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SECSTATE SECTOR SECURITY SEMAAN GABY EID SEN SENC SENG SENS SENU SENV SENVQGR SENVSPL SENVSXE SEP SERBIA SERZH SETTLEMENTS SEVN SEXP SF SFNV SG SGNV SGWI SH SHANNON SHI SHUM SI SILVASANDE SIMS SIPDI SIPDIS SIPR SIPRNET SIPRS SIUK SK SKCA SKEP SKI SKSAF SL SLM SLOVAK SM SMAR SMI SMIG SMIL SMIT SMITH SMRT SN SNA SNAP SNAR SNUC SO SOC SOCI SOCIA SOCIETY SOCIO SOCIS SOCISZX SOCR SOCY SOE SOFA SOI SOIC SOLI SOLIC SOM SOMALIA SOPN SORT SOSI SOVIET SOWGC SP SPAS SPC SPCE SPCVIS SPECI SPECIALIST SPILL SPP SPSTATE SR SREF SRIT SRS SRYI SSA SSH ST STAG START STATE STC STEINBERG STEPHEN HADLEY STET STP STR STUDENT SU SUCCESSION SUFFRAGE SULLIVAN SUMMIT SUR SUSAN SV SW SWHO SWMN SX SXG SY SYAI SYMBOL SYR SYRIA SYSI SYTH SZ TA TAGS TALAL TAUSCHER TAX TB TBI TBID TBIO TBIOZK TBKIO TBO TC TCOR TCSENV TD TDA TE TECH TECHNOLOGY TER TERAA TERFIN TERR TERROR TERRORISM TF TFIN TG TGRY TH THANH THE THERESE THIRDTERM THKSJA THOMAS THOMAS THOMMA THPY TI TIA TIBO TIFA TINT TIO TIP TITI TIUZ TJ TK TL TM TN 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KUIR KUM KUNA KUNC KUNH KUNP KUNR KUS KUWAIT KV KVBL KVIP KVIR KVIS KVPR KVRC KVRP KW KWAC KWAK KWAWC KWBC KWBG KWBW KWCI KWCR KWGB KWHG KWIC KWIM KWIR KWKN KWM KWMJN KWMM KWMN KWN KWNM KWNN KWOMN KWPA KWPB KWPG KWPR KWRC KWRF KWRG KWUN KWWT KWWW KX KY KZ LA LAB LABOR LANSANA LANTERN LARREA LARS LAS LAURA LAVIN LAW LB LBAR LBY LE LEAGUE LEB LEBIK LEGAT LEGATT LEIS LEON LEVINE LEW LG LGAT LH LI LIB LICC LIMA LINE LK LMS LN LO LOG LOPEZ LORAN LOTT LOVE LR LS LT LTG LTTE LU LV LVPR LY LZ MA MAAR MACEDONIA MACP MANUEL MANUEL SERGIO GONZALEZ MAP MAPP MAPS MAR MARAD MARANTIS MARIA MARIE MARINO MARITIME MARK MARQUEZ MARR MARS MARTIN MARV MAS MASC MASS MATT MAYA MB MBM MC MCA MCAP MCAPARR MCAPN MCAPP MCAPS MCAT MCC MCCAIN MCCONNELL MCCP MCGRAW MCRM MCTRE MD MDA MDC MDO ME MEA MED MEDIA MEETINGS MENDIETA MEP MEPI MEPN MEPP MERCOSUR MESUR MEX MF MFA MFO MG MGL MGMT MGOV MGT MGTA MH MHUC MI MIAH MIC MICHAEL MICHEL MIGUEL FELIPE CANAHUATI YACAMAN MIGUEL VARGAS MALDONADO MIK MIKE MIL MILI MILITANTS MILITARY MILLENNIUM MINURSO MINUSTAH MITCHELL MJ MK ML MLS MMAR MMED MN MNLF MNNC MNNUC MNU MNUC MNUCH MNUCWA MNUM MNUN MNUR MNUS MNVC MO MOHAMAD MOHAMED HESHAM ELDIN YOUSSEF MOHAMMAD MOLINA MONTENEGRO MONUC MONY MOOPS MOP MOPP MOPPS MOPS MORALES MORG MOROCCO MORS MOS MOTO MOTT MP MPOL MPOS MPP MPS MQADHAFI MR MRCRE MRRR MRS MRSEC MS MSG MSIG MT MTAA MTAG MTCAE MTCR MTCRA MTCRE MTRCE MTRE MTRRE MTS MU MUC MUCN MUKASEY MULLEN MUNC MURAD MURRAY MV MW MX MY MZ NA NAC NACB NADIA NAFTA NAM NAMSA NANCY NAR NARC NARCOTICS NARR NAS NASA NAT NATEU NATGAS NATIONAL NATO NATOAFGHAN NATOBALKANS NATOIRAQ NATOOPS NATOPOLICY NATSIOS NAVO NB NBTS NBU NC NCCC NCD NCT NCTC NDI NDP NE NEA NEC NEGROPONTE NEI NELSON NEPAD NERG NET NEW NFATC NFMS NFSO NG NGO NGUYEN NH NI NICHOLAS NICOLE NIH NIPP NK NKWG NL NLD NLIAEA NLO NMFS NMNUC NMUC NNPT NO NOAA NOI NOK NON NONE NORAD NOTAG NOVO NP NPA NPG NPT NR NRC NRG NRR NRRC NS NSC NSF NSFO NSG NSSP NT NTDB NTSB NTTC NU NUC NUIN NV NW NZ NZUS OA OAO OARC OAS OASC 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08BUENOSAIRES1415 | Argentine President Announces "Administered Trade" Policy [...] (SBU) Responding to fears that slower global growth and a significant Brazilian devaluation will prompt waves of cheap imports "dumped" on the Argentine market, GoA President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner (CFK) announced an "administered trade" and safeguard policy to protect local employment [...] | 2008-10-15 17:33:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECON WTRO AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1418 | Argentina's Buenos Aires Province-owned Bank [...] (SBU) Guillermo Francos, President of Argentina's second largest public bank, Banco de la Provincia de Buenos Aires (BP),is looking to expand secured lending to provincial small and medium enterprise for investment in new productive capacity. Outside of BP's regular lending activity, Francos [...] | 2008-10-15 19:10:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON EINV PGOV PINR AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1420 | ARGENTINA: AMIA PROSECUTOR DESCRIBES IMPENDING [...] (C) Summary: Alberto Nisman, Argentina's Special Prosecutor to investigate the 1994 terrorist attack against the Argentine Israeli Mutual Association (AMIA),called on the Ambassador October 14, 2008 to provide advance notice of what he said would be the first civil action to be advanced again [...] | 2008-10-15 22:53:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER KJUS PGOV PREL EFIN IR AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1421 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAMS [...] No summary [...] | 2008-10-16 12:13:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PINR SNAR AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1426 | Argentina's Buenos Aires Province Taxman: Public Profile, [...] (SBU) Santiago Montoya, tax chief of Buenos Aries province, Argentina's largest, is riding a wave of popularity following high-profile tax compliance sweeps of wealthy neighborhoods. This popular support, he told Ambassador, demolishes the Argentine political truism that zealous tax enforcement [...] | 2008-10-17 12:30:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON EINV PREL PGOV AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1427 | Argentina: American Chamber Describes Investment [...] (SBU) As the American Chamber of Commerce in Argentina celebrates its ninetieth anniversary, member company reps noted to visiting WHA DAS McMullen their long and successful tenures in Argentina's historically volatile economic environment. U.S. companies remain broadly profitable, and a numbe [...] | 2008-10-17 12:33:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECON WTRO AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1434 | ARGENTINA: LA RIOJA GOVERNOR WELCOMES U.S. [...] (SBU) Summary: La Rioja Governor and Peronist party member Luis Beder Herrera described his rural province's economy and expressed hope for U.S. investment in the mining area. The Governor asked about U.S. relations with Argentina, and the Ambassador highlighted strong cooperation in a wide [...] | 2008-10-20 12:02:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV ECON AR |
08BUENOSAIRES144 | BOLIVARIAN VISION FOR ARGENTINE CATARACT PATIENTS [...] Argentines needing cataract surgery are traveling to Bolivia for treatment by Cuban doctors. A leading Buenos Aires newspaper reported that approximately 17,000 Argentine citizens crossed the border for that reason over the past two years, although that figure is likely inflated. The GOA wil [...] | 2008-02-07 13:31:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL SOCI EAID PREF PROP TBIO AR CU VZ |
08BUENOSAIRES1440 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR U.S. TRAINING PROGRAMS [...] No summary [...] | 2008-10-21 16:55:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PINR PTER MARR AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1442 | Argentina: Cash-Strapped GoA to Nationalize Private Pension [...] (SBU) The GoA will announce formally October 21 its plans to submit a bill to Congress to "rescue" future retirees by nationalizing Argentina's private pension system. Argentina's social security system was partially privatized in 1994, with workers given the right to choose between affiliatin [...] | 2008-10-21 18:19:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON EINV PGOV AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1443 | Argentina's auto sector still somewhat strong despite [...] (U) The Argentine auto sector is on track for another record-breaking year in 2008, in spite of the adverse impact of the global financial crisis on the Argentine economy and recent high profile media reports of slowdowns in sales and planned layoffs. Production, sales, and exports are at all-t [...] | 2008-10-21 19:28:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EINV EIND ETRD ELAB AR BR |
08BUENOSAIRES1444 | ARGENTINA: RUSSIAN DELEGATION PROMOTES DEFENSE [...] (SBU) Summary: Argentine Defense Minister Nilda Garre hosted the Secretary of Russia's National Security Council, Nikolai Patrushev, on October 15, entertaining Russian proposals for military sales, training, and non-military cooperation including in the field of nuclear energy. Although poten [...] | 2008-10-22 14:32:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MARR PREL PGOV ECON RU AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1445 | AMCHAM ARGENTINA CELEBRATES 90TH ANNIVERSARY [...] (U) The American Chamber of Commerce in Argentina (AMCHAM) is currently celebrating its 90th Anniversary. Embassy and AMCHAM have organized several successful celebrating events and we continue to work together vigorously to promote US values and the positive role of US companies in Argentina. [...] | 2008-10-22 14:37:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OVIP BEXP ECON AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1449 | ARGENTINA WELCOMES AMBASSADOR SCHULTE'S [...] (SBU) Summary: Argentine Vice Foreign Minister Victorio Taccetti welcomed Ambassador Schulte's October 16 consultations in Argentina, confirming Argentina's predisposition to cooperate with the U.S. internationally and at the IAEA. In the meeting with VFM Taccetti and at a lunch hosted by the [...] | 2008-10-22 20:11:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AORC KNNP IAEA ENRG TRGY PREL AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1451 | SPANISH-ARGENTINE RELATIONS: SPAIN WAITING OUT TOUGH TIMES [...] (SBU) SBU Ambassador met with Spanish Ambassador to Argentina, Rafael Estrella Pedrola, on October 16 to compare notes on recent developments. Estrella (protect) explained that Spanish-Argentine relations have been going through difficult times, in large part due to the GoA decision to nationa [...] | 2008-10-23 09:38:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECON EAIR EFIN EINV PREL AR SP |
08BUENOSAIRES1456 | ARGENTINA: PRESIDENT'S TOUGH UNGA SPEECH [...] (SBU) Summary: Argentine President Fernandez de Kirchner used her September 23 speech to the UNGA to appeal to a number of domestic constituencies, encapsulating a number of Kirchner governance themes and putting them in the context of a multilateralist, anti-neo-liberal framework. The speech, [...] | 2008-10-23 18:30:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN PHUM PREL PTER IR AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1458 | U.S. Company MetLife Discusses Options in the Face of [...] (SBU) Met Life, the only U.S.-operated private pension fund operating in Argentina, does not see any way to block the Argentine government's plan to nationalize all private pension assets (reftels). The only possible obstacles are major social unrest or Congressional rejection of the GoA's pro [...] | 2008-10-23 20:45:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON PREL PGOV AR |
08BUENOSAIRES146 | ARGENTINA'S DIPLOMATIC "CAR TALK" SCANDAL ROLLS ON [...] (SBU) Summary: "Car Talk" continues to fill the daily press with new twists in allegations of illegal diplomatic car sales. The Supreme Court is expected to announce it found insufficient evidence against foreign diplomats to warrant its involvement in the case, somewhat vindicating the diplo [...] | 2008-02-07 15:35:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AMGT KLIG KCOR KTIA ODIP PREL ASEC KREC AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1461 | ARGENTINA RECEIVES IRAN'S NOTIFICATION THAT IT WILL NOT [...] (U) The Argentine Foreign Ministry received October 22 Iran's formal rejection of its extradition requests for eight Iranian individuals, including ex-President Hashemi Rafsanjani, wanted for trial in connection with the 1994 bombing of the AMIA Jewish community center in Buenos Aires that kill [...] | 2008-10-24 12:29:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PREL PHUM PGOV ASEC IR AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1465 | ARGENTINA: LEGISLATORS SUPPORT CLOSER [...] (SBU) Summary: Five members of the Argentine Lower House in three meetings with the Ambassador shared their impressions of recent political developments in Argentina and expressed support for greater collaboration with the U.S. Congress. Opposition members of the Argentine Lower House "U.S. F [...] | 2008-10-24 20:50:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV ECON AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1466 | Pensions Nationalization Proposal Prompts Financial Panic, [...] (SBU) The Argentine government appears to have been completely unprepared for the plunge in Argentine stock and bond prices following its announcement that it would nationalize the nation's private pension system. GoA officials clearly did not think through the possible negative consequences o [...] | 2008-10-27 14:51:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON PREL PGOV AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1469 | ARGENTINA DESIGNATES U.S. AMBASSADOR AS G-20 SHERPA [...] (U) In response to a diplomatic note delivered Friday, October 24, Ambassador received a call from cabinet-ranked Secretary General to the Presidency Oscar Parrilli October 27 to inform us that Argentine Ambassador the U.S. Hector Timerman has been designated the GoA Sherpa for the upcoming No [...] | 2008-10-27 15:13:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV KPAO EFIN ECON AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1475 | Blow-by-Blow on Argentina's Nationalization of Pensions and [...] (SBU) Argentine President Cristina Kirchner de Fernandez has justified the GoA's nationalization of Argentina's private pension system as a "rescue of retirees," although local analysts agree that the real reasons are financial. Under Judicial order, the pension funds were raided and blocked f [...] | 2008-10-27 19:38:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON PREL PGOV AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1476 | ARGENTINA: NOMINATION FOR INTERNATIONAL WOMEN OF COURAGE [...] (U) Summary. Argentina has a long history of courageous women leaders who have worked tirelessly to protect fundamental human rights, educate a new generation of citizens growing up in an era of democracy, and combat drug and human trafficking. This year's nominee, Nelida Borquez, is cast fr [...] | 2008-10-27 20:01:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | KWMN KPAO PHUM PREL AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1478 | GOVERNMENT OF ARGENTINA THINKING OUT LOUD ON [...] (SBU) Summary: Five Argentine Cabinet Ministers joined a host of other public and private figures October 9 to launch a two-day workshop on Argentine narcotics policies, offering the first serious public dialogue on decriminalization of consumption since President Fernandez de Kirchner mooted t [...] | 2008-10-27 21:06:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | SNAR PREL PGOV EFIN KJUS PHUM SOCI AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1480 | ARGENTINA SUPPORTS U.S. BID FOR EXECUTIVE [...] (U) Poloff raised Ref A points with Counselor Fabiana Laguzzo, Director of Women's Issues at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on October 27. Laguzzo indicated that she did not foresee any difficulties in supporting the U.S. bid for the Executive Committee of the Inter-American Commission of W [...] | 2008-10-28 14:24:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC OAS KWMN PGOV PREL XK XL XM XS AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1481 | ARGENTINA: VIDEOCONFERENCE ON HYDROGEN FUEL CELLS [...] (U) WHA/EPSC and Embassy Buenos Aires organized a successful videoconference (DVC) on October 24, between U.S. and Argentine experts and policymakers on the subject of hydrogen fuel cells. The DVC was a follow-up to the agreement on alternative and renewable energy signed by A/S Shannon last [...] | 2008-10-28 15:02:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | ENRG SENV ECON AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1485 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAMS [...] No summary [...] | 2008-10-29 11:54:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PINR PTER MARR AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1486 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAMS [...] No summary [...] | 2008-10-29 12:02:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PINR PTER SNAR AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1489 | BRAZIL-ARGENTINA COORDINATE ON G-20, DIFFER ON [...] (C) On October 27, Brazilian Ambassador to Argentina Mauro Vieira (protect strictly) told the Ambassador that while Brazil and Argentina differed on the proper trade policy response to the current economic crisis, Brazil would be patient with its neighbor and would work to encourage a constru [...] | 2008-10-29 19:28:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN ETRD MARR MOPS PGOV PREL AR BR |
08BUENOSAIRES1490 | METLIFE EXEC FORESEES DIRE CONSEQUENCES FOR [...] (C) MetLife's head of Latin American operations, Oscar Schmidt (PROTECT),told Ambassador Wayne October 28 that he expected major economic upheaval in Argentina if the Argentine Congress fails to achieve rapid passage of the GoA's bill to nationalize the private pension system. The longer and [...] | 2008-10-29 20:41:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ECON PREL PGOV AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1491 | ARGENTINE CENTRAL BANK PRESIDENT CRITICIZES MANNER [...] (C) In an exceptionally candid conversation, amid false rumors of his impending resignation, Central Bank (BCRA) President Martin Redrado confirmed to Ambassador October 24 that only four GoA officials made the decision to nationalize the private pension system, and commented that the decision [...] | 2008-10-29 20:49:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ECON PREL AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1493 | ARGENTINE CENTRAL BANK AND ECONOMY MINISTRY [...] (C) The Argentine Central Bank (BCRA) is taking the lead on preparing briefing material for President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner's (CFK) participation in the November 15 G-20 meeting, BCRA President Redrado told Ambassador October 24. While not in a position to guarantee how CFK will use [...] | 2008-10-30 16:25:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ECON PREL PGOV AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1495 | Argentina: Global Crisis Threatens Export Growth, Trade [...] (SBU) Argentina's strong goods export performance in the aftermath of the 2001/02 financial crisis has stalled, a victim of plunging world commodity prices and slower global growth projections. From a projected 2008 trade surplus in the $12 billion range, local economists now see the 2009 surp [...] | 2008-10-30 17:21:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECON EAGR AR BR |
08BUENOSAIRES1497 | ARGENTINA: POST RESPONSE TO INFORMATION GATHERING [...] (C) Post provides the following response to Ref A request for information on Argentina in advance of the November 15 G-20 meeting in Washington. Relevant financial and political reporting from October provided reftels. I. Key Objectives and Priorities/Desired Outcomes of the Summit: Presi [...] | 2008-10-30 20:38:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ECON PREL PGOV AR |
08BUENOSAIRES152 | ARGENTINA: MENDOZA GOVERNOR SEEKS CLOSER U.S. TIES [...] (U) Summary: Mendoza Governor Celso Jaque called on the Ambassador February 6, seeking increased contact and opportunities for cooperation with the Embassy and U.S. agencies on such issues as public security, counternarcotics, and public administration. Public security is a top concern for Mend [...] | 2008-02-08 17:52:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KJUS SNAR PHUM ASEC KPAO MASS AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1520 | Argentina: Finance and Industries Secretaries on G-20 [...] (SBU) GoA Finance Secretary Hernan Lorenzino confirmed he has taken on the substantive role of formulating Argentina's positions for the upcoming G-20 Summit in Washington and that these positions will be coordinated with those of Brazil at the upcoming November 8-9 Mercosur Summit in Sao Paulo [...] | 2008-11-04 18:11:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON EINV PREL PGOV AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1521 | ARGENTINE PENSION NATIONALIZATION STATUS: [...] (C) The Argentine government's plan to nationalize the private pension system continues to dominate headlines and drive domestic market developments. Argentina's lower house is expected to pass the GoA's draft bill November 6 or 7, albeit with the GoA reportedly agreeing to modifications, inc [...] | 2008-11-04 20:08:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ECON PREL PGOV AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1522 | ARGENTINA: GOVERNMENT MOSTLY SILENT SO FAR ABOUT [...] (U) Summary: The November 3rd guilty verdict in the trial of convicted illegal Venezuelan agent Franklin Duran was front page news in Argentina November 4. Key prosecution witness Guido Antonini-Wilson (A-W) was also quoted in most dailies after he repeated in his first press interview his co [...] | 2008-11-04 20:12:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL SNAR KCRM KJUS EFIN AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1523 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAMS [...] No summary [...] | 2008-11-05 10:58:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PINR MARR AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1524 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAMS [...] No summary [...] | 2008-11-05 11:22:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PINR SNAR AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1529 | ARGENTINE MARKETS RECOVER, BUT WITH RISING [...] (U) This document is sensitive but unclassified. It should not be disseminated outside of USG channels or in any public forum without the written concurrence of the originator. It should not be posted on the internet. ------- Summary ------- 2. (SBU) After two weeks of financial marke [...] | 2008-11-05 15:29:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN ECON ETRD PREL AR |
08BUENOSAIRES153 | Ambassador Meets with Argentine Mogul Eduardo Eurnekian, [...] (SBU) Ambassador met February 6 with Argentine CEO Eduardo Eurnekian, who has important investments in the United States, Argentina, Armenia, Uruguay, Ecuador, Italy, Morocco and China in agro-industry, energy, airports, infrastructure, construction, banking and real estate. An admirer of the [...] | 2008-02-11 07:36:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAIR EAGR ENRG PREL AM AR UY |
08BUENOSAIRES1531 | DEMONSTRATION AT U.S. EMBASSY BUENOS AIRES [...] At 6:30 PM [local time] on Monday, 3 November 2008, two pro-Islamic groups converged on the U.S. Embassy and held a non-violent demonstration near the main entrance. 2. A group of about 60 - 70 individuals from the Argentine Arab Federation and the At-Tauhid mosque protested against the U.S. [...] | 2008-11-05 17:55:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC PREL KISL AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1533 | ARGENTINE OFFICIALS PRIVATELY ADMIT PARIS CLUB [...] (C) Senior Argentine government (GoA) and Central Bank (BCRA) officials privately confirm to Post what local and foreign press have taken as a given for weeks: in the current crisis environment, the GoA has put its Paris Club payment, debt exchange with private "holdout" bondholders, and a lin [...] | 2008-11-05 20:15:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ECON ETRD PREL AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1537 | Argentina: G-20 Trade Policy Position [...] (SBU) Despite a relatively protectionist response to the global financial crisis, Argentina trade officials say they will work towards consensual and practical trade policy communique language at the G-20 Summit. Argentina will, however, likely object to any Summit calls to resuscitate WTO Do [...] | 2008-11-07 13:51:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECON EFIN PREL PGOV BR AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1539 | ARGENTINA: CONGRATULATORY MESSAGE TO [...] No summary [...] | 2008-11-07 14:19:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | OPDC PREL OVIP AR |
08BUENOSAIRES154 | ARGENTINA: REITERATION OF REQUEST FOR SAIEGH [...] (SBU) The Ambassador has a February 13 meeting scheduled with Argentine Minister of the Economy Martin Lousteau. This would be an excellent opportunity for the Ambassador to resume his efforts on behalf of Mr. Eduardo Saiegh, the Argentine citizen who in 1980 was kidnapped, torturGKQLQoQ). In [...] | 2008-02-11 15:58:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM ECON AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1542 | ARGENTINE POLITICAL CLASS WELCOMES OBAMA VICTORY; [...] (U) Summary: Argentine reaction to the victory of President-elect Obama was uniformly positive and welcoming. In a congratulatory message to President-elect Barack Obama (reftel),Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner (CFK) called Obama's win "a major milestone...in the fight ag [...] | 2008-11-07 20:44:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV KPAO OPDC AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1543 | ARGENTINE SUPPORT FOR OCTOBER 2008 FATF STATEMENTS [...] (C) EconOff delivered reftel demarche November 7, 2008, to GoA National Coordinator for anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism finance Alejandro Strega. Strega, who reports to Argentina's Minister of Justice Anibal Fernandez, is Argentina's representative to the Financial Action Task For [...] | 2008-11-07 21:00:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | KTFN EFIN PTER PREL PARM MNUC KNNP AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1544 | Embassy Election Night Event in Buenos Aires Reaches Over [...] Summary: The U.S. Embassy's election night party attracted the widest and most positive media coverage of any Embassy event held in Argentina in recent memory. Hosted by the Embassy at the American Club of Buenos Aires on the evening of November 4 and morning of November 5, the celebration o [...] | 2008-11-08 00:01:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL OEXC OIIP SCUL AR KPAO KSUM |
08BUENOSAIRES1547 | Thousands of Argentines Learn about U.S. Electoral [...] Intense Argentine interest in the U.S. election provided post with an opportunity to enhance relations with important contacts, numerous schools, and the media. Post reached over 10 million Argentines through media coverage of our election events -- the widest and most positive media coverage [...] | 2008-11-12 14:01:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL OEXC OIIP SCUL AR KPAO |
08BUENOSAIRES1549 | Argentina's New Federalism: Politicized Revenue Sharing [...] (SBU) Argentina's federal government collects the lion's share of national revenues, and a "co-participation" revenue-sharing scheme mandates that fixed shares of most federal taxes be distributed to the nation's 24 provinces. Controversial earmarks and other alterations to the distribution fo [...] | 2008-11-12 18:47:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON EINV PREL PGOV AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1550 | ARGENTINA: ANTONINI-WILSON CLAIMS NESTOR KIRCHNER [...] (SBU) Summary and introduction: Argentine daily "La Nacion" prominently published November 9 a lengthy exclusive interview with dual U.S.-Venezuelan citizen Guido Antonini-Wilson (A-W),who was intercepted by GOA authorities in August 2007 with a suitcase stuffed with $800,000 arriving on a c [...] | 2008-11-12 20:30:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL SNAR KCOR KLIG CJAN AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1551 | ARGENTINA WEIGHS IN WITH URUGUAY AND BRAZIL ON [...] (C) Poloff raised ref A points with Counselor Silvia Cao, of the Argentine MFA's Office of Human Rights on November 10. Cao indicated that she would pass to her superiors our request to weigh in with GRULAC members on the no-action motions as well as the underlying resolutions condemning the [...] | 2008-11-13 12:59:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM AR BZ UY CO |
08BUENOSAIRES1552 | ARGENTINA SHARES CONCERNS OVER PROPOSED NSG RESTRICTIONS OF [...] (SBU) Summary: Vice Foreign Minister Victorio Taccetti told visiting DOE NNSA Administrator Thomas D'Agostino November 7 that the GOA was ready to work for an agreement under paragraph 6 of the draft criteria-based guidelines for the transfer of enrichment and reprocessing technology (ENR),but [...] | 2008-11-13 14:07:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KNNP IAEA ENRG TRGY AORC AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1553 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAMS [...] No summary [...] | 2008-11-13 18:53:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PINR MARR AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1558 | ARGENTINA: 2009 NATIONAL TRADE ESTIMATE [...] (U) Per reftel, the following is Post's submission to USTR's 2009 National Trade Estimate. TRADE SUMMARY The U.S. goods trade surplus with Argentina was $1.4 billion in 2007, an increase of $563 million from $797 million in 2006. U.S. goods exports in 2007 were $5.9 billion, up 22.6 perce [...] | 2008-11-14 20:22:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD EINV EAGR ECON AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1569 | ARGENTINA: SAN JUAN GOVERNOR SAYS STATE CAN [...] (SBU) Summary: Ambassador Wayne and DCM Kelly met with San Juan Governor and Peronist Party member (PJ) Jose Luis Gioja on October 28, shortly before the Governor's travel to the U.S. to observe the presidential elections. Gioja said he maintains a positive dialogue with President Cristina F [...] | 2008-11-17 22:20:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PINR PREL PGOV ECON AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1572 | POST FOLLOW-UP ON ARGENTINE SUPPORT FOR OCTOBER [...] (C) Following on Post's November 7 delivery of Ref A demarche to Alejandro Strega, the GoA's National Coordinator for anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism finance (Ref B),EconOff delivered same message on November 14 to Zenon Biagosch, Vice Superintendent of Financial Institutions at t [...] | 2008-11-18 15:26:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | KTFN EFIN PTER PREL PARM MNUC KNNP AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1576 | Argentina: Opportunity Seized to Advocate Again for ATSC [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Embassy Buenos Aires leveraged a recent visit to Argentina of Robert Graves, President of the Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC),to arrange visits with senior media and GOA officials, furthering advocacy for the ATSC DTV standard. An updated and enhanced ATSC offer w [...] | 2008-11-19 15:19:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EINV PREL ECPS ITU OVIP TSPL TINT AR |
08BUENOSAIRES158 | Argentina: San Luis Governor Discusses His Province's [...] (U) Summary: San Luis Governor Jose Luis Gioja briefed the Ambassador February 7 on San Juan's infrastructure development, investment climate, and environmental protection measures. The Ambassador congratulated the Governor on San Juan's impressive export growth -- particularly in the mining a [...] | 2008-02-11 17:22:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL EMIN SENV KPAO EINV AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1580 | ARGENTINA: SUPREME COURT RULING OPENS THE DOOR FOR TRADE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Argentine Supreme Court declared Article 41 of the Trade Unions Law unconstitutional and upheld the right of a workers' union that lacks official legal recognition to elect its own delegates. The ruling, if widely applied to organized labor, would expand representation right [...] | 2008-11-19 19:39:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB PGOV AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1583 | ARGENTINE NATIONALIZATION OF PRIVATE PENSION [...] (C) The Argentine Senate appears ready to pass the government's plan to nationalize Argentina's private pension system on November 20. The main U.S. company involved, MetLife, is "frustrated, angry, and disappointed," its officials told the Ambassador November 17. Met's priorities now are to [...] | 2008-11-19 19:47:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ECON PREL PGOV AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1588 | Public Diplomacy Best Practices: Countering [...] SUMMARY. The level of anti-Americanism in Argentina is the highest in the Western Hemisphere. For the last two years, we have been working hard to reverse our negative image, making this the Mission's highest priority. We believe we have found a formula for success through substantially incre [...] | 2008-11-21 17:13:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL OEXC OIIP SCUL KPAO AR PGOV |
08BUENOSAIRES1589 | Argentina and Brazil Consider New Trade Barriers [...] (SBU) Argentine and Brazilian officials discussed in Argentina November 17 a new Brazilian plan to subsidize consumer auto financing that will include autos imported from Argentina. They also reviewed recently imposed Argentine non-tariff barriers and Argentina and Brazil's common interest in [...] | 2008-11-21 18:05:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECON AR BR |
08BUENOSAIRES159 | Argentine Official Inflation: Allegations of [...] (SBU) The GoA is reporting "official" January 2008 inflation at 0.9%, well below independent measures of monthly inflation in the 2% range. The international financial press is calling this lowball release a blow to expectations that the Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner (CFK) administration woul [...] | 2008-02-12 14:03:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN EINV AMGT AFSN APER AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1592 | ARGENTINA: 2008 TIP INTERIM ASSESSMENT [...] Per Reftel instructions, below is post,s interim assessment of Argentina,s progress in its efforts to combat trafficking in persons (TIP). Our response is keyed to points found in reftel. A) IMPLEMENTING THE RECENTLY ENACTED FEDERAL ANTI-TRAFFICKING LAW, INCLUDING ISSUANCE OF REGULATIONS OR [...] | 2008-11-23 17:21:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | KTIP KCRM KWMN PGOV PHUM PREL SMIG AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1595 | Argentine Former President Kirchner's Bid to Head Unasur [...] (U) Leading daily "La Nacion" reported November 20 that the GOA would abandon its effort to win regional backing for former President Nestor Kirchner as head of the South American Union of Nations (Unasur). Argentine sources indicated that Uruguayan President Tabare Vasquez's rejection of Kirc [...] | 2008-11-24 13:37:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1618 | ARGENTINE GOVERNOR TO VISIT FORMER VICE PRESIDENT GORE IN [...] No summary [...] | 2008-11-28 13:48:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL SENV PGOV KPAO SCUL AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1619 | ARGENTINA: ON UNGA RESOLUTIONS WITH AN [...] No summary [...] | 2008-11-28 13:55:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL UNGA IS PA AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1623 | Plan B: Argentina Announces Robust Public Works, Tax [...] (SBU) Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner announced November 25 an ambitious US$21 billion public works plan to stimulate the economy, boost employment, and counter the impact on Argentina of the global financial crisis. She also proposed the creation of a new Ministry of Produc [...] | 2008-11-28 21:43:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ETRD ELAB EINV AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1632 | ARGENTINA: MEXICAN PRESIDENT CALDERON'S VISIT [...] (SBU) Summary: Mexican President Felipe Calderon paid a state visit to Argentina November 23-25, renewing a diplomatic relationship that had been relatively limited since the 2005 Summit of the Americas at Mar de Plata, despite growing commercial ties over that period. GOA officials emphasize [...] | 2008-12-01 18:45:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV ECON SNAR ETRD EFIN AR MX |
