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO PGOV ECON PREL SNAR EFIN CI
09SANTIAGO703CHILE'S DECISION TO BUY RUSSIAN HELICOPTERS
[...] (SBU) Summary: Chile's decision to buy five Russian MI17 helicopters generated controversy, especially after a letter from Commerce Secretary Locke to Chilean Ambassador to the U.S. Jose Goni was leaked. Congressional members of the Defense Committee reacted strongly to the news, calling the [...]
2009-07-24 19:11:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMASS PREL CI PE RS
09SANTIAGO707 CHILE MEDIA REPORT - JULY 24
[...] Unemployment in the Metropolitan Region is 11.9%, which is 0.9% lower than in March. This is the first drop since the end of 2008, and means that 30,800 people are no longer without a job (El Mercurio, conservative, influential newspaper-of-record, 7/24). Survey ------- 2. The Market Res [...]
2009-07-24 20:33:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO PGOV ECON PREL SNAR EFIN CI
09SANTIAGO714 CHILE MEDIA REPORT - JULY 27
[...] "La Tercera" telephone survey on 800 registered voters shows that in an eventual presidential election, Sebastian Pinera would receive 30%, Eduardo Frei 25%, and Marco Enriquez-Ominami 21% Frei (La Tercera, 7/26). U.S.-Related News ----------------- 2. Last week, former military regime Jus [...]
2009-07-27 19:35:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO PGOV ECON PREL SNAR EFIN CI
09SANTIAGO715 CHILE MEDIA REPORT - JULY 28
[...] The government has instructed the Undersecretary of Interior to travel to the Region of Araucania to review in person the actions taken by the police and local government authorities to confront the illegal land occupations and other acts of violence headed by radical indigenous Mapuche organi [...]
2009-07-28 18:22:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO PGOV ECON PREL SNAR EFIN CI
09SANTIAGO72 CHILE MEDIA REPORT - JANUARY 22
[...] Chilean dailies highlighted President Barack Obama's first day in office. Front-page coverage also included the case of Chile's retired Air Force (FACH) General Ramon Vega, who was arrested for allegedly receiving illegal payments during the purchase of Belgian fighter jets in 1994. U.S.-R [...]
2009-01-22 16:07:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO PGOV ECON PREL SNAR EFIN CI
09SANTIAGO720 CHILE MEDIA REPORT - JULY 29
[...] Fifteen hooded individuals ambushed an inter-urban bus in Temuco. They stopped the driver and passengers at gunpoint and spray-painted the exterior of the bus with insults against President Bachelet. The indigenous organization "Coordinadora Arauco Malleco" (CAM) claimed responsibility (La Te [...]
2009-07-29 17:03:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO PGOV ECON PREL SNAR EFIN CI
09SANTIAGO726 CHILE MEDIA REPORT - JULY 30
[...] The Digital Country Foundation, the Ministry of Education and U.S.-based cable company VTR launched the free on-line computer program "Mingoville," which has proven to be a successful tool in other parts of the world to teach English to school children. The game is part of the government's "Ch [...]
2009-07-30 19:40:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO PGOV ECON PREL SNAR EFIN CI
09SANTIAGO733 CHILE MEDIA REPORT - JULY 31
[...] The National Statistics Institute (INE) reported that the national unemployment rate for April-June was 10.7%. This is 2.3% more than for the same period last year. The port of Valparaiso has a 17.9% unemployment rate, one of the highest in the country. The workforce is defined as those who [...]
2009-07-31 20:14:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO PGOV ECON PREL SNAR EFIN CI
09SANTIAGO734CONCERTACION INSIDER REVEALS INTEREST IN
[...] (C) Summary: Concertacion insider and former government minister Enrique Correa reported that Chile's Foreign Minister would like to work quietly with Peru to resolve the maritime border dispute before the Garcia administration leaves office. Cuba is keenly interested in increasing the abil [...]
2009-07-31 21:36:00Embassy SantiagoCONFIDENTIALPREL PBTS PGOV CI BR CU PE
09SANTIAGO736 CHILE MEDIA REPORT - AUGUST 3
[...] A Peruvian daily reported that four Chilean Air Force officers were victims of espionage in Lima. The man allegedly responsible is retired Navy officer Elias Ponce Feijo. Peruvian Ambassador Carlos Pareja informed the Chilean Foreign Ministry that Lima would investigate and sanction those res [...]
2009-08-03 20:26:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO PGOV ECON PREL SNAR EFIN CI
09SANTIAGO74 AMBASSADOR AND ENVIRONMENT MINISTER DISCUSS U.S.-CHILE
[...] (SBU) Summary: In a January 21 meeting, Environment Minister Ana Lya Uriarte and Ambassador Simons discussed the timing of the formation of the Ministry of Environment, priorities for Chile's National Action Plan on Climate Change and the Minister's specific interest in collaboration on techni [...]
2009-01-22 19:26:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON SENV ENRG PGOV TRGY CI
09SANTIAGO742 CHILE MEDIA REPORT - AUGUST 4
[...] Two high-ranking army officers were indicted for receiving half a million dollars in bribes for Chile's acquisition of Leopard tanks from Holland in 1998. They were charged for illegal use of state funds in an investigation that began in 2005, related to finding the origin of General Pinochet' [...]
2009-08-04 20:03:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO PGOV ECON PREL SNAR EFIN CI
09SANTIAGO75CHILEAN STIMULUS PACKAGE DESIGNED FOR QUICK
[...] (SBU) Summary: Chile's recently announced stimulus plan was specifically developed to have a quick impact, Finance Minister Andres Velasco recently told the Ambassador. Half of the public infrastructure spending will be completed by July 2009 and tax incentives are structured to encourage i [...]
2009-01-22 20:22:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN EINV PROG CI
09SANTIAGO751CHILE A DEVELOPED COUNTRY BY 2018: FREI'S
[...] (SBU) Summary: Advisors to presidential candidate Eduardo Frei advocate pushing Chile into the ranks of developed countries within 10 years via pro-business reforms, pro-labor measures, and support for entrepreneurs. The advisors, part of a progressive policy network known as "Oceanos Azule [...]
2009-08-05 20:27:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV ECON ELAB SOCI CI
09SANTIAGO753 CHILE MEDIA REPORT - AUGUST 6
[...] Bolivian President Evo Morales wrote a note apologizing for his criticism of right-wing presidential candidate Sebastian Pinera. The Foreign Ministry had issued on Tuesday a statement rejecting Morales' "intervention in Chile's internal affairs." Yesterday, after reading the apology, Foreign [...]
2009-08-06 19:06:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO PGOV ECON PREL SNAR EFIN CI
09SANTIAGO754 CHILE: HIGH LEVEL ATTENDANCE AT 64TH UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY
[...] No summary [...]
2009-08-07 13:00:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL OTRA OVIP KSEP CVIS UNGA CI
09SANTIAGO755INTRODUCING SEBASTIAN PINERA: CHILE'S
[...] (SBU) Summary: In his second serious run for the presidency, colorful billionaire and centrist Sebastian Pinera is attempting to end two decades of rule by the center-left Concertacion coalition. A savvy, Harvard-educated investor and former senator known to work seven days a week, Pinera r [...]
2009-08-07 17:26:00Embassy SantiagoCONFIDENTIALPGOV ECON PREL CI
09SANTIAGO757 CHILE MEDIA REPORT - AUGUST 7
[...] "Concertacion" presidential candidate Eduardo Frei outlined his political program to an exclusive group of entrepreneurs. One of the issues he emphasized was the need to assure a diversified energy matrix that must include nuclear energy, which he said is a "strategic" and "national security" [...]
2009-08-07 19:32:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO PGOV ECON PREL SNAR EFIN CI
09SANTIAGO760 CHILE: OPIC-SUPPORTED INVESTMENT FUND MAY BE BETTER
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Post has no objection to OPIC's proposed investment funds program outlined in ref A. The objectives of the Paladin Realty Latin America Investors III, L.P. fund are compatible with Chile's economic development programs. However, OPIC may find that the program is better targete [...]
2009-08-10 18:26:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN EINV CI
09SANTIAGO761BRISTLING AT THE "BOLIVARIAN PROJECT": REMARKS BY
[...] SUMMARY: (SBU) Concertacion presidential candidate Eduardo Frei and Foreign Minister Mariano Fernandez publicly criticized populist leaders in the region during a seminar on Latin America held in Santiago August 4-5. Frei warned that the "Bolivarian project" could threaten political and socia [...]
2009-08-10 19:26:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV VZ CI PE BO
09SANTIAGO763 CHILE MEDIA REPORT - AUGUST 10
[...] Indigenous radical Mapuche groups set fire to a crane and a summer cabin in the Region of Araucania on the same day. The "Coordinadora Arauco Malleco" (CAM) claimed responsibility for the first incident and pamphlets alluding to the Mapuche cause were found in both locations (El Mercurio, cons [...]
2009-08-10 20:39:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO PGOV ECON PREL SNAR EFIN CI
09SANTIAGO766 CHILE MEDIA REPORT - AUGUST 11
[...] The Public Ministry contradicted remarks made by Under Secretary of Interior Patricio Rosende who said that the radical indigenous Mapuche organizations Coordinadora Arauco Malleco (CAM) was no longer operative now that its leaders were in prison (El Mercurio, conservative, influential newspape [...]
2009-08-11 20:40:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO PGOV ECON PREL SNAR EFIN CI
09SANTIAGO768SCENESETTER FOR SOUTHCOM COMMANDER GENERAL DOUGLAS
[...] (C) I would like to warmly welcome you to Chile on August 16-20. Coming shortly after President Bachelet's meeting with President Obama in Washington on June 23-24, your visit is an excellent opportunity to further strengthen military-to-military relations and to encourage Chile to exercise g [...]
2009-08-12 17:44:00Embassy SantiagoCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV OVIP MASS MARR CI
09SANTIAGO769FM FERNANDEZ ON UNASUR -- GREATER COLOMBIAN
[...] (C) Summary. On August 11, Foreign Minister Fernandez suggested to the Ambassador that UNASUR moderates can balance out the populists and hold UNASUR together in spite of tension over Colombia. However, Colombia needs to participate in UNASUR at a senior level to effectively explain its pos [...]
2009-08-12 20:31:00Embassy SantiagoCONFIDENTIALPREL CI
09SANTIAGO770CHILE SUPPORTS EGYPTIAN CANDIDATE FOR UNESCO
[...] (SBU) Poloff delivered reftel demarche to Jorge Ossa, Deputy Director of Elections in the Bureau of Multilateral Affairs. Ossa told Poloff that Chile has already declared its support for Egyptian candidate Farouk Hosni. Ossa added that Chile's decision to support Hosni is based entirely on t [...]
2009-08-12 21:07:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYUNESCO CI
09SANTIAGO775 CHILE MEDIA REPORT - AUGUST 13
[...] Three different polls -- CERC, Imaginaccion, and Direct Media -- show that Sebastian Pinera is ahead in the presidential race in either a first round or a runoff election with Concertacion candidate Eduardo Frei and independent Marcos Enriquez-Ominami (El Mercurio, conservative, influential, 8/ [...]
2009-08-13 20:05:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO PGOV ECON PREL SNAR EFIN CI
09SANTIAGO776 CHILE MEDIA REPORT - AUGUST 12
[...] The holding company responsible for HidroAysen, the largest electricity generation project in the country, will launch a nationwide campaign on television, Internet, and radio to inform the public of the project (La Tercera, conservative, independent, 8/13). Honduras -------- 2. The USG [...]
2009-08-13 20:05:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO PGOV ECON PREL SNAR EFIN CI
09SANTIAGO78 CHILE MEDIA REPORT - JANUARY 23
[...] Chilean dailies highlighted the detention of the former National Registry Service Director for mismanagement and embezzlement; the more than 40% rate reduction for calls to cell phones; and the violent attack of an estate in the indigenous Mapuche area in southern Chile. U.S.-Related News - [...]
