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| Identifier | Subject | Date | Office | Classification | Tags |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 07LAPAZ2730 |
USDA IN BOLIVIA: FEEDING CHILDREN, FORTIFYING [...] (SBU) Since 2005, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) has donated about $7.3 million through NGOs to Bolivia. One program provides a daily hot meal to approximately 20%-25% of rural school children in the nation. The program has helped build school greenhouses, chicken coup [...] |
2007-10-11 16:46:00 | Embassy La Paz | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON PGOV AGR FAO FAS IFAD IICA BL |
| 07LAPAZ2928 |
READY TO GAMBLE ON BIOFUELS IN BOLIVIA? [...] (C) The potential for biofuel development in Bolivia is significant: land is abundant, fertile, and cheap; labor is plentiful (and employment demands great); and there is even an under-used pipeline to carry the fuel to a pacific port. Government rhetoric, lack of legal definitions, and pote [...] |
2007-10-31 20:18:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV AGR FAO FAS IFAD IICA PREL EPET BL |
| 07LAPAZ3038 |
EVO: OPPOSITION WAGING ECONOMIC WAR [...] (C) President Evo Morales declared in a November 15 speech that opposition forces are trying to sabotage his administration through economic means. As a defensive measure in this "economic war", Morales temporarily eliminated the tariff on key agricultural imports, prohibited the exportatio [...] |
2007-11-16 21:38:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV PREL AGR AADP FAO FAS IFAD IICA BL |
| 07LAPAZ3230 |
PL-480: WE CAN'T GIVE MONEY AWAY. [...] (C) Institutional incompetence, politicking, and resistance to any cooperation with the United States is hamstringing USDA programs in Bolivia. At the end of the Title I wheat monetization program in 2005, a committee within the PL-480 Secretariat was set up to administer the approximately [...] |
2007-12-11 19:38:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV AGR FAO FAS IFAD IICA BL |
| 07LAPAZ3236 |
PL-480: WE CAN'T GIVE MONEY AWAY [...] (C) Institutional incompetence, politicking, and resistance to cooperation with the United States is hampering USDA programs in Bolivia. At the end of the Title I wheat monetization program in 2005, a committee within the PL-480 Secretariat was set up to administer the approximately US$6 [...] |
2007-12-12 15:04:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV AGR FAO FAS IFAD IICA BL |
| 07LAPAZ3259 |
DIESEL SHORTAGES: EXCUSES, BLAME, AND INFLATION [...] (SBU) Over the past four months, Bolivia has suffered repeated shortages of diesel, especially in the eastern, agricultural powerhouse of Santa Cruz where the concurrent winter harvest and summer planting seasons are hampered by fuel shortages. Logistical problems appear to be principally t [...] |
2007-12-14 18:41:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV PREL FAS IICA AGR FAO IFAD BL |
| 08LAPAZ111 |
BOLIVIAN FOOD SAFETY TAKES BACK SEAT [...] (C) The Bolivian Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (SENASAG) is facing a funding crisis heading into the new year. The termination of an Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) loan and an unwillingness to accept administrative controls mandated by the P.L. 480 program leave SENASAG [...] |
2008-01-15 20:24:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV AGR FAO FAS IFAD IICA EINV BL |
| 08LAPAZ1175 |
AGRICULTURAL DEMARCHES DELIVERED, BOLIVIAN FOOD [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 5. 2. (SBU) EconOff delivered demarche regarding the U.S. candidate for Chairperson FAO/WHO Codex Alimentarius Commission (Ref. A) to Carmen Timeo, the new head of the Bolivian Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (SENASAG). The [...] |
2008-05-21 20:31:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV AGR FAO FAS IFAD IICA BL |
| 08LAPAZ2601 |
BOLIVIAN FOOD SAFETY: TENTATIVE STEPS FORWARD [...] (C) The Bolivian Plant and Animal Health Service (SENASAG) has spent the better part of 2008 trying to reorganize and line up operational funding. Our effort to fund technical programs with remaining Title I funds has been caught up in political battles and the refusal by some members of th [...] |
2008-12-18 12:37:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV AGR FAO FAS IFAD IICA BL EFIN PINR |
| 09KINGSTON458 |
JAMAICA: DELIVERY OF DEMARCHE ON UPCOMING ELECTION OF NEW [...] (SBU) Per reftel, EmbOff delivered demarche to determine whether Jamaica will present a candidate or support another country's candidate for Director General (DG) of the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA) at its biennial meeting in October in Montego Bay, Jamaica. D [...] |
2009-06-09 19:11:00 | Embassy Kingston | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ABUD AGR AORC EAGR ECON ETRD FAO FAS IICA OAS PGOV |
| 09KINGSTON902 |
JAMAICA: DELIVERY OF DEMARCHE ON U.S. GOVERNMENT SUPPORT FOR [...] (U) Per reftel, Emboff delivered demarche requesting the support of the Government of Jamaica (GOJ) for the candidacy of Dr. Victor Villalobos for Director General of the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA) at the Inter-American Board of Agriculture (IABA) meeting in [...] |
2009-10-27 19:51:00 | Embassy Kingston | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ABUD EAGR AORC ECON ETRD FAO FAS IICA OAS PGOV PREL |
| 09LAPAZ871 |
PL-480: TWO YEARS OF FRUSTRATION [...] (C) As the Bolivian State presses forward with its desire to more fully control U.S. donations, the attempt to program and use PL-480 Title I funds provides an insightful case study. Following the monetization of agricultural commodities in 2004-05, about $6.7 million was planned to be joint [...] |
2009-06-15 13:13:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV AGR FAO FAS IFAD IICA BL EFIN PINR |