08BUENOSAIRES1633 | Argentine National Prayer Breakfast [...] (U) Argentina's small but growing Evangelical community held its annual prayer breakfast on November 27 with the participation of Argentine Vice President Julio Cobos and four national deputies of the center-right PRO party, led by Buenos Aires mayor Mauricio Macri, and a range of civic leaders [...] | 2008-12-01 19:28:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PHUM SCUL AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1635 | ARGENTINA 2008-2009 INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS CONTROL [...] (U) Per reftel, Post provides following draft of 2008-2009 INCSR II report on money laundering and financial crimes for Argentina. 2. (SBU) Begin Text: Argentina: Argentina is neither an important regional financial center nor an offshore financial center. Money laundering related to na [...] | 2008-12-02 09:05:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN KCRM KTFN SNAR AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1636 | Public Diplomacy Best Practices: Focusing on Social Issues [...] SUMMARY. The United States is often criticized in Latin America for its lack of attention to social issues. To fight this perception during the last two years, the U.S. Embassy in Buenos Aires has led efforts to spotlight the major social issues in the city and country, bringing media attenti [...] | 2008-12-02 13:41:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL OEXC OIIP SCUL KPAO AR PGOV |
08BUENOSAIRES1642 | ARGENTINA: AMBASSADOR'S NOVEMBER 23-24 TRIP TO RODRIGUEZ [...] (SBU) Ambassador Wayne, visiting the central Argentine province of San Luis for the first time November 23-24, saw evidence of a provincial government that prides itself on its investment in infrastructure, technology, education, and good governance. Governor Rodriguez Saa, a flamboyant Peronis [...] | 2008-12-02 19:48:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1643 | ARGENTINA ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL REVIEW, NOVEMBER 2008 [...] (U) Provided below is Embassy Buenos Aires' Economic and Financial Review covering November 2008. The unclassified email version of this report includes tables and charts tracking Argentine economic developments. Contact Econoff Chris Landberg at landbergca@state.gov to be included on the ema [...] | 2008-12-02 20:26:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON PREL PGOV AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1651 | ARGENTINA: JEWISH COMMUNITY LEADERS TELL [...] (SBU) Summary: Leaders of the Argentine Jewish Mutual Association (AMIA) told the Ambassador November 28 that they are satisfied with prosecutor Alberto Nisman's work in going after the Iranian authors and perpetrators of the 1994 AMIA bombing that killed 85 persons, but they believe he now ne [...] | 2008-12-03 18:58:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PREL ASEC SNAR SCUL AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1653 | ARGENTINA: GOA CHARGES AES AFFILIATE WITH [...] (C) Argentine Planning Minister De Vido convoked Ambassador December 2 to inform him that that the GoA plans to take civil and criminal action against AES Corporation for tax evasion and intentional decapitalization of its Edelap electricity distribution subsidiary. De Vido emphasized that th [...] | 2008-12-03 19:58:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | EINV ECON EFIN BEXP AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1661 | ARGENTINA WILL CONFER WITH BRAZIL BEFORE [...] (SBU) Pol-Mil Officer discussed ref demarche December 2 with Ambassador Elsa Kelly, the MFA Director for International Security, Nuclear and Space Affairs (DIGAN),the head of Argentina's delegation to the November 19-20 NSG Consultative Group (CG) meeting in Vienna. Kelly described the CG me [...] | 2008-12-04 17:19:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KNNP ENRG ETTC MNUC PARM TRGY AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1664 | ARGENTINA: FORMOSA GOVERNOR CONCERNED ABOUT BORDER WITH [...] (SBU) Summary: Peronist Gildo Insfran, Governor of Argentina's northeastern province of Formosa, discussed with Ambassador Wayne on November 20 his views regarding economic development, renewable energy, the challenges of cross-border security, and the status of Formosa's indigenous population [...] | 2008-12-05 11:38:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ECON EAGR SNAR PHUM AR PA |
08BUENOSAIRES1665 | ARGENTINA: ENVIRONMENT SECRETARY EXITS GOVERNMENT [...] (SBU) Summary: Controversial Environment Secretary Romina Picolotti resigned on December 2, reportedly at the request of President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner (CFK). Picolotti is replaced by Homero Maximo Bibiloni, an environmental attorney. Presidency sources quoted in the press stated t [...] | 2008-12-05 12:03:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV SENV KCOR AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1667 | Argentina Announces Economic Stimulus Package [...] (SBU) One week after announcing a 71 billion public works plan (Ref A),President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner (CFK) unveiled an additional ARP 13.2 billion (US$3.9 billion) "economic incentives" package, designed to "revive and stimulate production, investment, jobs, and consumption, and all [...] | 2008-12-05 18:36:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EINV EIND ETRD EAGR PGOV AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1669 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAMS [...] No summary [...] | 2008-12-09 16:17:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PINR MARR AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1672 | ARGENTINE APPEALS COURT AGREES THERE IS [...] (SBU) An Argentine appeals court upheld the (reftel) July 3 determination by Judge Daniel Petrone that there is not enough evidence to prosecute or to acquit former Argentine government official Claudio Uberti in the "Valijagate" investigation, involving the infamous Venezuelan suitcase carryi [...] | 2008-12-09 19:54:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL SNAR KCOR CJAN AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1673 | Argentina: U.S. Private Sector Players Downbeat on [...] (SBU) U.S. private sector players in the finance, accounting, and energy fields are downbeat on Argentina's medium-term economic prospects. In a November 25 lunch hosted by Ambassador for visiting State Department CFO Brad Higgins, they predicted the Kirchner administration's political base wi [...] | 2008-12-09 20:39:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ETRD EINV AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1676 | ARGENTINA: SCENESETTER FOR CODEL MEEKS [...] (SBU) Introduction: On behalf of Embassy Buenos Aires, I warmly welcome your visit to Argentina December 16-18. With the administration of President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, we are looking to build on a strong and positive bilateral relationship. We are working together in significant [...] | 2008-12-10 17:14:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OVIP CODEL ECON PREL BEXP AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1680 | ARGENTINE PRESIDENT SIGNS PENSION NATIONALIZATION [...] (C) Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner signed into law on December 4 her audacious plan to nationalize the country's private pension system. The law officially entered into force December 9. Contrary to early expectations that the GoA would have a tough fight getting it throu [...] | 2008-12-11 11:51:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ECON PREL PGOV AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1681 | ARGENTINE PRESIDENT REPRISES HER CRITIQUE OF U.S. [...] (SBU) Summary: Argentine President Fernandez de Kirchner (CFK) indulged in an increasingly familiar critique of the international system during a two-day visit to Russia December 9-10, taking jabs implicitly at the U.S. and blaming "unilateralism" for economic and security hardships in the wor [...] | 2008-12-11 17:45:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV ETRD PHUM ECON EAGR RU AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1682 | ARGENTINA: FISCAL SOLVENCY CONCERNS REMAIN, [...] (C) The Argentine government's nationalization of the country's private pension system entered into force December 9, giving the GoA access to about US$25 billion in financial assets and US$4 billion in annual contributor payments. Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner (CFK) ha [...] | 2008-12-11 18:08:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ECON PREL PGOV AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1685 | Argentina: Inflation Down as Economy Slows [...] (SBU) In line with Argentina's economic slowdown, real monthly consumer inflation rates have decelerated over the past five months from the 25% range to an something near 20% in November 2008. Food and beverage inflation, an important contributor to poverty measures, is showing the largest dec [...] | 2008-12-12 12:48:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ETRD EINV AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1692 | Ambassador visits Rosario - praises roles of BNC, U.S. [...] SUMMARY: Ambassador Wayne visited the city of Rosario to attend the 65th anniversary of the binational center ARICANA and the opening of the 28th Annual Meeting of Argentine-American Binational Centers in Rosario in late October. He also visited the John Deere tractor factory and met with a yo [...] | 2008-12-15 13:53:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL SCUL ECON AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1696 | Argentina: Lavagna Decries GoA Crisis Initiatives, Projects [...] (SBU) Former Economy Minister and Presidential Candidate Roberto Lavagna in a December 11 meeting with Ambassador projected stagflation in 2009, with zero percent GDP growth but with real inflation not falling below 20%, and warned about money laundering concerns related to GoA legislation; se [...] | 2008-12-15 20:35:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ETRD EINV AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1697 | RELOCATING DEA PERSONNEL FROM BOLIVIA TO OTHER [...] (C) The following information is provided in response to questions in reftel A regarding the relocation of three DEA positions from Embassy La Paz to Embassy Buenos Aires. 2. (C) As reported in reftel B, on November 14, 2008, Ambassador Wayne advised Minister of Justice Anibal Fernandez tha [...] | 2008-12-15 20:41:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL SNAR AR BO BR CH PA PE |
08BUENOSAIRES1698 | ARGENTINA UNLIKELY TO SUPPORT US POSITION ON [...] (SBU) Poloff presented reftel points to the MFA's Manuel Fernandez Salorio, the responsible officer in the Directorate for International Organization affairs, on December 12. Fernandez concurred with the USG concern about retention of personnel for peacekeeping operations and special political [...] | 2008-12-15 20:47:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AORC AMGT APER UNGA AR |
08BUENOSAIRES170 | ARGENTINA'S SPACE LAUNCH VEHICLE PROGRAM: THE [...] (C) This cable provides the Embassy's recommendation for policy change regarding longstanding USG opposition toward Argentina's space launch vehicle (SLV) program. We believe that opposition, based on Argentina's 1992 assurances that it would not develop a space launch vehicle ""for the fo [...] | 2008-02-13 12:11:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | MTCR KSCA PARM TSPL PREL MNUC AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1703 | Argentina: World Bank's Ambitious Riachuelo River Basin [...] (SBU) Current World Bank (WB) priorities in Argentina include reforming and rationalizing the Argentine social safety net in anticipation of greater needs during this economic downturn, and finalizing a major $2 billion, ten-year loan project to clean-up Greater Buenos Aires' heavily polluted R [...] | 2008-12-17 13:15:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN EIND SENV AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1705 | Human Rights Day Message Reaches Millions of Argentines [...] (U) SUMMARY: Embassy Buenos Aires used the observance of Human Rights Day on December 10 to reach tens of thousands of Argentines on the importance of respecting human rights both here in Argentina and throughout the world. Post co-hosted a human rights recognition ceremony with the GOA's Na [...] | 2008-12-17 17:09:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM KDEM OEXC OIIP SCUL KPAO PGOV PREL AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1706 | Argentina: Former President Nestor Kirchner Criticizes a [...] (SBU) Summary. Former Argentine president Nestor Kirchner attacked Vice President Julio Cobos, the opposition, the United States, and the press in remarks to party faithful December 16. Kirchner accused Cobos of intentionally trying to hinder Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner's administration and [...] | 2008-12-18 09:43:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV KPAO KMDR SNAR PHUM AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1708 | Argentina: World Bank Country Director Cautions on Economy [...] (SBU) The local World Bank (WB) Country Director (protect) sees the GoA "walking a tightrope" in terms of its capacity to maintain market confidence, stem capital flight, and sustain twin fiscal and current account surpluses in a context of economic slowdown, continued high rates of GoA public [...] | 2008-12-18 12:11:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ETRD EINV AR |
08BUENOSAIRES171 | EMBASSY BUENOS AIRES PROPOSALS FOR G/TIP MANAGED FY 2008 [...] (SBU) Summary and Background: Among Embassy Buenos Aires's top priorities in strengthening Argentina's anti-trafficking efforts include strengthening law enforcement and judicial capacity to investigate and prosecute human trafficking cases. The Argentine government, in conjunction with the [...] | 2008-02-13 15:37:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | ELAB KCRM KWMN PHUM PREL SNAR SMIG KJUS ASEC AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1715 | ARGENTINA: KIRCHNER ALLY ADMITS RECEIVING CUBAN [...] (SBU) Argentine journalist Gerardo Young alleges in his new book that street activist ("piquetero," literally meaning "picketer") Luis D'Elia successfully evaded security at Argentina's Ezeiza international airport in late October 2005 to bring in USD 1 million from Cuba to finance the "counte [...] | 2008-12-18 19:40:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL VZ CU AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1717 | ARGENTINA'S HOPES TO OVERCOME URUGUAY'S OBJECTIONS [...] (SBU) The Argentine press on December 17 focused on the failure by President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner to achieve what had previously been described by Administration sources to the press (and to the Embassy) as her top priority for the December 16-17 regional summit meetings in Brazil: t [...] | 2008-12-19 09:35:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL SENV ECON PHUM CU AR |
08BUENOSAIRES172 | ARGENTINA: PUTTING SECURITY COOPERATION BACK ON [...] (C) Summary: Ambassador met February 12 with Minister of Justice and Security Anibal Fernandez for the first time since Miami court proceedings relating to the Antonini Wilson suitcase scandal put a chill on relations in mid-December. Ambassador reiterated that the focus of the case is on vio [...] | 2008-02-13 18:17:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KJUS KWNM SNAR AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1723 | Argentina Trade Updates: No New MERCOSUR Protectionism, [...] (SBU) Argentina's Foreign Ministry announced December 15 that MERCOSUR made an unexpectedly non-protectionist decision NOT to raise the trade bloc's common external tariff on a short list of products during a December 14 meeting prior to the December 16 MERCOSUR summit in Brazil. MERCOSUR's la [...] | 2008-12-19 19:38:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECON EAGR AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1724 | ARGENTINE PROSECUTOR ON AMIA BOMBING DEVELOPMENT [...] (U) As anticipated in ref A, Argentine Special Prosecutor Alberto Nisman on December 16 ordered the attachment of real estate property in Buenos Aires allegedly belonging to former Iranian Embassy Cultural Attache in Argentina Mohsen Rabbani, one of six Iranian suspects sought by Interpol at Ar [...] | 2008-12-19 20:21:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PREL ASEC SNAR SCUL IR AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1725 | ARGENTINA ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL REVIEW, DECEMBER [...] (U) Provided below is Embassy Buenos Aires' Economic and Financial Review covering the period December 1-19, 2008. The unclassified email version of this report includes tables and charts tracking Argentine economic developments. Contact Econoff Chris Landberg at landbergca@state.gov to be inc [...] | 2008-12-19 20:36:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON EINV ETRD ELAB EAIR AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1726 | Argentina: Presidential Declaration of Argentina, Brazil [...] Argentine Ambassador to the United States Hector Timerman gave the Ambassador December 17 an unsigned copy of a joint declaration that he said was signed by Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula Da Silva, and Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez i [...] | 2008-12-19 21:10:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PGOV PREL BR VE AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1727 | Argentina: Message from Argentine Senate VP to the U.S. [...] (U) Action request: The Vice President of Argentina's National Senate and Chairman of the U.S.-Argentina Friendship Caucus Juan Carlos Romero wrote the Ambassador, asking him to forward to the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee and the Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere Affairs the follow [...] | 2008-12-19 21:13:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL OREP OPDC AR |
08BUENOSAIRES173 | ARGENTINA: PUTTING SECURITY COOPERATION BACK ON [...] (C) Summary: Ambassador met February 12 with Minister of Justice and Security Anibal Fernandez for the first time since Miami court proceedings relating to the Antonini Wilson suitcase scandal put a chill on relations in mid-December. Ambassador reiterated that the focus of the case is on vio [...] | 2008-02-14 10:01:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KJUS KWNM SNAR AR |
08BUENOSAIRES174 | ARGENTINA: CODEL ENGEL, FEBRUARY 20-23, 2008 [...] THE AMBASSADOR WARMLY WELCOMES REPRESENTATIVE ELIOT ENGEL AND THE DELEGATION HE WILL LEAD. THE PURPOSE OF THE TRIP IS TO MEET WITH LEADING ARGENTINE GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS, LEGISLATORS, AND REPRESENTATIVES OF CIVIL SOCIETY ORGANIZATIONS. 2. CONTROL OFFICER WILL BE POLITICAL OFFICER DAVID ALAR [...] | 2008-02-14 12:41:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | OREP AFIN AMGT ASEC AR EC BL |
08BUENOSAIRES1742 | ARGENTINES NOT SHOCKED THERE'S CORRUPTION GOING [...] (SBU) Summary: German company Siemens' December 15 guilty plea with the U.S. Department of Justice-Fraud Section, over corrupt practices, including payments of bribes to officials in previous Argentine governments, has provoked sustained attention in the Argentine press but no major reaction fr [...] | 2008-12-23 19:27:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KCOR PREL EFIN AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1745 | ARGENTINA: OVERVIEW OF CIVIL NUCLEAR PROGRAM [...] (U) This message is sensitive but unclassified, and not for Internet distribution. 2. (SBU) Summary: Argentina has had a nuclear program for nearly sixty years and currently draws on two power reactors to supply approximately nine percent of its total electricity generation. The country i [...] | 2008-12-24 12:00:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG TRGY BEXP BTIO AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1746 | Argentine Congress Approves GoA Expropriation of Flag [...] (SBU) On December 17, the Argentine Senate approved a bill to expropriate the troubled national airline, Aerolineas Argentinas, and its smaller sister carrier Austral. The action followed a lower house vote on December 3, and marked the end of almost two decades of Spanish control of the flag [...] | 2008-12-24 13:46:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR ECON EINV EIND PGOV ELAB AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1750 | ARGENTINA ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL REVIEW, DECEMBER [...] (U) Provided below is Embassy Buenos Aires' Economic and Financial Review covering the period December 19 - 24, 2008. The unclassified email version of this report includes tables and charts tracking Argentine economic developments. Contact Econoff Chris Landberg at landbergca@state.gov to be [...] | 2008-12-24 17:47:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON EINV ETRD ELAB EAIR AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1753 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAMS [...] No summary [...] | 2008-12-29 14:50:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PINR MARR AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1754 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAMS [...] No summary [...] | 2008-12-29 14:51:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PINR MARR AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1755 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAMS [...] No summary [...] | 2008-12-29 14:53:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PINR MARR AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1756 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAMS [...] No summary [...] | 2008-12-29 14:54:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PINR MARR AR |
08BUENOSAIRES176 | ARGENTINA: SCENESETTER FOR CODEL ENGEL [...] (SBU) Introduction: On behalf of Embassy Buenos Aires, I warmly welcome your visit to Argentina February 20-23. The Government of Argentina is billing your visit as a major indicator of U.S. goodwill, firming up the recent "rapprochement" that ended seven weeks of discord. With the new admin [...] | 2008-02-14 16:27:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PHUM PTER SNAR ECON EFIN BEXP AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1760 | ARGENTINA: AMERICAN CHAMBER DESCRIBES [...] (SBU) CODEL Meeks received a first-hand understanding of the commercial opportunities and challenges faced by U.S. companies operating in Argentina during a roundtable discussion with American Chamber of Commerce in Argentina (AmCham) member companies on December 17, 2008. Discussion focused o [...] | 2008-12-30 12:57:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECON WTRO AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1763 | ARGENTINE CHIEF CABINET MINISTER MEETS CODEL MEEKS [...] (SBU) Summary and introduction: Argentine Cabinet Chief Minister Sergio Massa received in his office at Casa Rosada presidential palace Rep. Gregory Meeks (D-NY),Rep. Ruben Hinojosa (D-TX),and Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) December 17. The codel conveyed a strong U.S. desire for dialogue and streng [...] | 2008-12-30 17:51:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL OREP ECON AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1764 | ARGENTINE FM TAIANA MEETS CODEL MEEKS [...] (SBU) Summary and introduction: Argentine FM Jorge Taiana received in his office Rep. Gregory Meeks (D-NY),Rep. Ruben Hinojosa (D-TX),and Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) December 18. The codel conveyed a strong U.S. desire for dialogue and strengthened bilateral relations with Argentina. Taiana expr [...] | 2008-12-30 17:52:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL OREP ECON AR |
08BUENOSAIRES178 | ARGENTINA: AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH CHIEF CABINET [...] (C) Summary: On February 12, Ambassador lunched with Argentina's Chief Cabinet Minister Alberto Fernandez (AF) in the first in a newly initiated series of monthly lunches developed to help manage U.S.-Argentine relations. Topics covered included working with A/S Shannon and others to foster [...] | 2008-02-14 17:58:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON EINV EPET KPAO KCOR MARR VZ AR |
08BUENOSAIRES179 | SATELLITE USA 193: ARGENTINA'S REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2008-02-14 18:21:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | TSPL PREL PARM AR |
08BUENOSAIRES188 | Argentine Economy Minister Prioritizes Paris Club [...] (SBU) GOA Economy Minister Martin Lousteau, in his second meeting with the Ambassador, called a Paris Club settlement an important -- but not urgent -- priority of the Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner administration. He called any formal role for the IMF in a rescheduling politically unpalatable [...] | 2008-02-15 15:43:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AR ECON EFIN ETRD |
08BUENOSAIRES19 | Argentine Summer Electricity Shortages: GoA Rolls Out [...] (SBU) The Greater Buenos Aires metropolitan area has begun to experience electricity cuts as overloaded distribution systems fail in the face of hot summer weather and high air conditioning loads on the electricity distribution grid. Resulting neighborhood protests have received wide media cove [...] | 2008-01-04 16:58:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AR ECON ENRG |
08BUENOSAIRES190 | Argentina: U.S. Silver Mining Company Coeur Earns Solid [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Idaho-based Coeur d'Alene Mines Corporation has completed construction of a $15 million silver processing mill at their Santa Cruz province mine site that is adding domestic value and generating employment. President Cristina Kirchner is expected to attend the plant's March 19 i [...] | 2008-02-15 18:03:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD EINV ECON PGOV ENRG BL AR |
08BUENOSAIRES196 | ARGENTINA'S FORMER PRESIDENT KIRCHNER LOOKS TO [...] (C) Summary and introduction: Just two months out of office, Argentina's ex-president Nestor Kirchner is still very much in the limelight. Kirchner is moving to revive and take control of the Justicialist Party (PJ),commonly referred to as the Peronist Party in honor of its founder, Juan Do [...] | 2008-02-19 18:15:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ELAB AR |
08BUENOSAIRES198 | ARGENTINE OPPOSITION THANKS AMBASSADOR FOR [...] Per Department guidance (ref A),the Ambassador sent the leaders of Argentina's opposition Civic Coalition a letter on February 8 regarding the separation of powers in the U.S. constitution and the independence of the U.S. judiciary. The recipients must have released the Ambassador's letter, [...] | 2008-02-20 17:48:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL CJAN KJUS KPAO SNAR ASEC AR |
08BUENOSAIRES216 | ARGENTINE MOD GARRE AND AMBASSADOR REVIEW BROAD [...] (SBU) Summary and introduction: The Ambassador called on Argentine MOD Nilda Garre February 19 to review ongoing and future cooperation. Garre expressed interest in enrolling Argentine personnel in U.S. courses related to civil-military relations, peacekeeping operations and peace maintenance [...] | 2008-02-21 18:53:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR MASS AR |
08BUENOSAIRES225 | ARGENTINE PRESIDENT KIRCHNER ENGAGES CONSTRUCTIVELY WITH [...] (SBU) Summary and introduction: Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner (CFK) engaged enthusiastically for an hour in her office February 21 with visiting U.S. Congressional delegation headed by Representative Eliot Engel (D-NY),chairman of the House Subcommittee on the Western Hem [...] | 2008-02-25 13:16:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL OREP PTER KIRF PHUM KV IR VZ AR |
08BUENOSAIRES226 | ARGENTINE FM TAIANA MEETS WITH CODEL ENGEL [...] (SBU) Summary and introduction: Codel Engel enjoyed a warm meeting with Argentine FM Taiana on February 21. Meeting participants discussed Argentina's economic recovery and political progress, the bilateral relationship, and regional and world issues. The codel conveyed concern about Iranian [...] | 2008-02-25 15:13:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL OREP EFIN KDEM PHUM PBTS KV IR VZ BL AR |
08BUENOSAIRES229 | CODEL ENGEL PRESSES ARGENTINE ECONOMY MINISTER ON [...] (C) During a February 21 meeting with new Argentine Economy Minister Martin Lousteau, Representatives Engel (D-NY),Green (D-TX),Hinchey (D-NY),Weller (R-IL),and Foxx (R-NC)) pressed Lousteau to provide GoA positions on three issues of increasing importance to Congress: 1) prospects of nego [...] | 2008-02-25 18:20:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN PREL PGOV PHUM AR |
08BUENOSAIRES230 | Argentina Hosts Brazil, Bolivia Presidents on Looming [...] (SBU) A bilateral Argentine/Brazil presidential summit in Buenos Aires February 22 and a follow-on February 23 trilateral Argentine/Brazil/Bolivia presidential summit focused largely on regional energy coordination. Bolivia's President Morales acknowledged his country's near-term inability to [...] | 2008-02-26 08:09:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ENRG EPET PREL PGOV AR BR BL |
08BUENOSAIRES231 | ARGENTINA'S 2008 SPECIAL 301 REVIEW [...] (SBU) In 2007, Argentine authorities responsible for providing "adequate and effective protection to intellectual property rights" made few meaningful improvements in IPR legislation, regulation and enforcement, and there remain serious weaknesses in each of these areas. Customs authorities' i [...] | 2008-02-26 10:10:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KIPR ETRD ECON AR |
08BUENOSAIRES232 | EVO MORALES, VISITING ARGENTINA, WARNS OF U.S. [...] Bolivian President Evo Morales, on the margins of a February 22 summit meeting in Buenos Aires with Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner and Brazilian President Lula da Silva, told largest-circulation daily newspaper "Clarin" that he wanted "the whole world to know that this con [...] | 2008-02-26 10:26:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PBTS BL KV AR |
08BUENOSAIRES235 | ARGENTINA: GETTING PAST SQUARE ONE WITH THE [...] (C) Summary: With a seven-week period of bilateral estrangement in our rear-view window, we have an opportunity -- again -- to build a more constructive relationship with Argentina. The warming trend in the bilateral relationship continues. President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner and her governmen [...] | 2008-02-26 12:20:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | SECRET | PREL CJAN KJUS EFIN SNAR MASS VZ AR |
08BUENOSAIRES236 | ARGENTINA AND BRAZIL TO COOPERATE ON URANIUM [...] (C) Presidents Fernandez de Kirchner and Lula announced February 22 that Argentina and Brazil will create binational commissions to investigate how the two countries can best cooperate in the enrichment of uranium and in the development of nuclear power plants. The announcement appeared to tak [...] | 2008-02-26 13:17:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | KNNP ENRG IAEA OTRA PREL ECON AR |
08BUENOSAIRES24 | ARGENTINA "FAVORABLY INCLINED" TO VOTE FOR US CERD [...] (U) Per reftel, post sent the Argentine MFA a diplomatic note requesting for GOA support for Pierre-Richard Prosper's candidacy for the UN Committee to Eliminate Racial Discrimination (CERD). Poloff followed up with Martin Romero, MFA Secretary in the International Organizations Directorate [...] | 2008-01-04 18:44:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PHUM UNGA AR |
08BUENOSAIRES241 | ARGENTINA CIVAIR: TRANSITION FROM MILITARY TO CIVILIAN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Almost a year after the creation of the National Civil Aviation Administration (ANAC),the agency that will assume responsibility for Argentina's civair once a transition from military to civilian control occurs, a Director has finally been named and some institutional reorganiz [...] | 2008-02-27 14:40:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR ECON PGOV ELAB AR |
08BUENOSAIRES242 | ARGENTINA: POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC ANALYSTS DISCUSS CFK [...] (SBU) Summary: Representative Eliot Engel and Delegation met February 21 with noted Argentine political and economic analysts to discuss bilateral relations, views on the Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner (CFK) administration, and regional issues, including relations with Brazil, Venezuela, and Cu [...] | 2008-02-27 15:10:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ECON OREP AR VE BR CU |
08BUENOSAIRES244 | ARGENTINE CONGRESSIONAL LEADERSHIP MEETS WITH [...] (SBU) Summary and introduction: Codel Engel had a warm and productive meeting with Argentine Vice President (and Senate President) Cobos and other congressional leaders. They discussed Iran, energy, Argentina's economic recovery, the environment, and the positive feelings following their meeti [...] | 2008-02-27 16:21:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL OREP ECON IR AR |
08BUENOSAIRES245 | ARGENTINA ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL REVIEW, JANUARY [...] (U) Provided below is Embassy Buenos Aires' Economic and Financial Review covering the period January 28 - February 22, 2008. The unclassified email version of this report includes tables and charts tracking Argentine economic developments. Contact Econoff Chris Landberg at landbergca@state. [...] | 2008-02-27 17:13:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON EINV ETRD ELAB EAIR AR |
08BUENOSAIRES246 | CODEL ENGEL VISITS AMIA AND DISCUSSES CONCERN OVER [...] (SBU) Summary. On February 22, Ambassador Wayne and a visiting U.S. Congressional delegation headed by Representative Eliot Engel (D-NY) met with the political leadership of the Argentine Jewish community (DAIA) and the President of the Argentine Israeli Mutual Association (AMIA). During the [...] | 2008-02-27 18:23:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PREL PGOV KJUS AR FBI |
08BUENOSAIRES249 | ARGENTINA: NGO PARTICIPATION IN UNHRC REVIEW MIXED [...] (SBU) Per Ref A instructions, poloff contacted two leading human rights organizations (HROs) in Argentina, Poder Ciudadano, (Citizen Power) and the Center for Legal and Social Studies (CELS),to see if they participated in the UN Human Rights Council's Universal Periodic Review for Argentina. [...] | 2008-02-28 09:28:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV PREL AR |
08BUENOSAIRES253 | ARGENTINA: GOA DOWNBEAT ON DOHA SERVICES "SIGNALING" [...] (SBU) In a sharp response to Ref A letter from USTR Schwab on upcoming WTO Doha Development Round (DDR) services negotiations, Foreign Ministry Trade Secretary Alfredo Chiaradia argued that Schwab's linking the USG's ability to agree to modalities on Agriculture and NAMA to our confidence in an [...] | 2008-02-29 07:34:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD WTRO ECON EAGR EINV PREL AR |
08BUENOSAIRES266 | ARGENTINA: USG PRIORITIES FOR MARCH 10-14 MEETING [...] On February 29, Poloff, per Reftel, discussed USG priorities for the March 10-14 CND meetings in Vienna with the Argentine MFA's Director for International Drug Affairs, Minister Ricardo Roselli. Roselli stated that technical offices were studying the proposed U.S. resolutions on Screening an [...] | 2008-03-03 15:34:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | SNAR AORC UN AR |
08BUENOSAIRES268 | ARGENTINA ON IRAN'S IAEA NONCOMPLIANCE [...] No summary [...] | 2008-03-03 18:27:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | KNNP MNUC PARM PREL IAEA IR AR |
08BUENOSAIRES269 | ARGENTINE PRESIDENT CFK ANNOUNCES HER PRIORITIES [...] (SBU) Summary: Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner (CFK) opened the ordinary session of Congress March 1 with the equivalent of a State of the Union address. Speaking extemporaneously for 73 minutes, she was well organized and demonstrated an impressive mastery of statistics. [...] | 2008-03-03 19:27:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV ECON AR |
08BUENOSAIRES272 | ARGENTINE PRESIDENT CFK ANNOUNCES HER PRIORITIES [...] (SBU) Summary: Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner (CFK) opened the ordinary session of Congress March 1 with the equivalent of a State of the Union address. Speaking extemporaneously for 73 minutes, she was well organized and demonstrated an impressive mastery of statistics. [...] | 2008-03-04 08:21:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV ECON AR |
08BUENOSAIRES273 | ARGENTINA'S SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY MINISTER WANTS [...] (U) This telegram is sensitive but unclassified, and not for Internet distribution. ------- Summary ------- 2. (SBU) Argentine Minister of Science and Technology Lino Baranao told Ambassador Wayne February 29 that he would like to develop new bilateral initiatives. Baranao hopes to wor [...] | 2008-03-04 10:12:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TSPL TSPA SCUL PREL AR |
08BUENOSAIRES279 | POST NOMINATES HEIDI GOMEZ FOR TRAINING ON FORCED [...] In response to reftel, Embassy Buenos Aires nominates Heidi Gomez for training on forced labor and child labor in Washington April 9-11. She is an economic-coned officer currently serving in post's Political section. Her current areas of responsibility cover labor, human rights, trafficking [...] | 2008-03-04 17:24:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | AMGT ELAB OTRA PHUM AR |