2009-01-23 15:30:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO PGOV ECON PREL SNAR EFIN CI
09SANTIAGO781 CHILE MEDIA REPORT - AUGUST 14
[...] The death of an indigenous Mapuche when the police evicted him and others from a private estate in southern Chile has triggered violent incidents in the Region of Araucania. Eight policemen have been injured by shotgun pellets (La Tercera, conservative, independent, 8/14). Honduras -------- [...]
2009-08-14 19:51:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO PGOV ECON PREL SNAR EFIN CI
09SANTIAGO782CHILEAN PRESIDENTIAL ADVISOR: ZELAYA'S VISIT "VERY
[...] (C) Bachelet Presidential Advisor Marcos Robledo told the Ambassador that Manuel Zelaya's August 13 visit to Santiago was "very productive." According to Robledo, President Bachelet and several members of the Chilean Congress emphasized the Obama Administration's desire to play a constructive [...]
2009-08-14 21:05:00Embassy SantiagoCONFIDENTIALPREL KDEM HO VE BR CI
09SANTIAGO783 GOC Seeks Solution after Supreme Court Invalidated
[...] (SBU) Summary: Senior Chilean officials have told the Ambassador that the Chilean Supreme Court's invalidation of an environmental permit for AES Gener's power plant is a serious problem that could undermine Chile's image as a stable investment environment, and that the Bachelet administration [...]
2009-08-17 15:59:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ENRG KNNP SENV TRGY PGOV CI
09SANTIAGO786 CHILE MEDIA REPORT - AUGUST 17
[...] After three years, President Bachelet will enact the General Education Law this week. The new law answers some of the demands of the 2006 student revolt (La Tercera, conservative, independent, 8/16) Honduras -------- 2. Chilean Foreign Minister Mariano Fernandez said that in his meeting [...]
2009-08-17 20:43:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO PGOV ECON PREL SNAR EFIN CI
09SANTIAGO787 CHILE MEDIA REPORT - AUGUST 18
[...] Chile's Police Force officially supported the special unit agent indicted for the death of an indigenous activist in last week's clashes; new drop in stocks prices shakes global financial markets; President Obama's healthcare reform faces strong criticism in the United States. U.S.-Chile -- [...]
2009-08-18 13:46:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO PGOV ECON PREL SNAR EFIN CI
09SANTIAGO788 CHILE MEDIA REPORT - AUGUST 19
[...] Opposition Deputy Gonzalo Arenas reacted aggressively against Minister of the Interior Edmundo Perez Yoma during his testimony at the Chamber of Deputies yesterday. Minister Perez Yoma was testifying on the violent events in Region Nine involving Mapuche indigenous, but his explanations did not [...]
2009-08-19 13:45:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO PGOV ECON PREL SNAR EFIN CI
09SANTIAGO790CHILEAN INVESTMENTS IN VENEZUELA UNDER FIRE
[...] (C) Summary: The restrictions on Chilean companies, ability to repatriate funds from Venezuela has become a major irritant between the two countries. Blocked returns exceed $80 million, and the Chilean Congress and companies have pressed the Bachelet Administration to defend Chilean companie [...]
2009-08-19 20:20:00Embassy SantiagoCONFIDENTIALECIN ECON EFIN EINV PGOV PREL CI VE
09SANTIAGO792 CHILE MEDIA REPORT - AUGUST 20
[...] An Ipsos survey shows a technical tie between Concertacion candidate Eduardo Frei and independent Marco Enriquez-Ominami in a presidential race against Sebastian Pinera. The results were 22.9 for Frei, 20.6 for Enriquez-Ominami, and 35.6 for Pinera, (Independent, conservative, La Tercera, 8/20) [...]
2009-08-20 13:45:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO PGOV ECON PREL SNAR EFIN CI
09SANTIAGO793 CHILE MEDIA REPORT - AUGUST 20
[...] An Ipsos survey shows a technical tie between Concertacion candidate Eduardo Frei and independent Marco Enriquez-Ominami in a presidential race against Sebastian Pinera. The results were 22.9 for Frei, 20.6 for Enriquez-Ominami, and 35.6 for Pinera, (Independent, conservative, La Tercera, 8/20) [...]
2009-08-20 14:06:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO PGOV ECON PREL SNAR EFIN CI
09SANTIAGO800 CHILE MEDIA REPORT - AUGUST 24
[...] Tests show that the virus affecting two turkey breeding farms in the Fifth Region is the AH1N1 virus that affected humans this winter. This makes Chile the first country to detect the virus in turkeys. The World Health Organization (WHO) is also monitoring the two farms (Conservative afternoo [...]
2009-08-24 20:17:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO PGOV ECON PREL SNAR EFIN CI
09SANTIAGO801 CHILE MEDIA REPORT - AUGUST 25
[...] Over the weekend Peruvian President Alan Garcia suggested in an interview that Chile and Bolivia had some type of secret agreement to provide the latter with access to the sea. In this context, Bolivian President Evo Morales and Chilean Foreign Minister Mariano Fernandez denied the existence of [...]
2009-08-25 15:36:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO PGOV ECON PREL SNAR EFIN CI
09SANTIAGO806 CHILE MEDIA REPORT - AUGUST 26
[...] The sale of retail products increased 8.8 per cent in July. The sale of clothing shot up 26.1 and shoes 17.4 per cent, spreading optimism in the business sector (Conservative, independent La Tercera, 8/26). U.S.-Related News ----------------- 2. The Kennedy Amendment was the one issue tha [...]
2009-08-26 19:29:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO PGOV ECON PREL SNAR EFIN CI
09SANTIAGO81 CHILE: ECONOMIC HIGHLIGHTS JANUARY 12-23
[...] SUMMARY: This continues a series of updates on major developments in Chile's economy since the acceleration of global financial turmoil. Between January 12 and January 23, copper prices slipped, the Peso remained relatively stable against the Dollar, and there was little movement in the stock [...]
2009-01-26 10:15:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDECON EFIN ETRD EINV ECIN PGOV PREL CI
09SANTIAGO810 CHILE MEDIA REPORT - AUGUST 27
[...] The government is considering a constitutional reform to restrict residence visas for Easter Island, based on environmental sustainability. Island leaders, however, want an immediate solution to the problem (Conservative, independent La TErcera, 8/27). U.S.-Related News ----------------- 2 [...]
2009-08-27 19:13:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO PGOV ECON PREL SNAR EFIN CI
09SANTIAGO811 CHILE MEDIA REPORT - AUGUST 28
[...] President Alvaro Uribe will confront at a UNASUR meeting today Hugo Chavez' criticism of Colombia's agreement with the United States (Conservative, influential newspaper-of-record, El Mercurio, 8/28). U.S.-Related News ----------------- 2. The U.S. Embassy in Santiago opened a condolence [...]
2009-08-28 18:33:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO PGOV ECON PREL SNAR EFIN CI
09SANTIAGO812 CHILE: MINISTER OF PUBLIC WORKS SAYS TRILATERAL
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Chilean Minister of Public Works Sergio Bitar told the Ambassador August 26 that cooperation with the U.S. Treasury on an infrastructure project in Costa Rica will continue. Bitar underlined that this type of trilateral cooperation is "very important" to the GOC. The Minister n [...]
2009-08-28 20:57:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID ECON EFIN EINV ECIN PGOV PREL CI CR
09SANTIAGO817 CHILE MEDIA REPORT - AUGUST 31
[...] The UNASUR summit was aired live and showed us a disorganized and seven-hour debate that concluded with upset presidents and a final declaration that made no reference to the U.S.-Colombia agreement. The declaration, however, states that "foreign military forces cannot threaten the sovereignty [...]
2009-08-31 20:20:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO PGOV ECON PREL SNAR EFIN CI
09SANTIAGO818CHILE: DIGITAL TV DECISION LIKELY SOON
[...] (SBU) Summary. The Chilean Minister for Telecommunications told the Ambassador that Chile would decide soon on a digital TV standard and would base its decision on careful technical analysis. His comments suggested that Chile was weighing both the U.S. and Japanese standards, but he did not i [...]
2009-08-31 20:41:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECPS ECON PREL TSPL CI
09SANTIAGO823 CHILE MEDIA REPORT - SEPTEMBER 1
[...] The National unemployment rate is up to 10.8 percent for May-July. Valparaiso has the highest rate (18.5 percent),followed by Angol and Vina del Mar (Conservative, influential newspaper-of-record El Mercurio, 9/1). U.S.-Related News ----------------- 2. Austral Capital investment fund wi [...]
2009-09-01 17:26:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO PGOV ECON PREL SNAR EFIN CI
09SANTIAGO825 CHILE MEDIA REPORT - SEPTEMBER 2
[...] Presidential candidate Sebastian Pinera launched his candidacy yesterday in an "Obama style" proclamation event in Santiago (Conservative, independent La Tercera, 9/2). U.S.-Related News ----------------- 2. The National Economic Prosecutor's office, FNE, said it would go ahead and review [...]
2009-09-02 19:30:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO PGOV ECON PREL SNAR EFIN CI
09SANTIAGO826MYTH VS. REALITY IN CHILE'S MAPUCHE CONFLICT
[...] (C) Summary: Despite sensationalist press coverage and a popular image of bloody conflict in Chile's southern Mapuche heartland, poloffs found that relations between indigenous and non-indigenous communities were largely non-violent, if often tense and distrustful. Three people -- all Mapuche activ [...]
2009-09-03 18:05:00Embassy SantiagoCONFIDENTIALPGOV PTER PREL SOCI CI CO SP
09SANTIAGO829Chile's Foreign Minister Outlines Honduras, UNASUR Challenge
[...] (C) SUMMARY. In a September 2 conversation with the Ambassador, Foreign Minister Fernandez suggested that Honduran President Zelaya needed to adopt a more conciliatory public tone to ease his return to power, and that it was important for the sake of hemispheric unity that he return to Ho [...]
2009-09-03 21:00:00Embassy SantiagoCONFIDENTIALPREL CI
09SANTIAGO83COMPLETED BLUE LANTERN CHECK--APPLICATION 050135240
[...] (SBU) Embassy Santiago recommends that JL Commercial Services' application for USD 3 million of UH-1H helicopter parts be denied. Subsequent paragraphs describe site visit to JL Commercial Services and additional information about the end-user, Flight Services. Site Visit to JL Commercial [...]
2009-01-26 18:54:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETTC KOMC CI
09SANTIAGO831Lagos on Honduras, Chilean elections
[...] (C) Former President Lagos met with the Ambassador on September 4 for a brief tour d'horizon of the regional situation and the Chilean elections. 2. (C) On Honduras, Lagos was pessimistic that it would be possible to restore Zelaya to power before the scheduled elections. He s [...]
2009-09-04 20:36:00Embassy SantiagoCONFIDENTIALPREL CI
09SANTIAGO833CHILEAN MFA DG IBARRA ON REGIONAL DEVELOPMENTS: RELATIONS
[...] (C) Summary: Roberto Ibarra, new MFA Director General for Foreign Policy, affirmed to the Ambassador September 3 that U.S. - Chile relations are excellent. He qualified the results of the UNASUR Bariloche summit as "better than expected" and underlined Chile's commitment to working with the o [...]
2009-09-04 20:37:00Embassy SantiagoCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV XR CI
09SANTIAGO835CHILE: Opposition Candidate Pinera Continues to Lead in
[...] (U) Summary: Chile's opposition coalition, Alianza, has its best chance ever to win the presidency. For the first time in twenty years, the nation's most respected poll shows an opposition candidate leading the first round of voting in the presidential race 100 days before the election. None [...]
2009-09-04 21:09:00Embassy SantiagoCONFIDENTIALPGOV CI
09SANTIAGO839ACTION REQUEST RESPONSE: NEGOTIATIONS OVER A BILATERAL
[...] No summary [...]
2009-09-10 18:00:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDETRD CI EFIN EINV
09SANTIAGO84 CHILE MEDIA REPORT - JANUARY 24-26
[...] Chilean dailies highlighted the cancelling or postponing of investment projects worth US$18 billion dollars, primarily in Chile's mining and real estate sectors, because of the economic crisis. Front-page coverage continued about the Obama administration's first week in office. U.S.-Relate [...]