08BUENOSAIRES281 | NEW ARGENTINE ATOMIC ENERGY CHIEF STILL SETTLING IN [...] (U) This cable is sensitive but unclassified, and not for Internet distribution. ------- Summary ------- 2. (SBU) Ambassador Wayne called on recently appointed Argentine Atomic Energy Commission (CNEA) President Norma Boero February 29. The ambassador thanked Boero for CNEA's cooperat [...] | 2008-03-04 18:43:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KNNP ENRG IAEA OTRA PREL ECON AR |
08BUENOSAIRES284 | ARGENTINA: GOA INTERNAL SQUABBLE OVER INFLATION [...] (SBU) The Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner (CFK) chose not to address public concern over high levels of inflation or the raging debate over the accuracy and reliability of GoA inflation measures in her March 1st State of the Nation Speech. Just days before CFK,s speech, Chi [...] | 2008-03-05 15:21:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PREL PGOV AR |
08BUENOSAIRES288 | ARGENTINE PRESIDENT TO VENEZULA: ENERGY,AG THEMES [...] (SBU) President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner and her Planning Minister Julio De Vido will meet March 6 in Caracas with Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on her way to the Rio Group summit in the Dominican Republic and a visit to Argentine peacekeeping troops in Haiti. Following Bolivia's Feb [...] | 2008-03-06 07:45:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EPET ENRG EAGR VZ AR |
08BUENOSAIRES307 | ARGENTINA: COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR CODEL SHELBY [...] Post warmly welcomes and grants country clearance to Ambassador Richard Shelby and members of his delegation to travel to Argentina for the period March 23-26, 2008. The purpose of the visit is to have bilateral discussions with senior Argentine government officials on a range of financial, ec [...] | 2008-03-10 18:13:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PHUM PTER SNAR ECON EFIN BEXP AR |
08BUENOSAIRES310 | FORMER ARGENTINE SUPREME COURT JUSTICE SEEKS USG [...] (SBU) Polcouns met with former Argentine Supreme Court Justice Antonio Boggiano, who is seeking USG intervention with the Inter-American Human Rights Commission (IAHRC) to accelerate the handling of his case. Boggiano submitted his case to the IAHRC 16 months ago, and his petition was issued [...] | 2008-03-11 18:13:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM KJUS IAHRC OAS AR |
08BUENOSAIRES311 | ARGENTINE GOVERNOR OF SALTA CALLS ON THE AMBASSADOR [...] (SBU) Summary: The Ambassador met with Salta Governor Juan Manuel Urtubey, Argentina's youngest governor, and discussed areas for cooperation, including promotion of trade and investment, cultural exchanges, and his upcoming trip to Miami, Washington, and New York in April. The Governor descr [...] | 2008-03-12 10:52:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL ECON PGOV PINR SCUL AR |
08BUENOSAIRES318 | ARGENTINA: SCENESETTER FOR CODEL SHELBY [...] (SBU) On behalf of Embassy Buenos Aires, I warmly welcome your March 23-26 visit to Argentina. We are looking to build on an already strong and positive bilateral relationship with the three-month-old administration of President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner. Current significant areas of mut [...] | 2008-03-13 11:35:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PHUM PTER SNAR ECON EFIN BEXP AR |
08BUENOSAIRES320 | (U) ON A ROLL: ARGENTINE FOREIGN MINISTRY FACES [...] (SBU) Summary: Argentine Vice FM Roberto Garcia-Moritan reportedly offered his resignation to FM Taiana March 11. Although he claimed the resignation was motivated by "personal matters" after almost 40 years in Argentina's foreign service, the press attributes his move to a string of public r [...] | 2008-03-13 14:02:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECON AR |
08BUENOSAIRES322 | ARGENTINA DISCUSSES SHIFT IN POLICY TOWARD ILLICIT [...] (SBU) Summary: Minister of Justice Anibal Fernandez announced this week that the GoA intends to redirect its counternarcotics efforts away from the pursuit of drug users in order to make more resources available for investigating and prosecuting drug traffickers. He argues that Argentina's co [...] | 2008-03-13 17:30:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SNAR KJUS PGOV PREL AR |
08BUENOSAIRES328 | ARGENTINA BOOSTS EXPORT TAXES ON MAJOR AG COMMODITIES, [...] (SBU) Economy Minister Lousteau on March 12 announced a modification of Argentina's agricultural export tax regime under which taxes on soy and sunflower exports were substantially increased, taxes on wheat and corn nominally lowered, and all four will move for the next four years will move in [...] | 2008-03-14 13:47:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR ECON ENRG EPET AR |
08BUENOSAIRES329 | ARGENTINA: NO TIME WASTED IN NAMING NEW VICE [...] (SBU) The Foreign Ministry, according to stories just coming out in the local press, has moved quickly to replace outgoing Vice FM Roberto Garcia-Moritan, who offered his resignation on March 11 (reftel). On March 13, Foreign Minister Taiana reportedly offered the VFM position to current Arge [...] | 2008-03-14 15:24:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV AR |
08BUENOSAIRES331 | Argentina's Mendoza Province: Agriculture-Based Growth and [...] (SBU) During a visit to Mendoza to attend the province's emblematic Vendimia wine harvest festival, Ambassador reviewed the province's strong economic growth -- and burgeoning inflation -- with newly elected Radical Party Mendoza City Mayor Fayad, and briefly with Governor Jaque and Provincial [...] | 2008-03-14 18:13:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AR ECON EINV BEXP PREL |
08BUENOSAIRES332 | Kudos to INR officer Andrew Stein [...] No summary [...] | 2008-03-17 08:29:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PINR APER AR |
08BUENOSAIRES336 | Embassy Buenos Aires' IPR Strategic Plan: 2007 Report Card [...] (SBU) Post recently submitted our 2008 Special 301 recommendation that Argentina remain, for the 13th consecutive year, on USTR's Priority Watch List (Ref A). Given the myriad challenges and deficiencies of the Argentine IPR regime, Post in 2007 developed a strategic plan (Ref C) to integrate [...] | 2008-03-17 18:24:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KIPR ETRD ECON AR |
08BUENOSAIRES337 | ARGENTINA: CABINET CHIEF FERNANDEZ DEFENDS "PROPER AND [...] (SBU) In response to press stories asserting that U.S.-Argentine relations continued to sour, Chief of Cabinet Minister Alberto Fernandez spoke to the local media March 14 characterizing the U.S.-Argentina relationship as "proper and mature, based on mutual respect...even though both countries [...] | 2008-03-17 19:34:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL AR |
08BUENOSAIRES343 | ARGENTINA: MORE PUBLIC DIPLOMACY RESOURCES NEEDED [...] THIS CABLE CONTAINS AN ACTION REQUEST: SEE PARAGRAPH 11. 2. SUMMARY: THE LEVEL OF ANTI-AMERICANISM IN ARGENTINA IS THE HIGHEST IN THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE. WE ARE WORKING HARD TO REVERSE OUR NEGATIVE IMAGE. WE HAVE MADE THIS THE MISSION'S HIGHEST PRIORITY, AND WE BELIEVE WE HAVE FOUND A FORMUL [...] | 2008-03-18 15:36:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KPAO OEXC SCUL AR |
08BUENOSAIRES352 | EMBASSY BUENOS AIRES SUPPORTS U.S. NGO PROPOSALS FOR G/TIP [...] (SBU) Summary and Background: Post is pleased to recommend three proposals for G/TIP's "International Collaborative Partnerships to Combat Trafficking" from U.S. NGOs interested in working with local partners to fight trafficking in persons in Argentina. Embassy-Buenos Aires's top priorities i [...] | 2008-03-18 19:20:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | ELAB KCRM KWMN PHUM PREL SNAR SMIG KJUS ASEC AR |
08BUENOSAIRES355 | Argentina: PhRMA Unexpectedly Upbeat on IP Environment [...] (SBU) Members of PhRMA's (Pharmaceutical Researchers and Manufacturers of America) Latin American task force, on a two-day visit to Argentina to meet with GoA officials, local affiliates, and pharmaceutical chambers, remain concerned about inadequate data protection for new pharmaceutical produ [...] | 2008-03-19 16:31:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EINV KIPR AR |
08BUENOSAIRES356 | Argentina's "Gas Plus" Natural Gas Production Incentives: [...] (SBU) GoA Planning Minister Julio De Vido has announced a series of measures designed to avert looming energy shortages in the upcoming (austral) winter heating season. These include the extension through year-end 2008 of the GoA's "Total Energy" liquid fuel subsidy program and a "Gas Plus" pla [...] | 2008-03-19 19:08:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EPET ENRG ECON PGOV AR |
08BUENOSAIRES358 | ARGENTINA COMMEMORATES 1992 ISRAEL EMBASSY BOMBING [...] (SBU) On March 17, the GOA and the Israeli government held a ceremony commemorating the 16th anniversary of the 1992 bombing of the Israeli Embassy in Buenos Aires. During the event, Minister of Justice Anibal Fernandez gave a candid and critical assessment of the GOA's investigation into the [...] | 2008-03-20 08:24:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | KJUS PGOV PREL PTER AR FBI IS |
08BUENOSAIRES359 | ARGENTINA: WORKING WITH TIP ACTIVIST SUSANA TRIMARCO [...] (SBU) Summary. Ambassador Wayne and other Embassy officials recently met with trafficking in persons (TIP) activist Susana Trimarco. During the meeting, Trimarco was informed that the U.S. Department of Defense's Southern Command had approved a $2500 grant to assist her anti-TIP Foundation' [...] | 2008-03-20 10:36:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB KCRM KWMN PHUM PREL SNAR SMIG KJUS ASEC AR |
08BUENOSAIRES367 | ARGENTINA: FBI'S AD FUENTES DISCUSSES COOPERATION [...] (SBU) Summary: During his March 5-6 visit to Argentina, FBI Assistant Director Tom Fuentes met with senior officials of the Argentine government, the Argentine Jewish community, the Province of Cordoba, and the city of Buenos Aires to discuss ongoing U.S.-Argentine security cooperation. Those [...] | 2008-03-20 16:50:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PREL PGOV KJUS SNAR KCRM ASEC AR FBI |
08BUENOSAIRES368 | ARGENTINE AGRICULTURAL SECTOR ON STRIKE [...] (SBU) Argentina's agricultural sector has organized protests -- during which no commodities have been sold -- in opposition to changes announced by Economy Minister Martin Lousteau to Argentina's agricultural export tax scheme (Ref A). Roadblocks have disrupted travel across a large part of th [...] | 2008-03-20 17:02:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR ECON ENRG EPET AR |
08BUENOSAIRES376 | ARGENTINA: FARMERS' STRIKE SPREADS TO THE CITIES [...] 1. (C) Summary: In her toughest domestic test to date, President Christina Fernandez de Kirchner (CFK) turned up the temperature on March 25 in the two-week old confrontation with Argentina's rural sector over increased export taxes. In her first public comments on the strike, CFK denounced th [...] | 2008-03-26 18:21:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | EAGR ECON PGOV ENRG EPET AR |
08BUENOSAIRES378 | FISCAL TRANSPARENCY - ARGENTINA [...] (U) Post submits the following responses keyed to reftel questions. 2. (U) IS THE HOST COUNTRY'S BUDGET MADE PUBLIC? By law, the Government of Argentina (GOA) makes public its national budget, including revenues and expenditures. 3. (U) IF SO, THROUGH WHAT MEDIUM (E.G. PUBLICATION, INTE [...] | 2008-03-27 15:42:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ECON EFIN PREL PGOV AR |
08BUENOSAIRES386 | ARGENTINA: BACK FROM THE BRINK - RURAL SECTOR AND [...] (C) Summary: The GOA and Argentina's four main rural sector organizations have apparently worked out an understanding leading to a short "truce" and direct negotiations with a view to ending the 15-day-old rural sector strike (ref a). Negotiations are supposed to begin early March 28. The G [...] | 2008-03-28 17:01:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | EAGR PGOV ECON AR |
08BUENOSAIRES387 | ARGENTINA: BACK FROM THE BRINK - RURAL SECTOR AND [...] (C) Summary: The GOA and Argentina's four main rural sector organizations have apparently worked out an understanding leading to a short "truce" and direct negotiations with a view to ending the 15-day-old rural sector strike (ref a). Negotiations are supposed to begin early March 28. The G [...] | 2008-03-28 17:01:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | EAGR ECON PGOV AR |
08BUENOSAIRES389 | ARGENTINA: NGO "QUIENES SOMOS?" FIGHTS AGAINST [...] (SBU) Summary: Ambassador Wayne recently met with representatives from the NGO "Quienes Somos?" ("Who are We?"),an organization that promotes legislation against child trafficking for illegal adoptions and lobbies the Argentine government (GOA) to assist in their efforts to uncover their t [...] | 2008-03-28 18:53:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC KCRM PHUM PREL SMIG PGOV AR |
08BUENOSAIRES390 | ARGENTINA: AMBASSADOR WAYNE AND MINISTER OF [...] (C) Summary: On March 26, Ambassador met with Argentina,s new Interior Minister, Florencio Randazzo. The Minister spoke at some length about the ongoing rural sector strikes (reftels),stating that this is the most difficult time that either Kirchner has faced, but is an opportunity for both [...] | 2008-03-28 19:31:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | EAGR PREL PGOV AR |
08BUENOSAIRES398 | ARGENTINA: NO DIALOGUE, MORE ROADBLOCKS [...] (SBU) Summary: Argentina's farm sector decided late March 28 to continue its strike (now in its third week) following the failure of initial discussions with the GOA to make any headway on the sector's main demand of suspending increased agricultural export taxes for 90 days. The rural sector [...] | 2008-04-01 00:38:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | EAGR ECON PGOV PHUM PREL AR |
08BUENOSAIRES403 | ARGENTINA: AMCHAM EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE DEPLORES [...] (C) Members of the American Chamber (AmCham) Executive Committee are concerned by the GoA,s confrontational response to the nation's agricultural crisis, arguing that policy-making concentrated in a small, closed group of senior GoA officials (President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, her hus [...] | 2008-04-01 19:22:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EINV ETRD BEXP PREL AR |
08BUENOSAIRES407 | ARGENTINA: ENERGY SECRETARY ON WIREC, GOA ENERGY [...] (SBU) Argentina will consider making a renewable energy pledge following its participation in the Washington WIREC conference, according to GoA delegation head Energy Secretary Cameron. He noted to Ambassador Argentina's recently implemented energy conservation measures and the GoA's passage o [...] | 2008-04-01 21:30:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG EPET ECON PINR AR |
08BUENOSAIRES408 | ARGENTINE GOVERNMENT SEEKS TO SPLIT AGRICULTURAL SECTOR AND [...] (SBU) President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner (CFK) and her Economy Minister Martin Lousteau announced on March 31 a basket of agricultural concessions targeting small producers. New measures include export tariff rebates, transportation subsidies, a re-opening of currently blocked wheat expo [...] | 2008-04-01 21:56:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR ECON ENRG EPET AR |
08BUENOSAIRES413 | ARGENTINA: AMBASSADOR WAYNE BUILDS BRIDGES WITH [...] (SBU) Summary: The Ambassador had a cordial meeting with congressional deputies Carlos Kunkel and Luis Ilarregui, of the Kirchners' National Victory Front (FPV). Kunkel, known for his rabid outbursts (sometimes directed at the USG and the Ambassador) in defense of the Kirchners, emphasized th [...] | 2008-04-03 14:25:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV AR |
08BUENOSAIRES415 | ARGENTINA: AGRICULTURE SECTOR SUSPENDS STRIKE [...] (SBU) Summary: Argentina's four main agricultural organizations lifted their strike on April 2 for 30 days to hold discussions with the GOA. Roadblocks have been lifted throughout the country and food supplies are arriving in Buenos Aires and other major cities. Local papers report that basic [...] | 2008-04-03 20:49:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR ECON ETRD PGOV AR |
08BUENOSAIRES421 | (U) ARGENTINA: STRIKE'S ECONOMIC COSTS VS. ITS $$ [...] (C) Now that the Argentine farm sector,s strike measures have been lifted, at least for 30 days (Ref A),it is worth examining just why the GoA chose this particular moment to boost export taxes, and what economic costs the three-week strike have imposed on the Argentine economy. In our view, [...] | 2008-04-04 16:14:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EAGR EINV ETRD AR |
08BUENOSAIRES422 | CODEL Shelby discusses financial crisis, inflation, banking [...] (SBU) During a March 25 meeting with Argentine Central Bank President Martin Redrado, a CODEL led by Senator Shelby (R-AL) congratulated the Central Bank for exceeding $50 billion in official reserves, asked about efforts to bring down inflation, and inquired about the possibility of an agreeme [...] | 2008-04-04 16:57:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN OREP AR |
08BUENOSAIRES425 | CODEL Shelby discusses bilateral relationship, TIP, and [...] (SBU) During a March 25 meeting with Justice Minister Anibal Fernandez, a delegation of four U.S. Senators and one Representative, led by Senator Shelby (R-AL),noted U.S. Congressional interest in Argentina's efforts to combat terrorism, terrorism financing, and money laundering, particularly [...] | 2008-04-04 19:14:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV GTIP PTER KTFN ECON OREP AR |
08BUENOSAIRES426 | ARGENTINA - U.S. CANDIDATE FOR IOM LOBBIES GOA OFFICIALS FOR SUPPORT [...] (SBU) Summary. Visiting Ambassador William Swing met with Argentine Minister of Interior Florencio Anibal Randazzo and then followed up with the MFA's Director General for Multilateral Affairs Raul Ricardes on March 31 to discuss his candidacy for Director General of the International Organi [...] | 2008-04-04 19:30:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | ELAB KCRM PHUM PREL PREF SMIG KJUS AR |
08BUENOSAIRES429 | CODEL Shelby discusses agricultural strike, global [...] (SBU) Representatives of U.S. commercial banks, investment banks, insurance companies, and rating agencies told CODEL Shelby March 25 that the GoA's interventionist tendencies has scared off foreign direct investment (FDI) -- except from Brazil -- and long-term lending from the private sector, [...] | 2008-04-07 12:12:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN OREP AR |
08BUENOSAIRES43 | FM TAIANA OFFERS INSIGHTS INTO COLOMBIAN HOSTAGE [...] (C) Summary. During a January 10 meeting with Ambassador Wayne, Foreign Minister Jorge Taiana offered his assessment of the release of FARC hostages in Colombia. He expressed appreciation for the USG's public statement praising the release of the hostages. Taiana also praised Colombian Pre [...] | 2008-01-11 16:15:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER CJAN SNAR ASEC KJUS VZ CO AR |
08BUENOSAIRES430 | CODEL SHELBY DISCUSSES AGRICULTURAL STRIKE, GLOBAL [...] (SBU) Representatives of U.S. commercial banks, investment banks, insurance companies, and rating agencies told CODEL Shelby March 25 that the GoA's interventionist tendencies has scared off foreign direct investment (FDI) -- except from Brazil -- and long-term lending from the private sector, [...] | 2008-04-07 13:50:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN OREP AR |
08BUENOSAIRES433 | ARGENTINA ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL REVIEW, MARCH 17 [...] (U) Provided below is Embassy Buenos Aires' Economic and Financial Review covering the period March 17 - April 4, 2008. The unclassified email version of this report includes tables and charts tracking Argentine economic developments. Contact Econoff Chris Landberg at landbergca@state.gov to [...] | 2008-04-07 18:44:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON EINV ETRD ELAB EAIR AR |
08BUENOSAIRES435 | ARGENTINA: Ambassador Discusses Farm Strike with [...] (SBU) Summary: Ambassador met with one of the largest soybean producers in Argentina the day after the agricultural strike was suspended for 30 days. Government supporters have responded to the agricultural strike by attacking large producers and soybean production in general. The agricultur [...] | 2008-04-08 14:59:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR ECON ETRD PGOV AR |
08BUENOSAIRES438 | ARGENTINE HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVISTS PROTEST NEW TIP [...] (U) Summary: A small group of anti-trafficking and feminist organizations gathered outside Argentina's Congress on April 3 to protest anti-TIP legislation currently under consideration by the Chamber of Deputies. According to NGOs, the draft bill falls short of Argentina's international obli [...] | 2008-04-08 19:05:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM KWMN SMIG KCRM ELAB AR |
08BUENOSAIRES439 | ARGENTINA'S PRESIDENT CFK OFF TO A ROUGH START [...] (C) Summary: President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner (CFK) had a rough first four months in office. Her administration has produced few new policy initiatives or concrete policy successes. CFK's term has been marked by two serious crises, one foreign and one domestic. Both were exacerbat [...] | 2008-04-08 19:08:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV EAGR ECON PREL AR |
08BUENOSAIRES441 | ARGENTINA: SCENESETTER FOR ASSISTANT SECRETARY SHANNON'S APRIL 10-11 VISIT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-04-08 23:10:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | AR ECON EFIN PGOV PHUM PREL PTER SNAR |
08BUENOSAIRES442 | Argentina: U.S. Mining Company Coeur Inaugurates New Silver [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. On March 19, President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner inaugurated Idaho-based Coeur d'Alene Mines Corporation's new US$15 million silver processing mill in Santa Cruz province (where former President Nestor Kirchner was Governor before becoming President in 2003). The new mill a [...] | 2008-04-09 13:47:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EMIN EIND ETRD EINV ECON PGOV BL AR |
08BUENOSAIRES462 | ARGENTINE VALIJAGATE INVESTIGATION MOVING SLOWLY [...] (SBU) Summary: The Argentine investigation into the origin and destination of USD 800,000 seized from a Venezuelan-American passenger arriving on a chartered flight from Caracas last August continues to move forward slowly. A new judge has been assigned to oversee the money laundering and cu [...] | 2008-04-10 12:03:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KJUS PREL SNAR KCOR VZ AR |
08BUENOSAIRES463 | ENGAGING ECONOMY MINISTER LOUSTEAU ON PARIS CLUB, [...] (C) Treasury Secretary Paulson's April 11 meeting with Economy Minister Martin Lousteau offers an opportunity to engage the senior GoA official charged by President Kirchner with resolving Argentina's pariah status in international capital markets. Lousteau is in a fight for his political lif [...] | 2008-04-10 13:02:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ECON ETRD PREL AR |
08BUENOSAIRES465 | ARGENTINE CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES PASSES NEW TIP LEGISLATION [...] (SBU) Summary: The Argentine Chamber of Deputies passed a bill on April 9 that, for the first time, defines trafficking in persons as a federal crime. While the new legislation represents a step in the right direction, it has generated controversy among feminist and human rights organizations [...] | 2008-04-10 15:34:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM KWMN SMIG KCRM ELAB AR |
08BUENOSAIRES466 | ARGENTINA: SCENESETTER FOR THE U.S. DELEGATION TO [...] (U) This telegram is sensitive but unclassified, and not for Internet distribution. ------------ Introduction ------------ 2. (SBU) Embassy Buenos Aires warmly welcomes the U.S. delegation to the Joint Standing Committee on Nuclear Energy Cooperation (JSCNEC),hosted this year by the G [...] | 2008-04-10 19:20:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | KNNP IR AR |
08BUENOSAIRES471 | ARGENTINA: AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES TIP AND CORRUPTION [...] (C) Summary: On April 7, the Ambassador met with Argentina's National Ombudsman Dr. Eduardo Mondino. The Ombudsman spoke at length about the independence of his office, which he said has occasionally incurred the rancor of both Kirchner Administrations. His portfolio includes the protection [...] | 2008-04-14 10:26:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM SOCI EFIN AR |
08BUENOSAIRES472 | ARGENTINA: COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR FSI ECONOMICS DIVISION [...] Post warmly welcomes and grants country clearance to FSI Economics Division Professor Lynda D. Vargha for the period of April 19-26, 2008. The purpose of the trip is an orientation to Economic Section work and training requirements. 2. Embassy Buenos Aires Control Officer will be ECON Office [...] | 2008-04-14 13:29:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON AMGT AFSI AFSN ETRD AR |
08BUENOSAIRES476 | ARGENTINA: MAGDALENA FAILLACE CANDIDATE FOR PRESIDENCY OF [...] Embassy received from the Argentine MFA a diplomatic note soliciting USG support for Ambassador Magdalena Faillace as a candidate for President of the Inter-American Commission for Women (CIM). Elections will take place during the CIM's Ordinary Assembly of Delegates this November. 2. Si [...] | 2008-04-14 19:11:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL SOCI KWMN PHUM IACW OAS AR |
08BUENOSAIRES478 | ARGENTINA: SENATE VP JUAN CARLOS ROMERO [...] (SBU) Summary: Ambassador met with Senate Vice President Juan Carlos Romero of the Kirchners' National Victory Front (FPV) on April 4 in his office to discuss greater bilateral legislative cooperation. Romero has occasionally been critical of GOA policy in the past and publicly disagreed wit [...] | 2008-04-14 20:39:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR ECON ETRD PGOV AR |
08BUENOSAIRES48 | ARGENTINA 2007-2008 INCSR PART II: FINANCIAL [...] The following is Embassy Buenos Aires' input for the 2007-2008 International Narcotics Control Strategy Report (INCSR) part II -- Financial Crimes and Money Laundering. Marked-up text sent separately via email. Post POC is EconOff Chris Landberg (LandbergCA@State.Gov). Begin Text: Argent [...] | 2008-01-14 14:43:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN KCRM KTFN PTER SNAR AR |
08BUENOSAIRES486 | REPORT CRITICIZES MEDIA COVERAGE OF ARGENTINE AGRICULTURAL [...] (SBU) Summary: A report released by the University of Buenos Aires's School of Social Sciences on April 5 sharply criticizes the Argentine media's coverage of the recent agricultural crisis in Argentina. The timing of the report's release, however, raised serious concerns, as it coincided wit [...] | 2008-04-15 18:22:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM SCUL KPAO KDEM AR |
08BUENOSAIRES493 | ARGENTINA OFFICIALS EAGER TO STRENGTHEN ANTI-TIP [...] (C) On April 10, Argentine Justice Minister Anibal Fernandez informed visiting WHA Assistant Secretary Tom Shannon and Ambassador Wayne that he was very pleased with the April 9 Congressional passage of anti-trafficking in persons (TIP) legislation. He indicated that he was eager to begin w [...] | 2008-04-16 21:10:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | ELAB KCRM PHUM PREL SMIG KWMN PGOV ASEC AR |
08BUENOSAIRES494 | ARGENTINA: AMIA ELECTIONS -- ORTHODOX BLOC WINS PLURALITY [...] (U) The Argentine Israeli Mutual Association (AMIA),held internal elections April 13. The Orthodox bloc, led by Rabbi Samuel Levin, won a plurality of votes in internal elections with 37.7% votes. AMIA, Argentina's most important and representative Jewish organization, suffered a 1994 terror [...] | 2008-04-16 23:33:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PREL PGOV KJUS AR |
08BUENOSAIRES495 | ARGENTINA: AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES HARVARD TRIP, DOW [...] (SBU) Summary: The Ambassador met April 15 with the mayor of Bahia Blanca, Cristian Breitenstein, who had recently returned from a brief course of study at Harvard University. Young, dynamic and pro-American, Breitenstein identified priorities for his first full term in office, including expan [...] | 2008-04-17 15:45:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL BEXP EINV ENRG EPET ETRD SOCI AR |
08BUENOSAIRES496 | ARGENTINE GOVERNMENT TAKEN BY SURPRISE AS CHAVEZ [...] (C) SUMMARY. The Government of Venezuela's (GOV) announcement that it would nationalize Venezuela's largest steelmaker, Ternium Sidor, majority-owned by Argentine interests, has rattled local markets and complicated the relationship between Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner (C [...] | 2008-04-17 17:24:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EINV EIND ETRD AR VE BR MX |
08BUENOSAIRES498 | REQUEST CLARIFICATION ON FOIA REQUEST: RECORDS OF ALL [...] (SBU) Per ref A exchanges with the Department, post requests clarification of ref B Freedom of Information Act request from Mara Verheyden-Hilliard on behalf of the Venezuela Solidarity Network. The request asks for "copies of all records regarding all grants, payments, and/or funds transfers t [...] | 2008-04-17 21:21:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AINF AFIN PGOV AR VE |
08BUENOSAIRES499 | REQUEST CLARIFICATION ON FOIA REQUEST: RECORDS OF ALL [...] (SBU) Per ref A exchanges with the Department, post requests clarification of ref B Freedom of Information Act request from Mara Verheyden-Hilliard on behalf of the Venezuela Solidarity Network. The request asks for copies of all records regarding all grants, payments, and/or funds transfers to [...] | 2008-04-18 11:26:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AINF AFIN PGOV AR VE |
08BUENOSAIRES50 | Government Policies and Argentine Agriculture -- Lower [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Government policies in Argentina have reduced prices paid for goods from the most important agricultural sectors (oilseeds, grains, beef and dairy) an estimated 30 to 40 percent below world market prices. The lower prices are due to GoA intervention in the market to keep down d [...] | 2008-01-15 10:36:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR ETRD PGOV AR |
08BUENOSAIRES500 | A CONSERVATIVE MEGACONFERENCE TAKES PLACE IN LEFT-LEANING [...] (U) Summary. Argentine think tank the Liberty Foundation celebrated its twentieth anniversary March 26-28 with an international seminar drawing over 300 participants from around the region and Spain. Participants included noted author Mario Vargas Llosa as well as five ex-Presidents of Lati [...] | 2008-04-18 13:22:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PINR ECON PHUM KJUS XM VZ AR |
08BUENOSAIRES501 | ARGENTINA: ANALYSIS OF TIP LAW [...] (SBU) Summary. Local NGOs and the Argentine government's National Institute for Anti-Discrimination (INADI) and the National Ombudsman's Office have criticized the anti-TIP legislation passed on April 9. Their concern is that adult trafficking victims will have to prove that they did not cons [...] | 2008-04-18 14:48:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC ELAB KCRM PHUM PREL SMIG AR |
08BUENOSAIRES504 | ARGENTINA: SUPREME COURT OVERRULES CONGRESS AND REINSTATES [...] (U) Summary: The Argentine Supreme Court ruled 4-3 that the Congress acted illegally when it refused to seat Luis Patti, the former mayor of Escobar who is accused of committing human rights violations as a police officer during the 1976-83 military dictatorship. The decision opened the way f [...] | 2008-04-18 18:43:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KJUS PHUM AR |
08BUENOSAIRES506 | ARGENTINA ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL REVIEW, APRIL 7 - [...] (U) Provided below is Embassy Buenos Aires' Economic and Financial Review covering the period April 7 - 18, 2008. The unclassified email version of this report includes tables and SIPDIS charts tracking Argentine economic developments. Contact Econoff Chris Landberg at landbergca@state.gov [...] | 2008-04-18 20:33:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON EINV ETRD ELAB EAIR AR |
08BUENOSAIRES514 | ARGENTINA: NESTOR KIRCHNER POISED TO ASSUME [...] (U) Summary: It appears that former President Nestor Kirchner (NK) and his list will run unopposed to lead Argentina's Justicialist "Peronist" Party (PJ). April 19-20 news reports say PJ officials disqualified a second list of candidates, indicating former president NK's slate will likely w [...] | 2008-04-21 20:13:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV AR |
08BUENOSAIRES515 | ARGENTINA URGES SUPPORT FOR ITS CANDIDACY TO UN [...] (C) The Argentine MFA convoked all resident Ambassadors April 17 to solicit support for Argentina's candidacy to the UN Human Rights Council in the May 16 vote. The meeting followed up on the MFA's January Diplomatic Note announcing the candidacy, which was forwarded via e-mail to WHA/BSC in [...] | 2008-04-21 20:23:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM UNHRC AR |
08BUENOSAIRES516 | FORMER ARGENTINE SUPREME COURT JUSTICE SEEKING USG [...] (SBU) Polcouns tracked down former Argentine Supreme Court President Antonio Boggiano in Rome and delivered telephonically all of the points provided ref A. Polcouns noted the U.S. strongly supports the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) and the strong sense of integrity and in [...] | 2008-04-21 20:24:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KJUS PHUM KDEM IACHR AR |
08BUENOSAIRES517 | ARGENTINA: A/S SHANNON DISCUSSES COOPERATION WITH [...] Innovation and cooperation were the major themes of A/S Shannon,s meeting with Minister of Science and Technology Lino Baranao on April 11. Baranao and A/S Shannon agreed that partnership on S&T issues is mutually beneficial and should be included in the framework for bilateral cooperation a [...] | 2008-04-21 20:34:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | TSPL TSPA SCUL PREL AR |
08BUENOSAIRES520 | ARGENTINE CABINET CHIEF SUPPORTS IMPROVED [...] (C) Summary. Argentine Cabinet Minister Alberto Fernandez told A/S Shannon on April 10 that he firmly supports the improvement in bilateral dialogue and cooperation, saying "we need to have good relations with the USG." Fernandez placed high priority on attracting U.S. investment and on reso [...] | 2008-04-22 16:46:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON EINV EPET KPAO KCOR MARR VZ AR |
08BUENOSAIRES522 | A/S SHANNON AND AMCHAM REPRESENTATIVES SHARE [...] (SBU) Summary. Assistant Secretary Shannon and Ambassador Wayne met with members of American Chamber (AmCham) Executive Committee to discuss the companies, observations and concerns about the Argentine business climate, market opportunities and challenges. AmCham representatives were unanim [...] | 2008-04-22 19:32:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV ECON EINV EPET KPAO KCOR MARR VZ AR |
08BUENOSAIRES526 | ARGENTINA WILLING TO HELP RENEW AND STRENGTHEN THE [...] (U) This message is sensitive but unclassified, and not for Internet distribution. 2. (SBU) Emboff made reftel points April 18 to Minister Carlos Hernandez of the MFA's Office of International Security, Nuclear, and Space Affairs. Hernandez replied April 22, saying that Argentina's UN Miss [...] | 2008-04-23 11:42:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL AORC KPAO PTER UNSC KNNP AR |
08BUENOSAIRES531 | THE ARGENTINE GOVERNMENT AND THE MEDIA: BIASED [...] (C) Summary: Argentine government is continuing its crusade to pressure the media group Clarin over allegedly biased reporting, and questioning its powerful position in the print, TV, cable and radio. While others in the media share concerns about Clarin's dominant position, observers genera [...] | 2008-04-23 19:21:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON EINV KPAO KCOR AR |
08BUENOSAIRES533 | NGO FAIR AT AMBASSADOR WAYNE4S RESIDENCE [...] SUMMARY: AMBASSADOR WAYNE HOSTED A VERY SUCCESSFUL NGO FAIR AT HIS RESIDENCE ON APRIL 8. MORE THAN 60 NGOS FROM ACROSS ARGENTINA GATHERED AT THE AMBASSADOR'S HOME IN BUENOS AIRES, WHERE THEY HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO MEET WITH REPRESENTATIVES FROM EMBASSIES, INTERNATIONAL AND DOMESTIC COMPANIES, F [...] | 2008-04-23 20:42:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO KSUM AR |
08BUENOSAIRES54 | ARGENTINA ON SUPPORTING SYRIAN NATIONAL COUNCIL [...] No summary [...] | 2008-01-15 16:30:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | SECRET | PREL XF XG KMPI SY AR |
08BUENOSAIRES540 | ARGENTINA POISED FOR RESUMPTION OF AGRICULTURAL [...] (C) Summary: The 30-day truce called by Argentine farmers in their conflict with the GOA may come to an end without a negotiated solution to address the agricultural sector's grievances. Agricultural sector contacts tell us that lack of progress in the negotiations is bringing Argentina close [...] | 2008-04-25 09:39:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON EAGR EIND ETRD ELAB PHUM AR |
08BUENOSAIRES547 | ARGENTINE ECONOMY MINISTER MARTIN LOUSTEAU RESIGNS [...] (C) Economy Minister Martin Lousteau tendered his resignation April 24 following the Kirchners' rejection of a series of orthodox anti-inflationary measures he proposed. These measures included boosting domestic prices and reducing subsidies for utilities, cutbacks in public spending on infras [...] | 2008-04-25 18:50:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN PGOV PREL AR |
08BUENOSAIRES549 | IDB PRESIDENT ON ARGENTINA: WORSENING INFLATION [...] (C) IDB President Moreno told Ambassador April 21 that his two takeaways from his latest visit to Argentina are that inflation appears to be getting out of control and there is increasing willingness to stand up to the Kirchners. Moreno noted that high commodity prices are saving Argentina, bu [...] | 2008-04-25 19:54:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON EFIN EAID AR |
08BUENOSAIRES553 | ARGENTINA: JOHN DEERE CONCERNED ON IMPACT OF AGRICULTURAL [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: John Deere Company executives met Ambassador on April 1, the day before Argentina's agricultural sector strike was suspended for 30 days. While business has been good, executives indicated concern over future business due to the uncertain policy environment and expected decreas [...] | 2008-04-28 17:08:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR AR ECON EINV |
08BUENOSAIRES56 | AMBASSADOR RAISES ARGENTINA INVESTMENT CLIMATE [...] (C) Summary: The Ambassador raised with Foreign Minister Jorge Taiana U.S. companies' concerns about Argentina's investment climate during their January 10 meeting (reftels). He informed Taiana that the USG is closely monitoring Argentina's dispute with CMS Gas Transmission, and expressed co [...] | 2008-01-15 18:31:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL EINV ECPS EPET EMIN AR |
08BUENOSAIRES563 | ARGENTINE PRESIDENTQS APPROVAL RATINGS TAKE A HIT [...] (SBU) Summary: Local papers report that President Cristina Fernandez de KirchnerQs approval ratings have fallen as low as 36% because of her handling of the rural sector strike and growing concerns over inflation and insecurity. The papers do not name specific polling firms, however, because [...] | 2008-04-29 16:38:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV AR |
08BUENOSAIRES566 | ARGENTINA TENTATIVELY SUPPORTS U.S.- EU [...] No summary [...] | 2008-04-29 22:57:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL UNGA EU AR |
08BUENOSAIRES568 | ARGENTINA: PLANNING MINISTER DE VIDO ON ARGENTNE TIES WITH U.S., VENEZUELA, AND DOMESTIC STRATEGY TO LAUNCH NEW INFRASTRUCTURE AND "SOCIAL PACT" INITIATIVES [...] (SBU) Planning Minister De Vido called A/S Shannon's visit to Buenos Aires a positive step in rebuilding bilateral relations damaged by the earlier Antonini Wilson "suitcase" scandal. He hopes the postponed visits to the United States by former President Nestor Kirchner and Chief of Cabinet Al [...] | 2008-04-30 17:22:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG ECON PREL PGOV AR VZ BR EC EPET |
08BUENOSAIRES57 | ARGENTINA ON KOSOVO STATUS [...] (C) Ambassador delivered reftel points to Foreign Minister Jorge Taiana on January 10. Taiana indicated that the MFA would consider the matter, but noted that Kosovo is a complex issue. He asked whether European support for Kosovo independence included Spain. The Ambassador replied that we [...] | 2008-01-16 07:52:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KPKO PBTS UNMIK PGOV YI ER AR |
08BUENOSAIRES571 | ARGENTINA CAUGHT OFF GUARD BY 4TH FLEET [...] (C) SUMMARY: ARGENTINE MFA DIRECTOR FOR INTERNATIONAL SECURITY AND NUCLEAR AFFAIRS, AMBASSADOR ELSA KELLY, CALLED DCM APRIL 29 TO ASK FOR DETAILS REGARDING NAVAL OPERATION'S APRIL 24 PRESS RELEASE ANNOUNCING THE RE-ESTABLISHMENT OF THE U.S. FOURTH FLEET. AT A MEETING WITH POST MILGP COMMANDE [...] | 2008-04-30 22:00:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR MASS PGOV AR |
08BUENOSAIRES572 | ARGENTINE FLAG CARRIER AEROLINEAS FOCUS OF [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Aerolineas Argentinas (AR) has again become the focus of GOA and Government of Spain (GOS) tensions amidst public accusations by AR Spanish owners Marsans and GOS officials of "harassment" of the carrier. Marsans and the GOS accuse AR unions and some GOA officials of pressing f [...] | 2008-05-02 10:24:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | EAIR ECON EINV ELAB AR SP |
08BUENOSAIRES575 | ARGENTINA HIGH-LEVEL MEETING AGENDA [...] (SBU) Following up on WHA A/S Shannon's April 10-11 meetings with Argentine FM Taiana and their agreement in principle to hold in June in Buenos Aires a meeting under the auspices of the Special Process of Regular High-Level Bilateral Consultations, emboffs met with MFA officials April 17 to de [...] | 2008-05-02 17:26:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL ECON PHUM ETRD SENV SCUL PTER SNAR KJUS XM AR |
08BUENOSAIRES577 | RESPONSE: IMPACT OF RISING FOOD/COMMODITY PRICES ON [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Government of Argentina (GOA) has responded to rising international prices by increasing efforts to divorce domestic food prices from international prices. The general policy of the government is to maintain low domestic prices and increase tax revenues by taxing agricult [...] | 2008-05-02 20:41:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR ECON EINV PGOV ELAB PHUM AR |
08BUENOSAIRES58 | Argentina: 2008 Investment Climate Statement [...] Argentina remains open to foreign investment. Five consecutive years of real GDP growth over 8 percent have attracted considerable U.S. and other international investor interest in exploring opportunities in the Argentine market. The government of Argentina, in turn, has signaled its desire [...] | 2008-01-16 11:35:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EINV ETRD OPIC KTDB USTR PGOV AR |
08BUENOSAIRES586 | AMBASSADOR MEETS WITH TIERRA DEL FUEGO GOVERNOR [...] (SBU) Summary: The Ambassador met April 29 with Tierra del Fuego Governor Fabiana Rios, Argentina's first elected female governor. Governor Rios was straightforward and cordial throughout the meeting, during which she explained her province's abysmal financial state. Rios solicited the Amba [...] | 2008-05-05 20:15:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL EAID EFIN KDEM AR |
08BUENOSAIRES587 | MEDIA GROUPS CONCERNED AS ARGENTINE GOVERNMENT PUSHES NEW BROADCAST LAW [...] No summary [...] | 2008-05-05 21:21:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KPAO OPRC KMDR PREL PHUM AR |
08BUENOSAIRES592 | ARGENTINA: AGRICULTURAL NEGOTIATIONS MAKE LITTLE PROGRESS [...] (SBU) Summary: Based on limited progress in agricultural negotiations, farm sector leaders extended their truce with the GOA from May 2 to May 6, but in the absence of any additional progress it appears likely that strikes will resume in some fashion. GOA and farming leaders did not reach agre [...] | 2008-05-06 20:16:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV EAGR ECON ELAB ETRD AR |
08BUENOSAIRES597 | ARGENTINA: CUBA SOLIDARITY DAY [...] (SBU) Per reftel, Embassy Buenos Aires will seek to place in local media an op-ed being drafted in the Department and will use its Strategic Distribution Initiative (SDI) to circulate background materials on Cuba to approximately 3,500 local contacts. 2. (SBU) Post contacted a local NGO, the [...] | 2008-05-06 21:36:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KDEM PHUM PREL EUN CU AR |
08BUENOSAIRES598 | ARGENTINA CONFIRMS CANDIDACY FOR UN HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (SBU) On May 6, Polcouns delivered ref A demarche to Martin Romero in the Argentine MFA's Directorate for International Organizations (DIOIN). Polcouns expressed U.S. concern about the performance of the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC),including its tendency to focus on Israel while simultan [...] | 2008-05-06 21:52:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL UNHRC UNGA AR |
08BUENOSAIRES599 | ARGENTINA CONSIDERING U.S. CANDIDATE FOR OAS [...] No summary [...] | 2008-05-06 21:52:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL OAS AR |
08BUENOSAIRES609 | AMBASSADOR'S VISIT TO LA PLATA: A UNIVERSITY TOWN AND HOME [...] (U) The Ambassador reaffirmed the USG commitment to strengthening bilateral ties with Argentina and discussed investment, drugs, and local issues during an April 30 meeting with Buenos Aires Governor Daniel Scioli and series of meetings in the provincial capital. The Ambassador visited a paris [...] | 2008-05-07 21:37:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON PREL OEXC OTRA SCUL SENV AR |
08BUENOSAIRES615 | FARM STRIKE RESUMES IN ARGENTINA [...] (U) Farm groups announced late on May 7 that they will resume the farm strike due to the GoA's refusal to discuss making any changes to the variable export tax regime. The farm groups will continue protests for the next 8 days (through May 15),when they will meet again to discuss their next [...] | 2008-05-08 18:57:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR ECON EINV PGOV ELAB PHUM AR |
08BUENOSAIRES619 | AMBASSADOR MEETS WITH ARGENTINE CONGRESSIONAL [...] (SBU) Summary: The Ambassador met May 7 with Chairman of Argentina's Joint Congressional Committee for the Oversight of Intelligence Activities and Organizations Senator Marcelo Fuentes. Fuentes has known former president Nestor Kirchner for a long time; they both studied at law in La Plata a [...] | 2008-05-09 14:56:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL AR |
08BUENOSAIRES62 | ANNUAL OVERSEAS SECURITY ADVISORY COUNCIL (OSAC) CRIME AND [...] (SBU) OVERALL CRIME AND SAFETY: Traffic accidents are still the primary threat to life and limb in Argentina, especially in Buenos Aires. Pedestrians should be vigilant when crossing streets and remember to look both directions, even if the street is designated one way. Traffic laws are ro [...] | 2008-01-16 17:47:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC AR |
08BUENOSAIRES622 | ARGENTINA ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL REVIEW, APRIL 21 [...] (U) Provided below is Embassy Buenos Aires' Economic and Financial Review covering the period April 21 - May 5, 2008. The unclassified email version of this report includes tables and charts tracking Argentine economic developments. Contact Econoff Chris Landberg at landbergca@state.gov to be [...] | 2008-05-09 18:50:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON EINV ETRD ELAB EAIR AR |
08BUENOSAIRES629 | ARGENTINA INFLATION CONTROVERSY: GOA TO LAUNCH NEW [...] (C) The GoA plans to roll out a "new and improved" consumer price index (CPI) in June to allow national statistics agency INDEC to recover some of its lost credibility. The new index will measure a narrower basket of goods and services and will allow product weightings to be changed frequentl [...] | 2008-05-12 16:58:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ETRD EINV AR EFIN |
08BUENOSAIRES634 | Argentina: Negative Reaction to Special 301 Priority Watch [...] (SBU) GoA interlocutors in the Foreign Ministry reacted negatively to USTR's placement of Argentina on the Special 301 Priority Watch List (PWL) for the thirteenth straight year. Econoff delivered Reftel demarche to Luis Niscovolos, Director of Multilateral Economic Negotiations in the Argenti [...] | 2008-05-12 20:54:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KIPR ETRD ECON AR |
08BUENOSAIRES636 | FOLLOWING UP WITH ARGENTINA ON U.S.-EU DECLARATION [...] (SBU) The Ambassador spoke May 9 and May 13 with Argentine MFA U/S for Multilateral Policy Raul Ricardes to urge Argentine co-sponsorship of the U.S.-EU declaration on prisoners of conscience. Ricardes asked who else was sponsoring. Per ref (A),the Ambassador noted there were 44 co-sponsors [...] | 2008-05-13 19:35:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL UN EU AR |
08BUENOSAIRES64 | Argentina International Airport: Labor Woes, Overbooking [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Flight delays and cancellations at Argentina's Ezeiza International Airport in Buenos Aires erupted into chaos on January 12, affecting 4,000-5,000 passengers. The conflict began with Aerolineas Argentinas ground workers and pilots staging slowdowns in the middle of the high sum [...] | 2008-01-17 15:15:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR ECON PGOV ELAB AR |
08BUENOSAIRES641 | TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS: ARGENTINA SERIOUS ABOUT [...] (SBU) Summary: On the evening of May 7, Argentine Minister of Justice and Security Anibal Fernandez told visiting ICE Assistant Secretary Myers and Ambassador Wayne that he was serious about implementing Argentina's new federal law against Trafficking in Persons (TIP) and is very open to work [...] | 2008-05-14 20:07:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB KCRM PHUM PREL SMIG KJUS ASEC AR |
08BUENOSAIRES642 | ARGENTINA AT THE MAY 16-17 EU-LATIN AMERICA AND CARIBBEAN [...] (SBU) Summary: President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner (CFK) and Foreign Minister Jorge Taiana are scheduled to visit Lima May 16-17 to attend the Summit Meeting of European Union - Latin American and the Caribbean (EU - LAC). CFK appears to have a full but still-unconfirmed schedule, with GO [...] | 2008-05-14 21:43:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV ENRG ETRD AR |
08BUENOSAIRES643 | ARGENTINA: SUPREME COURT JUSTICE TO VISIT U.S. TO FURTHER [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Argentina4s Supreme Court President Ricardo Lorenzetti will travel to Washington and New York the week of May 19 for meetings at the American Law Institute and the Council of the Americas as part of his effort to strengthen judicial practices in Argentina. Ambassador Wayne met wi [...] | 2008-05-15 10:26:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PTER SNAR SCUL AR |
08BUENOSAIRES645 | ARGENTINA: AMBASSADOR MEETS WITH SENATE DEFENSE CHAIR MARIA [...] (U) Summary: The Ambassador met May 14 with National Victory Front Senator and President of the Senate Defense Commission Maria Cristina Perceval. Ambassador Wayne and Perceval discussed her recent trip to the United States to attend a conference on the role of civilians in the security sect [...] | 2008-05-15 15:06:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR AR |
08BUENOSAIRES646 | ARGENTINE PROSECUTORS SEEK TO TRAVEL TO THE U.S. [...] (SBU) Summary: Argentine press indicates local prosecutors are looking to travel to the U.S. to gather evidence for their investigation into the infamous Venezuelan suitcase with US$800,000 seized by GOA officials in August 2007. Articles published in La Nacion on May 11 and 12 provide new i [...] | 2008-05-15 18:26:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KJUS PREL SNAR KCOR VZ AR |
08BUENOSAIRES647 | ARGENTINA: MISSION AND U.S. COMPANIES COLLABORATE [...] (U) This telegram is sensitive but unclassified, and not for Internet distribution. ------- Summary ------- 2. (SBU) Ambassador Wayne hosted Argentine Science and Technology Minister Lino Baranao and CEOs from U.S. innovation-based companies May 9 in the latest of a number of sector or [...] | 2008-05-15 18:26:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | TSPL TSPA SCUL PREL AR |
08BUENOSAIRES651 | AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES ARGENTINE POLITICS WITH [...] (U) Summary: The Ambassador met May 12 with conservative politician Ricardo Lopez-Murphy, who came in third place in the 2003 presidential election but only in seventh, with one percent of the vote, in 2007. Lopez-Murphy shared his views on Argentina's current political and economic situation [...] | 2008-05-15 21:34:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON AR |
08BUENOSAIRES652 | ARGENTINA: NESTOR KIRCHNER OFFICIALLY ASSUMES PJ [...] (SBU) Summary: Former President Nestor Kirchner (NK) assumed presidency of the Justicialist (Peronist) party (PJ) officially on May 14 at a rally in the province of Buenos Aires. The event began with several emphatic and hardline speeches from party officials. NK was expected to use the occasi [...] | 2008-05-16 12:58:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV AR |
08BUENOSAIRES663 | ARGENTINA'S NEW PAPER "CRITICA" UNDER GOVERNMENT [...] (C) JORGE LANATA, ONE OF ARGENTINA'S MOST ACCOMPLISHED JOURNALISTS, CALLED ON AMBASSADOR WAYNE MAY 15 TO ASK FOR SUPPORT AS HIS RECENTLY LAUNCHED PAPER, "CRITICA," IS BEING SUBJECTED TO A GOVERNMENT CAMPAIGN TO CUT OFF FINANCIAL BACKING AND IN OTHER WAYS COMPLICATE OPERATIONS UNLESS IT MODERAT [...] | 2008-05-16 22:59:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KPAO OPRC KMDR PHUM AR |
08BUENOSAIRES664 | ARGENTINA ON THE OSLO PROCESS [...] (C) Summary: The Argentine Foreign Ministry theoretically supports a total ban on cluster munitions but, in fact, expects and is counting on a decision of partial prohibition. Nor does the MFA anticipate a finalized draft to come out of the Dublin meeting, anticipating it will take until the [...] | 2008-05-16 23:08:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | MOPS PARM PREL NATO UN AR |
08BUENOSAIRES665 | ARGENTINE FARM STRIKE EXTENDED SIX MORE DAYS [...] (U) The farm groups leading the Argentine agricultural strike announced on May 15 that the strike will continue, despite a call for further dialogue from President Cristina Kirchner. The farm groups will meet again on May 21 to review the situation and decide whether to continue the strike. T [...] | 2008-05-19 10:18:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR ECON EINV PGOV ELAB PHUM AR |
08BUENOSAIRES666 | ARGENTINA ON THE OSLO PROCESS [...] (C) Summary: The Argentine Foreign Ministry theoretically supports a total ban on cluster munitions but, in fact, expects and is counting on a decision of partial prohibition. Nor does the MFA anticipate a finalized draft to come out of the Dublin meeting, anticipating it will take until the [...] | 2008-05-19 12:25:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | MOPS PARM PREL NATO UN AR |
08BUENOSAIRES681 | ARGENTINA: AGRICULTURE SECTOR STRIKES TAKE [...] (C) Summary: The agricultural crisis that has dominated headlines for the past two months has knocked the administration of Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner (CFK) back on its heels. Faced with plummeting poll numbers that indicate a lack of confidence in CFK's government and society-wide conce [...] | 2008-05-20 13:57:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV EAGR AR |
08BUENOSAIRES686 | ARGENTINE FARM STRIKE SUSPENDED [...] (SBU) Under heavy fire from other sectors and political supporters in provincial governments, Argentina's major farm groups announced May 19 that they are again suspending their ten-week strike in order to hold discussions with the GoA. This latest suspension of the on-again, off-again strike [...] | 2008-05-20 21:15:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR ECON EINV PGOV ELAB PHUM AR |
08BUENOSAIRES691 | ARGENTINA: SPACE LAUNCH VEHICLE UPDATE [...] No summary [...] | 2008-05-21 15:10:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | MTCR PARM PREL ETTC TSPL AR |
08BUENOSAIRES70 | ARGENTINA ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL REVIEW, January 1-11, [...] (U) Provided below is Embassy Buenos Aires' Economic and Financial Review covering the period January 1-11, 2008. The unclassified email version of this report includes tables and charts SIPDIS tracking Argentine economic developments. Contact Econoff Chris Landberg at landbergca@state.gov [...] | 2008-01-18 15:58:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON EINV ETRD ELAB AR |
08BUENOSAIRES701 | ARGENTINA: CUBA SOLIDARITY DAY [...] (SBU) Embassy Buenos Aires placed in newspaper-of-record "La Nacion" on May 21 an op-ed written by Cuban independent journalist Jorge Olivera-Castillo. 2. (SBU) Also per ref A, post sought to contact Dr. Roberto Quinones, the son of Cuban neurosurgeon Hilda Molina who, since 1994, has been [...] | 2008-05-22 20:54:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KDEM PHUM PREL EU CU AR |
08BUENOSAIRES702 | ARGENTINA: AMIA PROSECUTOR REQUESTS ARREST OF MENEM AND OTHERS FOR ""LOCAL CONNECTION"" COVER-UP REF: A. 1998 BUENOS AIRES 05826 B. 2004 BUENOSAIRES 2540 C. BUENOS AIRES 646 AND PREVIOUS [...] (C) Summary: Alberto Nisman, Argentina's Special Prosecutor to investigate the 1994 terrorist attack against the Argentine Israeli Mutual Association (AMIA) Jewish community center in Buenos Aires, has requested the arrest of former President Carlos Menem, former federal judge Juan Galeano, and [...] | 2008-05-22 22:53:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PREL PGOV KJUS AR FBI |
08BUENOSAIRES706 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON UN SYSTEM OF INTERNAL JUSTICE [...] No summary [...] | 2008-05-23 19:42:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AORC APER PREL UNGA AR |
08BUENOSAIRES708 | ARGENTINA: SCENESETTER FOR CODEL DODD (BUENOS [...] (U) This telegram is sensitive but unclassified, and not for Internet distribution. ------------ Introduction ------------ 2. (SBU) On behalf of Embassy Buenos Aires, I warmly welcome your May 28-30 visit to Argentina. We are looking to build on an already positive bilateral relationsh [...] | 2008-05-23 20:06:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PHUM PTER SNAR ECON EFIN BEXP AR |
08BUENOSAIRES710 | ARGENTINA ON BRAZILIAN SOUTH AMERICAN SECURITY [...] (C) Informal discussions with military, MOD and MFA contacts on Brazil's South American Security Council proposal indicate the Brazilians have not consulted in any detail with the Argentines, who are not clear on what the Brazilians are proposing. GOA contacts discount that the proposed Counci [...] | 2008-05-23 20:24:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR MASS PREL PGOV AR |
08BUENOSAIRES711 | ARGENTINE FARM TALKS FALTER (AGAIN) - ALL EYES ON COMPETING [...] (SBU) The first meeting between the GoA and leaders of the major farm groups following suspension of the on-again, off-again farm strike on May 21 quickly broke down after the GoA negotiators reportedly refused to address the controversial variable export tax until after the large demonstration [...] | 2008-05-23 20:28:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR ECON EINV PGOV ELAB PHUM AR |
08BUENOSAIRES712 | ARGENTINA'S CENTRAL BANK PRESIDENT AVERTS [...] (C) Argentine Central Bank (BCRA) President Martin Redrado told Ambassador May 19 that the mini-run on Argentine banks and on the peso in early May proved that the "wounds are still open" from the 2001/2002 crisis. Apparently accelerating inflation and the GoA's failure to resolve the now thr [...] | 2008-05-23 20:44:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ECON ETRD AR |
08BUENOSAIRES713 | (C) ARGENTINA REVIEW FOR SUSPENSION OF TITLE III [...] (U) Embassy Buenos Aires keys the responses below to reftel A questions. 2. (SBU) NATURE OF INVESTMENTS THAT ARGENTINA BUSINESSES HAVE IN CUBA. The GoA imposes no requirement to register foreign direct investment, and the Embassy has been unable to uncover any major investment by Argentine [...] | 2008-05-23 20:51:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ETTC PREL ETRD CU AR |
08BUENOSAIRES714 | ARGENTINA: AMBASSADOR MEETS WITH ANTI-CORRUPTION ACTIVIST [...] (U) Summary. The Ambassador met with Laura Alonso, Executive Director for Argentine NGO "Citizen Power" (Poder Ciudadano-PC) and discussed its ongoing efforts to promote government accountability and transparency at the federal and local levels. Alonso explained PC's on-going efforts to inv [...] | 2008-05-23 21:02:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV KCOR PHUM ELAB AR |
08BUENOSAIRES715 | ARGENTINA: EMBASSY ADVOCATES FOR U.S. INTERESTS ON NEW [...] Summary: In recognition of the important U.S. commercial interests that could potentially be affected by the new broadcast bill that the GOA is drafting for submission to Congress in the near future, the Embassy arranged a meeting for the major U.S. broadcasters and content producers operatin [...] | 2008-05-23 21:03:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON OVIP PREL BEXP AR |
08BUENOSAIRES717 | ARGENTINA: AMIA PROSECUTOR EXPLAINS HIS REQUEST [...] (C) Summary: AMIA Special Prosecutor Alberto Nisman called the Ambassador on May 23 to apologize for not giving the Embassy advance notice of his (ref A) request for the arrest of former President Menem and other GOA officials for their alleged roles in the cover up of the "local connection" [...] | 2008-05-27 10:18:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PTER PREL PGOV KJUS AR |
08BUENOSAIRES725 | ARGENTINE CENTRAL BANK PRESIDENT COMMENTS ON [...] (SBU) Ambassador informed Argentine Central Bank (BCRA) President Martin Redrado May 19 that Treasury's Office of Technical Assistance had nearly completed a technical assistance agreement on terrorism finance for the BCRA and GOA regulatory agencies. The question now is how to fund it, and R [...] | 2008-05-28 12:54:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KTFN EFIN PREL AR |
08BUENOSAIRES729 | SEEKING ARGENTINE SUPPORT FOR IOM CANDIDATE AMB. [...] No summary [...] | 2008-05-28 17:05:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PREF SMIG IOM AR |
08BUENOSAIRES732 | ARGENTINA: UPDATES TO NAMES, TITLES AND CONTACT NUMBERS FOR [...] No summary [...] | 2008-05-28 20:00:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PINR PREL AR |
08BUENOSAIRES733 | ARGENTINE FARMERS RESUME STRIKE - GRAINS AND BEEF TARGETED [...] (SBU) Argentine farm groups are back on strike, at least until June 2, and will block marketing of grains and oilseeds for exports, as well as sales of cattle for slaughter. The farm groups have called for protestors on the highways to allow free movement of all other transport, although there [...] | 2008-05-28 22:45:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR ECON EINV PGOV ELAB PHUM AR |
08BUENOSAIRES736 | ARGENTINA: COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR AMBASSADOR MARK P. LAGON [...] POST WARMLY WELCOMES AMBASSADOR MARK P. LAGON, DIRECTOR OF THE OFFICE TO MONITOR AND COMBAT TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS (TIP),AND BARBARA FLECK, G/TIP REPORTS AND POLITICAL AFFAIRS OFFICER, WHO WILL TRAVEL TO ARGENTINA FROM JUNE 18-21, 2008. THE PURPOSE OF THE VISIT IS TO OBTAIN AN UPDATE ON TIP I [...] | 2008-05-29 13:13:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | KCRM KWMN OTRA PHUM SMIG UY AR BR |
08BUENOSAIRES737 | ARGENTINA: EMBASSY ADVOCATES FOR U.S. INTERESTS ON NEW [...] Summary: In recognition of the important U.S. commercial interests that could potentially be affected by the new broadcast bill that the GOA is drafting for submission to Congress in the near future, the Embassy arranged a meeting for the major U.S. broadcasters and content producers operatin [...] | 2008-05-29 13:52:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON OVIP PREL BEXP AR |
08BUENOSAIRES739 | ARGENTINA'S SPECIAL AMIA PROSECUTOR DEFENDS HIS [...] (C) Summary: AMIA special prosecutor Alberto Nisman explained to Embassy Officers on May 27 his reasons for requesting the arrests of former President Carlos Menem and other officials (ref B) for their alleged roles in obstructing justice in the investigation of the 1994 terrorist bombing of t [...] | 2008-05-29 15:57:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PTER PREL PGOV KJUS AR |
08BUENOSAIRES743 | ARGENTINA: NEW VALIJAGATE EVIDENCE IS FRONT-PAGE [...] (C) Summary: "Valijagate" is once again news in Argentina. The Argentine press is reporting new evidence in the investigation, including cell phone records of supposedly traced calls from a key suspect to the presidential residence, contradictory testimony implying more significant links betw [...] | 2008-05-29 19:39:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV KJUS PREL SNAR KCOR VZ AR |
08BUENOSAIRES746 | PRESIDENT'S MEETING WITH FBI DEPUTY DIRECTOR [...] (S) Summary. On May 21, Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner (CFK) received FBI Deputy Director John Pistole. CFK said she is committed to fight terrorism and not to deal with terrorists. She criticized the investigation of the 1994 AMIA attack carried out in the 1990s, altho [...] | 2008-05-30 14:44:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | SECRET | PREL PTER KJUS KCRM SNAR AR SMIG KWMN |
08BUENOSAIRES748 | ARGENTINA'S JUDICIAL BRANCH INCREASINGLY SUBJECT [...] (SBU) Summary: President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner is cementing control over the judicial branch by legislating discretion and political criteria into judicial processes. New legislation approved on May 21 increases executive branch influence over the filling of vacant judgeships, and a [...] | 2008-05-30 17:46:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KJUS KCOR AR |
08BUENOSAIRES751 | Argentina: Ambassador Promotes NGOs, U.S. Commercial [...] (SBU) Ambassador met with political, business and military leaders, NGOs, media, and Fulbright scholars during a May 22-23, 2008, visit to Argentina's southwestern province of Neuquen. Ambassador discussed the current political situation and U.S. corporate social responsibility efforts with Gov [...] | 2008-05-30 20:08:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EINV ENRG KPAO BEXP PREL AR |
08BUENOSAIRES753 | ARGENTINA ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL REVIEW, MAY 6 - [...] (U) Provided below is Embassy Buenos Aires' Economic and Financial Review covering the period May 6 - 23, 2008. The unclassified email version of this report includes tables and charts tracking Argentine economic developments. Contact Econoff Chris Landberg at landbergca@state.gov to be inclu [...] | 2008-05-30 21:25:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON EINV ETRD ELAB EAIR AR |
08BUENOSAIRES754 | NEW ECONOMY MINISTER STILL GETTING UP TO SPEED [...] (C) Summary: Ambassador paid a courtesy call on newly appointed Economy Minister Carlos Fernandez May 28, highlighting Paris Club and advocacy on behalf of U.S. investors as key issues to discuss in future meetings. The Minister said he is getting up to speed on the issues, but is mostly foc [...] | 2008-05-30 21:38:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ECON ETRD PREL AR |
08BUENOSAIRES757 | High Commodity Prices Boost Argentina's Early 2008 Trade in [...] (U) Argentine goods exports were up 40% year-on-year in the first four months of 2008, and imports increased by 45%, according to a report released by GoA statistics agency INDEC on May 26. Total exports were USD 21.6 billion, and imports were USD 17.8 billion, leaving a trade surplus of $3.8 [...] | 2008-06-02 15:33:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD EAGR EPET ECON AR |
08BUENOSAIRES759 | ARGENTINA: FBI'S DEPUTY DIRECTOR PISTOLE DISCUSSES [...] (SBU) Summary: During his May 21-22 visit to Argentina, FBI Deputy Director John Pistole met with senior officials of the Argentine government, the Argentine Jewish community, and President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner (ref A) to discuss U.S.-Argentine security cooperation. Those leaders th [...] | 2008-06-03 17:27:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | SECRET | PTER PREL PGOV KJUS SNAR KCRM ASEC AR FBI |
08BUENOSAIRES764 | CODEL DODD MEETS ARGENTINE FM TAIANA [...] (SBU) Summary: Senator Chris Dodd and Representative Xavier Becerra and the Ambassador called on Argentine FM Taiana May 29. On Bolivia, Taiana expressed his worry about the potential for violent conflict despite what he saw as Evo Morales's moderating influence on his radical MAS support bas [...] | 2008-06-03 20:04:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV ECON AR BL |
08BUENOSAIRES765 | CODEL DODD MEETING WITH NGOS HIGHLIGHTS CIVIL SOCIETY [...] (U) This cable contains sensitive information - not for internet distribution. 2. (SBU) Ambassador Wayne hosted Senator Christopher Dodd (D - CT) and Congressman Xavier Becerra (D - CA) at an event featuring key individuals and organizations representing Argentine civil society. The group d [...] | 2008-06-03 20:16:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ENRG PGOV PREL AR |
08BUENOSAIRES766 | ARGENTINE FARMERS' STRIKE CONTINUES FOR ANOTHER WEEK [...] (SBU) The leadership of Argentina's four main agricultural organizations decided late on June 2 to prolong their third strike against the GOA for another full week, at least until Monday, June 9. The farmer groups will continue the boycott on grain sales and embargo of grain exports, includin [...] | 2008-06-03 20:56:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR ECON EINV PGOV ELAB PHUM AR |
08BUENOSAIRES768 | ARGENTINA ON ZIMBABWE ELECTIONS [...] No summary [...] | 2008-06-03 22:28:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL OAS AR ZI |
08BUENOSAIRES775 | ARGENTINA DISAPPOINTED WITH TIP REPORT, BUT [...] (C) Summary. Per refs A and B, the Ambassador met June 3 with Argentine Minister of Justice Anibal Fernandez to share an embargoed copy of the 2008 Trafficking in Persons (TIP) report. Minister Fernandez thanked the Ambassador for sharing the report, and immediately launched into a discuss [...] | 2008-06-04 20:38:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ELAB KCRM PHUM SMIG KWMN PGOV AR |
08BUENOSAIRES776 | GOA PRESIDENT, OTHERS, DEFEND POLICIES RESTRICTING [...] (C) Ambassador and Emboffs raised the points provided in Ref A (Request to End Food Staple Export Restrictions),Ref B (Agricultural Biotechnology as a Tool to Fight Hunger),and Ref C (The President's Global Food Security Initiative and Trade) demarches with the President, Foreign Minister, an [...] | 2008-06-05 12:21:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | EAGR ETRD PREL AR |
08BUENOSAIRES781 | Codel Dodd Meeting with Argentine President Fernandez de [...] (SBU) President Fernandez de Kircher met with Codel Dodd for over an hour May 29. On Bolivia, she called for a solution which respected democratic institutions and avoided "Balkanization." More broadly in Latin America, the President said she hoped for increasing regional integration in the [...] | 2008-06-06 11:38:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ENRG PGOV PREL AR |
08BUENOSAIRES782 | ARGENTINA ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL REVIEW, MAY 26 - [...] (U) Provided below is Embassy Buenos Aires' Economic and Financial Review covering the period May 26 - June 4, 2008. The unclassified email version of this report includes tables and charts tracking Argentine economic developments. Contact Econoff Chris Landberg at landbergca@state.gov to be i [...] | 2008-06-06 15:40:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON EINV ETRD ELAB EAIR AR |
08BUENOSAIRES785 | ARGENTINA: SCHEDULING THE NEXT POL/MIL BILATERAL [...] (SBU) Summary: Regular bilateral Pol/Mil meetings have been an integral part of managing and advancing our broad security relationship with Argentina, from the classic Pol/Mil issues to counterterrorism and non-proliferation. The GoA hosted the last Pol/Mil bilaterals in December 2006. It is [...] | 2008-06-06 20:13:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MARR PARM PREL PGOV PTER AR |
08BUENOSAIRES786 | ARGENTINA: FORCED AND CHILD LABOR IN GARMENT INDUSTRY [...] (SBU) Summary: Based on interviews with GOA officials, International Labor Organization representatives, and union and NGO leaders, as well as a review of media articles, some companies in Argentina's apparel industry appear to use forced and child labor in their production chain. It is diffi [...] | 2008-06-06 20:14:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL ELAB PHUM PGOV ECIN ECON SOCI AR |
08BUENOSAIRES787 | ARGENTINA TIGHTENS CONTROLS ON AGRICULTURE EXPORTS REF: BUENOS AIRES 766 AND PREVIOUS Classified By: Ambassador E. Anthony Wayne for reasons 1.4 (B) and (D). [...] (C) SUMMARY: The president of Cargill Argentina met with the Ambassador on June 4 to discuss concerns about the rising stream of regulations to increase GOA control of agricultural exports. The new regulations are being issued without consulting the major exporters and with little regard to pos [...] | 2008-06-06 20:39:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV EAGR AR |
08BUENOSAIRES790 | Argentina-China Trade Update: Advantage, China [...] (SBU) After declining rapidly over the last few years, Argentina's bilateral trade surplus with China fell into deficit in early 2008. This is due mainly to increased imports, which have risen more quickly from China than the rest of the world, whereas the increase in exports to China is simil [...] | 2008-06-09 14:13:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD EINV AR CH |
08BUENOSAIRES791 | LA NACION TO AMBASSADOR WAYNE: MORE MEDIA PRESSURE [...] (C) Julio and Fernan Saguier, owner-editors of La Nacion, the most influential paper among Argentina's business and educated elite, met with Ambassador Wayne to express concerns that media pressure from the GOA is bad and growing worse. They argued that that former president Nestor Kirchner is [...] | 2008-06-09 15:36:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | KMDR KPAO OPRC PGOV PHUM PREL AR |