2009-01-26 19:43:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO PGOV ECON PREL SNAR EFIN CI
09SANTIAGO840Sept. 8 Santiago Media Report
[...] The rain caused three mudslides in the area of Farellones near Santiago. A woman died and her 2-year old remains missing (All dailies, 9/7). U.S.-Related News ------------------------ 2. Starting tomorrow, the capital of the Second Region, Calama, will be the center of the Des [...]
2009-09-08 21:29:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDECON KMDR KPAO PGOV PREL SNAR EFIN CI
09SANTIAGO843CHILE: Indigenous Conflict Tops Domestic Political Agenda
[...] (SBU) Summary: Indigenous conflict -- particularly between Mapuche and non-indigenous land owners in southern Chile -- has forced itself prominently on to President Bachelet's political agenda following the August 12 police killing of a Mapuche activist. Over the past 20 years, relations between th [...]
2009-09-10 21:36:00Embassy SantiagoCONFIDENTIALPGOV SOCI CI
09SANTIAGO844Sept. 9 Santiago Media Report
[...] Colombia displaced Chile as the best country in which to do business in Latin America, according to the Doing Business 2010 World Bank ranking. Colombia moved up 12 positions and Chile down 9 (Conservative, independent, La Tercera, 9/9). U.S.-Related News ------------ [...]
2009-09-09 20:20:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDECON KMDR KPAO PGOV PREL SNAR EFIN CI
09SANTIAGO845INSULZA: U.S. SHOULD TALK TO HONDURAN CANDIDATES ABOUT THE
[...] (C) SUMMARY: During a September 7 meeting with the Ambassador, OAS Secretary General Insulza suggested that the United States inform leading Honduran presidential candidates of U.S. views of the upcoming election. Insulza said the United States has done everything possible to sanction the [...]
2009-09-11 20:12:00Embassy SantiagoCONFIDENTIALPREL OAS HO VE WEU CI
09SANTIAGO847CHILE: RESPONSE TO NPT REPORTING REQUEST
[...] (C) Below please find Embassy Santiago's response to reftel, which requested information on current arms control and nonproliferation policymaking processes in key countries in preparation for the 2010 NPT Review Conference. 2. (C) Alvaro Guzman, in the Bureau of International and Human Sec [...]
2009-09-15 21:58:00Embassy SantiagoCONFIDENTIALAORC CDG ENRG KNNP PARM PGOV PREL IAEA CI
09SANTIAGO848Santiago Sept. 10 Media Report
[...] A former Air Force officer stated that his brigade had paid approximately US$3 million to purchase spare parts for helicopters that were never received and for maintenance services that were never conducted. An investigation was opened for misuse of state funds (La Tercera, 9/10). [...]
2009-09-10 17:37:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDECON KMDR KPAO PGOV PREL SNAR EFIN CI
09SANTIAGO849Ecuador UNASUR meeting
[...] (C) On September 16, Ambassador spoke briefly with Foreign Minister Fernandez, Defense Minister Vidal, and Defense Undersecretary Garcia about the September 15 UNASUR ministerial in Quito. 2. (C) According to Fernandez, the meeting was extremely difficult and produced no conse [...]
2009-09-16 20:47:00Embassy SantiagoCONFIDENTIALPREL CI
09SANTIAGO850CHILE's UNGA 64 Goals and Objectives
[...] (SBU) Poloffs delivered reftel demarche on UNGA 64 goals and objectives to Ambassador Juan Eguiguren, Director of Multilateral Affairs. Poloffs emphasized the Obama Administration's commitment to re-engagement with the international community and highlighted the following issues: non-prolife [...]
2009-09-10 22:02:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL UNGA CI
09SANTIAGO851Chile unlikely to accept Kosovo delegation meeting
[...] No summary [...]
2009-09-16 21:33:00Embassy SantiagoCONFIDENTIALPREL AORC CI KV
09SANTIAGO853Chile attendance at UNGA Haiti meeting not yet decided
[...] No summary [...]
2009-09-16 21:34:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL KPKO AORC UNSC UNGA HA CI
09SANTIAGO855Chilean Senate President on Honduras
[...] (C) Ambassador spoke on September 16 with Jovino Novoa, President of the Chilean Senate, about Honduras. Novoa indicated that he was watching developments in Honduras very closely and enjoys close ties with the Honduran National Party and Presidential candidate Porfirio Lobo. Ambassador [...]
2009-09-16 21:51:00Embassy SantiagoCONFIDENTIALPREL CI
09SANTIAGO856CHILE: TRILATERAL COOPERATION BEGINS WITH CAFTA-DR COUNTRIES
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: USDA sponsored 18 delegates from Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, and Nicaragua in a study tour of Chilean agricultural inspection and quarantine facilities August 31-September 4. Post proposed the visit, in keeping with the commitment made by Preside [...]
2009-09-11 17:53:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAGR ECON ETRD ECIN PREL CI
09SANTIAGO859Scenesetter for Secretary of Commerce Locke's September
[...] (SBU) On behalf of Ambassador Simons, I would like to warmly welcome you to Chile on September 27-29. In hosting the Americas Competitiveness Forum (ACF) for the first time outside of the United States, Chile has worked closely with us to strengthen the ACF because it shares with us an awaren [...]
2009-09-23 20:45:00Embassy SantiagoCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV ECON OVIP CI
09SANTIAGO86 CHILE MEDIA REPORT - JANUARY 27
[...] Headlines noted Minister of Interior Edmundo Perez-Yoma will testify over the 1994 Belgium sale of Mirage aircraft to Chile. Former Air Force Commander-in-Chief Ramon Vega is one of several officers arrested on suspicion of embezzlement in this case. Dailies also highlighted that Eduardo Frei [...]
2009-01-27 20:07:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO PGOV ECON PREL SNAR EFIN CI
09SANTIAGO860CHILE: UN HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL 12TH SESSION PRIORITIES
[...] No summary [...]
2009-09-11 21:03:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PREL UN UNHRC CI
09SANTIAGO865Chilean FM on Honduras, Salitre Military Exercises,
[...] (C) Summary: Foreign Minister Fernandez told PDAS Kelly that Chile strongly supports the San Jose Accord to resolve the crisis in Honduras, but noted disagreements in the international community about the most constructive way forward. Chile is trying to ease tensions with Peru, in particula [...]
2009-10-06 20:58:00Embassy SantiagoSECRETPREL PHUM MOPS UNESCO UNHRC CI HO
09SANTIAGO867CHILE: Conservatives Beat Back Skeleton in Pinera's Closet
[...] (SBU) Summary: Eduardo Frei attempted to taint presidential challenger Sebastian Pinera with renewed allegations of insider trading. Pinera's skilled campaign team flipped the issue into a referendum on the NGO that reported the incident. A competitive businessman and politician prone to taking ris [...]
2009-10-09 15:43:00Embassy SantiagoCONFIDENTIALPGOV ECON KCOR CI
09SANTIAGO868CHILE: MONTHLY ECONOMIC HIGHLIGHTS - JULY AND AUGUST
[...] SUMMARY: Chile's economy may have passed through the worst of the recession, as some macroeconomic indicators show positive signs. The Chilean economy contracted by 4.5% in the second quarter of 2009, and economic activity fell again in July and August. However, August's seasonally adjusted [...]
2009-09-16 13:23:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDECON EFIN ETRD EINV ECIN PGOV PREL CI
09SANTIAGO869CHILE, PERU SQUABBLE OVER MULTINATIONAL MILITARY EXERCISE
[...] (C) SUMMARY: A recent flap between Chile and Peru over a multinational military exercise illustrates both countries' tendency to spar publicly over border-related issues. After Peruvian Defense Minister Rey publicly called for the multinational exercise to be cancelled, Chile invited Peru [...]
2009-10-09 21:57:00Embassy SantiagoCONFIDENTIALPREL MOPS PE CI
09SANTIAGO870Santiago Sept. 16 Media Report
[...] Presidential candidates are preparing for their first television debate that will be aired by National Television TVN on September 23, at 10:40 p.m.. The debate will last 90 minutes and will be conducted by one journalist. One part of it will be for the candidates to answer a few questions [...]
2009-09-16 19:34:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDECON KMDR KPAO PGOV PREL SNAR EFIN CI
09SANTIAGO874CHILE SELECTS JAPANESE DIGITAL TV STANDARD
[...] (U) On September 14, Chile announced its decision to adopt the Japanese digital TV standard (ISDB-T). Minister of Transportation and Telecommunications Rene Cortazar cited the quantity of channels, signal quality, and mobile features as the key factors in the decision. 2. (U) Chile j [...]
2009-09-16 20:58:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECPS ECON PREL TSPL CI
09SANTIAGO877Chile's Presidential Election: Frei Falters,
[...] (C) Summary: Eduardo Frei's bid to return to the presidential palace is faltering as a disorganized campaign, fractious Concertacion coalition, and competing progressive candidates drain support away from the former president. Frei -- long seen as steady, dependable, and frankly, a bit borin [...]
2009-10-16 15:28:00Embassy SantiagoCONFIDENTIALPGOV ECON CI
09SANTIAGO879Chile's Quick Regional Review: UNASUR, Rio Group, Argentina
[...] (C) Summary. Roberto Ibarra, the third-ranking Foreign Ministry official, told the Ambassador that UNASUR can play a constructive role in South America by focusing on concrete efforts, notably combating narcotrafficking. Chile will assume leadership of Rio Group in 2010 and will focus on inc [...]
2009-10-16 20:42:00Embassy SantiagoCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV CI
09SANTIAGO88 CHILE MEDIA REPORT - JANUARY 28
[...] Dailies continue to cover as front page news the 1994 Mirage purchase scandal and the economic crisis, highlighting that unemployment in Santiago is up to 9.7%. President Obama's interview with Al-Arabiya is also highlighted. U.S.-Related News ----------------- 2. Headline: "Obama gives [...]
2009-01-28 15:25:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO PGOV ECON PREL SNAR EFIN CI
09SANTIAGO881Behind the Scenes in Chile's Presidential Campaigns: Frei
[...] (C) Summary: While the Eduardo Frei presidential campaign focuses its public attacks on Alianza candidate Sebastian Pinera, private conversations reveal that Frei's team is increasingly worried about upstart leftist challenger Marco Enriquez-Ominami. Both the energized Pinera team and the t [...]
2009-10-20 20:29:00Embassy SantiagoCONFIDENTIALPGOV CI
09SANTIAGO883Chile's Presidential Race: Political Elite See Isolated
[...] (C) Summary: Well-connected politicians and observers describe President Bachelet and some Concertacion congressional candidates as maintaining a distance from Eduardo Frei's lagging presidential campaign. Opposition candidate Sebastian Pinera is reportedly testing his talking points against [...]
2009-10-23 17:28:00Embassy SantiagoCONFIDENTIALPGOV CI
09SANTIAGO885LOW LEVEL VIOLENCE CONTINUES IN CHILE'S INDIGENOUS SOUTH
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Three recent attacks in Chile's Araucania region, the heart of indigenous Mapuche territory, have riveted attention once again on continuing disputes between indigenous groups and the state in southern Chile. The Coordinadora Arauco Malleco (CAM),a violent Mapuche group with a history [...]
2009-10-23 19:04:00Embassy SantiagoCONFIDENTIALPGOV SOCI CI PHUM
09SANTIAGO886Santiago Sept. 17 Meda Report
[...] All dailies report on the array of events that the municipalities and the government are preparing in different parts of Santiago for the September 18-19 Independence Day holiday. U.S.-Related News ----------------------- 2. After inaugurating the Bicentennial and [...]
2009-09-17 20:49:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDECON KMDR KPAO PGOV PREL SNAR EFIN CI
09SANTIAGO887Chile Pleased with Trilateral Cooperation, Pursues Regional
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Foreign Minister Fernandez reaffirmed Chile's outstanding relationship with the United States during an October 27 meeting with the Ambassador. Fernandez is especially pleased with U.S.-Chile trilateral cooperation. Chile is pursuing a policy of regional integration through bila [...]