08BUENOSAIRES793 | OAS REGIONAL SEMINAR ON IMPLEMENTING UNSCR 1540, [...] A regional workshop on the implementation of UN Security Council Resolution 1540, which concerns non-proliferation and export control obligations, was co-hosted by the U.S. and Argentina and held in Buenos Aires, Argentina from May 13-14, 2008. All members of the Organization of American Sta [...] | 2008-06-10 17:51:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL AORC KPAO PTER UNSC KNNP AR |
08BUENOSAIRES797 | ARGENTINA ANNOUNCES SOCIAL INVESTMENTS FROM [...] (SBU) Summary: The GOA announced June 9 that it will direct the marginal proceeds from its March 11 increase in soy export taxes to health (60%),housing (20%) and rural roads (20%). Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner (CFK) followed the announcement with a 25-minute speech arg [...] | 2008-06-11 14:30:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV EFIN EAGR PHUM EAID AR |
08BUENOSAIRES800 | AMBASSADOR MEETS WITH ARGENTINE OPPOSITION SENATOR [...] (SBU) Summary: The Ambassador met June 6 with Argentine Senator Maria Eugenia Estenssoro, prominent leader of the opposition Civic Coalition (CC). Estenssoro offered her critical view of how the GOA was managing the ongoing agricultural strike. In connection with congressional consideration [...] | 2008-06-11 20:20:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL ELAB PHUM PGOV ECIN ECON SOCI AR |
08BUENOSAIRES802 | Argentine Economy Minister to Senator Dodd: The Kirchner [...] (SBU) New Economy Minister Carlos Fernandez highlighted the Argentine economy's strong recovery since 2002 and continuing strength during a May 29 meeting with visiting U.S. Senator Christopher Dodd and Representative Xavier Becerra. The Minister attributed the fast growth since 2003 to the "K [...] | 2008-06-12 10:21:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON EINV ETRD ELAB OREP AR |
08BUENOSAIRES81 | ARGENTINA-CHINA TRADE UPDATE: IMPORTS NOT CROWDING OUT [...] (SBU) In response to a surge in goods imports from China, the GoA imposed a series of "non-discriminatory" non-tariff trade restrictions implicitly aimed at Chinese goods seen as crowding out domestic production. Argentina's trade surplus with China peaked in 2003 at $1.8 billion, but may have [...] | 2008-01-24 17:32:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD EINV AR CH |
08BUENOSAIRES810 | ARGENTINA'S REACTION TO USG DISENGAGEMENT AT THE [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see para 4. 2. (C) Poloff delivered ref A points on June 10 to MFA Director for Human Rights Minister Silvia Fernandez. She expressed "shock" and "disappointment" at the USG's decision to disengage from the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC),especially [...] | 2008-06-12 20:12:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PHUM UNHRC UNGA AR |
08BUENOSAIRES816 | ARGENTINA ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL REVIEW, JUNE 6 - [...] (U) Provided below is Embassy Buenos Aires' Economic and Financial Review covering the period June 6 - 13, 2008. The unclassified email version of this report includes tables and charts tracking Argentine economic developments. Contact Econoff Chris Landberg at landbergca@state.gov to be incl [...] | 2008-06-13 20:57:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON EINV ETRD ELAB EAIR AR |
08BUENOSAIRES817 | ARGENTINA SEEKING USG SUPPORT FOR THE CANDIDACY OF SALVIOLI [...] No summary [...] | 2008-06-13 21:18:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM PGOV UNHCR AR |
08BUENOSAIRES82 | Telecom and ATSC in Argentina: The Visit of Ambassador [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Ambassador David Gross, U.S. Coordinator for International Communications and Information Policy, and Jamie Estrada, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Manufacturing and Services for the Department of Commerce, visited Argentina on January 17. The visitors were unable to meet with Go [...] | 2008-01-24 17:59:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON PREL EINT ECPS OVIP TSPL AR |
08BUENOSAIRES822 | Argentina: Important Issues at Stake in Proposed New Media [...] (SBU) Summary: Gabriel Mariotto, Director of Argentina's FCC equivalent agency COMFER, will be in Washington on June 19-20 to meet with FCC officials, Congressional leaders, and media associations. The Government of Argentina is in the final stages of drafting an ambitious new federal broadca [...] | 2008-06-17 16:57:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EINV PREL ECPS KPAO OVIP KMDR PHUM TSPL AR |
08BUENOSAIRES823 | ARGENTINE MINISTER OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY [...] This telegram is sensitive but unclassified, and not for Internet distribution. ------- Summary ------- 2. (SBU) Argentine Minister of Science and Technology Lino Baranao (Ba-ran-yow) will visit Washington July 7-9, and he hopes to meet with you during that trip. I believe you would [...] | 2008-06-17 17:28:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TSPL TSPA PREL SENV SCUL AR |
08BUENOSAIRES827 | ARGENTINA: NO END IN SIGHT FOR 100-DAY FARM CRISIS [...] (C) Summary: In what could prove an important step in diffusing the 100-day old farm crisis, President Fernandez de Kirchner (CFK) announced on June 17 that she would be sending a bill this same day to the legislature on the question of the increased agricultural export taxes for debate and vot [...] | 2008-06-17 21:49:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV EAGR ECON EFIN INVI AR |
08BUENOSAIRES828 | Argentina: Economic Impact of Farming Crisis [...] (SBU) Argentine consumer confidence has declined markedly due to economic disruptions linked to the 100-day long agricultural sector strike. A just released measure of popular sentiment on the general economic situation, employment, family income and purchasing power was down for the fifth stra [...] | 2008-06-17 21:50:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAGR ETRD EINV PGOV AR |
08BUENOSAIRES829 | ROUND 4 - ARGENTINE FARM STRIKE RESUMES [...] (SBU) Argentina experienced an intense 3-day weekend of protests and counter demonstrations after the government sent federal highway and border police (gendarmerie) to clear a roadblock in Gualeguaychu on June 14, on the main highway to Brazil and Uruguay, and temporarily arrested prominent fa [...] | 2008-06-17 21:50:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR ECON EINV PGOV ELAB PHUM AR |
08BUENOSAIRES83 | ARGENTINA'S PRESIDENT ENJOYING A HONEYMOON WITH THE PUBLIC [...] (SBU) Summary. A leading Argentine polling firm (Poliarquia) found that President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner's (CFK) standing rose by five points since she took office December 10, with 56% of those polled rating her favorably, despite foreign policy missteps in early weeks. This is far b [...] | 2008-01-25 11:55:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL AR |
08BUENOSAIRES834 | ARGENTINA: FARM DEBATE(?) MOVES TO CONGRESS [...] (C) Summary: President Fernandez de Kirchner (CFK) took a step back from the precipice on June 17 and bought herself some breathing room in the 100-day old farm crisis by announcing she was sending the question of the sliding scale of export taxes ("retenciones") as a bill to congress for deba [...] | 2008-06-18 18:12:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV EAGR ECON EFIN INVI AR |
08BUENOSAIRES836 | "Argentinization:" Government Promotes Greater Local [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. A decade after its great privatization wave, and followed by the 2001/02 economic collapse, Argentina has undergone a paradigm shift, with the Government of Argentina (GOA) promoting a heavy hand in the economy. While this trend has been much in the news over the GOA's price sta [...] | 2008-06-18 19:48:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EINV ETRD PGOV PREL ENRG AR |
08BUENOSAIRES837 | ARGENTINA PROPOSES HUMAN RIGHTS COOPERATION [...] This is an action request. Please see para 8 for request. 2. Summary. Ambassador Wayne recently met with National Institute against Discrimination, Xenophobia, and Racism (INADI) President Maria Jose Lubertino to explore opportunities for cooperation in the realm of advancing civil right [...] | 2008-06-18 22:19:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | KWMN PHUM PREL AR |
08BUENOSAIRES838 | GOVERNOR OF ALABAMA VISITS ARGENTINA [...] On June 4-6, 2008, Ambassador welcomed a 43-member Alabama Trade Mission led by Governor Bob Riley and organized by the Embassy's Commercial Section. The purpose of the mission was to increase awareness and promote future business opportunities between the State of Alabama and Argentina. Duri [...] | 2008-06-19 12:13:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OVIP BEXP AR |
08BUENOSAIRES84 | IDB EXECUTIVE VP ZELIKOW ON ARGENTINA PROGRAM; [...] (C) During a January 10 meeting with Ambassador, IDB Executive Vice President Daniel Zelikow supported increasing the lending ceiling to Argentina, particularly for private sector and sub-national projects, while acknowledging the need to assuage concerns of other IDB member countries. Zelikow [...] | 2008-01-25 13:16:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN EAID AR |
08BUENOSAIRES841 | ARGENTINA: DELIVERY OF BOLIVIA SECURITY CONCERNS [...] (C) On June 18th, Ambassador delivered reftel demarche and talking points to Argentine MFA U/S for Bilateral Affairs, Vincente Espeche Gil. Ambassador explained that the USG was approaching a "group of friends" (Brazil, Argentina and Columbia) and U/S Shannon had spoken to Argentine Ambassador [...] | 2008-06-19 22:09:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC BL KDEM PREL AR |
08BUENOSAIRES842 | (C) ARGENTINE FARM CRISIS: "100 DAYS OF [...] (C) Summary: President Fernandez de Kirchner's June 17 decision to send the polemic grain export fee/tax ("retenciones") issue to congress for debate and vote was met here with guarded optimism and a palpable sense of relief. However, her bellicose speech at the June 18 pro-government rally o [...] | 2008-06-20 10:06:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV EAGR ECON ETRD EFIN AR |
08BUENOSAIRES848 | ARGENTINA: KIRCHNERS' POLL NUMBERS PLUMMET IN WAKE [...] (SBU) The 100 day farm crisis has had a dramatic and negative effect on President Fernandez de Kirchner's (CFK) poll numbers, according to results published today by leading polling firm Poliarquia. CFK's positive image sits at 20 percent, a six percentage point drop over the previous month, [...] | 2008-06-20 20:38:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ECON EAGR EFIN ETRD AR |
08BUENOSAIRES849 | FedEx/UPS Discuss Challenges with Truckers Union [...] (SBU) Ambassador met on June 6 with executives from UPS and FedEx to discuss challenges they face with the local Truckers Union. FedEx and UPS were recently forced to sign a 20 percent salary increase with this union, the second sizable increase in a matter of three months. The companies highl [...] | 2008-06-23 10:01:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINV ECON ELAB EAIR OVIP BEXP AR |
08BUENOSAIRES857 | Argentina: San Juan Welcomes Ambassador [...] During Ambassador's June 12 - 13 visit to San Juan, provincial authorities emphasized their desire to work with U.S. interests to explore mutually beneficial relationships. Ambassador had extensive meetings with San Juan Governor Jose Luis Gioja, San Juan Vice-Governor Dr. Jose Ruben U$ac, an [...] | 2008-06-23 20:06:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL AR |
08BUENOSAIRES858 | More than Malbec: Ambassador Donates Scholarships and [...] Ambassador visited the Binational Center in Mendoza and presented certificates to 21 Mendoza high school students who have received scholarships to study English as part of the Embassy's Sarmiento-Mann scholarship program. Ambassador then met with influential Mendoza Governor Celso Jaque and [...] | 2008-06-23 20:07:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL AR |
08BUENOSAIRES86 | ARGENTINA: UPDATE ON SKANSKA CORRUPTION CASE [...] (SBU) Summary. Judicial investigations continue into alleged bribery and tax evasion by the local affiliate of Swedish construction multinational Skanska in the expansion of Argentina's northern and southern natural gas pipelines. The courts appear to be approaching the indictment phase, desp [...] | 2008-01-25 14:00:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KCOR EPET EINV ASEC SNAR OECD AR |
08BUENOSAIRES860 | ARGENTINE FARM STRIKE SUSPENDED, GRAIN TRADE RESUMES [...] (SBU) Summary: Agricultural producers formally suspended the farm strike, and trucks carrying grains, oilseeds, and cattle started to arrive at processing plants and export terminals over the weekend. Producers and truckers have lifted most of the roadblocks around the country and, unlike the [...] | 2008-06-23 22:21:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR ECON EINV PGOV ELAB PHUM AR |
08BUENOSAIRES866 | ARGENTINA: CFK RESUMES TALKS WITH FARMERS [...] (SBU) Summary. President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner (CFK) and representatives of the four main agricultural associations who have led protests against variable export taxes on agricultural products met on June 23, following 71 days of hostile public exchanges since their last meeting on Ap [...] | 2008-06-24 21:59:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL EAGR ECON AR |
08BUENOSAIRES878 | Argentina: San Juan Welcomes Ambassador [...] During Ambassador's June 12 - 13 visit to San Juan, provincial authorities emphasized their desire to work with U.S. interests to explore mutually beneficial relationships. Ambassador had extensive meetings with San Juan Governor Jose Luis Gioja, San Juan Vice-Governor Dr. Jose Ruben U$ac, and [...] | 2008-06-25 17:35:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL OVIP EINV PINR AR |
08BUENOSAIRES879 | More than Malbec: Ambassador Donates Scholarships and [...] Ambassador visited the Binational Center in Mendoza and presented certificates to 21 Mendoza high school students who have received scholarships to study English as part of the Embassy's Sarmiento-Mann scholarship program. Ambassador then met with influential Mendoza Governor Celso Jaque and r [...] | 2008-06-25 17:35:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL OVIP EINV PINR AR |
08BUENOSAIRES881 | ARGENTINA ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL REVIEW, JUNE 16 - [...] (U) Provided below is Embassy Buenos Aires' Economic and Financial Review covering the period June 16 - 20, 2008. The unclassified email version of this report includes tables and charts tracking Argentine economic developments. Contact Econoff Chris Landberg at landbergca@state.gov to be inc [...] | 2008-06-25 19:39:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON EINV ETRD ELAB EAIR AR |
08BUENOSAIRES893 | MACRI AND SCIOLI ON THE POLITICAL SITUATION IN [...] (C) Summary: South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford and the CDA met with Argentina's two most prominent center-right politicians, Buenos Aires Governor Daniel Scioli and Buenos Aires City Mayor Mauricio Macri on June 12. Scioli, formally allied with the Kirchner government, appeared haggard and [...] | 2008-06-27 20:19:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL EAGR ECON ETRD EFIN AR |
08BUENOSAIRES894 | ARGENTINA TO HOST 35TH MERCOSUR SUMMIT: LIGHT [...] (C) Argentina will host a July 1 Mercosur Summit of member and associate member leaders, preceded by a June 30 Minster-level Mercosur Council meeting. The Summit culminates a lackluster six-month Argentine presidency of Mercosur marked by national preoccupation with turmoil in the domestic ag [...] | 2008-06-30 09:09:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON EAGR AR |
08BUENOSAIRES910 | ARGENTINE CONGRESS DEBATES AG EXPORT TAX [...] (SBU) Summary: The Kirchner government's majority in the Argentine Congress appears to be fracturing over the GOA's request for approval of the variable export tax regime for grains and oilseeds. The GOA continues to insist that the Congress approve the export tax regime currently in place wit [...] | 2008-07-01 19:35:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR ECON EINV PGOV ELAB PHUM AR |
08BUENOSAIRES911 | ARGENTINA: VISITING G/TIP AMBASSADOR PRESENTS [...] (C) Summary. "The United States wants to be Argentina's partner in fighting trafficking in persons (TIP),not a judge", visiting Ambassador-at-Large and Director of the Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons Mark P. Lagon told Argentine Minister of Justice Anibal Fernandez durin [...] | 2008-07-01 23:35:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC ELAB KCRM PHUM PREL SMIG KWMN PGOV AR |
08BUENOSAIRES920 | ARGENTINA: VISITING G/TIP AMBASSADOR PRESENTS [...] (SBU) Summary. On June 19, Ambassador Wayne and visiting Ambassador-at-Large and Director of the Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons Mark P. Lagon called on Foreign Minister Jorge Taiana to discuss Argentina's efforts to combat trafficking in persons (TIP). Drawing from the T [...] | 2008-07-02 17:34:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC ELAB KCRM PHUM PREL SMIG KWMN PGOV AR |
08BUENOSAIRES931 | ARGENTINA: HIGHLIGHTS OF JULY 1-2 MERCOSUR SUMMIT [...] (SBU) Summary and Introduction: Mercosur and associated member country presidents meeting at the July 1-2 Mercosur summit in Tucuman, Argentina, strongly condemned the EU's toughened immigration policies and declared their intention to fight their enforcement. President Cristina Fernandez de [...] | 2008-07-03 21:29:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV ECON PHUM AR |
08BUENOSAIRES932 | ARGENTINE REACTION TO RESCUE OF FARC HOSTAGES IN COLOMBIA [...] (U) Summary: Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner (CFK) welcomed the news of the July 2 rescue of 15 FARC hostages. Although her initial public reaction July 2 stopped short of praising Uribe for the GOC's successful operation, the following day the GOA announced she had called U [...] | 2008-07-03 21:55:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV ECON PHUM AR |
08BUENOSAIRES943 | ARGENTINE AG EXPORT TAX APPROVED BY LOWER HOUSE OF CONGRESS [...] (SBU) Summary: By a vote of 129 to 122, the Fernandez de Kirchner government on July 5 won a closely fought battle in the Chamber of Deputies (Lower House) of the Congress to approve the controversial variable export tax regime for grains and oilseeds. The legislative battle now shifts to the [...] | 2008-07-08 17:59:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR ECON EINV PGOV ELAB PHUM AR |
08BUENOSAIRES946 | ARGENTINA: JUDGE RULES LACK OF EVIDENCE AGAINST [...] (SBU) Argentine Judge Daniel Petrone determined on 3 July that there is not enough evidence to prosecute or to acquit former Argentine government official Claudio Uberti in the "Valijagate" investigation, involving the infamous Venezuelan suitcase carrying USD 800,000 and seized by Argentine cu [...] | 2008-07-08 20:12:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCOR KJUS PGOV PREL SNAR VZ AR |
08BUENOSAIRES948 | ARGENTINA: AMBASSADOR MEETS WITH YOUNG, DYNAMIC [...] (C) Salta Governor Juan Manuel Urtubey (protect) told the Ambassador that the export taxes imposed on the agricultural sector are hindering economic growth and thus negatively affecting his province. While close to President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, Urtubey was clearly feeling local pr [...] | 2008-07-10 09:50:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON SOCI AR BL |
08BUENOSAIRES95 | BLUE LANTERN LEVEL 3: PRE-LICENSE END-USE CHECK ON [...] (SBU) Per Reftel request, post carried out a pre-license check on Aerospacio SRL, based in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on January 9. It is Post's opinion that the company will be a responsible recipient of United States Munitions List items. 2. (SBU) A site visit by Blue Lantern Officer and in [...] | 2008-01-29 11:23:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETTC KOMC AR |
08BUENOSAIRES961 | U.S. Fourth Fleet Stirs Concern in Argentina [...] (SBU) Summary: Argentine government officials expressed serious concern about the U.S. Fourth Fleet last week, but were reassured by Assistant Secretary Shannon and other U.S. messages. GoA concern had been fed by assertions made by President Chavez at the Mercosur Summit held June 30-July 1 i [...] | 2008-07-14 19:18:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MARR PREL KPAO AR |
08BUENOSAIRES962 | Doha update -- Argentina will hang tough [...] (SBU) Summary: Argentina is not ready to show much flexibility on the WTO texts this week in meetings with Mercosur and at the upcoming July 21-26 Geneva Ministerial, according to Argentina's Foreign Minister and a senior Foreign Ministry trade official. End Summary ------------------------ [...] | 2008-07-14 19:20:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD EAGR ECON MARR PREL AR |
08BUENOSAIRES963 | ARGENTINA: BATTLE LINES DRAWN [...] (C) Battle Lines Formed: The sides are drawn for battle in Argentina's agricultural dispute. Farmers and the government are calling followers together for a show of force in Buenos Aires on Tuesday July 15, the day before a decisive vote in the Senate on a bill to approve the government's ag [...] | 2008-07-14 20:22:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV EAGR ECON EFIN EINV ASEC AR |
08BUENOSAIRES968 | ARGENTINA: SPECIAL ENVOY RICKMAN RAISES SAIEGH [...] (C) Summary. On July 2, visiting Special Envoy for Monitoring and Combating Anti-Semitism Dr. Gregg Rickman met with Eduardo Saiegh, an Argentine Jew who gave up his bank under duress, after being kidnapped and tortured for a week by the military dictatorship in 1980. Saiegh reviewed the p [...] | 2008-07-15 20:23:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON PHUM AR |
08BUENOSAIRES973 | ARGENTINA: FARMERS AND GOA LAUNCH MASSIVE RALLIES [...] (SBU) Summary: Argentine farmers and pro-government forces staged massive rallies in Buenos Aires on July 15 seeking to influence the Senate vote on the controversial export tax regime (reftel) scheduled for the following day, July 16. The farmers' protest drew a crowd of 225,000 to 250,000 [...] | 2008-07-16 23:06:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV EAGR ECON EINV ELAB PHUM AR |
08BUENOSAIRES976 | Argentina: Economy Minister Fernandez on Economic Impact of [...] (SBU) GoA Economy Minister Fernandez, in a meeting with WHA Assistant Secretary Shannon, Treasury DAS O'Neill, and Ambassador, emphasized the "legitimate right" of President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner to unilaterally impose variable export tariffs on agricultural commodities, but argued tha [...] | 2008-07-17 15:09:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ETRD PREL EINV AR |
08BUENOSAIRES980 | ARGENTINA: VP COBOS VOTES AGAINST KIRCHNERS IN AG [...] (C) Summary: After 18 hours of debate, Argentine VP Cobos broke a 36-36 tie in the Senate with his vote against the government's bill sanctioning the increase in agricultural export duties it had unilaterally announced March 11. The agricultural sector welcomed the news, although the congres [...] | 2008-07-18 09:59:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV EAGR ECON EINV ELAB PHUM AR |
08BUENOSAIRES984 | ARGENTINE CENTRAL BANK PRESIDENT TO TREASURY DAS [...] (C) Argentine Central Bank (BCRA) President Martin Redrado told Treasury Deputy Assistant Secretary Brian O'Neill July 11 that he was greatly concerned about the direction of the U.S. and world economies, and the impact on Argentina and Latin America, and called for stronger G-3 statements of [...] | 2008-07-18 14:46:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ECON ETRD AR |
08BUENOSAIRES989 | Argentina Shows No Flexibility on Latest Doha NAMA Text [...] (SBU) Public comments by Foreign Minister Jorge Taiana, as well as press reports, indicate a growing divide between MERCOSUR members Argentina and Brazil over their respective WTO Doha Development Round (DDR) negotiating positions, despite a July 14 meeting in Rio de Janeiro of MERCOSUR Foreign [...] | 2008-07-18 21:26:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD WTRO AR |
08BUENOSAIRES990 | ARGENTINA: SPECIAL ENVOY PAYS HOMAGE TO AMIA [...] (SBU) Summary. On July 3, Dr. Gregg Rickman, Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism, visited the Argentine-Israeli Mutual Association (AMIA) headquarters to pay homage to the victims of the 1994 terrorist attack. He then met with the Executive Boards of both the AMIA and the Del [...] | 2008-07-18 21:33:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM KIRF PTER KJUS FBI AR IR VE |
08BUENOSAIRES991 | GoA Repeals Export Tax Resolution, Ending Farm Crisis [...] (SBU) Late July 18, the GoA repealed the March 11 decree that set off the 129-day battle with the rural sector by imposing sliding scale export taxes on grains and oilseeds exports. This decision, which follows the Argentine Senate's July 17 failure to pass the resolution into law, returns exp [...] | 2008-07-18 22:24:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR ECON EFIN ETRD PREL PGOV AR |
08BUENOSAIRES994 | GOA NATIONALIZES ARGENTINA'S FLAGSHIP AIRLINE [...] (SBU) On July 21, Argentina's Minister of Planning Julio De Vido and Secretary of Transport Ricardo Jaime signed an agreement with Marsans, Spanish owner of Argentine flag carrier Aerolineas Argentina (AA) and its sister carrier Austral (together referred to as AA),to transfer management and [...] | 2008-07-22 10:02:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | EAIR ECON EINV AR SP |
08CAIRO1119 | GOE LETTER OF ASSURANCE FOR NUCLEAR MATERIALS [...] We received para 2 letter June 2 from the Egyptian Atomic Energy Authority in response to reftel message. ISN/NESS received a copy of letter June 2 by e-mail. 2. Begin letter: Ms. Catherine Hill-Herndon Economic-Political Counselor American Embassy in Cairo Dear Ms. Hill-Herndon, [...] | 2008-06-03 07:18:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED | MNUC AR EG |
08CARACAS335 | ARGENTINE PRESIDENT'S MARCH 5-6 VISIT TO VENEZUELA [...] (C) Polcouns and Poloff met with Argentine First Secretary Luis Alberto Hidalgo March 7 to discuss Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner's March 5-6 visit to Venezuela, her first to Venezuela since assuming the presidency. Hidalgo said the visit was intended to be low profile, bu [...] | 2008-03-10 21:00:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV AR VE |
08CARACAS532 | CHAVEZ TO NATIONALIZE LATIN AMERICA STEEL LEADER [...] (C) Summary: BRV Vice President Ramon Carrizalez announced April 9 that President Chavez had decided to nationalize the steel company, Ternium Siderurgica del Orinoco (Sidor),owned by Luxembourg based Ternium and controlled by Argentine group Techint. The announcement comes after a year of la [...] | 2008-04-16 21:02:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | ELAB ENRG PGOV EINV AR VE |
08EFTOBUENOSAIRES648 | ARGENTINA: SCENESETTER FOR FBI DEPUTY DIRECTOR [...] (U) This telegram is sensitive but unclassified, and not for Internet distribution. ------------ Introduction ------------ 2. (SBU) On behalf of Embassy Buenos Aires, I warmly welcome your May 21-22 visit to Argentina. We are looking to build on an already positive bilateral relationsh [...] | 2008-05-15 18:29:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PHUM PTER SNAR ECON EFIN BEXP AR |
08EFTOMONTEVIDEO718 | MONTEVIDEO: POTENTIAL WHITE POWDER [...] (SBU/NF) On Tuesday December 23, 2008, at 1145, a local guard at U.S. Embassy Montevideo intercepted a suspicious letter while conducting routine screenings of local/international mail on the outside of the Embassy compound. The envelope matched the description and photograph of the letter in [...] | 2008-12-24 10:28:00 | Embassy Montevideo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC MCAP MOPS PARM PTER AR UY |
08HARARE865 | ZIMBABWE STILL SEEKING PAPER SUPPLIER, AS CASH [...] (C) Banker James Mushore told econoff on September 19 that the Argentine company bidding to provide banknote paper to the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) (reftel) was Ciccone Calcografica S.A. He said the bid had come in especially high because it included a large cut for Reserve Bank Governor [...] | 2008-09-22 15:59:00 | Embassy Harare | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN PGOV ASEC AR RS ZI |
08ISTANBUL596 | ARMENIAN FOREIGN MINISTER NALBANDIAN VISITS [...] (C) Summary and Comment: On November 24, Armenian Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian visited Istanbul in order to pay a working visit to the headquarters of the Organization of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation (BSEC). In addition to BSEC-related meetings, Nalbandian also called on Armenian [...] | 2008-11-26 15:00:00 | Consulate Istanbul | CONFIDENTIAL | ECIN PREL TU AR |
08LAPAZ735 | NEW PUSH FOR DIALOGUE: SHOW BEFORE THE SHOWDOWN? [...] (U) Summary: Foreign Minister David Choquehuanca called for renewed examination of third-party facilitated negotiations with the opposition March 31, in conjunction with an April 1 La Paz visit by OAS envoy Dante Caputo. Caputo met with Santa Cruz opposition leaders April 2. Choquehuanca said [...] | 2008-04-03 20:47:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PBTS OFDP OVIP BL AR CO BR |
08LAPAZ751 | BOLIVIA: PRE-MAY 4 DIALOGUE HOPES ON THE ROPES [...] (C) Summary: Despite much-publicized government urgency to head off Santa Cruz Department's (state) May 4 autonomy referendum through dialogue with the opposition, Bolivian government contacts are privately accepting they cannot head off the referendum and are looking at a post-May 4 strategy. [...] | 2008-04-07 17:26:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PBTS OFDP OVIP BL AR CO BR |
08LAPAZ854 | DIALOGUE: MUCH ADO ABOUT INTERNATIONAL VOICES [...] (C) Summary. OAS Political Secretary Dante Caputo seemed resigned to the fact that the opposition is holding firm to a May 4 date for an autonomy referendum in Santa Cruz Department (state) and will not sacrifice it as a means to expedite a new round of negotiations with the government. Caput [...] | 2008-04-15 22:53:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PBTS OFDP OVIP BL AR CO BR |
08MADRID518 | WHA ASSISTANT SECRETARY SHANNON'S VISIT TO MADRID, [...] (C) WHA Assistant Secretary Tom Shannon visited Madrid April 30-May 1, 2008. He met with Secretary General of the Presidency Bernardino Leon and former President Jose Maria Aznar. He also attended a lunch in his honor hosted by Charge d' Affaires Hugo Llorens with Spanish private sector, media, and [...] | 2008-05-09 16:22:00 | Embassy Madrid | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KSUM AR BL CO CU PE SP |
08MADRID963 | SPANISH INVESTMENT DISPUTES IN ARGENTINA [...] (U) On September 3, Econoff raised the issue of investment in Argentina with Alejandro Alvargonzalez San Martin, MFA Deputy Director General for Bilateral Economic Relations with Developing Countries. Alvargonzalez noted that the stock of Spanish investment in Argentina amounts to approximatel [...] | 2008-09-05 08:55:00 | Embassy Madrid | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON KIDE EINV SP AR |
08MONTEVIDEO235 | CRISIS MANAGEMENT TRAINING -- DVC LESSONS LEARNED [...] Post appreciates the CME we recently received and the opportunity to provide lessons learned. 2. Comments/answers are keyed to questions A-H in reftel. A. DVC FORMAT: DVC format was effective and video/audio quality was good, with the exception of one or two brief periods of lag. Thr [...] | 2008-04-30 18:07:00 | Embassy Montevideo | UNCLASSIFIED | AEMR AMGT AR ASEC BL CI PA UY |
08MONTEVIDEO266 | BANCO DEL SUR: MINISTERS AGREE ON DRAFT CHARTER, [...] (C) SUMMARY: Ministers of finance from Bolivia, Brazil, Ecuador, Paraguay, Uruguay and Venezuela met in Montevideo on April 25 for the fourth Banco del Sur (Bank of the South) ministerial meeting. Argentina did not participate in the meeting following the resignation of its Minister of Economy [...] | 2008-05-07 20:06:00 | Embassy Montevideo | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN PREL AR BL BR PY EC VE UY |
08MONTEVIDEO275 | URUGUAYAN AMBASSADOR TO VENEZUELA IS UNUSUALLY [...] (U) On May 8, reputed Uruguayan business weekly "Busqueda" reported on remarks, unusually critical of President Chavez, made by Uruguay's Ambassador to Venezuela Geronimo Cardozo to a group of visiting Uruguayan legislators during a gathering at his residence. The group, in Caracas for a sessi [...] | 2008-05-09 16:37:00 | Embassy Montevideo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ECON AR VE UY |
08MONTEVIDEO34 | BOTNIA OPERATING SUCCESSFULLY; ENCE PREPARES TO [...] (SBU) After a turbulent start, Finnish Botnia - the largest foreign investor in Uruguay - celebrated its second month of smooth operations on January 9. The firm is operating at 70% of its capacity and has already exported 148,000 ton of cellulose, worth $112 million, to China and Europe. Th [...] | 2008-01-25 14:55:00 | Embassy Montevideo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINV ETRD PREL SOCI SENV AR UY |
08MONTEVIDEO422 | PRESS ALLEGES "CIA" TIES WITH URUGUAYAN-AMERICAN [...] (SBU) On July 24, the leftist weekly Brecha published an investigative article asserting that former Uruguayan police photographer, Nelson Bardesio Marzoa, was now living in Argentina and had entered the country in June 2006 with a U.S. passport. The article asserts that Bardesio was abducted [...] | 2008-07-24 22:22:00 | Embassy Montevideo | SECRET | PREL CASC AR UY |
08PARIS1740 | FRENCH REACTION TO ENGAGING EUORPEAN COUNTRIES ON [...] (SBU) Per reftel request, Post shared points on Argentina investment disputes with French Ministry of Finance officials on August 19. Emboff followed up with Finance Ministry officials September 16 and met with Hugo Hanne, Head of the Americas Division and Vanessa Gouret, Deputy Head of Servic [...] | 2008-09-17 12:24:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON KIDE AR FR |
08PARIS2130 | U.S./FDA ORPHAN PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT GRANT AWARD FOR [...] ESTH Office has review the proposed research and Embassy Paris find no objection to the proposed research grant entitled "Familial Amyloid Polyneuropathy". STAPLETON [...] | 2008-11-20 11:23:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | KSCA TBIO OTRA TPHY US UK PO FR SW AR BR |
08PARISFR2227 | UNESCO DIRECTOR GENERAL CAMPAIGN: JORDANIAN AND INDIAN [...] (C) SUMMARY: During a meeting with Ambassador Oliver, the Jordanian Ambassador to UNESCO said that Egypt will move ahead with its candidate for the next Director General (DG) of UNESCO unless it decides that its candidate, Minister of Culture Farouk Hosni, would have serious difficulty gettin [...] | 2008-12-09 16:39:00 | Mission UNESCO | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNESCO JO FR EG IN CU VE BR RS AR |
08RIODEJANEIRO280 | BRAZIL, PETROBRAS APPEAR AMBIVALENT ON ECUADOR OIL [...] (U) Jose Sergio Gabrielli, President of Brazil's state-controlled oil and gas company Petrobras, said October 7 that the company would not renegotiate with the Government of Ecuador on its oil production in the country. The statement was made during the inauguration of Petrobras' P-51 platfor [...] | 2008-10-08 17:05:00 | Consulate Rio De Janeiro | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG ETTC EPET EINV PREL EC AR NI AO LY IN TZ PK |
08RIODEJANEIRO295 | NO TECHNICAL BARRIERS TO ADDITIONAL PROTOCOL, BRAZIL'S [...] Summary. U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations in Vienna, Greg Schulte, visited Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on October 17 as part of his trip to the region, including Brasilia, Santiago and Buenos Aires (SEPTELS),for consultations on non-proliferation issues. In meetings with Brazil's nuclear re [...] | 2008-10-22 15:17:00 | Consulate Rio De Janeiro | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PARM ENRG EIND EMIN AR BR |
08SANTIAGO1046 | ENERGY MINISTER TOUTS RENEWABLE ENERGY GOAL TO VISITING [...] SUMMARY: During a Nov. 10 meeting with visiting members of Congress and the Ambassador, Energy Minister Marcelo Tokman highlighted Chile's dependence on foreign energy supplies and said the country intends to work towards a goal of meeting 20% of domestic energy needs through renewable source [...] | 2008-12-01 17:26:00 | Embassy Santiago | UNCLASSIFIED | ENRG SENV PGOV TRGY CI AR |
08SANTIAGO1105 | RELOCATING DEA PERSONNEL FROM BOLIVIA: CHILE [...] (C) The Ambassador used a December 16 meeting of visiting CODEL Meeks to raise with Interior Minister (and Acting President) Edmundo Perez Yoma ref A demarche. The Ambassador - as well as Representatives Meeks (D-NY) and Hinojosa (D-TX) - noted to Perez Yoma the increased risk of narcotics flo [...] | 2008-12-16 19:47:00 | Embassy Santiago | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL SNAR AR BO BR CI PA |
08SANTIAGO35 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE APPROVAL FOR AMBASSADOR DAVID A. [...] Embassy Santiago warmly welcomes and grants country clearance for Ambassador David A. Gross, Coordinator for International Communications and Information Policy, from 01/15/2008 through 01/16/2008, as requested reftel. The purpose of the visit is to meet with Chilean government officials to [...] | 2008-01-14 20:37:00 | Embassy Santiago | UNCLASSIFIED | ECPS OTRA CI AR |
08SAOPAULO214 | BRAZILIAN STOCK EXCHANGES GET GREEN LIGHT FOR MERGER [...] (U) SUMMARY: Brazil's two stock exchanges announced their intent to merge on March 27. The merger of the Brazilian stock exchange (Bovespa) and the Commodities and Futures Exchange (BM&F) into BM&F Bovespa, S.A. will make the new exchange the third largest in the world in terms of market valu [...] | 2008-04-29 15:48:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN EINV AR BR |
08STATE129612 | OSCE PERMANENT COUNCIL: RESPONSE TO THE REPORT [...] (U) Post is authorized to make the following statement at the December 11 meeting of the OSCE Permanent Council in Vienna. Begin Text: Thank you, Mr. Chairman. The United States would like to welcome Captain Erikki Platan, Head of the High-Level Planning Group, to the Permanent Counci [...] | 2008-12-10 13:40:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV OSCE AZ AR |
08STATE18370 | DEMARCHE REQUEST: WTO SERVICES NEGOTIATIONS [...] This is an urgent action request. See paragraph 7 below. (Because of time constraints, we are unable to provide translations.) Summary ------- 2. The WTO Doha Round is moving into a critical stage of detailed negotiations across all elements of the single undertaking. As services is on [...] | 2008-02-24 21:52:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD WTRO AR |
08STATE20218 | BLUE LANTERN LEVEL 3: PRE-LICENSE END-USE CHECK [...] No summary [...] | 2008-02-28 14:57:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | ETTC KOMC AR AE |
08STATE42905 | US-EU-CANADA TRILATERAL MEETINGS ON IRAN AND [...] (C) SUMMARY: During the April 10 U.S.-EU-Canada trilateral meetings on Iran for the Slovenian EU Presidency, all three delegations agreed that Iran sought to undermine everything that the international community sought to achieve in the Middle East, and that its nuclear program and state spo [...] | 2008-04-23 16:56:00 | Secretary of State | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PREL EUN UN XG XF AR IR |
08STATE50050 | MISSILE TECHNOLOGY CONTROL REGIME (MTCR): [...] (U) Classified by ISN/MTR Director Pam Durham. Reason: 1.5 (B),(D). 2. (U) This is an action request. Embassy Buenos Aires, please see paragraph 15. 3. (C) BACKGROUND: According to published reports (REF A),the Argentine Commission for Space Activities (CONAE) is over [...] | 2008-05-12 15:25:00 | Secretary of State | CONFIDENTIAL | MTCRE PARM PREL ETTC TSPL AR |
08STATE67398 | MTCR: ARGENTINE SPACE LAUNCH VEHICLE (SLV) [...] (U) Classified by ISN/MTR Director Pam Durham. Reason: 1.5 (B),(D). 2. (U) This is an action request. Embassy Buenos Aires, please see paragraph 7. 3. (C) BACKGROUND: REF A reports the government of Argentina's (GOA's) initial reaction to the U.S. request for additiona [...] | 2008-06-23 20:38:00 | Secretary of State | CONFIDENTIAL | MTCRE KSCA PARM PREL MNUC ETTC TSPA AR |
08STATE7944 | EUR DAS BRYZA'S JANUARY 15 MEETING WITH ARMENIAN [...] (C) Summary: EUR DAS Matt Bryza met on January 15 with Armenian Prime Minister Serzh Sargsian on the margins of a visit by the Minsk Group Co-Chairs to Yerevan, Baku, and Nagorno-Karabakh. DAS Bryza raised the issue of Armenia's relations with Turkey, noting that the Turkish government was s [...] | 2008-01-25 17:52:00 | Secretary of State | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV AR TU GG |
08STATE93970 | LIFELINES FOR IPCC WORKING GROUP ELECTION [...] (U) This is an action message. Please see paragraph 3. 2. (C) Summary. Missions should be prepared to assist the U.S. Delegation to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in its efforts to secure a positive outcome to elections for working group co-chair positions at the IPCC Plenar [...] | 2008-09-02 23:30:00 | Secretary of State | CONFIDENTIAL | SENV PREL UNEP WMO KGHG IR ML AR MA MO |
08STATE94059 | MTCR: ARGENTINE SPACE LAUNCH VEHICLE (SLV) [...] (U) This is an action request. Embassy Buenos Aires, please see paragraph 5. 2. (C) BACKGROUND: REF D reports the government of Argentina's (GOA's) agreement to the U.S. request for transparency on Argentina's space launch vehicle (SLV) program (REF B and REF C) and request for [...] | 2008-09-03 11:28:00 | Secretary of State | CONFIDENTIAL | MTCRE KSCA PARM PREL MNUC ETTC TSPA AR |
08TBILISI2411 | GEORGIA: ARMENIAN NORASHEN CHURCH - CONCERNS [...] (C) Summary: The latest in a series of disputes between the Armenian Apostolic Church (AAC) and the Georgian Orthodox Church (GOC) ignited November 18 when a construction crew using a bulldozer, hired by a Georgian Orthodox priest, moved the headstones of several Armenian graves at Norashen C [...] | 2008-12-17 14:44:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM PGOV AR GG |
08TBILISI2438 | GEORGIAN PATRIARCH ON CHURCH DISPUTE WITH ARMENIA [...] (C) Summary/Comment: Ambassador raised the ongoing dispute over Norashen church in Tbilisi with Georgian Orthodox Patriarch Ilia II on December 22. The Georgian Patriarch seemed open and willing to resolve contentious issues and noted the Georgian priest who was involved in moving graveston [...] | 2008-12-22 13:11:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL AR GG |
08TEGUCIGALPA1131 | HONDURAS LIKES THE IDEA OF A LATIN AMERICAN [...] No summary [...] | 2008-12-16 21:25:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | AR BB BR CI EC MX PE PREL UNESCO VC |
08THEHAGUE740 | NETHERLANDS/AFGHANISTAN: CAUTIOUS SUPPORT OF ARMY [...] No summary [...] | 2008-09-08 06:53:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL MACP AF AR NL |
08THEHAGUE754 | NETHERLANDS/AFGHANISTAN: DUTCH SUPPORT AMEMDMENT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-09-12 14:42:00 | Embassy The Hague | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | AF AR MOPS NATO MARR PREL |
08UNVIEVIENNA164 | IAEA/DG SELECTION: PFIRTER JOINS AMANO IN THE RACE [...] (S) Summary: This cable is provided solely for the purpose of updating the Department on the state-of-play on IAEA DG succession. Consistent with previous instructions, Mission is not engaging publicly or privately in this campaign. The campaign for DG succession has coalesced around two mo [...] | 2008-03-14 08:53:00 | UNVIE | SECRET | AORC IAEA KNPP JA AR |
08UNVIEVIENNA643 | IAEA/DG RACE: MINTY,S CAMPAIGN PITCH TO WEOG [...] (C) Meeting with Western European and Others Group (WEOG) Ambassadors, at his request, on December 1, South African Governor Abdul Minty fielded a wide range of pointed questions on Agency priorities as a prospective candidate for IAEA Director General. Minty informed WEOG members that his Mi [...] | 2008-12-05 14:16:00 | UNVIE | CONFIDENTIAL | AORC PREL PARM IAEA KNPP JA AR SF |
08USUNNEWYORK545 | UNSC REFORM: MEMBER STATES SPLIT ON BEGINNING [...] (SBU) Summary. President of the UN General Assembly (PGA) Srgjan Kerim convened the Open-Ended Working Group (OEWG) on June 17 to discuss the report prepared by his four-person Task Force with suggestions on moving forward towards inter-governmental negotiations (IGN) on UNSC reform. Major p [...] | 2008-06-20 20:30:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL KUNR UNSC IN BR PK IT JA GM AR SP KS |
08USUNNEWYORK864 | AT UN, HEADS OF STATE BEGIN 63RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY [...] SUMMARY: The United Nations General Debate opened on September 22 with several heads of state taking the floor. Most speakers mentioned the global food crisis, and many spoke on peace-building, energy issues, global warming, the financial crisis, and human rights. UN reform was another commo [...] | 2008-09-25 22:24:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV ECON BR US FR RP QA LI TU AR MA |
09ANKARA1326 | DAS KAIDANOW'S INITIAL CONSULTATIONS IN TURKEY [...] (C) Summary: GoT officials told EUR DAS Kaidanow during her initial visit to Ankara that: -- Turkey is committed to the reconciliation process with Armenia, but Ankara also needs to see progress on Nagorno-Karabakh; -- Ankara fully supports Talat and is giving him maximum flexibility, but [...] | 2009-09-09 14:54:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MOPS AR GR TU |
09ANKARA1537 | TIES THAT BIND: AZERI INFLUENCE OVER TURKEY [...] (C) SUMMARY: As the Turkey-Armenia protocols begin to percolate in the Turkish Parliament (SEPTEL),Azerbaijan's influence on Turkish public opinion will be pivotal. Given the close cultural, historical and linguistic ties between the Turks and Azerbaijanis, the Turkish public appears unwilli [...] | 2009-10-23 14:30:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON AR AJ TU |
09ANKARA1569 | PROTOCOLS IN PARLIAMENT-WHAT NEXT? [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Now that the Turkey-Armenia protocols are in parliament, "the hard part begins." The GOT faces an uphill battle in pushing for ratification, as the opposition continues its criticism and public opinion demands progress on Nagorno-Karabakh. What constitutes the minimum political [...] | 2009-10-29 14:48:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL AJ AR TU |
09BAKU468 | AZERBAIJAN: USING IDPS TO SEND TOUGH MESSAGES [...] (C) SUMMARY: On June 5, the Azeri IDP community held a congress supposedly to elect new leadership and to educate the international community about its plight. In reality, this was a Foreign Ministry-organized event intended to send strongly negative messages about the role of the Minsk Grou [...] | 2009-06-09 12:35:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | AJ AR PGOV PREF PREL TU |
09BEIJING2995 | PRC/LATIN AMERICA: CHINESE ECONOMIC INTERESTS [...] (C) Summary: Politics, economics, Taiwan and common interests in social development drive China's interest in Latin America, according to a PRC scholar. Notwithstanding China's deepening relationship with Latin America, China will not develop its Latin America connections at the expense of i [...] | 2009-10-29 09:36:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM ECON ETRD ENRG EINV AR XM CH |
09BEIJING989 | Latin Diplomats on China-Argentine Currency Swap, [...] (U) SUMMARY. In recent separate meetings with Emboffs, Beijing-based diplomats from Argentina, Uruguay and Mexico discussed recent developments in their respective countries' economic relations with China. Argentine diplomats claimed to have no technical details on Argentina's recently-announc [...] | 2009-04-15 05:23:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD EINV PREL EFIN CH AR UY MX |
09BERLIN784 | MEDIA REACTION: [...] Lead Stories Summary 2. Withdrawal of U.S. Forces from Iraqi Cities 3. Partial Recount of Iranian Votes 4. Honduras Coup 5. Outcome of Argentinean Elections 6. IRENA 7. Madoff Trial  [...] | 2009-06-30 13:12:00 | Embassy Berlin | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO GM US IZ IR HO AR |
09BRASILIA1360 | BRAZIL ON U.S.-BOLIVIA DIALOGUE, ARGENTINA, [...] SUMMARY. In a meeting November 19 with PolCouns, Brazilian Ministry of External Relations (MRE) South America 1 (Southern Cone) Department head Minister Joao Luiz Pereira Pinto (protect) described Brazil-Bolivia relations as frustrating and indicated a continuing interest in trilateral counte [...] | 2009-11-24 18:20:00 | Embassy Brasilia | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL SNAR AR BR BL PY |
09BRASILIA156 | COUNTERTERRORISM IN BRAZIL: MAKING THE 3 PLUS 1 [...] (C) Summary: The 3 Plus 1 Mechanism on Security in the Triborder Area (TBA) of Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay remains, six years after its initial plenary session, the only instrument available to discuss counterterrorism (CT) with regional partners at the policy level. Given the likelihood t [...] | 2009-02-06 15:30:00 | Embassy Brasilia | SECRET | PTER EFIN PREL PGOV SNAR KTFN PA AR BR |
09BRASILIA201 | KEY BRAZILIAN NUCLEAR OFFICIAL DISCUSSES POSSIBLE WAY [...] (C) SUMMARY. On February 4, Othon Pinheiro, Director-President of Eletrobras Termonuclear S.A., briefed the Ambassador on a new concept for indirect monitoring rather than intrusive inspections as a way to provide the IAEA with assurances about the nature of Brazil's nuclear activities. This [...] | 2009-02-17 18:40:00 | Embassy Brasilia | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG IAEA KNNP TRGY ETTC AR BR |
09BRASILIA599 | NUCLEAR NON-PROLIFERATION: BRAZIL MAY SOFTEN ON IAEA [...] (C) SUMMARY. It appears that an internal turf battle between Brazil's Defense and External Relations Ministries led to Defense Minister Nelson Jobim's refusal to cooperate with the IAEA's request to interview a Brazilian scientist over his book on nuclear weapons. Minister Jobim now recognize [...] | 2009-05-11 21:19:00 | Embassy Brasilia | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG KNNP TRGY ETTC IAEA BR AR |
09BRASILIA725 | BRAZIL - WARMING UP TO A COMPROMISE ON AMENDING NSG [...] (C) SUMMARY: There is positive movement in Brazil's position regarding the proposed non-proliferation initiative at the Nuclear Suppliers Group concerning transfers of enrichment and reprocessing equipment and technology, according to the Ministry of Exterior Relations' Director of the Divisi [...] | 2009-06-08 17:52:00 | Embassy Brasilia | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG ETTC KNNP MNUC PARM TRGY NSG AR BR |
09BUENOSAIRES1002 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAMS [...] No summary [...] | 2009-09-03 17:27:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PINR MARR AR |
09BUENOSAIRES1008 | (C) CARLOS REUTEMANN, ARGENTINA'S RELUCTANT [...] (C) Summary: Peronist dissident -- and presumptive 2011 frontrunner for his party's presidential nomination -- Senator Carlos Reutemann from Santa Fe province shared his views with the CDA on the 2011 presidential race and the post-midterms strategy of President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner (CFK) [...] | 2009-09-04 15:06:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EAGR KPAO AR |
09BUENOSAIRES1011 | ARGENTINA ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL REVIEW, AUGUST [...] (U) Provided below is Embassy Buenos Aires' Economic and Financial Review covering the period August 27-September 3, 2009. The unclassified email version of this report includes tables and charts tracking Argentine economic developments. Contact Econ OMS Megan Walton at WaltonM@state.gov to be [...] | 2009-09-08 20:17:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON EINV ETRD ELAB EAIR AR |
09BUENOSAIRES1017 | ARGENTINA: CFK'S NEW CABINET CHIEF [...] (S) Summary: Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner's (CFK) promotion of former Justice Minister Anibal Fernandez (AF) to Cabinet Chief puts in place someone with six years of experience working for the First Couple, first as former president Nestor Kirchner's Interior Minister and then [...] | 2009-09-10 15:23:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | SECRET//NOFORN | PGOV PREL SNAR KCOR ECON AR |
09BUENOSAIRES1019 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAM [...] No summary [...] | 2009-09-10 16:17:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PINR MARR AR |
09BUENOSAIRES102 | ARGENTINA: MINISTER OF JUSTICE READY TO COOPERATE [...] (U) Action request for State and DEA HQ Washington, para 18. 2. (SBU) Summary: Minister of Justice Anibal Fernandez received the Ambassador January 28 in his office and answered "yes" to virtually every offer of collaboration and assistance, including new anti-terrorism training, an enhan [...] | 2009-01-30 20:13:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL SNAR PTER EFIN KCRM ASEC KTIP AR |
09BUENOSAIRES1020 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAMS [...] No summary [...] | 2009-09-10 16:18:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PINR MARR AR |
09BUENOSAIRES1022 | ARGENTINA ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL REVIEW, SEPTEMBER 7-11, [...] (U) Provided below is Embassy Buenos Aires' Economic and Financial Review covering the period September 7-11, 2009. The unclassified email version of this report includes tables and charts tracking Argentine economic developments. Contact Econ OMS Megan Walton at WaltonM@state.gov to be inclu [...] | 2009-09-14 15:38:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON EINV ETRD ELAB EAIR AR |
09BUENOSAIRES1025 | ARGENTINA'S HEALTH MINISTER SAYS H1N1 EPIDEMIC IS OVER [...] In an interview to daily newspaper "Clarin" on September 7, Argentina's Health Minister Juan Manzur stated that "the H1N1 epidemic is over, but the alert level continues, as flu cases continue to be diagnosed." As more than 92 percent of the test results identified the H1N1 virus (8,384 posit [...] | 2009-09-14 19:26:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | TBIO SOCI PREL AMED ELAB CASC KIPR AR |
09BUENOSAIRES1026 | ARGENTINA: THERE'S LIFE AFTER THE CASA ROSADA FOR [...] (C) Summary: Eight weeks after leaving Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner's (CFK) administration, former Cabinet Chief Sergio Massa told Polcouns that he parted on good terms with CFK and "not so good terms" with CFK's husband and power behind the throne, former president Nestor Kir [...] | 2009-09-15 00:06:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PINR PGOV PREL ELAB AR |
09BUENOSAIRES1029 | ARGENTINA URGES CONTINUED ENGAGEMENT ON BOLIVIA IN [...] (C) Charge d'Affaires delivered points in reftel regarding potential Majors List determination for Bolivia to Vice Foreign Minister Victorio Taccetti on September 14 (see septels for other issues discussed). Taccetti did not react with particular concern or surprise to the renewed listing of [...] | 2009-09-16 19:35:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | SNAR PREL PGOV BL AR |
09BUENOSAIRES1030 | ARGENTINA: GOVERNMENT DISMAYED BY DOL LIST OF [...] (C) Summary: Argentine Vice Minister for Foreign Affairs Victorio Taccetti convoked Charge d,Affaires on September 14 to convey the GOA,s strong objection to the DOL List of Goods Produced by Forced and Child Labor. Taccetti complained that the extensive list of Argentine products on the list [...] | 2009-09-16 19:35:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | ELAB PREL PGOV EIND PHUM SOCI AR |
09BUENOSAIRES1031 | GOA SHARES ITS CONCERN ABOUT INTERPOL STATEMENT ON [...] (C) Argentine Vice Foreign Minister Victorio Taccetti voiced concern with Charge d'Affaires on September 14 over a press statement quoting the Secretary General of Interpol, Ronald Noble, discussing efforts to resolve the dispute between Argentina and Iran over Iranian suspects in a 1994 terro [...] | 2009-09-16 19:36:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | KNNP PTER MNUC PREL AORC IR AR |
09BUENOSAIRES1032 | ARGENTINA: GOVERNMENT SEEKS USG SUPPORT AGAINST [...] (C) During a meeting with Argentine Vice Minister for Foreign Affairs Victorio Taccetti, who had convoked Charge d,Affaires on September 14 to discuss the Department of Labor's report on goods produced by child and force labor, Taccetti expressed concern about a proposal to marginalize the G20 [...] | 2009-09-16 19:36:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PREL EFIN EINV ETRD AR |
09BUENOSAIRES1036 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAM [...] No summary [...] | 2009-09-17 11:57:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PINR MARR AR |
09BUENOSAIRES1039 | ARGENTINA: FORMAL REQUEST FOR U.S. SIGNATURE ON CONVENTION [...] Embassy received via Diplomatic Note a letter dated September 10 from Argentine Minister of Foreign Affairs Jorge Taiana to Secretary Clinton in which Argentina requests U.S. support for the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearances. Taiana request [...] | 2009-09-17 19:34:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PHUM UNGA PGOV AR |
09BUENOSAIRES1042 | ARGENTINA: FINANCE SECRETARY SAYS HOLDOUT [...] (C) Hernan Lorenzino, the Secretary of Finance in the Ministry of Economy and Public Finances, told a visiting Treasury delegation accompanied by Econ Couns on September 10 that the GOA is seriously pursuing negotiations with the "holdouts" from the 2005 debt repayment arrangements and that a [...] | 2009-09-18 17:45:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN EINV ETRD AR |
09BUENOSAIRES1047 | ARGENTINA ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL REVIEW, SEPTEMBER 14-17, [...] (U) Provided below is Embassy Buenos Aires' Economic and Financial Review covering the period September 14-17, 2009. The unclassified email version of this report includes tables and charts tracking Argentine economic developments. Contact Econ OMS Megan Walton at WaltonM@state.gov to be incl [...] | 2009-09-21 10:29:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON EINV ETRD ELAB EAIR AR |
09BUENOSAIRES105 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAMS [...] No summary [...] | 2009-02-02 13:38:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PINS PTER AR |
09BUENOSAIRES1051 | ARGENTINA: WILL CONSIDER U.S. UNGA REDLINES [...] (SBU) Political Officer met with Mateo Estreme, a member of Foreign Minister Taiana,s staff, to discuss the reftel demarche. Estreme welcomed word of anticipated high-level U.S. participation throughout the UNGA. He offered no objections to the U.S. redlines, noting with approval in particul [...] | 2009-09-22 11:58:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNGA AR |
09BUENOSAIRES1055 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAM [...] No summary [...] | 2009-09-22 20:08:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PINR PTER MARR AR |
09BUENOSAIRES1056 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAM [...] No summary [...] | 2009-09-22 20:09:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PINR PTER MARR AR |
09BUENOSAIRES106 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAMS [...] No summary [...] | 2009-02-02 13:42:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PINR MARR AR |
09BUENOSAIRES1061 | ARGENTINA: RISING PRESSURES FOR THE RIACHUELO RIVER [...] (SBU) A massive, long-delayed cleanup of the Riachuelo- Matanza River Basin, the most polluted basin in Latin America, is due to begin shortly. Funded in part through a $2 billion World Bank loan, the project is expected to define the World Bank's involvement in Argentina in the medium to long [...] | 2009-09-23 14:15:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV ECON EFIN EIND AR |
09BUENOSAIRES1069 | FOREIGN MINISTER TAIANA DECIPHERS ARGENTINA FOR [...] (C) Summary: Ambassador Martinez presented copies of her credentials on September 18, the day of her arrival in country, to Foreign Minister Jorge Taiana. A friendly and expansive Taiana emphasized the high priority the Government of Argentina (GOA) placed on securing a meeting for President [...] | 2009-09-23 19:53:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM PARM ECON AR |
09BUENOSAIRES1077 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAM [...] No summary [...] | 2009-09-25 16:42:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PINR PTER SNAR AR |
09BUENOSAIRES1079 | ARGENTINA ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL REVIEW, SEPTEMBER 21-24, [...] (U) Provided below is Embassy Buenos Aires' Economic and Financial Review covering the period September 21-24, 2009. The unclassified email version of this report includes tables and charts tracking Argentine economic developments. Contact Econ OMS Megan Walton at WaltonM@state.gov to be incl [...] | 2009-09-25 20:17:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON EINV ETRD ELAB EAIR AR |
09BUENOSAIRES1084 | Argentina: Kraft Conflict Heats Up As Police Remove Workers [...] (SBU) On Friday September 25, the government of the Province of Buenos Aires, with the support of the federal government, implemented, after much hesitation, a judge's decision and ordered the police to move into the Kraft plant in the suburbs of Buenos Aires. The police forcibly removed abou [...] | 2009-09-30 13:08:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EINV EIND ETRD ELAB PREL PGOV KSAC AR |
09BUENOSAIRES1095 | Scenesetter for Secretary Solis' Visit to Argentina, [...] (SBU) On behalf of Embassy Buenos Aires, I warmly welcome your October 6-8 visit to Argentina. I will have been in the country a little less than three weeks when you arrive, and I am honored to have you among my first visitors. The Government of Argentina will also be extremely interested in [...] | 2009-10-02 14:02:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL ELAB PGOV ECON ETRD AR |
09BUENOSAIRES1097 | ARGENTINA ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL REVIEW, SEPTEMBER [...] (U) Provided below is Embassy Buenos Aires' Economic and Financial Review covering the period September 28-October 1, 2009. The unclassified email version of this report includes tables and charts tracking Argentine economic developments. Contact Econ OMS Megan Walton at WaltonM@state.gov to b [...] | 2009-10-02 16:21:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON EINV ETRD ELAB EAIR AR |
09BUENOSAIRES1101 | ARGENTINA: A PRIMER ON ARGENTINA'S MEDIA BILL [...] (C) Summary: For decades, there has been consensus within Argentine political circles of the need to reform the 1980 media law, which dates to the military dictatorship (1976-1983). A year after President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner (CFK) first announced an effort at reform, the Chamber of [...] | 2009-10-02 22:01:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON ETRD EINT EINV WTRO AR |
09BUENOSAIRES1103 | ARGENTINA: TRAINING WORKSHOP BUILDS LOCAL CAPACITY TO [...] (U) Summary. A one-week USG-funded workshop on trafficking-in-persons (TIP) helped mobilize Argentine federal judges and prosecutors to address procedural shortcomings in Argentine TIP investigations. G/TIP Ambassador Luis CdeBaca and Department of Justice Federal Prosecutor James Felte kick [...] | 2009-10-05 14:32:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | KWMN PHUM PREL KCRM SMIG KFRD ASEC ELAB AR |
09BUENOSAIRES1109 | ARGENTINA: HOLDOUT PROBLEM RIPE FOR RESOLUTION, [...] (C) There has been much recent speculation in the Argentine press regarding a possible solution to the problem of the private bondholder "holdouts" from the 2005 Argentine debt restructuring. Deputy EconCouns has met with numerous financial sector contacts in the last several weeks to assess [...] | 2009-10-06 21:15:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN EINV ETRD AR |
09BUENOSAIRES1112 | LEADING THE WAY TO GREEN BUILDING IN ARGENTINA [...] With green building a major focus of reducing global energy consumption and emissions, the U.S.-based LEED standard is gaining regional acceptance as a standard for green buildings. Still, reticence in some quarters about adopting U.S. standards surfaced in an Embassy-sponsored recent confere [...] | 2009-10-07 17:48:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV KGHG BEXP ECON ENRG EIND AR |
09BUENOSAIRES1113 | FRAUD SUMMARY - ARGENTINA [...] No summary [...] | 2009-10-07 17:57:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | KFRD CVIS CPAS CMGT ASEC AR |
09BUENOSAIRES1117 | Argentina Upgrades Agriculture to Ministry Level, Appoints [...] (SBU) Summary: On October 2, Argentine President Fernandez de Kirchner created a Ministry of Agriculture to be headed by Kirchner loyalist Julian Dominguez. This change upgrades the agriculture portfolio to a Ministry level - a status it had not held since 1981, despite Argentina's role as a [...] | 2009-10-08 20:38:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR SNAR ECON EINV PGOV ELAB PHUM TBIO AR |
09BUENOSAIRES1121 | ARGENTINA ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL REVIEW, OCTOBER [...] (U) Provided below is Embassy Buenos Aires' Economic and Financial Review covering the period October 2-8, 2009. The unclassified email version of this report may include tables and charts tracking Argentine economic developments. Contact Econ OMS Megan Walton at WaltonM@state.gov to be incl [...] | 2009-10-09 16:46:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR ECON EFIN EINV ELAB ETRD AR |
09BUENOSAIRES1127 | Argentina's President Congratulates President Obama on [...] The Argentine Foreign Ministry hand-delivered to the DCM October 10 a letter of congratulations from President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner (CFK) to President Obama on his Nobel Peace Prize. The MFA advised the DCM that CFK had asked that the letter be delivered prior to her departure that [...] | 2009-10-13 18:58:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | OPDC PREL XR AR |
09BUENOSAIRES1129 | (C) ARGENTINA: CITIBANK ADVISES THAT HOLDOUT DEAL [...] (C) In an October 14 meeting with Ambassador Martinez and the DCM, President of Citibank Argentina Juan Bruchou said that an agreement between the GOA and the holdouts from the 2005 debt restructuring deal would be announced within two weeks. The target date for completion of the deal is Dec [...] | 2009-10-14 20:48:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN EINV ETRD AR |
09BUENOSAIRES1132 | DOES THE PASSAGE OF CONTROVERSIAL ARGENTINE MEDIA [...] (C) Summary: The government of Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner (CFK) took a step back from the political grave in winning congressional approval of a controversial media bill. The Argentine Senate approved the bill (44-24) in the early hours of October 10, three weeks afte [...] | 2009-10-15 20:40:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM ECON EINV WTRO AR |
09BUENOSAIRES1137 | ARGENTINA ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL REVIEW, OCTOBER 9-15, [...] (U) Provided below is Embassy Buenos Aires' Economic and Financial Review covering the period October 9-15, 2009. The unclassified email version of this report includes tables and charts tracking Argentine economic developments. Contact Econ OMS Megan Walton at WaltonM@state.gov to be include [...] | 2009-10-19 10:46:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON EINV ETRD ELAB EAIR AR |
09BUENOSAIRES1147 | ARGENTINA: AMBASSADOR ENCOUNTERS PROTESTERS IN [...] (SBU) Summary: During her first trip outside of Buenos Aires, Ambassador Martinez was forced to change the location of a speech at the National University of Cuyo due to disorderly protests by far-left groups on October 15. Public reaction has been mostly sympathetic to the Ambassador and critical [...] | 2009-10-21 14:34:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KPAO ASEC PHUM SOCI KDEM AR |
09BUENOSAIRES1148 | ARGENTINA: AMBASSADOR ENCOUNTERS PROTESTERS IN [...] (SBU) Summary: During her first trip outside of Buenos Aires, Ambassador Martinez was forced to change the location of a speech at the National University of Cuyo due to disorderly protests by far-left groups on October 15. Public reaction has been mostly sympathetic to the Ambassador and cri [...] | 2009-10-21 15:31:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KPAO ASEC PHUM SOCI KDEM AR |
09BUENOSAIRES1155 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAM [...] No summary [...] | 2009-10-23 11:39:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PINR SNAR AR |
09BUENOSAIRES1156 | AMBASSADOR MEETS ARGENTINE VP COBOS [...] (C) Summary: Argentine Vice President Julio Cobos, long estranged from the Kirchners and now the country's most popular politician and leading contender for the presidency in 2011, received the Ambassador for a warm and friendly half-hour introductory courtesy call in his Senate office Octobe [...] | 2009-10-23 12:54:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER SNAR KTIP SENV AR |
09BUENOSAIRES1157 | ARGENTINA ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL REVIEW, OCTOBER [...] (U) Provided below is Embassy Buenos Aires' Economic and Financial Review covering the period October 16-22, 2009. The unclassified email version of this report includes tables and charts tracking Argentine economic developments. Contact Econ OMS Megan Walton at WaltonM@state.gov to be included [...] | 2009-10-23 14:34:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON EINV ETRD ELAB EAIR AR |
09BUENOSAIRES1160 | ARGENTINA: MINISTER OF JUSTICE WELCOMES LAW ENFORCEMENT [...] (SBU) Argentine Minister of Justice, Security and Human Rights Julio Alak invited the Embassy Law Enforcement Working Group (LEWG) to brief him October 16 on the range of USG activities in the law enforcement area and to make suggestions regarding challenges he should address as minister. His [...] | 2009-10-26 00:26:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SNAR ASEC PTER KCRM PGOV EFIN AR |
09BUENOSAIRES1161 | ARGENTINA INITIATES BOND HOLDOUT DEAL [...] (SBU) Minister of Economy Boudou announced that Argentina has signed letters of engagement with three major banks to manage a new offering to holdouts from the 2005 defaulted debt restructuring. Boudou and other GOA officials had been predicting such a move for a number of weeks, and the an [...] | 2009-10-26 10:33:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN EINV ETRD AR |
09BUENOSAIRES1165 | AMBASSADOR MEETS ARGENTINE CABINET CHIEF FERNANDEZ [...] (C) Summary: In her introductory call on Argentine Cabinet Chief Anibal Fernandez (AF),the Ambassador thanked AF for his role in strengthening bilateral relations and expressed appreciation for GOA cooperation on law enforcement issues. AF said he had always had good relations with the Emba [...] | 2009-10-27 18:13:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER SNAR KTIP SENV AR |
09BUENOSAIRES1166 | AMBASSADOR MEETS WITH ARGENTINA'S HEALTH MINISTER [...] ACTION REQUEST - See paras two and six. 2. Summary: The Ambassador, accompanied by ESTH Couns, met on October 25 with Argentina's Health Minister Juan Manzur and Vice-Minister Jaime Lazovski. Minister Manzur expressed his appreciation for U.S. cooperation on H1N1 and shared his ministry' [...] | 2009-10-27 20:19:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | TBIO SOCI PREL AMED CASC AR |
09BUENOSAIRES1168 | ARGENTINA TRIP REPORT OF A/S TREASURY DAVID COHEN [...] (U) Summary. Treasury Assistant Secretary for Terrorist Financing and Financial Crimes David S. Cohen traveled to Buenos Aires, Argentina, on October 2 to address members of the U.S.-Latin America Private Sector Dialogue (U.S.-LA PSD) and conduct meetings with the Central Bank of the Republic o [...] | 2009-10-28 15:22:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN PGOV AR |
09BUENOSAIRES1172 | ARGENTINE MOD GARRE OFFERS A CORDIAL WELCOME TO AMBASSADOR [...] (SBU) Argentine Minister of Defense Nilda Garre warmly received the Ambassador October 23, immediately expressing her pleasure at being able to welcome a woman in the post of U.S. Ambassador. Garre spoke with satisfaction of U.S.-Argentine security cooperation and described her September visit [...] | 2009-10-29 22:25:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL MARR PGOV PHUM AR |
09BUENOSAIRES1174 | AMBASSADOR MEETS ARGENTINE MINISTER OF INDUSTRY [...] (C) Ambassador Vilma Martinez paid a courtesy call on Minister of Industry and Tourism Debora Giorgi in the wake of the recent transfer of the agriculture portfolio to a standalone Ministry. Giorgi discussed her approach to her duties and described maintaining employment as her chief concern [...] | 2009-10-30 19:58:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ETRD AR |
09BUENOSAIRES1175 | Argentina's 2010 Budget: New Tricks but Same Old Story [...] (SBU) The 2010 Argentine budget does not represent a great departure from the budgets of past years during the Kirchner era. It pays lip service to fiscal restraint that is unlikely to be pursued in practice, and uses numerous accounting tricks and gimmicks to understate expenditures. However [...] | 2009-10-30 20:17:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON EINV ETRD ELAB AR |
09BUENOSAIRES1176 | ARGENTINA ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL REVIEW, OCTOBER 22-29, [...] (U) Provided below is Embassy Buenos Aires' Economic and Financial Review covering the period October 22-29, 2009. The unclassified email version of this report includes tables and charts tracking Argentine economic developments. Contact Econ OMS Megan Walton at WaltonM@state.gov to be includ [...] | 2009-10-30 20:18:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON EINV ETRD ELAB EAIR AR |
09BUENOSAIRES1179 | ARGENTINA: VIOLENCE AMONG GOVERNMENT-SUPPORTED [...] (C) Summary: Argentine media and opposition are questioning government financial support of a group that attacked the venue for an October 16 speech in Jujuy by Senator Gerardo Morales, leader of the Radical Party (UCR). Morales blames 40 members of the piquetero group Tupac Amaru for orchest [...] | 2009-10-31 00:52:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON PHUM SOCI AR |
09BUENOSAIRES118 | ARGENTINA: SPANISH AMBASSADOR PREVIEWS CFK'S [...] (C) Ambassador met with Spanish Ambassador Rafael Estrella February 2 to discuss the February 9-11 visit of Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner (CFK) to Madrid. Estrella, a well-connected former politician, offered the following thoughts on the visit. 2. (C) Efforts to Pos [...] | 2009-02-04 14:39:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON EFIN ETRD SP AR |