2009-10-30 17:51:00Embassy SantiagoCONFIDENTIALPREL MOPS PE CI
09SANTIAGO89 CHILE MEDIA REPORT - JANUARY 29
[...] The Cencosud conglomerate stopped the construction of its US$600 million, three-tower Costanera Center project (located near the Embassy). The construction project employed thousands of workers who were building the highest tower in South America. Dailies also highlighted a 40-peso increase [...]
2009-01-29 15:17:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO PGOV ECON PREL SNAR EFIN CI
09SANTIAGO890Sept. 21 Media Report
[...] Twenty-three people died in car accidents over the "Dieciocho" long holiday. All of them were related to alcohol consumption (Conservative, independent,La Tercera, 9/21). Salitre Exercise ------------------- 2. Background: At Unasur, Peru's President proposed that South American [...]
2009-09-21 21:46:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDECON KMDR KPAO PGOV PREL SNAR EFIN CI
09SANTIAGO893Chile Lauds Honduran Agreement, Low Key on DCA Signing,
[...] (C) Summary. On October 30, FM Fernandez and presidential foreign policy advisor Robledo strongly welcomed the U.S.-brokered agreement in Honduras, calling it an historical moment that would have positive consequences for the region. Those officials, when informed of the signing of the Defen [...]
2009-11-03 19:12:00Embassy SantiagoCONFIDENTIALPREL EINV ENRG PGOV CI
09SANTIAGO894CHILE: TRILATERAL COOPERATION BEGINS WITH CAFTA-DR COUNTRIES
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: USDA and USAID sponsored 18 delegates from Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, and Nicaragua in a study tour of Chilean agricultural inspection and quarantine facilities August 31-September 4. Post proposed the visit, in keeping with the commitment made [...]
2009-09-22 18:24:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAGR ECON ETRD ECIN PREL CI
09SANTIAGO895Chilean Response to USG UNGA Third Committee and Goldstone
[...] (SBU) Poloff and Canadian Second Secretary Meghan Pelton jointly delivered Ref A demarche on UNGA Third Committee priorities to MFA Human Rights Deputy Director Gerardo Ateaga on November 4. Ateaga made the following observations about Chile's priorities and positions in the Third Committee: [...]
2009-11-04 19:26:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PREL PTER IS CI KPAL
09SANTIAGO896Santiago Sept. 22 Media Report
[...] Tension increases with Manuel Zelaya's return to Honduras and his request for refuge in the Brazilian embassy (Conservative, independent La Tercera, 9/22). U.S.-Related News ----------------------- 2. The poverty rate in the United States in 2008 was 13.2%, due to the [...]
2009-09-22 21:20:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDECON KMDR KPAO PGOV PREL SNAR EFIN CI
09SANTIAGO897Chile's Counterintuitive Presidential Race: Why a
[...] (SBU) Summary. Chile's presidential election will likely be decided in a run-off election on January 17 pitting opposition candidate Sebastian Pinera against either former president Eduardo Frei or young parliamentarian Marco Enriquez-Ominami. While Frei currently looks more likely to make [...]
2009-11-13 19:21:00Embassy SantiagoCONFIDENTIALPGOV ECON PINR CI
09SANTIAGO899Introducing Eduardo Frei: Chile's Center-Left Presidential
[...] (C) Summary: Smart, dependable, honest, and dull, Concertacion candidate Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle is attempting to regain the presidency that he held from 1994-2000 and that his legendary father, Eduardo Frei Montalva, held from 1964-1970. Despite many successes during his first four years as presid [...]
2009-11-16 15:18:00Embassy SantiagoCONFIDENTIALPGOV ECON PINR CI
09SANTIAGO901COM Concurrence/Vetting Assurance for FY 2010 Santiago
[...] (C) Ambassador Paul E. Simons formally concurs, per reftel guidance, with Embassy Santiago's proposal for FY2010 Section 1206 funding. The proposal is designed to strengthen Chile's capacity to conduct counter-terrorism activities and deepen the already outstanding relationship between the Un [...]
2009-11-16 16:41:00Embassy SantiagoCONFIDENTIALMASS MARR MOPS PREL PTER ASEC CI
09SANTIAGO902Santiago Sept. 23 Media Report
[...] The rape of a 14-year old girl and the inability of her parents to find the morning-after pill in local pharmacies prompted the government to open an investigation. Drug stores claim they have no stock of the product, but the state Central Distribution Center says there are 14,000 doses o [...]
2009-09-23 21:17:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDECON KMDR KPAO PGOV PREL SNAR EFIN CI
09SANTIAGO905Chile Tries to Tamp Down Peru's Reaction to Potential FMS
[...] (C) Summary. Chile has responded in measured tones to increasingly harsh comments from President Garcia of Peru after Peru reported that a Peruvian military official was arrested for spying for Chile. After Garcia said the alleged spying was something for a banana republic and not a democrac [...]
2009-11-18 20:18:00Embassy SantiagoCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV MASS CI PE
09SANTIAGO907CHILE: DOMESTIC REACTION TO SPY STORY SUBDUED
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The domestic reaction in Chile to the Peruvian spy story has been subdued due to careful management by the Bachelet administration. Congress and the three leading Presidential candidates support President Bachelet's handling of the situation. Potential U.S. military sales cur [...]
2009-11-23 20:36:00Embassy SantiagoCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV CI PE
09SANTIAGO908Santiago Sept. 24 Media Report
[...] All dailies ran extensive coverage of the first presidential debate aired last night on National Television TVN. American Competitiveness Forum ----------------------------------------- 2. In a video conference from Washington organized by the U.S. Embassy , Department of [...]
2009-09-24 21:06:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDECON KMDR KPAO PGOV PREL SNAR EFIN CI
09SANTIAGO91 CHILE MEDIA REPORT - JANUARY 30
[...] Dailies continued with extensive reporting on the effects of the Cencosud conglomerate's decision to stop construction of its US$600 million, three-tower Costanera Center project. The media is portraying this development as representative of Chile's economic crisis. Dailies also continue to [...]
2009-01-30 16:03:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO PGOV ECON PREL SNAR EFIN CI
09SANTIAGO911Chile--Demarche Delivered on NPT Review Conference
[...] No summary [...]
2009-11-25 19:23:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAORC ENRG KNNP MNUC PARM PGOV PREL UNGA CI
09SANTIAGO912DEMARCHE DELIVERED TO CHILE ON U.S.-CANADA-MEXICO PROPOSAL
[...] (SBU) Econ/poloff delivered ref demarche on September 25, 2009 to Waldemar Coutts, Deputy Director, and Mauricio Hurtado, Counselor, at Chile's Ministry of Foreign Affairs Office of Environment, Antarctic, and Maritime Affairs (MFA/DIMA). Hurtado explained MFA/DIMA needs to coordinate wit [...]
2009-09-25 19:30:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDSENV AORC KGHG CI
09SANTIAGO913CHILE SHARES US CONCERNS ON IRAN NUCLEAR PROGRAM
[...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel demarche to Alvaro Guzman of the MFA's International and Human Security Office on November 25. Guzman said that Chile was in agreement with US concerns and that, in general, Chile adheres closely to the positions of the IAEA and UNSC. Chile feels that Iran has not [...]
2009-11-27 18:22:00Embassy SantiagoCONFIDENTIALPREL IR CI BR AR CU
09SANTIAGO916Santiago Sept. 25 Media Report
[...] On Wednesday's presidential debate, Eduardo Frei cited a Transparency International (TI) report released the day before which mentions a fine levied by Chile's Securities and Stocks Regulator against Pinera for the use of privileged information to buy LanChile shares in 2006. Yesterday, [...]
2009-09-25 21:33:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDECON KMDR KPAO PGOV PREL SNAR EFIN CI
09SANTIAGO919Introducing Marco Enriquez-Ominami: Chile's Surprise
[...] (C) Summary: Thirty-six year old filmmaker and presidential candidate Marco Enriquez-Ominami has a cinematic life story: father martyred, raised in exile, young Marco returns to home full of resentment, marries a TV star, and gets the backing of a pro-Castro revolutionary-turned-millionaire to beco [...]
2009-12-02 17:10:00Embassy SantiagoCONFIDENTIALPGOV ECON PINR CI CU
09SANTIAGO92 CHILE: 2008 END USE MONITORING REPORT
[...] PROCEDURES Inventory Management EUM Program Coordinator Patrick Fischer, 56-2-330-3394, FischerPJ@state.gov Inventory System Post is able to take advantage of official travel for spot-checking on an ad hoc basis. However, on-site inspections are infrequent given the small size of the [...]
2009-01-30 18:54:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAFIN SNAR CI
09SANTIAGO925Chile Reports on Divisive UNASUR Meeting
[...] (C) Summary. Acting FM Flisfisch told the Ambassador that the November 27 UNASUR meeting in Quito was "super tense" because of a "very disagreeable" conflict between Venezuela and Colombia on the use of military bases and counterterrorism. UNASUR finally was able to reach agreement on a reso [...]
2009-12-03 20:54:00Embassy SantiagoCONFIDENTIALPREL MARR CI
09SANTIAGO927CHILE: SCENESCETTER FOR 2009 ELECTIONS
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Chile's presidential and congressional elections are scheduled to take place December 13. The presidential race will likely result in a run-off election, to be held January 17, while congressional elections will not produce a working majority for either major coalition. Alia [...]
2009-12-09 21:19:00Embassy SantiagoCONFIDENTIALPGOV ECON CI
09SANTIAGO928CHILE AGREES TO DEFER RESOLUTION ON DE-ALERTING NUCLEAR
[...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph four. 2. (SBU) According to Director of International and Human Security Alfredo Labbe, Chile will not introduce the de-alerting resolution in the UNGA First Committee in 2009. Labbe told Pol/Econ Counselor that Chile will [...]
2009-09-29 14:41:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDPARM MNUC PREL CI
09SANTIAGO929CHILE DEMARCHED ON DEFAMATION OF RELIGIONS
[...] (SBU) Poloff delivered reftel points to the Office of Human Rights at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on December 4, and followed up by telephone with office Deputy Director Gerardo Ateaga on December 9. (Ateaga had just returned to the office after more than two weeks away.) 2. (SBU [...]
2009-12-09 21:20:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM UNGA UN CI
09SANTIAGO93 CHILE: ENERGY HIGHLIGHTS FOR JANUARY 2009
[...] SUMMARY: This cable provides a summary of developments in the Chilean energy sector during January 2009. Thanks to a recent vote in the Chamber of Deputies, Chile moved closer to creating a new Ministry of Energy, which may pass into law by the end of March. Seeking to increase the flow of re [...]
2009-01-30 20:33:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDECON ENRG KNNP SENV TRGY PGOV CI
09SANTIAGO931Chile's Presidential Election: Dec. 13 Vote Pits Sputtering
[...] (SBU) Summary: Opposition candidate Sebastian Pinera is almost certain to emerge from the December 13 presidential election in first place but falling short of the absolute majority required to be elected outright. The real question to be answered is whom he will face in a second round--Concerta [...]
2009-12-10 15:12:00Embassy SantiagoCONFIDENTIALPGOV ECON CI
09SANTIAGO932Santiago Sept. 28 Media Report
[...] U.S. Secretary of Commerce to visit Chile for the Third Americas Competitiveness Forum that starts on Sept. 27 and will conclude on the 29th. Other key participants are President Bachelet and her Guatemalan counterpart Alvaro Colom (Mercurio on line, 9/28). 2. The governor of Califor [...]
2009-09-29 20:29:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDECON KMDR KPAO PGOV PREL SNAR EFIN CI
09SANTIAGO933Countdown to Chile's Congressional Elections
[...] (SBU) Summary: Individual races in this year's congressional elections are more competitive and uncertain than ever, although the elections may not produce much change in the overall makeup of the Chilean Congress. The governing Concertacion coalition will most likely regain its majority in the Se [...]
2009-12-10 19:52:00Embassy SantiagoCONFIDENTIALPGOV CI
09SANTIAGO935Former President Lagos, FM Fernandez Urge that De Facto
[...] (C) Summary. Two senior Chilean statesmen said that it is critical that the de facto president of Honduras, Roberto Micheletti, step down to facilitate regional recognition of the Honduran election. Former Chilean President Lagos also urged that incoming president Porfirio Lobo appoint a uni [...]
2009-12-10 20:16:00Embassy SantiagoCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV CI HO
09SANTIAGO936Santiago Sept. 29 Media Report
[...] At the opening of the Third Americas Competitiveness Forum (ACF),Secretary of Commerce Gary Locke said the United States is "committed to resisting the temptation" of applying protectionist policies. "These kinds of policies might be well-intended, but inevitably fail," said Locke. The Sec [...]
2009-09-29 21:32:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDECON KMDR KPAO PGOV PREL SNAR EFIN CI
09SANTIAGO937CHILE: Six Charged in Death of Former Chilean President
[...] (SBU) Summary: On December 7, Judge Alejandro Madrid charged six individuals with assassinating former President Eduardo Frei Montalva in 1982. Frei, who is the father of the current presidential candidate Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle, died ostensibly of a bacterial infection after undergoing routine su [...]
2009-12-11 20:22:00Embassy SantiagoCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM KCRM CI
09SANTIAGO938Santiago Sept. 30 Media Report
[...] The Executive Office submitted a bill to Congress that creates a ministry for indigenous affairs and a new agency to implement indigenous policies (Government-owned La Nacion, 9/30). Secretary Locke -------------------- 2. U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gary Loc [...]
2009-09-30 16:25:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDECON KMDR KPAO PGOV PREL SNAR EFIN CI
09SANTIAGO94 CHILE: ECONOMIC HIGHLIGHTS WEEK OF JANUARY 26
[...] SUMMARY: This continues a series of updates on major developments in Chile's economy since the acceleration of global financial turmoil. By January 30, copper prices rose slightly, the Peso gained some ground against the Dollar, and the stock market closed higher. Retail sales dropped by 9% [...]
2009-01-30 21:12:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDECON EFIN ETRD EINV ECIN PGOV PREL CI
09SANTIAGO943CHILE'S PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION: ALL BETS ON PINERA
[...] (C) Summary: Days after the December 13 first round presidential election, the picture for center-left presidential candidate Eduardo Frei is bleak. The former president, who in 1993 was elected to his first term by the largest margin in Chilean history, this time received 29.6% of the vote- [...]
2009-12-17 19:54:00Embassy SantiagoCONFIDENTIALPGOV ECON CI
09SANTIAGO945CHILEAN OAS TEAM MEMBER ON HONDURAS CRISIS
[...] (C) On December 17, the Ambassador met with Enrique Correa, a political consultant and former minister who has been working with the OAS to resolve the political crisis in Honduras. Correa, who had been in Honduras November 3 - December 5, praised the strong relationship A/S Valenzuela has d [...]
2009-12-17 20:37:00Embassy SantiagoCONFIDENTIALPREL CI HO PA GT
09SANTIAGO946Chile - Proposed OPIC Financing for Microfinance Growth Fund
[...] No summary [...]
2009-10-01 21:23:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDEINV EFIN CI
09SANTIAGO947Frei's Long Odds: Why the Numbers Point to a Pinera Victory
[...] (C) Summary: At first glance, former president and Concertacion candidate Frei seems to be heading in to the final stage of the presidential election with a strong advantage: three progressive presidential candidates split 56% of the vote, while the only conservative candidate, Sebastian Pin [...]
2009-12-18 17:36:00Embassy SantiagoCONFIDENTIALPGOV CI
09SANTIAGO948Santiago Oct. 1 Media Report
[...] Jorge Navarrete, director of the local chapter of Transparency International (TI),"Chile, Transparente," resigned amid a controversy regarding the local organization's lack of thoroughness and impartiality (All dailies, 10/2). "Salitre" Military Exercise ------------------- [...]
2009-10-02 12:56:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDECON KMDR KPAO PGOV PREL SNAR EFIN CI
09SANTIAGO949Embassy Santiago Suggestions for Defamation of Religions
[...] (SBU) In response to Ref A query on engaging Chile on the question of defamation of religion, Embassy Santiago advises that Chile has already voted "no" along with the United States on the defamation of religion issue in the UNGA (Ref B). We believe that Washington has already found an effec [...]
2009-12-21 19:41:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM CI
09SANTIAGO95CHILE: MILGP REQUEST FOR HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR SQUADRON
[...] (U) This is an action request. See paragraphs 2 and 3. 2. (SBU) Action request: Embassy requests the Department assist in conducting a Leahy Amendment Human Rights review, as well as a general name check, of the following Chilean Air Force officer who has been nominated to participate in [...]
2009-02-02 10:31:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMARR MASS PREL PHUM CI
09SANTIAGO950Santiago Oct. 2 Media Report
[...] The Antofagasta Regional Environmental Commission (Corema) ordered gas company "Geotermica del Norte" to cease exploration activities near El Tatio geyser field in northern Chile. On September 8 operations resulted in a leak that sent water shooting 197 feet into the air, cau [...]
2009-10-05 12:38:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDECON KMDR KPAO PGOV PREL SNAR EFIN CI
09SANTIAGO958Santiago October 5 Media Report
[...] Gas company "Geotermica del Norte" was able to close the leak caused by its exploration activities near El Tatio geyser field in northern Chile on September 8 (All dailies, 10/5). U.S.-Related News ------------------------ 2. Women's National Service (Sernam) Ministe [...]
2009-10-05 21:50:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDECON KMDR KPAO PGOV PREL SNAR EFIN CI
09SANTIAGO962Santiago October 6 Media Report
[...] Chile ranked first in Latin America and 44th globally in the United Nations Development Program index on human development. The ranking includes variables such as life expectancy (78.5 years),per capita GDP, and access to health and education. Social and gender inequity were two var [...]
2009-10-06 18:28:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDECON KMDR KPAO PGOV PREL SNAR EFIN CI
09SANTIAGO968CHILE-CALIFORNIA PARTNERSHIP CELEBRATES ACHIEVEMENTS, LOOKS
[...] (U) SUMMARY: A California delegation traveled to Chile September 27-29 to recognize the achievements of the Chile-California Partnership and explore more opportunities for engagement. Led by Secretaries of State Dale Bonner and Mike Chrisman, the delegation met with Chilean counterparts to d [...]
2009-10-07 20:56:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDPREL ECON EINV ENRG EAGR OEXC CI
09SANTIAGO97 CHILE MEDIA REPORT - JANUARY 31 - FEBRUARY 2
[...] Dailies continue to highlight different aspects of the investigation of the 1994 Mirage aircraft purchases from Belgium. Dailies also highlighted the FARC's release of four hostages and President Obama's call to Bachelet, inviting her for a state visit. U.S.-Related News ----------------- [...]
2009-02-03 12:14:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO PGOV ECON PREL SNAR EFIN CI
09SANTIAGO970Santiago Oct. 7 Media Report
[...] Congress passed a draft bill that creates a new corporative government for Chile's state-owned copper company Codelco. This is "the most significant" change the company has undergone since its creation in 1976 (Conservative, independent La Tercera, 10/7). U.S. Related News [...]
2009-10-07 21:03:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDECON KMDR KPAO PGOV PREL SNAR EFIN CI
09SANTIAGO972Santiago Oct. 8 Media Report
[...] The Distortions Committee, formed by Central Bank and finance, agriculture, foreign affairs, and economy ministry officials decreed a 15% temporary special duty on powdered milk and gouda cheese imports from Uruguay and Argentina (Conservative, independent La Tercera, 10/8). Salitre [...]
2009-10-08 17:21:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDECON KMDR KPAO PGOV PREL SNAR EFIN CI
09SANTIAGO974Oct. 9 Media Report
[...] Chile ranked fourth on the World Economic Forum financial stability index for 2009. The report included 55 countries, where the UK ranked first (Conservative, influential El Mercurio, 10/9). Salitre Exercise ------------------ 2. Chile changed the hypothetical backg [...]
2009-10-09 19:40:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDECON KMDR KPAO PGOV PREL SNAR EFIN CI
09SANTIAGO978Santiago Oct. 10-13 Media Report
[...] Chile played Colombia in Medellin and won 4-2, therefore qualifying for the World Cup (All dailies, 10/11). U.S.-Related News ----------------------- 2. After almost a month and a half of controversy over the "Salitre" exercise, the U.S. Embassy in Santiago commended [...]
2009-10-13 20:19:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDECON KMDR KPAO PGOV PREL SNAR EFIN CI
09SANTIAGO980Santiago Oct. 14 Media Report
[...] Under Secretary of Interior Patricio Rosende said the government will invoke the Anti-Terrorist Law to prosecute those responsible for burning two trucks, attacking a toll booth, and firiQt private vehicles in the community of Victoria, in southern Chile, over the weekend. The indiv [...]
2009-10-14 14:12:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDECON KMDR KPAO PGOV PREL SNAR EFIN CI
09SANTIAGO986ACTION REQUEST: CHILE WELCOMES UNODC, ASKS FOR MONEY TO
[...] This is an action request. Please see paragraph three. 2. Poloff delivered reftel update to Rodrigo Toledo from the Bureau of International and Human Security at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Toledo welcomed the addition of the United Nations Office on Drug and Crime as [...]
2009-10-15 15:34:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDPARM PREL PTER KGIC CI
09SANTIAGO99 CHILE MEDIA REPORT -FEBRUARY 3
[...] Dailies highlighted that Chile will host the Summit of the Progressive Governance Network in Vina del Mar in late March, and the leaders of Australia, Germany, Great Britain, Spain, Argentina, and Brazil are expected to attend. U.S.-Related News ----------------- 2. 14-year old Marcos Ro [...]
2009-02-03 15:22:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO PGOV ECON PREL SNAR EFIN CI
09SANTIAGO996Santiago Oct. 20 Media Report
[...] A protected witness revealed that the five individuals implicated in last week's attack in the Region of Araucania, where a toll booth was destroyed and several trucks were set on fire, were planning to attack trucks transporting gas and oil from Argentina (Conservative, influential [...]
2009-10-20 19:32:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDECON KMDR KPAO PGOV PREL SNAR EFIN CI
09SANTIAGO998Santiago Oct. 21 Media Report
[...] Hooded individuals carrying shotguns intercepted and burned two trucks in the Region of Araucania, where indigenous communities are reclaiming ancestral lands (All dailies, 10/21). U.S.-Related News ------------------------ 2. Chilean ambassador to the U.S. Jose Goni [...]
2009-10-21 17:56:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDECON KMDR KPAO PGOV PREL SNAR EFIN CI
09STATE111280(U) KUDOS FOR SANTIAGO 000877 (C-AL9-02264)
[...] (C/NF) WASHINGTON ANALYSTS WISH TO THANK POST FOR REFTEL, WHICH PROVIDED TIMELY INSIGHTS INTO THE CHILEAN PRESIDENTIAL RACE. WE ARE INCREASINGLY INTERESTED IN INFORMATION REGARDING THE CAMPAIGNS OF CHILEAN POLITICAL PLAYERS IN THE RUNUP TO THE DECEMBER 2010 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS AND REFTEL [...]
2009-10-28 16:12:00Secretary of StateCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPINR PGOV CI
09STATE1600BLUE LANTERN: DISCUSSIONS WITH EMBASSY, CHILEAN,
[...] (U) SUMMARY: Compliance Specialist Judd Stitziel from the Department's Office of Defense Trade Controls Compliance (PM/DTCC) met 25-26 September 2008 in Santiago with embassy, Chilean, and industry officials to discuss implementation of the Blue Lantern end-use monitoring program and U.S. expo [...]
2009-01-07 21:40:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETTC KOMC CI
09STATE26881OPIC-SUPPORTED INVESTMENT FUND IN THE REGION
[...] This is an action cable. See paragraph 4. 2. OPIC management is considering support of a new $400-$500 million private equity fund, Paladin Realty Latin America Investors III, L.P. (the "Fund") that will be sponsored by Paladin Realty Partners, LLC (the "Sponsor"),of which a $200 million [...]
2009-03-20 13:00:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDEINV BR CI MX PE
09STATE34965RECOGNITION OF OUTSTANDING SUPPORT OF BLUE
[...] I would like to take this opportunity to recognize the outstanding performance of economic officer Jennifer Spande for her exemplary support of the Blue Lantern program in Chile during the past year. As you know, the Blue Lantern program is the Department's primary instrument for monitoring t [...]