09BUENOSAIRES1183 | ARGENTINA: POLITICAL REFORM BILL "TAILOR-MADE" FOR [...] (C) Summary: Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner (CFK) sent Congress her proposal for political reforms, requiring mandatory primaries for picking party nominees, establishing new thresholds for parties, limiting the use of private funds for campaigns, and restricting the publi [...] | 2009-11-02 17:30:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM AR |
09BUENOSAIRES1186 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAMS [...] No summary [...] | 2009-11-03 10:27:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PINR MARR AR |
09BUENOSAIRES1187 | ARGENTINA WILL BE ACTIVE IN 2009 THIRD COMMITTEE; LIKELY [...] (SBU) Political Officer delivered Ref A demarche October 29 to Carolina Bustos of the Argentine Ministry of Foreign Relations Office of International Organizations (DIOIN). Regarding country-specific resolutions, Bustos said that Argentine policy was also to oppose "no-action motions." She wa [...] | 2009-11-03 10:28:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL KTIP AR |
09BUENOSAIRES1189 | CDC EXPERT CONDUCTS PROGRAM IN ARGENTINA ON H1N1 [...] (U) Summary: Dan Rutz, Global Health Communication Team Lead at the Centers for Disease Control (CDC),visited Buenos Aires and Mendoza from October 2-5 to consult with and brief public health and media counterparts on communication strategies related to the H1N1 outbreak. Rutz held meetings [...] | 2009-11-03 10:30:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KFLU KSTH TBIO SOCI PREL AR |
09BUENOSAIRES1190 | ARGENTINA: DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON U.S.-COLOMBIA DCA [...] No summary [...] | 2009-11-03 15:10:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR OPDC CO AR |
09BUENOSAIRES1194 | ARGENTINA DEMARCHED ON GOLDSTONE REPORT [...] (U) Poloff discussed on November 3 the reftel points regarding the Goldstone Report and the November 4 consideration by the UN General Assembly of a resolution on the topic with Argentine Ministry of Foreign Affairs officials from the General Directorate on Human Rights. Argentine officials Ed [...] | 2009-11-04 18:39:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM PTER KPAL IS AR |
09BUENOSAIRES1198 | ARGENTINE ECONOMY MINISTER: GOA LOOKING FOR U.S. [...] (SBU) Summary: In the Ambassador's introductory call on Minister of Economy Boudou, the two discussed the status of the GoA's latest offer to the bond ""holdouts,"" discussions with the IMF and Paris Club, and U.S. investment in Argentina. Boudou was confident of a successful deal with the [...] | 2009-11-05 16:36:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN EIND EINV PINR PREL ETRD AR |
09BUENOSAIRES1202 | DOMINICANS WITH FRAUDULENT DOCUMENTS USE BUENOS AIRES AS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: At least ten Dominican nationals carrying fraudulent U.S. visas tried to use Argentina's Ezeiza International Airport to enter the United States in October 2009. Two others with fraudulent third-country passports were intercepted as well. END SUMMARY. ---------------------- [...] | 2009-11-06 11:04:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KFRD CVIS ASEC SMIG PE AR |
09BUENOSAIRES1203 | DOMINICANS WITH FRAUDULENT DOCUMENTS USE BUENOS AIRES AS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: At least ten Dominican nationals carrying fraudulent U.S. visas tried to use Argentina's Ezeiza International Airport to enter the United States in October 2009. Two others with fraudulent third-country passports were intercepted as well. END SUMMARY. ---------------------- [...] | 2009-11-06 13:57:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KFRD CVIS ASEC SMIG PE AR |
09BUENOSAIRES1207 | ARGENTINA ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL REVIEW, OCTOBER [...] (U) Provided below is Embassy Buenos Aires' Economic and Financial Review covering the period October 30-November 5, 2009. The unclassified email version of this report includes tables and charts tracking Argentine economic developments. Contact Econ OMS Megan Walton at WaltonM@state.gov to b [...] | 2009-11-06 20:46:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON EINV ETRD ELAB EAIR AR |
09BUENOSAIRES1208 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAM [...] No summary [...] | 2009-11-09 12:47:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PINR PTER MARR AR |
09BUENOSAIRES1209 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAM [...] No summary [...] | 2009-11-09 12:47:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PINR PTER SNAR AR |
09BUENOSAIRES121 | ARGENTINA: GOA CONDEMNS ANTI-ISRAEL [...] (SBU) Summary: The Argentine Jewish community continues to express concerns over the lack of official condemnation of recent anti-Israel protests featuring anti-Semitic imagery (reftel) led by pro-Kirchner "piquetero" social activist leader Luis D'Elia. In response to these concerns, the GOA [...] | 2009-02-05 11:38:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM ASEC PTER AR |
09BUENOSAIRES1212 | ARGENTINE MINISTER OF JUSTICE DESCRIBES SECURITY [...] (SBU) Summary: In the Ambassador's introductory courtesy call, Argentine Minister of Justice Alak welcomed USG interest in deepening cooperation on counter-narcotics, trafficking-in-persons (TIP) and other security issues. The Minister requested USG help in developing a national security plan [...] | 2009-11-09 20:30:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PTER SNAR KTIP CPAS AR |
09BUENOSAIRES1220 | BLUE LANTERN: BONA FIDES VERIFICATION OF BUCELLO Y [...] (SBU) Per Reftel request, post carried out a site visit on U.S. registered broker Bucello y Asociados SRL ("Bucello"),based in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on November 2 2009. It is post's opinion that the company will be a responsible broker of United States Munitions List items. 2. (SBU) An [...] | 2009-11-12 20:30:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETTC KOMC AR |
09BUENOSAIRES1221 | BLUE LANTERN: BONA FIDES VERIFICATION OF ALFREDO [...] (SBU) Per Reftel request, post carried out a site visit on U.S. registered broker Alfredo Antonio Ricupero, based in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on November 2, 2009. It is post's opinion that the company will be a responsible broker of United States Munitions List items. 2. (SBU) Answers to R [...] | 2009-11-12 20:30:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETTC KOMC AR |
09BUENOSAIRES1222 | ARGENTINA: AMBASSADOR MEETS BUENOS AIRES MAYOR [...] (C) Summary: Buenos Aires city mayor Mauricio Macri let slip to the Ambassador that he intends to run for president in 2011. He criticized the Kirchners for the failure of their economic model, for the country's growing crime problems, and for alienating the United States. He also reiterated past c [...] | 2009-11-12 20:59:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ASEC AMGT AR |
09BUENOSAIRES1223 | AMBASSADOR RAISES PRESS FREEDOM, TIP ISSUES WITH [...] (C) Summary and introduction: In a very warm, 70-minute meeting November 11, Argentine Vice Foreign Minister Victorio Taccetti welcomed the Ambassador and said he was pleased by news of the U.S. Senate's confirmation of WHA A/S Arturo Valenzuela's nomination. The Ambassador raised trafficking [...] | 2009-11-12 21:06:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM ASEC KREC AMGT PTER ELAB KTIP AR |
09BUENOSAIRES123 | Argentina: Codel Costello Supports Expanding Bilat Ties, [...] (SBU) Codel Costello, a delegation of eight U.S. Representatives plus professional staff from the House Transportation and Infrastructure Civil Aviation Subcommittee, met with representatives of U.S. civil aviation companies and with senior GoA officials, including Planning Minister De Vido and [...] | 2009-02-05 17:28:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OVIP PREL EAIR EWWT ETRD AR |
09BUENOSAIRES1231 | ARGENTINA RECEPTIVE ON NPT REVIEW CONFERENCE GOALS IN [...] (C) SUMMARY. During meetings in Buenos Aires on October 26-27, Special Representative of the President for Nuclear Nonproliferation Susan Burk successfully identified areas of common interest and support going in to the 2010 Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) Review Conference. Candid [...] | 2009-11-17 19:45:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL IAEA ENRG AR KNNP |
09BUENOSAIRES1232 | PERUVIAN H2B FRAUD IN BUENOS AIRES [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Post identified a fraudulent H2B petition used by Peruvians claiming to be horse groomers seeking to work at well-known race tracks in New York for prominent horse trainers. Five separate cases dating back to May 2008 bear the same fraud indicators - fake justification letters a [...] | 2009-11-13 14:51:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KFRD CVIS PE AR |
09BUENOSAIRES1233 | ARGENTINA: RESPONSE TO DEMARCHE ON IRAN RESOLUTION AT THE [...] No summary [...] | 2009-11-19 11:52:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL UNGA UN AR |
09BUENOSAIRES1234 | PERUVIAN H2B FRAUD IN BUENOS AIRES [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Post identified a fraudulent H2B petition used by Peruvians claiming to be horse groomers seeking to work at well-known race tracks in New York for prominent horse trainers. Five separate cases dating back to May 2008 bear the same fraud indicators - fake justification letters a [...] | 2009-11-13 15:10:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KFRD CVIS PE AR |
09BUENOSAIRES1235 | (C) ARGENTINA: CFK'S FIRST TWO CABINET CHIEFS SAY KIRCHNERS' [...] (C) Summary: Over the past six weeks, we have held several conversations with President Fernandez de Kirchner's first two Cabinet Chiefs, Alberto Fernandez and Sergio Massa. Both believe that the Kirchners, despite their recent political successes, cannot win re-election in 2011. They disagree on w [...] | 2009-11-20 16:53:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PINR AR |
09BUENOSAIRES1237 | ARGENTINA: INFORMATION FOR COUNTRY REVIEW REGARDING TITLE [...] (U) Post answers to questions in paragraph 5 of reftel A follow. 2. (C) "Has the host country, in Post's opinion, worked to promote the advancement of democracy and human rights in Cuba." Answer: No. President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner visited Cuba January 18-21 and did not publicl [...] | 2009-11-20 17:59:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM ETRD ETTC CU AR |
09BUENOSAIRES1239 | Argentina: President of the Chamber of Deputies Welcomes [...] (SBU) Ambassador paid an introductory call on a warm and talkative Eduardo Fellner, President of Argentina's Chamber of Deputies, November 12. Fellner, a strong supporter of President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner (CFK),speculated that the Lower House might consider political reform legislat [...] | 2009-11-20 19:36:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON SOCI BL AR |
09BUENOSAIRES1241 | (SBU) Argentina Sees Fuel Bank Proposal as Interesting but [...] (SBU) Argentine Foreign Ministry Director for International Security, Nuclear and Space Affairs (DIGAN),Gustavo Ainchil, told Political Officer November 20 in response to reftel points that Argentina was not prepared to support the Angarsk Nuclear Fuel Bank proposal at the IAEA. Ainchil said [...] | 2009-11-24 15:56:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG KNNP TRGY PREL AORC IAEA AR |
09BUENOSAIRES1243 | Argentina Will Support U.S. Candidacy for International [...] No summary [...] | 2009-11-25 14:30:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EWWT AORC PREL PHSA IMO AR |
09BUENOSAIRES1244 | ARGENTINA'S POSITION ON CLIMATE CHANGE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: ESTOffs met on November 12 with the GOA's Climate Change Negotiator, Ambassador Silvia Merega, to ascertain Argentina's position and flexibility ahead of COP-15 in Copenhagen. From our conversation with Merega, it appears that the GoA's position is firmly in line with classic G [...] | 2009-11-13 18:33:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV KGHG ENRG EIND TRGY PREL AR |
09BUENOSAIRES1246 | ARGENTINA: RAUL ESTRADA OYUELA, OLD LION OF CLIMATE CHANGE [...] (SBU) Summary: ESTOff met on November 9 with Raul Estrada Oyuela, a retired Argentine diplomat who specialized in climate negotiations and was Chairman of the Kyoto Protocol negotiations in 1997. Estrada Oyuela feels that the GoA now has no clear position on climate change and does not have [...] | 2009-11-13 18:36:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV KGHG ENRG EIND TRGY PREL EAGR AR |
09BUENOSAIRES1250 | Argentina Economic and Financial Review, November 6-12, 2009 [...] (U) Provided below is Embassy Buenos Aires' Economic and Financial Review covering the period November 6-12, 2009. The unclassified email version of this report includes tables and charts tracking Argentine economic developments. Contact Econ OMS Megan Walton at WaltonM@state.gov to be inclu [...] | 2009-11-13 19:06:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON EINV ETRD ELAB EAIR AR |
09BUENOSAIRES1257 | ARGENTINA FACES CHALLENGING AML/CFT REVIEW [...] (S/NF) The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) held a two week peer review of the Argentine anti-money laundering and counter terror finance (AML/CFT) regime. Although hoping to see some positive moves by Argentina, the FATF operational team leader is skeptical of the GoA's intentions to combat mone [...] | 2009-12-01 16:39:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | SECRET//NOFORN | PTER SNAR ECON EFIN PGOV PREL KCOR AR |
09BUENOSAIRES1259 | (C) Argentina: Media Freedoms Under Attack? [...] (C) SUMMARY: Argentine media outlets are sounding the alarms over government changes to media licensing laws, an executive decree restricting where print media can be sold, government support for union blockades of media distribution plants, and government pressure on a private-public newsprin [...] | 2009-12-01 17:11:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM SOCI ELAB ECON AR |
09BUENOSAIRES126 | ARGENTINA: FUGITIVE HACKER RETURNS TO ARGENTINA [...] (U) Fugitive Argentine government employee or contractor Pablo Carpintero returned to Buenos Aires on February 3 and is in the custody of the Argentine Coast Guard (Prefectura). Carpintero and his fellow indictee, Ivan Velazquez, sought political asylum in Uruguay in May 2008 claiming to be the [...] | 2009-02-05 19:45:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | SECRET | PTER SNAR ASEC KCOR KFRD UY AR |
09BUENOSAIRES1262 | RECALL 09 BUENOS AIRES 1262 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-11-19 18:13:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PINR MARR AR |
09BUENOSAIRES1263 | MTCR: UPDATE ON ARGENTINA'S SPACE LAUNCH VEHICLE (SLV) [...] (C) Summary: ESTHCouns met on December 2 with Conrado Varotto, Executive Director of CONAE (the Argentine space agency),to discuss the latest developments in Argentina's space launch vehicle (SLV) program (reftel). Varotto reported three unsuccessful ground tests of the SLV engine and sa [...] | 2009-12-03 17:49:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | MTCRE PARM PREL MNUC ETTC TSPA AR |
09BUENOSAIRES1264 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAMS [...] No summary [...] | 2009-11-19 18:52:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM AR PINR MARR |
09BUENOSAIRES1268 | Argentina Economic and Financial Review, November 13-19, [...] (U) Provided below is Embassy Buenos Aires' Economic and Financial Review covering the period November 13-19, 2009. The unclassified email version of this report includes tables and charts tracking Argentine economic developments. Contact Econ OMS Megan Walton at WaltonM@state.gov to be incl [...] | 2009-11-20 13:12:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON EINV ETRD ELAB EAIR AR |
09BUENOSAIRES127 | ARGENTINA: PLAN FOR ENGAGEMENT ON AIRCRAFT CARRIER [...] (U) This is an action request for State and Southern Command, see para 6. 2. (SBU) Embassy Buenos Aires is concerned that the decision to relocate one nuclear-powered aircraft carrier (CVN) from Newport News, VA to Naval Station (NAVSTA) Mayport, FL, could be either misconstrued by Governm [...] | 2009-02-05 19:50:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR PARM PGOV AR |
09BUENOSAIRES1272 | ARGENTINA: 2009-2010 International Narcotics Control [...] (U) Per reftel, Buenos Aires draft INCSR report follows, with partial changes suggested by INL Washington in response to first draft (ref. B). 2. (SBU) Argentina Part I. Summary Argentina continued to be an important transshipment route for Andean-produced cocaine during 2 [...] | 2009-11-20 18:33:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SNAR AR |
09BUENOSAIRES1279 | Argentina: Deutsche Bank Country Chief Pessimistic About [...] (C) Marcelo Blanco, Argentina Country Director for Deutsche Bank, gave the Ambassador, DCM, and EconCouns on December 7 a very pessimistic assessment regarding the chances for a holdout deal in the immediate future. Blanco is the point-man for one of the three banks working with the GOA to co [...] | 2009-12-09 21:02:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN EINV ETRD EINT AR PGOV |
09BUENOSAIRES1280 | AMBASSADOR PURSUES MORE BILATERAL COOPERATION WITH [...] (SBU) Summary: The Ambassador met on November 19 with Science and Technology Minister Lino Baranao to inquire about the GoA's priorities and to discuss ways to expand bilateral cooperation. Baranao expressed his interest in moving Argentina from a culture of pure scientific research to one wh [...] | 2009-11-23 17:49:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TBIO TPHY PGOV PREL AR |
09BUENOSAIRES1286 | Argentina: Unlikely to Achieve Aim of 2009 Holdout Deal [...] (SBU) A key Argentine Ministry of Economy official explained that the GOA hopes to launch its offer to the holdouts from the 2005 debt restructuring deal by December 15, in order to accommodate the desire of many institutional investors to clear the defaulted Argentine debt from their books be [...] | 2009-11-24 22:12:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN EINV ETRD AR |
09BUENOSAIRES1288 | ARGENTINA: INTERNET TRAVEL AGENCY SCAM IN BUENOS AIRES [...] SUMMARY: Between February and November 2009, Post received eight NIV applications from Argentines who won low-fare travel packages with Vacations724.com and related companies, who were later charged undefined fees once the applicants provided the companies with their credit card numbers. Whi [...] | 2009-11-25 16:42:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | CVIS KFRD ASEC SMIG PE AR |
09BUENOSAIRES1291 | Argentina: GOA Creates USD 6.6 Billion Reserves Fund to [...] (C) The GOA has decided to use Argentina's Central Bank (BCRA) reserves to create a quasi escrow fund to guarantee the payment of its regularly scheduled 2010 debt service obligations. While many analysts think the move will facilitate further government spending and thereby damage Argentina' [...] | 2009-12-18 21:21:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN EINV ETRD PGOV AR |
09BUENOSAIRES1294 | ARGENTINA: DEMARCHE ON U.S. CANDIDACY FOR WHO EXECUTIVE [...] (SBU) On November 19, ESTHCouns delivered ref demarche on the U.S. candidacy on the WHO Executive Board to Christian Hotton, in the Argentine MFA's Direction of International Organizations, along with copy of the diplomatic note sent a day earlier to the MFA. Hotton was aware of the four candid [...] | 2009-11-27 14:33:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TBIO TPHY PGOV PREL AR |
09BUENOSAIRES1302 | ARGENTINA: 2009 TIP Interim Assessment Response [...] Per Reftel instructions, below is post's interim assessment of Argentina's progress in its efforts to combat trafficking in persons (TIP). Our response is keyed to points found in reftel. A) Implementing the new anti-trafficking law: As of August 21, 2009, coordination for the O [...] | 2009-11-30 22:19:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM KCRM KTIP KWMN SMIG AR |
09BUENOSAIRES1304 | Argentina Economic and Financial Review, November 20-25 2009 [...] (U) Provided below is Embassy Buenos Aires' Economic and Financial Review covering the period November 20-25, 2009. The unclassified email version of this report includes tables and charts tracking Argentine economic developments. Contact Econ OMS Megan Walton at WaltonM@state.gov to be incl [...] | 2009-12-01 13:15:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON EINV ETRD ELAB EAIR AR |
09BUENOSAIRES1305 | (C) Argentine MFA Shares Some Concerns About Brazilian [...] (C) Summary: Argentine MFA nuclear non-proliferation officials shared concerns about the direction of Brazilian security policy in the final years of the Lula Government during a meeting December 10. These were "yellow lights" only, but the Argentines were concerned by Brazil's outreach to Ir [...] | 2009-12-24 16:03:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KNNP PARM PGOV BR AR |
09BUENOSAIRES1312 | ARGENTINA: B-REFERRAL VALIDATION STUDY [...] SUMMARY: In September 2009 the Fraud Prevention Unit (FPU) conducted a validation study of all B-referral visa applicants issued in FY2007 and FY2008, and found the illegal overstay rate to be 0.09 percent, with only one of the 1,072 applicants overstaying. The low overstay rate shows that th [...] | 2009-12-03 11:54:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | CVIS KFRD AR |
09BUENOSAIRES1314 | MEDIA REACTION: DECEMBER 1 PRESIDENT OBAMA'S ADDRESS ON [...] SUMMARY STATEMENT All local dailies carry wire service stories and opinion pieces on President Obama's West Point speech. Press reaction was cautiously positive, praising Obama's determination to put an end to the war, but questioning the feasibility of the strategy. The general tone was [...] | 2009-12-03 13:15:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KPAO KMDR PREL AR |
09BUENOSAIRES1316 | ARGENTINA: AMBASSADOR DELIVERS CLIMATE CHANGE TALKING POINTS [...] (SBU) Summary: The Ambassador delivered climate change talking points (ref A and B) on December 1 to Argentina's Environment Secretary Homero Bibiloni and Climate Change Lead Negotiator Silvia Merega. She stressed the importance of reaching a politically binding agreement in Copenhagen and hi [...] | 2009-12-04 13:49:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ENRG KGHG SENV PGOV PREL AR |
09BUENOSAIRES1318 | Argentina Economic and Financial Review, November [...] (U) Provided below is Embassy Buenos Aires' Economic and Financial Review covering the period November 26 - December 3, 2009. The unclassified email version of this report includes tables and charts tracking Argentine economic developments. Contact Econ OMS Megan Walton at WaltonM@state.gov [...] | 2009-12-04 14:35:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON EINV ETRD ELAB EAIR AR |
09BUENOSAIRES1324 | Argentina: AES Energy Faces Challenges in Electric Sector - [...] (U) This is the first in a series of cables which will examine U.S. company operations in the energy sector in Argentina. The series will conclude with an overview of the sector based largely on U.S. company views. Summary ------------ 2. (SBU). AES Argentina management descr [...] | 2009-12-04 19:27:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG ECON EINV PGOV AR |
09BUENOSAIRES133 | GOA ECONOMY MINISTER ON "BUY AMERICA," DEBT SWAPS, [...] (C) Argentine Economy Minister Carlos Fernandez noted GoA concerns with the "buy America" provisions in pending U.S. economic stimulus legislation during a February 4 meeting with Ambassador that mostly focused on G-20 issues (septel). The Minister highlighted the GoA's recent successful debt [...] | 2009-02-09 10:07:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN ETRD EXIM AR |
09BUENOSAIRES1330 | Argentina: Reconsidering UNGA Resolution on Defamation of [...] Per Reftel, poloff raised with the Argentine Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) the annual Defamation of Religions resolution likely to come to a vote the week of December 7 in the UN General Assembly plenary. Silvia Cao of the MFA's Human Rights office understood the USG position that only peo [...] | 2009-12-07 22:21:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | UNGA PHUM AR UN |
09BUENOSAIRES1336 | Human Rights Vetting for US Training Program [...] No summary [...] | 2009-12-09 19:11:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PINR PTER MARR AR |
09BUENOSAIRES1338 | Argentina: Well-Received Visits by Shimon Peres and Mahmoud [...] (SBU) Summary: President Fernandez de Kirchner (CFK) received separate visits from Israeli President Shimon Peres (November 16-18) and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas (November 23-24),and joined top GOA officials, and a wide range of Argentines, in offering both very warm recepti [...] | 2009-12-10 15:16:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PTER PHUM AR |
09BUENOSAIRES134 | ARGENTINE GOVERNMENT'S G-20 PRIORITY: IFI REFORM [...] (C) The GoA is focused intensely on G-20 meetings and preparations, and will continue its push for reform of the international financial institutions (IFIs),Economy Minister Carlos Fernandez told Ambassador February 4. Fernandez said the GoA will promote "reasonable, serious, and prudent ref [...] | 2009-02-09 10:07:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN ETRD PREL PGOV AR BR MX |
09BUENOSAIRES1346 | Argentina Economic and Financial Review, December 4-10, 2009 [...] (U) Provided below is Embassy Buenos Aires' Economic and Financial Review covering the period December 4-10, 2009. The unclassified email version of this report includes tables and charts tracking Argentine economic developments. Contact Econ OMS Megan Walton at WaltonM@state.gov to be inclu [...] | 2009-12-10 20:45:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON EINV ETRD ELAB EAIR AR |
09BUENOSAIRES137 | (C) ARGENTINA: SENATE PRESIDENT PRO TEMPORE SAYS [...] (C) Summary: With his customary candor, Senate President Pro Tempore Jose Pampuro, a moderate Peronist, told Ambassador Wayne February 4 that "the biggest problem" facing President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner's (CFK) administration is its inability to engage in dialogue with the opposition [...] | 2009-02-09 19:50:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON AR |
09BUENOSAIRES1372 | Human Rights Vetting for US Training Program [...] No summary [...] | 2009-12-16 20:41:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PINR MARR AR |
09BUENOSAIRES1384 | Argentina Economic and Financial Review, December 11-17, [...] (U) Provided below is Embassy Buenos Aires' Economic and Financial Review covering the period December 11-17, 2009. The unclassified email version of this report includes tables and charts tracking Argentine economic developments. Contact Econ OMS Megan Walton at WaltonM@state.gov to be incl [...] | 2009-12-21 15:27:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON EINV ETRD ELAB EAIR AR |
09BUENOSAIRES139 | ARGENTINA: GOA REQUESTS FAA SECURITY REASSESSMENT DELAY [...] (SBU) Econoff and Defense Attache delivered reftel demarche to Brigadier (two stars) Marcelo Adolfo Ayerdi, the new head of the Comando Regiones Aereas (CRA),February 6. On February 9, Post received a letter response from Ayerdi requesting that the proposed formal reassessment be delayed "no [...] | 2009-02-10 17:37:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR ECON PREL AR |
09BUENOSAIRES14 | Argentina: New Agricultural Measures Will Have Little [...] (U) Summary: On December 22, 2008, President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner (CFK) announced a new package of stimulus measures for the Argentine agricultural sector. Although previously announced at the beginning of December, a plan to reduce the export tax on wheat and corn by five percentag [...] | 2009-01-05 17:15:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR ECON EINV PGOV ELAB PHUM AR |
09BUENOSAIRES1400 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAM [...] No summary [...] | 2009-12-23 19:30:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PINR MARR AR |
09BUENOSAIRES141 | ARGENTINA SUPPORTS U.S. POSITIONS ON LIABILITY AND REDRESS [...] On February 10, ESTHCouns delivered reftel demarche to Jose Luis Sutera, who handles biodiversity issues in the MFA's Directorate for Environmental Issues. Sutera noted that the GOA was of one mind with the USG on liability and redress under the Cartagena Protocol on Biodiversity, with simila [...] | 2009-02-11 16:24:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR ECON ETRD TBIO KAPO AR |
09BUENOSAIRES1418 | Argentina: 2009 Country Report on Terrorism [...] (U) Buenos Aires Country Report on Terrorism submission for 2009 follows. Contact is Pol-Mil Officer Ted Craig, at craigtj@state.gov. 2. (SBU) Begin text: Argentina and the United States cooperated well in analyzing possible terrorist threat information. During 2009, Argentina [...] | 2009-12-31 15:42:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PREL ASEC PGOV AR |
09BUENOSAIRES142 | (C) ARGENTINA: CFK'S STREAM-OF-CONSCIOUSNESS ON PRESIDENT OBAMA [...] (C) Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner (CFK) has made a series of positive comments about President Obama dating from last August. CFK's words signal that she hopes to turn a new page in bilateral relations and reflect genuine admiration for our new president and the process t [...] | 2009-02-11 18:25:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | KPAO PGOV PHUM PINR PREL AR |
09BUENOSAIRES144 | ARGENTINA: PERONIST DISSIDENT DISCUSSES [...] (C) Summary: In his first substantive meeting with Ambassador Wayne February 5, National Deputy and Peronist dissident Felipe Sola of the Peronist Union bloc discussed his 2011 presidential aspirations, this year's midterm elections, and the merits of a single ballot system. Sola is in the A [...] | 2009-02-11 20:44:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON PINR AR |
09BUENOSAIRES149 | ARGENTINA: STAFFDEL LEWIS, FEBRUARY 16-18, 2008 [...] We warmly welcome Ms. Jessica Lewis, Senior Foreign Policy Advisor from the Senate Office of the Democratic Leader (SLDR),and staff. Ambassador Wayne will be on official travel during the visit, but Deputy Chief of Mission Tom Kelly will participate in the staffdel's schedule. The purpose o [...] | 2009-02-12 19:34:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | OREP AMGT ASEC AFIN AR |
09BUENOSAIRES151 | ARGENTINA, SPAIN CONTAIN AEROLINEAS DISPUTE, CARRY [...] (U) This cable was coordinated with Embassy Madrid. 2. (SBU) Summary: President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner (CFK) survived a potentially conflictive state visit to Spain and received good press locally on her two days of events. Both she and her Spanish counterpart, President Jose Luis R [...] | 2009-02-12 20:54:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL ECON PGOV EFIN SP AR |
09BUENOSAIRES152 | Private Sector Plans Prior to the Summit of the Americas [...] (U) Ernesto Gutierrez, President of the Private Sector of the Americas (PSA),met with Ambassador February 5 to discuss his organization's preparations for the April 15-16 Second Hemispheric Private Sector Forum, a prelude to the April 17-19 Fifth Summit of the Americas in Port of Spain, Trinid [...] | 2009-02-12 21:01:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EIND KSUM AR |
09BUENOSAIRES153 | ARGENTINA: FOREIGN MINISTER PREVIEWS ARGENTINA [...] (C) Summary: Ambassador Wayne met with Foreign Minister Taiana and Vice Foreign Minister Taccetti to exchange views on how the USG and Argentina can work collaboratively in the coming months as President Obama's administration defines its priorities in the hemisphere. They noted that there we [...] | 2009-02-13 10:09:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON EFIN AR |
09BUENOSAIRES156 | Argentina: Airport Landing Fee Decrease and User Fee [...] (SBU) After announcing cuts in aircraft landing fees and linked increases in airport passenger user fees in late February, the GoA has rescinded the move, reportedly at the behest of former President Nestor Kirchner. International carriers had been promised the landing fee cuts in December 200 [...] | 2009-02-13 14:35:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR ECON PREL AR |
09BUENOSAIRES160 | ARGENTINA: INFLATION TAMPERING CONTINUES? [...] (C) Official inflation numbers continue to make headlines in Argentina, with the national statistics agency INDEC reporting January inflation of only 0.5% month-over-month, less than one third the 1.7% "true" rate estimated by private economists. For full-year 2008, INDEC reported inflation of [...] | 2009-02-13 17:02:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ECON ELAB AR |
09BUENOSAIRES163 | TOP ARGENTINE BANKER SEES CHALLENGES AHEAD [...] (C) Ambassador lunched February 11 with Jorge Brito, President of Argentina's Banco Macro and also President of the Association of Argentine-owned private banks (ADEBA). Though Brito has good relations with the Argentine government, in private he is frank in his criticisms. Brito offered seve [...] | 2009-02-13 19:43:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN EINV EAGR AR |
09BUENOSAIRES168 | Argentina: Finance Secretary on GoA Crisis Response and [...] (SBU) GoA Finance Secretary Hernan Lorenzino told a visiting Senate staffdel February 16 that Argentina's lack of access to international capital markets has insulated it from the impact of the global financial crisis, with Argentina thus far avoiding much of the "social fallout" evident in mor [...] | 2009-02-18 12:31:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON EINV PREL KSUM PGOV AR |
09BUENOSAIRES169 | ARGENTINA SHARES U.S. DURBAN CONCERNS [...] (U) Acting Polcouns raised on February 18 with MFA Director General for Human Rights Silvia Fernandez reftel points on USG participation in the intergovernmental working group (IWG) of the Durban Review Conference. Fernandez welcomed USG participation in the IWG, saying that U.S. participatio [...] | 2009-02-18 20:55:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL UNHRC AR |
09BUENOSAIRES171 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAMS [...] No summary [...] | 2009-02-19 11:18:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PINR MARR AR |
09BUENOSAIRES172 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAMS [...] No summary [...] | 2009-02-19 11:19:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PINR MARR AR |
09BUENOSAIRES173 | ARGENTINA: SMALL AMOUNT OF CESIUM 137 IS STOLEN [...] (SBU) In the early hours of February 19, two armed individuals robbed a lead container holding the equivalent of 2.5 curies of cesium 137 from the warehouse of Baker Atlas, a U.S. company involved in oil exploration in Neuquen, in the South of Argentina. The assailants entered the scene shortl [...] | 2009-02-19 20:23:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG IAEA KNNP KCSA TRGY ASEC AR |
09BUENOSAIRES174 | EX-PRESIDENT DUHALDE HANDICAPS THE NEW GENERATION [...] (C) Summary: Former Argentine president Eduardo Duhalde predicted during a meeting with the CDA that President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner (CFK) will complete her term, but that the Kirchners were fast being eclipsed by new faces and new ideas in Argentine politics. After venting his spleen a [...] | 2009-02-20 09:51:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR ECON SNAR AR |
09BUENOSAIRES176 | Summit of the Americas Private Sector Forum Invitation to [...] (U) Post has received the following invitation from Ernesto Gutierrez, Argentina-based President of the Private Sector of the Americas, for President Obama to participate in the April 15-16 Private Sector Forum that immediately precedes the April 17-19 Summit. Scanned copies of the signed invit [...] | 2009-02-20 17:56:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | KSUM BEXP ECON PREL PGOV AR |
09BUENOSAIRES177 | Summit of the Americas Private Sector Forum Invitation to [...] (U) Post has received the following invitation from Ernesto Gutierrez, Argentina-based President of the Private Sector of the Americas, for Secretary Clinton to participate in the April 15-16 Private Sector Forum that immediately precedes the April 17-19 Summit. Scanned copies of the signed inv [...] | 2009-02-20 17:57:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | KSUM BEXP ECON PREL PGOV AR |
09BUENOSAIRES183 | ARGENTINA: UPDATES ON THEFT OF CESIUM 137 [...] (SBU) GOA officials report that the Argentine Federal Police (PFA) have now taken the lead in the investigation of yesterday's theft of nuclear material in Neuquen, Argentina. The GOA's Nuclear Energy Commission (CNEA),Nuclear Regulatory Agency (ARN),Neuquen provincial police, and the Gendar [...] | 2009-02-20 20:09:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG IAEA KNNP KCSA TRGY ASEC AR |