2009-04-09 17:52:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDOPDC ETTC KOMC CI
09STATE37071MARCH 2009 OECD WORKING GROUP ON BRIBERY MEETING
[...] (SBU) U.S. delegation (USDEL) members from the Commerce, Justice, and State Departments and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) participated in the OECD Working Group on Bribery (WGB) meeting in Paris March 16-20, 2009. The WGB made significant progress on its Review of Instruments, w [...]
2009-04-15 16:00:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYCH CI ECON EG EINV EN ETRD EZ FR ID IN IS PGOV
09STATE40706(C/NF) KUDOS TO EMBASSY SANTIAGO (C-AL9-00831)
[...] (S/NF) KUDOS TO EMBASSY SANTIAGO FOR PROVIDING TIMELY AND RELEVANT REPORTING THAT WAS USED IN ANALYTIC PRODUCTS TO SUPPORT THE VICE PRESIDENT'S TRIP TO CHILE IN MARCH. 2. (C/NF) REF A PROVIDED EXACT DETAILS ON THE AMOUNT OF MONEY CHILE HAD IN ITS OVERSEAS SOVEREIGN WEALTH FUND. 3. ( [...]
2009-04-23 14:57:00Secretary of StateSECRET//NOFORNPINR PGOV CI
09STATE42637BLUE LANTERN LEVEL 3: POST-LICENSE PRE-SHIPMENT
[...] No summary [...]
2009-04-28 15:15:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDETTC KOMC CI
09STATE57016(S/NF) KUDOS FOR REPORTING IN ADVANCE OF 5TH
[...] (S/NF) WASHINGTON ANALYSTS GREATLY APPRECIATE HIGH-QUALITY REPORTING, BOTH IN RESPONSE TO REF A AND THOSE PREPARED SEPARATELY, FROM POSTS ON US-LATIN AMERICAN RELATIONS AND REGIONAL PREPARATIONS IN THE MONTHS PRECEEDING THE 5TH SUMMIT OF THE AMERICAS. WHILE MANY MORE CABLES WERE ALSO HIGHLY [...]
2009-06-03 14:41:00Secretary of StateSECRET//NOFORNPINR PREL AC AR BB BF BH BL BR CI CO CS CU DO DR
09STATE60599CHILE -- 2009 TIP REPORT: PRESS GUIDANCE AND
[...] This is an action cable; see paras 5 through 7 and 10. 2. On June 16, 2009, at 10:00 a.m. EDT, the Secretary will release the 2009 Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report at a press conference in the Department's press briefing room. This release will receive substantial coverage in domestic an [...]
2009-06-12 00:09:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDKTIP ELAB KCRM KPAO KWMN PGOV PHUM PREL SMIG CI
09STATE6423(C) IRANIAN OUTREACH TO LATIN AMERICA
[...] (S/NF) WASHINGTON ANALYSTS ASSESS THAT TEHRAN IS REACHING OUT TO LATIN AMERICAN COUNTRIES IN ORDER TO REDUCE ITS DIPLOMATIC ISOLATION AND INCREASE TIES TO LEFTIST COUNTRIES IN THE REGION THAT TEHRAN PERCEIVES MAY SHARE ITS ANTI-US AGENDA. PRESIDENT AHMADI-NEJAD APPEARS TO BE THE DRIVING FORC [...]
2009-01-23 21:51:00Secretary of StateSECRET//NOFORNPINR ETRD MARR PREL PTER SNAR AR BH BL BR CI CO CS
09STATE73219(U) SECRETARY'S RESPONSE TO FM FERNANDEZ'S JUNE
[...] (U) Embassy is requested to deliver the letter in paragraph 2 to Chilean Foreign Minister Fernandez as soon as possible in response to his June 22 letter regarding upcoming elections for the position of OAS Secretary General. No signed original will follow. 2. (U) Begin text of letter: D [...]
2009-07-14 23:50:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDOPDC PGOV PREL OAS CI
09STATE92506(U) KUDOS FOR SANTIAGO 000755 (C-AL9-01816)
[...] (C) WASHINGTON ANALYSTS WISH TO THANK EMBASSY FOR REFTEL, WHICH PROVIDED AN EXCELLENT INTRODUCTION TO SEBASTIN PIERA. WITH THE ELECTIONS SET FOR DECEMBER, WE ARE INCREASINGLY INTERESTED IN THE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES, AND THIS CABLE DID AN EXCELLENT JOB OF SUMMARIZING GENERALLY KNOWN FACTS [...]
2009-09-04 18:22:00Secretary of StateCONFIDENTIALPINR PGOV CI
09STATE97434AUSTRALIA GROUP: SUPPLEMENTARY GUIDANCE FOR
[...] (U) This message provides supplmentary guidance on membership and regional nonproliferation issues for the U.S. delegation to the Australia Group plenary in Paris, September 21-25, 2009. ---------- MEMBERSHIP ---------- 2. (C//REL AUSTRALIA GROUP) Russia: -- The Del may not suppor [...]
2009-09-18 22:00:00Secretary of StateCONFIDENTIALPARM PREL ETTC RS KN IR SY KZ BR CI MX
09TEGUCIGALPA1118SECRETARY SOLIS VISITS HONDURAS TO INAUGURATE
[...] (C) Summary: The inauguration of the Verification Commission to monitor Honduras's political accord took place on November 3 during a two-day visit by its two international commissioners, Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis and former President of Chile Ricardo Lagos. The visit took place under [...]
2009-11-06 21:02:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALOVIP PREL PGOV ELAB KDEM PHUM HO US CI OAS
09UNVIEVIENNA141IAEA/DG RACE: CANDIDATES NEED APPLY
[...] (C) Summary: Former Board Chairs Chilean Ambassador Milenko Skoknic and former Slovenian Ambassador Ernesto Petric separately informed Ambassador Schulte April 1-2 that their respective governments are considering nominating them for IAEA Director General. Chile is consulting with other Latin [...]
2009-04-06 12:02:00UNVIECONFIDENTIALAORC PREL PARM TRGY IAEA KNNP JA SF SI CI MY
09USUNNEWYORK1060SINGAPORE ON MODERATE NAM MEMBERS AND NPT/NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT
[...] No summary [...]
2009-11-21 00:51:00USUN New YorkCONFIDENTIALCI CO GT JM MG PARM PREL SN
09USUNNEWYORK520AMBASSADOR RICE MEETS WITH CHILEAN PR MUNOZ
[...] No summary [...]
2009-05-19 21:34:00USUN New YorkCONFIDENTIALPGOV UNGA EFIN CI
09WELLINGTON229DATA COLLECTION OF NEW ZEALAND GOVERNMENT INTERVENTIONS RE
[...] No summary [...]
2009-07-23 04:27:00Embassy WellingtonUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAR AS BC BL BR CI EC FJ ID NZ PA PE PGOV PREL SF
10SANTIAGO1Scenesetter for Assistant Secretary Arturo Valenzuela's
[...] (U) Embassy Santiago warmly welcomes you to Chile. 2010 will be a historic year as Chile celebrates its bicentennial, joins the OECD, and elects its fifth president since the return to democracy in 1990. Bilateral relations have never been better with particularly strong high-level ties and d [...]
2010-01-05 20:04:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV OVIP CI ECON MARR
10SANTIAGO100CHILE'S ENERGY HIGHLIGHTS - NOVEMBER-DECEMBER 2009
[...] (SBU) Summary: This cable provides highlights of activity in the Chilean energy sector during November and December 2009. Chile participated in the United Nations meetings on climate change in Copenhagen and made a voluntary commitment to reduce emissions 20 percent below business as usual by [...]
2010-01-28 20:15:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ENRG SENV TRGY PGOV CI
10SANTIAGO104Embassy Santiago Jan. 29 Media Report
[...] Unemployment decreased 0.5 percent compared to the previous quarter and now stands at 8.6 percent. The participation of women in the labor market was 41.3 percent which is 5.6 percent higher than a decade ago, although still the lowest in the region (Conservative, independent, La Tercera, [...]
2010-01-29 19:55:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDECON KMDR KPAO PGOV PREL SNAR EFIN CI
10SANTIAGO106Chile Demarched on Iran's Universal Periodic Review at UN
[...] (SBU) On January 28, poloff delivered reftel demarche to Ambassador Carmen Hertz, Director of the Office of Human Rights at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and Gerardo Ateaga, Deputy Director. Amb. Hertz said that Chile's representative to the UN Human Rights Council, Amb. Carlos Portales, wo [...]
2010-01-29 20:10:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PREL UN UNHRC IR CI
10SANTIAGO108Chile's Energy Highlights -- November-December 2009
[...] (SBU) Summary: This cable provides highlights of activity in the Chilean energy sector during November and December 2009. Chile participated in the United Nations meetings on climate change in Copenhagen and made a voluntary commitment to reduce emissions 20 percent below business as usual by [...]
2010-01-29 20:28:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ENRG SENV TRGY PGOV CI
10SANTIAGO11CHILE: Presidential Candidate Frei Claims to Expect Victory,
[...] (C) Concertacion presidential candidate Eduardo Frei told Assistant Secretary Valenzuela that Chile's January 17 run-off election will be close, but he expects to win. Frei, who served as Chile's president from 1994-2000, emphasized the strength of the Concertacion network and noted that the [...]
2010-01-15 12:14:00Embassy SantiagoCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL CI
10SANTIAGO12Media Report January 6
[...] Chile's Central Bank reported a 3.1% increase in November 2009, in its Economic Activity Monthly Index (IMACEC.) This is the first monthly increase in a year, which raises the expectations about further expansion. Weisfeiler Case 2. The National Security Archive [...]
2010-01-06 14:31:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDECON KMDR KPAO PGOV PREL SNAR EFIN CI
10SANTIAGO124Santiago Feb. 2 Media Report
[...] President Obama's 2011 budget proposal was front-page news on all major dailies today (2/2). Chile-U.S. 2. Front-page headline: "U.S. President Obama phones Chilean President-elect Sebasti????n Pi????era and commits to continue working closely with Chile" Inside headline [...]
2010-02-02 20:02:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDECON KMDR KPAO PGOV PREL SNAR EFIN CI
10SANTIAGO128Santiago Feb. 3 Media Report
[...] A small boat was hit by winds of up to 40 knots and 20-foot waves in the Chacao Canal in southern Chile and sunk, leaving eight missing. The boat left port without due authorization. No bodies have been recovered (All dailies, 2/3). Chile-U.S. 2. President-elect Pi????era c [...]
2010-02-03 18:38:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDECON KMDR KPAO PGOV PREL SNAR EFIN CI
10SANTIAGO14Media Report January 7
[...] The work relationship between toxicologist Laura B????rgel and former President Eduardo Frei Montalva's son, Jorge Frei Ruiz Tagle, has become a new source of controversy. Reportedly, this could cause the dismissal of Dr. B????rgel from the case since she has certified the thesis about [...]
2010-01-07 14:49:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDECON KMDR KPAO PGOV PREL SNAR EFIN CI
10SANTIAGO15Bachelet Shares Views on South American Leaders with A/S
[...] (C) Summary: President Bachelet emphasized the need to understand the nuances of Latin America's leaders and their countries rather than lumping them into populist and pro-western camps. During a January 12 lunch with A/S Valenzuela, Bachelet was relatively upbeat on Bolivia, reserving parti [...]
2010-01-15 12:57:00Embassy SantiagoCONFIDENTIALPGOV ECON PINR CI CU BL BR AR PREL
10SANTIAGO150Santiago Feb 4 Media Report
[...] President-elect Pi????era and Bachelet discussed the report that Chile will submit to the international court of The Hague to counter Peru's claim to change bilateral maritime borders (All dailies, 2/4). Chile-U.S. 2. Ambassador Paul Simons commented on Chile's invitation to jo [...]
2010-02-04 18:42:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDECON KMDR KPAO PGOV PREL SNAR EFIN CI
10SANTIAGO152Santiago Feb. 5 Media Report
[...] Fear over the instability of Europe's economies and numbers that did not fulfill the expectation of financial analysts caused a drop in stock markets worldwide. Investors sought refuge in the dollar (Financial daily Diario Financiero, 2/5) Chile-U.S. 2. Secretary of the Treasu [...]
2010-02-05 15:06:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDECON KMDR KPAO PGOV PREL SNAR EFIN CI
10SANTIAGO160CHILE: MAY HAVE CONCERNS WITH CITES COP-15 PROPOSALS;
[...] (SBU) ESTHoff delivered reftel points to Ministry of Foreign Affairs-Environment Directorate (MFA/DIMA) CITES Coordinator Nancy Cespedes on January 27. Cespedes informed ESTHoff that Chile may have some concerns with the proposals, e.g., Chile trades in coral and is concerned with identifying [...]
2010-02-05 16:48:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSENV KSCA AORC UNEP CI
10SANTIAGO162CHILE ASSOCIATES WITH COPENHAGEN ACCORD; WILL CONSULT WITH
[...] (SBU) Summary: Chile associated with the Copenhagen accord before January 31. However, it chose not to formalize its voluntary commitment, previously announced by the Chilean Minister of Environment in Copenhagen, to reduce greenhouse gas emissions 20 percent below "business as usual" (BAU) [...]
2010-02-05 18:50:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ENRG SENV PGOV KGHG CI
10SANTIAGO164CHILE HOSTS INTERNATIONAL ICE AND CLIMATE CONFERENCE;
[...] Summary: Chile hosted hundreds of experts from over 22 countries at a three-day international glaciology and climate conference, 1-3 February 2010. Chilean President Michelle Bachelet inaugurated the event with a speech commemorating the country's achievements in glaciology studies, the scie [...]
2010-02-05 19:47:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDECON ENRG SENV PGOV KGHG CI
10SANTIAGO166CHILE: Labor Monitoring and Engagement with FTA Countries
[...] (SBU) Summary: Chile has a developed and steadily growing economy and a stable government which generally protects most worker rights adequately. Areas of concern include low levels of female and youth participation in the workforce, lack of regulation in the informal economy, an inflexible [...]
2010-02-05 19:49:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYELAB ETRD PGOV CI
10SANTIAGO17Former President Lagos Discusses Honduras, Latin America
[...] (C) Summary: During a January 11 meeting with A/S Valenzuela, former President Ricardo Lagos offered any help he can provide in persuading de facto Honduran leader Roberto Micheletti to step down prior to the inauguration of president-elect Porfirio Lobo on January 27. Lagos also discussed [...]
2010-01-15 14:59:00Embassy SantiagoCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV OAS HO CI
10SANTIAGO186CHILE 2009 UPDATED INFORMATION ON CHILD LABOR
[...] Below is Post's response to Ref A request for updated information on the worst forms of child labor and forced labor in Chile. ----------------------- TASKING 1/TVPRA ----------------------- 2. Pol specialist spoke with officials from the Ministry of Labor, the ILO, union [...]
2010-02-08 17:55:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDELAB EIND ETRD PHUM SOCI KTIP AID CI
10SANTIAGO188Santiago Feb. 6-8 Media Report
[...] President-elect Sebastian Pi????era will announce his cabinet tomorrow at 6 p.m. (All dailies, 2/8). Chile-U.S. 2. Asked about Chile's relation with the United States, Foreign Affairs Minister Mariano Fernandez said: "Relations between Chile and the United States have been e [...]
2010-02-08 18:26:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDECON KMDR KPAO PGOV PREL SNAR EFIN CI
10SANTIAGO19Chilean Presidential Candidate Pinera Exudes Confidence and
[...] (C) Summary/Comment: Exuding confidence during his January 12 meeting with A/S Valenzuela, Sebastian Pinera pronounced that he will easily win the January 17 presidential election run-off. He outlined his intention to restore Chile's productivity and economic growth and reform health and edu [...]
2010-01-15 16:09:00Embassy SantiagoCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV ECON PINR CI
10SANTIAGO194Santiago Feb. 9 Media Report
[...] President-elect Pi????era will announce his cabinet today at the History Museum (government headquarter until 1845). Among the possible cabinet members is Lagos' former defense minister Jaime Ravinet, of the Christian Democratic Party. Sources said the cabinet will incorporate six women [...]
2010-02-09 17:55:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDECON KMDR KPAO PGOV PREL SNAR EFIN CI
10SANTIAGO2Media Report January 2-4
[...] Article in the Science and Technology section making reference to a recent book review in the New York Times of "The Department of Mad Scientists: How DARPA is Remaking our World from the Internet to Artificial Limbs" by Michael Belfiore's. "In 2008 DARPA's Director visited Chile se [...]
2010-01-04 14:38:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDECON KMDR KPAO PGOV PREL SNAR EFIN CI
10SANTIAGO200Santiago Feb. 10 Media Report
[...] Sebasti????n Pi????era announced his new cabinet: 6 women, most are Catholic University alumni, and eleven have graduate studies in the United States, primarily from Harvard and the University of Chicago (All dailies, 2/10). 2. Pi????era's cabinet members: undergraduate and g [...]
2010-02-10 20:30:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDECON KMDR KPAO PGOV PREL SNAR EFIN CI
10SANTIAGO202PLACEMENT REPORT ON CHILE'S REGIONAL CONCEPCION TV CO-OP:
[...] Summary: Post is pleased to report the results of the FY09 Regional Concepcion TV Co-op project, March 15-30, 2009. The crew included Radio Bio-Bio Press Chief and Regional TV Channel 9 journalist Salvador Schwartzmann, cameraman and producer German Saavedra, and LES Press Specialist Veronica C [...]
2010-02-11 16:32:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDENRG SENV KPAO PGOV ECON EFIN CI
10SANTIAGO206Santiago Feb. 11 Media Report
[...] President-elect Pi????era instructed his new cabinet members to resign from any company boards and foundations to which they belong by February 28. He also instructed them to sell their shares in companies that could in any way lead to a conflict of interest or that are supervised by thei [...]
2010-02-11 19:09:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDECON KMDR KPAO PGOV PREL SNAR EFIN CI
10SANTIAGO208Santiago Feb 12 Media Report
[...] President-elect Pi????era will sell on Tuesday 792,000 shares share of Las Condes Medical Clinic in the local stock market. This amount to 9.76% of ownership (Business daily Estrategia, 2/12). OAS 2. Foreign Minister Mariano Fernandez responded to an editorial published by [...]
2010-02-12 17:07:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDECON KMDR KPAO PGOV PREL SNAR EFIN CI
10SANTIAGO21Sunday's Chilean Presidential Election: Pinera Appears
[...] (SBU) Summary: Opposition candidate Sebastian Pinera leads government candidate Eduardo Frei by 2-6 points just days before the January 17 presidential runoff election. Although the most recent (and only nationwide) poll shows the two in a statistical dead heat, Pinera and his campaign exude [...]
2010-01-15 19:29:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV CI
10SANTIAGO212Santiago February 14-16 Media Report
[...] President-elect Sebastian Pi????era announced his decision to support Jose Miguel Insulza's reelection to the OAS (All dailies 2/13). OAS 2. President-elect Pinera met with OAS Secretary General Insulza last week in Santiago to inform him that he would endorse his reelection. R [...]
2010-02-16 20:05:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDECON KMDR KPAO PGOV PREL SNAR EFIN CI
10SANTIAGO222CHILE'S ECONOMIC HIGHLIGHTS - END OF 2009
[...] SUMMARY: Chile has finally emerged from its recession. The economy showed concrete signs of recovery at the end of 2009 as economic activity expanded in November and December for the first time in nine months. Economists estimate the Chilean economy shrank by 1.7% in 2009, however, GDP is e [...]
2010-02-17 17:00:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDECON EFIN ETRD EINV ECIN CI
10SANTIAGO224Santiago Feb. 17 Meda Report
[...] President-elect Sebasti????n Pi????era sold 9.7% of his shares in Las Condes medical clinic for US$37 million (Financial daily Diario Financiero, 2/17). Haiti 2. Brazilian Foreign Minister Amorim arrived in Santiago last week with two proposals. He proposed to President-el [...]
2010-02-17 18:02:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDECON KMDR KPAO PGOV PREL SNAR EFIN CI
10SANTIAGO228Santiago Media Report
[...] President-elect Pi????era will announce his future undersecretaries on Friday at 11 a.m. in the Fine Arts Museum. He also confirmed that he would include individuals close to or from the Concertacion (Conservative, influential newspaper-of-record El Mercurio, 2/18). IPR 2. [...]
2010-02-18 17:41:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDECON KMDR KPAO PGOV PREL SNAR EFIN CI
10SANTIAGO23President-Elect Pinera Invites President Obama to Chile
[...] (C) Summary. President-elect Sebastian Pinera reiterated to the Ambassador his invitation to President Obama to visit Chile and use Santiago to deliver a "Cairo-style" speech to the region. He inquired about an early visit to Washington and requested a high level U.S. delegation attend his M [...]
2010-01-19 20:23:00Embassy SantiagoCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV CI
10SANTIAGO236Santiago Feb. 19 Media Report
[...] President-elect Pi????era began the process to his shares in commercial airline Lan Chile which are worth US$ 1.237 billion (Conservative, independent La Tercera, 2/19). Chile-U.S. 2. David Rockefeller, Jr., was interviewed during his visit to southern Chile. Rockefeller has [...]
2010-02-19 15:47:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDECON KMDR KPAO PGOV PREL SNAR EFIN CI
10SANTIAGO238Santiago Feb. 20-22 Media Report
[...] It is expected that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will Pi????era's swearing-in ceremony on March 11. The presidents of Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay, Ecuador, Colombia, Uruguay, and Guatemala have confirmed their attendance (La Tercera, 2/21). 2. On Thursday President-e [...]
2010-02-22 20:58:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDECON KMDR KPAO PGOV PREL SNAR EFIN CI
10SANTIAGO24Media Report January 8
[...] The annual inflation rate in Chile dropped to -1.4% in 2009, the lowest in 74 years. Chile-U.S.-Latin America 2. Under absolute confidentiality, Foreign Minister Mariano Fernandez traveled to Venezuela last night on a mission with a specific goal: to promote OAS [...]
2010-01-08 15:34:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDECON KMDR KPAO PGOV PREL SNAR EFIN CI
10SANTIAGO242Santiago Feb. 23 Media Report
[...] President Bachelet and President-elect PiC1. President Bachelet and President-elect PiC Mercurio, 2/23). Editorials 9. Editorial on the recent signature of the Chile-U.S. tax agreement: "The agreement was concluded after 10 years of talks between the two countries.... Chile is neg [...]
2010-02-23 19:28:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDECON KMDR KPAO PGOV PREL SNAR EFIN CI
10SANTIAGO25Meet Chile's President-Elect, Sebastian Pinera
[...] (SBU) Summary: Chile's president-elect, Sebastian Pinera, is a savvy, Harvard-educated billionaire and former senator known to work seven days a week. Although described by some international press as "right wing" and sometimes compared to Italy's scandal-prone Silvio Berlusconi, neither is accurat [...]
2010-01-22 20:29:00Embassy SantiagoCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL ECON CI
10SANTIAGO254Chile: TIP Report
[...] (U) The following information is Post's submission per ref A. Some requests for statistics are still pending. Post will continue to gather information on TIP and submit relevant updates prior to April 15. 2. SUMMARY: The GOC maintained its efforts to combat TIP. Individual agencies, inclu [...]
2010-02-25 12:28:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDELAB KTIP KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF CI
10SANTIAGO256Santiago Feb. 25 Media Report
[...] All dailies (2/25) report that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will arrive in Santiago next week to meet with President Bachelet and President-elect Pinera and that she would not attend Pinera's swearing-in on March 11. Only government-owned La Nacion reported differently saying that th [...]
2010-02-25 19:09:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDECON KMDR KPAO PGOV PREL SNAR EFIN CI
10SANTIAGO258Santiago Feb. 26 Media Report
[...] President-elect Pinera condemned the death of Cuban dissident Orlando Zapata (All dailies, 2/26). Cuba 2. Pinera's spokesperson issued the following statement: "President-elect Pinera expresses his most sincere condolences to the family of Cuban citizen and human rights defe [...]
2010-02-26 16:22:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDECON KMDR KPAO PGOV PREL SNAR EFIN CI
10SANTIAGO27With Pinera Victory, Post-Pinochet Voting Trends are Broken
[...] (SBU) Summary: Sebastian Pinera's presidential election victory on January 17 signaled the end of Chilean politics dominated by the legacy of the Pinochet regime. The right--whom many believed could not win a majority in a presidential election--ran an excellent campaign and demonstrated cro [...]
2010-01-27 20:15:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV SOCI CI
10SANTIAGO29Chile's New Political Landscape
[...] (SBU) Summary: The election of Sebastian Pinera as the next Chilean president turns Chilean politics on its head. The political entities that were created before and during the transition from dictatorship to democracy--the center-left Concertacion coalition and the center-right Alianza--hav [...]
2010-01-27 20:23:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV CI
10SANTIAGO30Media Report January 9-11
[...] A/S for WHA Arturo Valenzuela will visit Chile Monday and Tuesday on a tour that includes meetings with government and political representatives. The U.S. high-ranking official will meet with President Michelle Bachelet, Foreign Minister Mariano Fernandez and Finance Minister Andres [...]
2010-01-11 14:40:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDECON KMDR KPAO PGOV PREL SNAR EFIN CI
10SANTIAGO33CHILE: Bachelet and President-elect Pinera Working Towards a
[...] (U) Summary: With the inauguration of president-elect Sebastian Pinera less than six weeks away, both Pinera and outgoing president Michelle Bachelet are focused on making the historic transition smooth and efficient. Both sides have appointed transition teams who are working closely to maxi [...]
2010-02-03 17:42:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL ECON CI
10SANTIAGO35Chile Response to Iran Human Rights Demarche
[...] No summary [...]
2010-02-08 20:14:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM IR CI
10SANTIAGO38Chilean Response to Haitian Earthquake
[...] (U) Chile has taken or will take the following efforts in response to the earthquake that hit Port au Prince, Haiti. Initial Chilean Actions 2. (U) Chile has more than 500 troops in Chile as part of MINUSTAH. The Chilean armed forces operated their three helicopters in Haiti t [...]
2010-01-13 21:12:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAEMR PREL CI HA
10SANTIAGO40Santiago Chile Media Report, January 14
[...] Dailies provided extensive coverage on the aftermath of the earthquake in Haiti, the two Chilean women who are missing in the island and international assistance efforts. Haiti/U.S.-Chile 2. "Obama Calls President Bachelet to Coordinate Aid." At approximately 7:0 [...]
2010-01-14 15:10:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDECON KMDR KPAO PGOV PREL SNAR EFIN CI
10SANTIAGO46A/S VALENZUELA DISCUSSES CHILE'S ECONOMIC STRENGTHS AND ROLE
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: A/S Valenzuela met with the Minister of Finance on January 12 to discuss Chile's accession to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD),the state of Chile's economy, and plans for the next Chilean administration. The discussion ranged from innovation to [...]
2010-01-15 11:54:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ETRD EINV ELAB PGOV SOCI CI
10SANTIAGO49Scenesetter for Secretary Clinton's March 1-2 Visit to Chile
[...] (SBU) Welcome to Chile. Your visit in the final days of the Bachelet administration will highlight the outstanding relations that we have enjoyed with Chile over the past four years. You will also meet President-elect Sebastian Pinera, an energetic moderate whose election marks a historic ch [...]
2010-02-25 16:21:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV OVIP ECON CI
10SANTIAGO50Sebastian Pinera Wins Chilean Presidential Election
[...] (U) Summary: In a historic January 17 election, Chilean voters selected opposition candidate Sebastian Pinera as the next president of Chile. Pinera, a Harvard-educated business tycoon from the center-right National Renewal party, will be the first conservative to lead Chile since the Pinoch [...]
2010-01-18 01:26:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL ECON CI
10SANTIAGO51Chilean Perspectives on Rio Group Summit in Cancun and
[...] (C) On February 24, Ambassador spoke separately with President-elect Pinera and Foreign Minister Fernandez on the recent Rio Group Summit in Mexico. Both were upbeat on the outcome with respect to the new regional body. 2. (C) According to Pinera, the "conference" which was announc [...]
2010-02-25 20:04:00Embassy SantiagoCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV OAS CI
10SANTIAGO54Santiago Media Report January 20
[...] President-elect Sebastian Pi????era appointed his close advisor, Rodrigo Hinzpeter, to manage the establishment of the incoming administration. Among Hinzpeter's first duties are to designate delegates at the Foreign Ministry's Protocol Office and the Presidency's Administration Off [...]
2010-01-20 16:10:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDECON KMDR KPAO PGOV PREL SNAR EFIN CI
10SANTIAGO56CHILEAN PARTICIPANTS FOR ILEA LIMA - FINANCIAL INVESTIGATIVE
[...] In response to reftel, paragraphs two through four provide information regarding Chilean participants of the ILEA Financial Investigative Techniques program to be held January 25-29, 2010. 2. The nine (9) Chilean participants for the ILEA FIT program are: Name: Hector Ivan BARROS V [...]
2010-01-20 20:03:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDSNAR ASEC AFIN KCRM PREL PE CI
10SANTIAGO58Media Report January 21
[...] "Hillary Clinton Phones Pi????era and Presidents Confirm Attendance to Inauguration" Even though on Tuesday (President-elect) Sebastian Pi????era received a greeting letter from the United States, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called the new President yesterday to congratu [...]
2010-01-21 13:51:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDECON KMDR KPAO PGOV PREL SNAR EFIN CI
10SANTIAGO60Media Report January 21
[...] "Hillary Clinton Phones Pi????era and Presidents Confirm Attendance to Inauguration" Even though on Tuesday (President-elect) Sebastian Pi????era received a greeting letter from the United States, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called the new President yesterday to congratu [...]
2010-01-21 14:26:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDECON KMDR KPAO PGOV PREL SNAR EFIN CI
10SANTIAGO62Media Report January 21
[...] "Hillary Clinton Phones Pi????era and Presidents Confirm Attendance to Inauguration" Even though on Tuesday (President-elect) Sebastian Pi????era received a greeting letter from the United States, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called the new President yesterday to congratu [...]
2010-01-21 15:03:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDECON KMDR KPAO PGOV PREL SNAR EFIN CI
10SANTIAGO64Media Report January 21
[...] "Hillary Clinton Phones Pi????era and Presidents Confirm Attendance to Inauguration" Even though on Tuesday (President-elect) Sebastian Pi????era received a greeting letter from the United States, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called the new President yesterday to congratu [...]
2010-01-21 15:16:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDECON KMDR KPAO PGOV PREL SNAR EFIN CI
10SANTIAGO66Media Report January 21
[...] "Hillary Clinton Phones Pi????era and Presidents Confirm Attendance to Inauguration" Even though on Tuesday (President-elect) Sebastian Pi????era received a greeting letter from the United States, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called the new President yesterday to congratu [...]
2010-01-21 18:14:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDECON KMDR KPAO PGOV PREL SNAR EFIN CI
10SANTIAGO7Enriquez-Ominami Predicts Pinera Victory, Plans New
[...] (C) Summary. Despite his electoral losses, former presidential candidate Marco Enriquez-Ominami is interested in remaining engaged in politics and hopes to form a new political coalition to include his supporters and two smaller Concertacion parties, the Party for Democracy (PPD) and the Radi [...]
2010-01-14 20:22:00Embassy SantiagoCONFIDENTIALPGOV ECON CI
10SANTIAGO76Media Report January 22
[...] A political pact settled by the two right coalition parties RN and UDI with the Radical Social Democratic Party (PRSD) and the Independent Regionalist Party (PRI) to distribute the chairs of the legislative committees at the Higher and Lower chambers triggered another crisis in the g [...]
2010-01-22 15:03:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDECON KMDR KPAO PGOV PREL SNAR EFIN CI
10SANTIAGO8Media Report January 5
[...] In an attempt to reach an agreement with the mining workers on strike, Chile's state-owned copper mine authorities increased its initial offer by improving its wage and benefit proposal. Former President Frei's Death 2. The two physicians who are facing homicide [...]
2010-01-05 14:01:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDECON KMDR KPAO PGOV PREL SNAR EFIN CI
10SANTIAGO88Santiago Jan. 26 Media Report
[...] La Moneda is trying to avoid further conflict with the Government of Venezuela over the suspension of the Chilean TV broadcast station (Conservative, independent La Tercera, 1/26). Haiti 2. In an emergency meeting yesterday in Montreal, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper sa [...]
2010-01-26 19:53:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDECON KMDR KPAO PGOV PREL SNAR EFIN CI
10SANTIAGO9A/S Valenzuela Reviews Regional Issues with Chilean Foreign
[...] (C) Summary. In a January 12 meeting with WHA A/S Valenzuela, FM Fernandez pressed to set the timing for an extraordinary OAS meeting to elect a new Secretary General. The two discussed Honduras, agreeing on the importance of resolving the status of both de facto President Micheletti and Pr [...]
2010-01-15 12:11:00Embassy SantiagoCONFIDENTIALPREL ETRD SNAR OAS CI HO BL
10SANTIAGO94Embassy Santiago Jan. 27 Media Report
[...] 310 Chileans are waiting to be evacuated near the Machu Picchu ruins in Peru, where bad weather left them in isolation with no food or water (All dailies, 1/27). Haiti 2 Chilean Ambassador to Haiti, Marcel Young, has been in Port-au-Prince six years. He has lived through P [...]
2010-01-27 20:32:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDECON KMDR KPAO PGOV PREL SNAR EFIN CI
10SANTIAGO96Embassy Santiago Jan. 28 Media Report
[...] The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) made several recommendations for Chile to stabilize its economic growth including stronger regulations for the financial market (Estrategia, 1/28). State of the Union Address 2. Headline: "President Obama's mea [...]
2010-01-28 17:22:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDECON KMDR KPAO PGOV PREL SNAR EFIN CI
10STATE18595MGCI01: CHILE EARTHQUAKE SITUATION REPORT NO. 1
[...] (SBU) The 8.8-magnitude earthquake struck at 0134 EST 200 miles southwest of Santiago and 70 miles northeast of Concepcion at a depth of 22 miles. (Ops/USGS e-mail) 2. (SBU) Aftershocks up to 6.9-magnitude continue to hit Chile. (Ops/USGS e-mail) 3. (SBU) Three million people were expo [...]
2010-02-28 03:39:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAEMR ASEC CASC KFLO MARR PREL PINR AMGT CI
10STATE18596MGCI01: CHILE EARTHQUAKE SITUATION REPORT NO. 2
[...] (U) President Obama expressed condolences to President Bachelet, commended the Government of Chile's disaster response, and stated the United States stands ready to assist with rescue and recovery efforts. (Reuters) 2. (SBU) Ambassador Simons spoke to Chilean Foreign Minister Fernandez and [...]
2010-02-28 03:45:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAEMR ASEC CASC KFLO MARR PREL PINR AMGT CI
10STATE18653MGCI01: CHILE EARTHQUAKE MONITORING GROUP
[...] (SBU) President Bachelet announced more than 700 people have been killed in the quake, report the media. All official Americans have been accounted for, confirms Embassy Santiago. Seventeen locally-engaged staff and 36 contract employees remain unaccounted for due to poor communications [...]
2010-02-28 22:05:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAEMR ASEC CASC KFLO MARR PREL PINR AMGT CI
98CARACAS3816 CHAVEZ VICTORY LAP AROUND THE REGION
[...] (U) PRESIDENT-ELECT HUGO CHAVEZ PAID POST ELECTION COURTESY CALLS ON ARGENTINE PRESIDENT CARLOS MENEM, CHILEAN PRESIDENT EDUARDO FREI, BRAZILIAN PRESIDENT HENRIQUE CARDOZO, AND COLOMBIAN PRESIDENT CARLOS PASTRANA DURING A DECEMBER 15-18 WHIRLWIND REGIONAL TOUR OF BRAZIL (REF B),ARGENTINA (REF [...]
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