09BUENOSAIRES184 | ARGENTINE FEDERAL POLICE RECOVERS CESIUM 137 [...] (SBU) In the evening of February 20, Argentine Federal Police recovered the stolen container of cesium 137 unopened and made an arrest in connection with the case (reftels). A very senior police official reported to RSO that the tracking of an extortion call made earlier in the day had allowed [...] | 2009-02-21 13:07:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG IAEA KNNP KCSA TRGY ASEC AR |
09BUENOSAIRES186 | ARGENTINE FM TAIANA ACCEPTS SECRETARY'S INVITATION FOR [...] Post delivered Secretary Clinton's invitation to Argentina's Foreign Minister to attend the April 6 event in Washington commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Antarctic Treaty (reftel). FM Taiana told the Ambassador that he planned to attend the event. His office later confirmed that the F [...] | 2009-02-23 13:42:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC AY KSCA KTIA SENV TPHY AR |
09BUENOSAIRES196 | ARGENTINA: MENDOZA GOVERNOR PRAISES BILATERAL COLLABORATION ON PUBLIC SECURITY [...] (C) Summary: Mendoza Governor and Peronist party member Celso Jaque praised bilateral collaboration on improving security and combating drug trafficking during a February 12 meeting with Ambassador Wayne. Jaque cited crime reduction as his top priority and regarded a focus on prevention as a [...] | 2009-02-25 18:23:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON PINR AR |
09BUENOSAIRES197 | ARGENTINA: ANSWERS TO FOLLOW-UP QUESTIONS ON [...] (SBU) Following are Post's answers to questions raised, keyed to Ref A: A) The NRA confirms that it used equipment donated by DOE as part of the upgrade of their nuclear emergency response center. Two types of equipment were used: 1) a "SPARC", which was calibrated for CS-137 with a similar [...] | 2009-02-26 10:37:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG IAEA KNNP KCSA ASEC AR |
09BUENOSAIRES200 | ARGENTINE PARTICIPATION AT SHARM AL-SHEIKH [...] (U) Poloff discussed February 25 the upcoming Sharm al-Sheikh conference per instructions (reftel) with Argentine Foreign Ministry Counselor Guillermo Nicolas, in the Office of North Africa and the Middle East. Nicolas reported that Argentina's delegation would be led by Ambassador Gabriel Fu [...] | 2009-02-26 16:33:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL EFIN KPAL KWBG PHUM PTER EAID AR |
09BUENOSAIRES205 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAMS [...] No summary [...] | 2009-02-27 13:12:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PINR MARR AR |
09BUENOSAIRES210 | ARGENTINA: CANDIDACIES FOR INTERNAL ADMINISTRATION OF [...] (SBU) Poloff met February 25 with Secretary Christian Hotton of the Argentina Ministry of Foreign Relations' Directorate for International Organizations to discuss Argentine judge Ines Weinberg de Roca (per ref A),a candidate for the UN Appeals Tribunal, and U.S.-endorsed candidate Judge Mark [...] | 2009-02-27 19:47:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL AORC UNGA KUNR AR |
09BUENOSAIRES211 | ARGENTINA: DOMINGO CAVALLO PANS GOA POLICIES, [...] (C) The post-crisis Kirchner model no longer works and Argentina is headed for "stagflation," according to controversial Argentine ex-Economy Minister Domingo Cavallo. During a meeting with the Ambassador, Cavallo suggested that returning to the IMF may be the only way to alleviate Argentina's [...] | 2009-02-27 20:46:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ECON AR |
09BUENOSAIRES214 | Argentina: Farmers Strike, then Talk; GOA Threatens to [...] (SBU) Summary: Two hours after the end of a four-day farm strike in which Argentine producers did not market grains and cattle, the government and the farm lobby groups met on February 24 to begin a new round of discussions on farm policy. The government announced after the meeting new measu [...] | 2009-03-02 11:30:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR ECON EINV PGOV ELAB PHUM AR |
09BUENOSAIRES215 | ARGENTINA: KIRCHNERS' POLITICAL SAILS GO SLACK, [...] (C) Summary: Embassy officers and visiting Staffdel Lewis encountered nearly universal opinions among Argentine analysts February 16-18 that th political good luck of former President Nestor Kirchner and his wife, current President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner (CFK),is running out. These o [...] | 2009-03-02 14:57:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON PREL KCOR AR |
09BUENOSAIRES219 | ARGENTINA: PRESIDENT OPENS CONGRESS PREDICTING A [...] (C) Summary: Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner (CFK) opened the ordinary session of Congress March 1, focusing largely on the economy, predicting that 2009 would be the most difficult one of the last 100 years, and asserting that Argentina was ready to face the economic crisi [...] | 2009-03-03 18:01:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON AR |
09BUENOSAIRES22 | Argentina: Message from Argentine Foreign Minister to [...] Argentine Foreign Minister Jorge E. Taiana sent a message of congratulations to the Secretary of State-designate. Embassy is pouching the signed original to the desk and e-mailing a scanned copy. Embassy's informal translation of the letter follows in para 2. ---------------------------- [...] | 2009-01-06 19:55:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL OVIP OPDC AR |
09BUENOSAIRES220 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAMS [...] No summary [...] | 2009-03-03 18:13:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PINR MARR AR |
09BUENOSAIRES229 | ARGENTINA: GOVERNMENT TELLS STAFFDEL LEWIS IT WELCOMES THE [...] (SBU) Summary: Argentina MFA Chief of Staff D'Alotto and Sub-Secretary for Latin American Relations Colombo Sierra told visiting U.S. Congressional Staffdel Lewis on February 16 that it welcomed a perceived opportunity to deepen and improve bilateral ties at the outset of the Obama Administrati [...] | 2009-03-04 18:49:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV ECON SNAR KTIP AR |
09BUENOSAIRES23 | Argentina: The Kirchners Give Themselves Top Grades [...] (SBU) Fed up with dozens of pessimistic surveys showing President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner (CFK) and her team's declining approval ratings, the editor-in-chief of pro-government "K Magazine" ("Revista Ka") Damian Barijhoff decided to give the Kirchners a New Year's gift: publication next [...] | 2009-01-07 13:17:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV AR |
09BUENOSAIRES230 | Argentina G-20 Update: President Previews GoA G-20 [...] (SBU) President Kirchner, in March 1 remarks to Argentina's parliament on the upcoming G-20 meeting, confirmed that she will call for the wholesale reform of Bretton Woods institutions, including the conversion of IFIs into no-conditionality lending sources to emerging markets. She said she wi [...] | 2009-03-04 19:30:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ETRD EAGR PREL KSUM AR |
09BUENOSAIRES231 | Argentina: Production Minister Giorgi on G-20 and Bilateral [...] (SBU) Production Minister Debra Giorgi met with Ambassador February 25. The discussion included the G-20 process and related agricultural technical assistance the GoA is providing to poorer countries as well as outstanding bilateral trade frictions. Giorgi noted the significant increase in 20 [...] | 2009-03-04 19:55:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR ECON EINV PGOV PHUM AR |
09BUENOSAIRES232 | ARGENTINA ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL REVIEW, FEBRUARY [...] (U) Provided below is Embassy Buenos Aires' Economic and Financial Review covering the period February 16-27, 2009. The unclassified email version of this report includes tables and charts tracking Argentine economic developments. Contact Econoff Chris Landberg at landbergca@state.gov to be in [...] | 2009-03-04 20:15:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON EINV ETRD ELAB EAIR AR |
09BUENOSAIRES234 | ILEA LATIN AMERICA - ADMINISTRATIVE DETAILS FOR ARGENTINE [...] (U) Following is a list of the vetted candidates who will be attending the "ILEA Latin America Trafficking in Persons for Law Enforcement Professionals (G/TIP)", course Lima, Peru from March 9-20, 2009. Guillermo Alfredo SANGUINETTI (Captain) Head of the Department for Illegal Smuggling and [...] | 2009-03-05 11:16:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | KCRM KWMN SNAR SMIG ELAB EAID PHUM AR |
09BUENOSAIRES235 | ARGENTINA WELCOMES USG BACK TOTHE UNHRC [...] (SBU) Poloff raised with MFA Director General for Human Rights Silvia Fernandez ref A points on the USG's return to the UN Human Rights Council. Fernandez welcomed the news and joked "Now you can suffer with the rest of us." She suggested using her upcoming March 23 meeting in Washington wit [...] | 2009-03-05 17:27:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL UNHRC AR |
09BUENOSAIRES241 | ARGENTINA: AMBASSADOR MEETS WITH ENERGY SECRETARY CAMERON [...] Ambassador Wayne met on March 2 with Planning Ministry Energy Secretary Daniel Cameron to highlight the USG focus on alternative and renewable energy at the upcoming Summit of the Americas (SOA) and to inquire about the GOA's priority areas for cooperation. Cameron outlined these priorities as [...] | 2009-03-06 17:06:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | ENRG EPET ECON PREL AR |
09BUENOSAIRES246 | Argentina: Farmers Reach Agreement with GOA [...] (SBU) The GOA and the local farm groups signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) on March 3 that included measures agreed upon the previous week -- support measures for the wheat, dairy, and beef sectors, and regional products -- with some additional concessions by the GOA. Several farm lead [...] | 2009-03-06 21:15:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR ECON EINV PGOV PHUM AR |
09BUENOSAIRES247 | ARGENTINE JUDGE ORDERS ATTACHMENT OF ADDITIONAL [...] (SBU) As anticipated in ref A, Argentine Special Prosecutor Alberto Nisman obtained from federal judge Rodolfo Canicoba-Corral an order for the attachment of real estate property in Buenos Aires province allegedly belonging to former Iranian Embassy Cultural Attache in Argentina Mohsen Rabbani [...] | 2009-03-06 22:07:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PTER KJUS FBI AR IR |
09BUENOSAIRES249 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAMS [...] No summary [...] | 2009-03-09 13:42:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PINR MARR AR |
09BUENOSAIRES252 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAMS [...] No summary [...] | 2009-03-09 18:33:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PINR MARR AR |
09BUENOSAIRES253 | ARGENTINA: CHILD LABOR INFORMATION FOR TRADE AND [...] (SBU) Per reftel instructions, below please find post's input to reftel's request for information on Argentina's efforts to implement their international commitments to eliminate the worst forms of child labor. Post requests that the Department of Labor not cite the Embassy as a source in its [...] | 2009-03-09 19:52:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB EINV ETRD PHUM SOCI AR |
09BUENOSAIRES254 | Ambassador Visits Argentina's Chief Coastal City with Press [...] (SBU) During his February 26-27 visit to the resort city of Mar del Plata, the Ambassador met with the acting mayor, toured a renovated historical hotel, visited a coast guard base in Argentina's largest fishing port, and delivered an address on the new administration's agenda to an influential [...] | 2009-03-10 13:25:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KPAO ECON AR |
09BUENOSAIRES256 | (C) ARGENTINE BUSINESSMAN ON WORRIES ABOUT [...] (C) A very well-connected Argentine businessman told the Ambassador March 5 that senior GoA ministers are privately very concerned about the eventual effects of the world economic crisis on Argentina. This businessman has regular access to a wide range of GoA ministers and has been used for [...] | 2009-03-10 14:03:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EAGR ECON EFIN AR |
09BUENOSAIRES257 | ARGENTINA: POST-MORTEM ON LOCAL REACTION TO INSCR [...] (C) Argentine press again stirred up tensions between the GoA and USG, running a story on U.S. criticism of Argentina's tax amnesty law included in the February 27 INCSR money laundering report. Press reports contrasted USG comments with the GoA's apparently successful defense of the law duri [...] | 2009-03-10 15:01:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN ETRD EINV AR |
09BUENOSAIRES259 | ARGENTINA: CONTINUING THE DIALOGUE WITH CHINESE [...] (C) Summary: Ambassador Wayne met with Chinese Ambassador to Argentina Zeng Gang to review the results of Chinese Vice Premier Hui Liangyu's February 8-12 official visit to Argentina and to take the temperature of the overall status of China's bilateral relationship with Argentina. Zeng was f [...] | 2009-03-10 18:36:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN ETRD SENV PREL CH AR |
09BUENOSAIRES261 | MISSION BUENOS AIRES VIEWS ON ARGENTINA'S 2009 SPECIAL 301 [...] (SBU) In 2008, Argentine authorities responsible for providing "adequate and effective protection to intellectual property rights" made few meaningful improvements in IPR legislation, regulation and enforcement, and there remain serious weaknesses in each of these areas. Multiple law enforcem [...] | 2009-03-11 14:27:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KIPR ETRD ECON AR |
09BUENOSAIRES267 | U.S. Beef Legislation Targeting Argentina: Sending the [...] (SBU) Argentine industry and government contacts are concerned by U.S. legislative proposals to restrict approval of the country's fresh beef exports to the United States, including provisions in the Omnibus Appropriations Bill. The Argentine Government has placed a high priority on regaining [...] | 2009-03-12 15:13:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR ECON EINV PGOV ELAB PHUM AR |
09BUENOSAIRES269 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAMS [...] No summary [...] | 2009-03-12 18:05:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PINR MARR AR |
09BUENOSAIRES284 | ARGENTINA ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL REVIEW, MARCH [...] (U) Provided below is Embassy Buenos Aires' Economic and Financial Review covering the period March 2-6, 2009. The unclassified email version of this report includes tables and charts tracking Argentine economic developments. Contact Econoff Chris Landberg at landbergca@state.gov to be includ [...] | 2009-03-13 19:52:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON EINV ETRD ELAB EAIR AR |
09BUENOSAIRES285 | ARGENTINE PRESIDENT PROPOSES MOVING UP LEGISLATIVE [...] (SBU) Summary: Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner (CFK) announced March 13 that she will ask Congress to change the date of this year's national legislative elections from October 25 to June 28. To do so, Congress needs to change the election law by March 28. CFK argued that [...] | 2009-03-13 21:06:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KDEM PHUM AR |
09BUENOSAIRES294 | Argentina: G7-Plus Ambassadors on Economy, Protectionism [...] (SBU) Local G7-plus representatives were upbeat on the ability of crisis-tested Argentina to weather the current economic downturn, at least through 2009, but complained about growing Argentine protectionism via non-automatic license non-tariff barriers. Ambassadors also agreed on the importanc [...] | 2009-03-16 21:29:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD EINV PGOV PHUM AR |
09BUENOSAIRES295 | ARGENTINE GENDARMERIE COMMANDING GENERAL WELCOMES [...] (C) Summary: Argentine Gendarmeria (Border Patrol) Commanding General Hector Schenone called on the Ambassador March 4 at his request to introduce a new staff officer and to review cooperation with the USG on key issues. Schenone described the Gendarmeria's efforts to address increasing [...] | 2009-03-16 21:38:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL SNAR MARR MASS KTIP ASEC AR |
09BUENOSAIRES302 | ARGENTINA'S CONSIDERABLE RENEWABLE ENERGY POTENTIAL [...] Summary: Argentina is a potential world leader in renewable energy. Already a leading producer and exporter of biodiesel, Argentina's extensive forestry resources could provide ample biomass for second-generation biofuels (ref A). The country's southern Patagonia region enjoys some of the m [...] | 2009-03-18 10:31:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | ENRG ECON SENV AR |
09BUENOSAIRES303 | Argentina: Mission's Black History Month Celebration [...] SUMMARY. Embassy Buenos Aires hosted over 150 Argentine and embassy guests in a day-long celebration of Black History Month on March 13, 2009. The day included a traditional African-American lunch, a program including a live performance of a hit song ("International Love") by a popular Afro- [...] | 2009-03-18 13:15:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL OEXC OIIP SCUL KPAO AR PGOV |
09BUENOSAIRES304 | ARGENTINA: RESPONSE TO DOL LIST OF GOODS BELIEVED TO BE [...] THIS CABLE IS SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED. NOT FOR INTERNET DISTRIBUTION. 2. This is an action request. See para 3. SUMMARY/COMMENT --------------- 3. (SBU) Below please find post's response to ref A's request for additional information on the Department of Labor's list of goods [...] | 2009-03-18 13:15:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB KTIP PHUM EAGR EINV ETRD SOCI AR |
09BUENOSAIRES313 | ARGENTINE TAX AMNESTY LAW LOOKS ACCEPTABLE ON [...] (C) The local controversy over Argentina's new tax amnesty law continues, in part due to the uproar that followed mention of the law in the International Narcotics Control Strategy Report (INCSR) on money laundering in Argentina (reported Reftel). The GoA dismisses concerns that the new law w [...] | 2009-03-19 16:13:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | KTFN EFIN PTER PREL PARM MNUC KNNP AR |
09BUENOSAIRES314 | Argentina: Farm Dispute Marks An Unhappy First Anniversary [...] (U) The conflict between the Argentine government and the farm sector is now over a year old, with no sign of a solution. On Tuesday, March 17, the GOA and the farm sector met for a fourth round of discussions on agricultural policy issues. Early rumors indicated that the government, eager t [...] | 2009-03-19 17:34:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR ECON EINV PGOV ELAB PHUM AR |
09BUENOSAIRES315 | ARGENTINE CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES APPROVES NEW DATE [...] (SBU) Summary: Argentina's Lower House approved President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner's (CFK) proposal to move up the date of this year's national legislative elections from October 25 to June 28. With a vote of 136 in favor, 109 against, and eight abstentions, the ruling Victory Front al [...] | 2009-03-19 17:43:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM PHUM AR |
09BUENOSAIRES317 | ARGENTINA: EMBASSY INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY EVENT [...] Summary. Embassy Buenos Aires celebrated International Women's Day the week of March 8th with a variety of events and two op-eds centered around the UN theme of "women and men united to end violence against women and girls." On March 10, the Ambassador, accompanied by Buenos Aires Provincial [...] | 2009-03-19 21:53:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | KWMN KPAO PHUM PREL AR |
09BUENOSAIRES325 | Argentina: Deloitte on GoA and Economic Prospects [...] (SBU) Argentine executives of Big Four auditor Deloitte called the Kirchner administration politically canny but out of touch with the Argentina's economic reality, neither seeking nor listening to advice from the business community. While domestic consumption and production is falling fast, D [...] | 2009-03-20 15:18:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN EINV PREL AR |
09BUENOSAIRES328 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAMS [...] No summary [...] | 2009-03-20 19:29:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PINR SNAR AR |
09BUENOSAIRES329 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAMS [...] No summary [...] | 2009-03-20 19:52:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PINR MARR AR |
09BUENOSAIRES330 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAMS [...] No summary [...] | 2009-03-20 19:53:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PINR MARR AR |
09BUENOSAIRES331 | Argentina: GoA Ups Ante on Export Tax Debate - Announces [...] (SBU) President Kirchner announced March 19 that, via emergency decree, the GoA will share 30% of export tax proceeds on soybeans with provincial governments and municipalities. These funds, roughly US$ 1.8 billion per year at current commodity prices, are to be earmarked for "social infrastru [...] | 2009-03-20 22:28:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ETRD PGOV AR |
09BUENOSAIRES332 | ARGENTINA: EMBASSY REQUEST FOR DOD ASSISTANCE IN GOA SEARCH [...] Summary. Embassy requests that DOD and Southern Command consider training-related activities that might assist Argentine authorities in their ongoing search for the wreckage of a Douglas C-54 Air Force plane lost on November 3, 1965, during a training flight from Howard AFB Panama to San Salva [...] | 2009-03-22 17:10:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL MASS MARR OPRC AR |
09BUENOSAIRES333 | ARGENTINA: NATIONAL DEPUTIES PLAN TRAVEL TO [...] (SBU) Summary: The Ambassador met March 19 with congressional deputy Ruperto Godoy, chairman of the Argentine Lower House's Foreign Relations Committee, to discuss plans to lead a multipartisan delegation of seven national deputies to Washington in May. Godoy stressed that they are committed [...] | 2009-03-23 12:58:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON PINR AR |
09BUENOSAIRES334 | ARGENTINA VIEWS SUMMIT OF AMERICAS AS CRUCIAL TO [...] (C) Summary: U.S. SOA Coordinator Ambassador Hector Morales received GOA assurances March 5 that Argentina was committed to a positive outcome in Trinidad and Tobago and would work closely with the USG to that end. Argentina's Summit Coordinator, Vice Foreign Minister Victorio Taccetti, empha [...] | 2009-03-23 13:50:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KSUM EFIN ENRG ECON PGOV AR |
09BUENOSAIRES337 | ARGENTINA RECEPTIVE TO U.S. PROGRAMS ON SMALL ARMS [...] Summary: Argentina Minister of Justice Fernandez wrote Ambassador March 2 in response to reftel demarche to describe current GOA programs to address illicit traffic in small and light weapons and to request specific collaboration with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF). Minister [...] | 2009-03-23 17:34:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL ARM MASS ETTC OAS AR |
09BUENOSAIRES342 | ARGENTINE FARM SECTOR DECLARES SEVEN-DAY STRIKE [...] (SBU) Summary: Farm groups initiated a seven-day strike on March 21 to protest against high export taxes and the lack of government support for the sector. Producers have stopped marketing most grains, oilseeds, and cattle, and are blocking some highways in rural areas. Support for the strik [...] | 2009-03-25 12:12:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR ECON EINV PGOV ELAB PHUM AR |
09BUENOSAIRES347 | ARGENTINA: ELECTING LEGISLATORS, ARGENTINE STYLE [...] (C) Summary: Argentina's political class is increasingly focused on the mid-term national congressional elections, which had been scheduled for October 25 but which the GOA is seeking to move up to June 28 (reftels A and B). Immediately at stake will be one-half of the 256 seats in the Chambe [...] | 2009-03-26 15:16:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON AR |
09BUENOSAIRES35 | ARGENTINA'S 2008 EPHEDRINE BUBBLE MAY BE POPPED, [...] (SBU) Summary: The legal entry into Argentina of ephedrine bound for illicit uses appears to have slowed substantially by late 2008 following government decrees to sharply limit permitted trade in the chemical, though law enforcement continues to pursue up to eight metric tons of excess ephed [...] | 2009-01-09 14:51:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SNAR PGOV PREL PHUM EFIN AR |
09BUENOSAIRES350 | ARGENTINA: PROPOSED AUDIOVISUAL LAW COULD CHANGE MEDIA [...] (SBU) On March 19, 2009, the Government of Argentina (GoA) announced a draft bill for a new Audiovisual Law which will affect the broadcasting, content, and multimedia industry in Argentina. The bill, if/when passed, is expected to replace the existing Broadcasting Law 22275, published by the M [...] | 2009-03-26 17:28:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECON WTRO AR |
09BUENOSAIRES360 | ARGENTINE CONGRESSIONAL MIDTERMS NOW SET FOR JUNE [...] (C) Summary: Argentina's Senate approved (42-26-4) President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner's (CFK) proposal to move up the date of this year's national legislative elections by four months to June 28. Theruling Victory Front alliance (FpV) obtained a comfortable majority, with five more vot [...] | 2009-03-27 17:44:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM PHUM AR |
09BUENOSAIRES361 | ARGENTINA ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL REVIEW, MARCH [...] (U) Provided below is Embassy Buenos Aires' Economic and Financial Review covering the period March 9-23, 2009. The unclassified email version of this report includes tables and charts tracking Argentine economic developments. Contact Econoff Chris Landberg at landbergca@state.gov to be inclu [...] | 2009-03-27 20:13:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON EINV ETRD ELAB EAIR AR |
09BUENOSAIRES365 | IAEA DG RACE: ARGENTINA WILLING TO CONSIDER [...] (C) Summary: According to senior Argentina MFA advisor Rafael Grossi, Argentina will consider endorsing Argentine citizen Rogelio Pfirter as a compromise candidate for Director General of the IAEA if it receives high-level requests from the United States and a couple of other European or P5 go [...] | 2009-03-27 20:59:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL IAEA PARM KNNP AR |
09BUENOSAIRES366 | Argentina: License For Nil - GoA Imposes New Import [...] (SBU) In a context of global concerns over increasing protectionist pressures, Argentina, which signed onto a November 2008 G-20 standstill agreement on new barriers to trade, is actively expanding a list of products which require non-automatic import licenses. U.S. firms and others importing [...] | 2009-03-30 15:59:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECON AR |
09BUENOSAIRES369 | Argentina: On the Road to London G-20 [...] (SBU) Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner's (CFK's) upbeat and cooperative participation in the March 27-28 Progressive Governance Summit in Chile should presage constructive GoA positions at the upcoming G-20 summit. GoA officials highlight CFK's "outstanding" bilaterals in San [...] | 2009-03-30 22:01:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON ETRD KSUM PGOV AR |
09BUENOSAIRES370 | ARGENTINES PLEASED WITH VPOTUS-CFK MEETING [...] (C) Summary. Argentine media gave highly positive coverage to President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner's (CFK) March 27 bilateral with Vice President Biden, and Argentine Ambassador to the United States Hector Timerman confirmed to the Ambassador that the GOA was very pleased with the meeting [...] | 2009-03-30 22:09:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECON AR |
09BUENOSAIRES375 | ARGENTINA: DEFENSE MINISTRY REQUESTS THAT U.S. [...] (SBU) Summary: Argentine daily finance and business paper "Ambito Financiero" released a relatively accurate story March 31 that the Ministry of Defense had requested the U.S. Military Group vacate its offices in the Argentine MOD headquarters, "Edificio Libertador," within 45 days. That requ [...] | 2009-03-31 21:48:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR MASS PGOV AR |
09BUENOSAIRES376 | NEW GOVERNMENT PLAN REFLECTS GROWING IMPORTANCE OF [...] (SBU) Summary: President Fernandez de Kirchner announced a new public security plan on March 27 to respond to rising public concerns about crime. The plan is focused on the provinces of Buenos Aires and Mendoza and includes promises of 4,000 new police to patrol the streets, a redeployment of [...] | 2009-03-31 22:21:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV SNAR ASEC PREL MASS EAID AR |
09BUENOSAIRES378 | ARGENTINA: HUD SECRETARY DONOVAN DISCUSSES HOUSING SECTOR [...] (SBU) HUD Secretary Donovan on March 27 learned about GoA housing initiatives for low- and middle-income families with Planning Minister Julio De Vido. The Minister called access to affordable shelter and the reactivation of the domestic housing construction industry a success of the two Kirchn [...] | 2009-04-01 14:37:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EIND EFIN PREL PGOV AR |
09BUENOSAIRES380 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAMS [...] No summary [...] | 2009-04-01 18:16:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PINR MARR AR |
09BUENOSAIRES381 | ARGENTINE JUSTICES TO VISIT U.S. IN MAY, HOST RULE OF LAW [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Argentine Supreme Court is organizing a regional conference on rule of law issues in early September, bringing together Supreme Court justices from throughout the Americas, Chief Justice Ricardo Lorenzetti and Associate Justice Juan Carlos Maqueda told Ambassador Wayne in a [...] | 2009-04-01 19:26:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KJUS PHUM KPAO AR |
09BUENOSAIRES385 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAMS [...] No summary [...] | 2009-04-01 20:58:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PINR MARR AR |
09BUENOSAIRES386 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAMS [...] No summary [...] | 2009-04-01 21:02:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PINR MARR AR |
09BUENOSAIRES387 | ARGENTINA'S CURRENCY SWAP WITH CHINA; WILL IT HELP [...] (C) The Argentine Central Bank (BCRA) and the People's Bank of China appear to have reached a preliminary agreement on a currency swap arrangement (Peso-Yuan) for the equivalent of about US$10 billion. However, there may be some internal disagreement on the Argentine side: while BCRA President [...] | 2009-04-01 21:15:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ECON ETRD AR |
09BUENOSAIRES388 | AMCHAM ARGENTINA'S EXECUTIVE BOARD DISCUSSES LOCAL [...] (U) On March 17, 2009, Ambassador Wayne met with Executive Board Members from the American Chamber of Commerce in Argentina. Present at the meeting were representatives from IBM, Dow Chemical, WalMart, Cargill, Ford, GE, and Duke Energy. The companies noted challenges they face due to the sig [...] | 2009-04-01 21:23:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECON WTRO AR |
09BUENOSAIRES389 | ARGENTINA: INFO ON GREEN INVESTMENTS IN STIMULUS PACKAGES [...] (SBU) Per reftel, Post reports that Argentina has no/no specific green elements in its stimulus packages. However, two consumption stimulus packages announced by the GoA in late 2008, white goods and car exchange programs, could have a green effect simply by improving the mix of newer and thus [...] | 2009-04-01 21:51:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN ENRG SENV KGHG AR |
09BUENOSAIRES391 | ARGENTINA PASSES NEW LAW TO PROTECT WOMEN FROM VIOLENCE [...] Summary. The Argentine Congress recently passed a law to prevent, punish, and eradicate violence against women. The new legislation replaces a national law on domestic violence that considered violence against women a misdemeanor and only penalized crimes against sexual integrity. The new law [...] | 2009-04-03 14:12:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | KWMN KPAO PHUM PREL AR |
09BUENOSAIRES393 | Argentina: February Drop in Trade Volumes Signals Economic [...] (SBU) Argentine exports dropped a sharp 24% y-o-y in February 2009, while imports declined 37% y-o-y, reflecting both lower volumes traded and also lower international prices. Decline in exports reflect both the loss of domestic industrial competitiveness and lower global demand, while the dro [...] | 2009-04-03 14:26:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECON AR |
09BUENOSAIRES396 | ARGENTINA WELCOMES USG CANDIDACY FOR UN HUMAN [...] No summary [...] | 2009-04-03 19:37:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL UNHRC AR |
09BUENOSAIRES397 | ARGENTINA ABSTAINS AND CONTINUES EVALUATING [...] No summary [...] | 2009-04-03 19:38:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM KIRF UNHRC AR |
09BUENOSAIRES401 | THE SECRETARY'S APRIL 7 MEETING WITH ARGENTINE FM [...] (C) Your April 7 meeting with Argentine FM Jorge Taiana is an opportunity to encourage his continued support in keeping the overall tone of relations positive, even in the face of occasional disagreements. As populist and liberal democratic models vie in South America, Argentina is a swing sta [...] | 2009-04-03 22:15:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECON AR |
09BUENOSAIRES404 | ARGENTINA PROTESTS INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT [...] (C) Foreign Minster Jorge Taiana sent a letter to Ambassador Wayne the evening of April 3 strongly protesting our 2009 Investment Climate Statement (ICS) posted on April 2. The sharply worded message was apparently drafted by Taiana and President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner (CFK) late Apr [...] | 2009-04-04 19:12:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EINV PGOV PREL AR |
09BUENOSAIRES406 | INL-FUNDED ASSISTANCE IN ARGENTINA: 2008 END-USE [...] Embassy Buenos Aires' CY-2008 End-Use Monitoring Report follows below: 2. Inventory Management EUM Program Coordinator: Theodore J. Craig, Phone number 54-11-5777-4858, email address: craigtj@state.gov Post's Narcotics Program has to date not utilized PD&S funding and has been unable [...] | 2009-04-06 14:51:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | SNAR AFIN AR |
09BUENOSAIRES409 | ARGENTINA: HUD SECRETARY DONOVAN MEETS WITH BUENOS AIRES [...] (SBU) Summary: Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Shaun Donovan and Ambassador Wayne met with Buenos Aires Mayor Mauricio Macri, Vice-Mayor Gabriela Michetti, and urban planning officials on March 26 and 27. Macri and Michetti presented an ambitious plan to tackle the city's gr [...] | 2009-04-07 10:33:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EIND EFIN PREL PGOV AR |
09BUENOSAIRES411 | Argentina: Reply from the Radical Civic Union (UCR) to [...] President of the Radical Civic Union (UCR) National Convention Hipolito Solari-Yrigoyen hand-delivered a letter to the Embassy on April 6 in response to President Obama's April 2 letter (ref A) expressing condolences over the death of former Argentine President and UCR member Raul Alfonsin (re [...] | 2009-04-07 15:00:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL OPDC AR |
09BUENOSAIRES414 | ARGENTINA: HEALTH MINISTER REQUESTS U.S. ASSISTANCE IN [...] The Ambassador met with Health Minister Gabriela Ocana on April 7 at her request to discuss ways that the USG could assist with the outbreak of dengue fever in Argentina over the past couple of months. According to Ministry of Health figures, there are now 7,415 locally contracted cases of de [...] | 2009-04-07 19:56:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | TBIO SOCI PGOV PREL AR |
09BUENOSAIRES415 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAMS [...] No summary [...] | 2009-04-07 20:35:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PINR MARR AR |
09BUENOSAIRES416 | HUD SECRETARY DONOVAN MEETS WITH LEADING ARGENTINE HOUSING [...] (SBU) A lunch hosted by the Ambassador in honor of Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Shaun Donovan was attended by a range of notable Argentines representing the development, architectural, financial, business, and government sectors, as well as by the DCM. After prior meetings with [...] | 2009-04-08 17:06:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EIND EFIN PREL PGOV AR |
09BUENOSAIRES417 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAMS [...] No summary [...] | 2009-04-08 17:50:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PINR MARR AR |
09BUENOSAIRES422 | ARGENTINA: HEALTH MINISTER THANKS AMBASSADOR FOR SPEEDY [...] Following Health Minister Gabriela Ocana's urgent request to Ambassador on April 7 for USG assistance (reftel),post undertook to locate the two large-scale fumigation machines (thermal foggers) that the Health Ministry needed to combat the spread of dengue. FCS contacted a U.S. supplier of t [...] | 2009-04-09 16:56:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | TBIO SOCI PGOV PREL AR |
09BUENOSAIRES423 | ARGENTINE DELEGATION FOR THE SUMMIT OF THE AMERICAS [...] No summary [...] | 2009-04-09 16:58:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | AMGT AORC ECON ENRG ETRD PGOV PREL AR |
09BUENOSAIRES424 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAMS [...] No summary [...] | 2009-04-09 17:18:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PINR SNAR AR |
09BUENOSAIRES426 | ARGENTINA: RESPONSE TO DOL LIST OF GOODS BELIEVED TO BE [...] THIS CABLE IS SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED. NOT FOR INTERNET DISTRIBUTION. 2. This is an action request. See para 4. 3. (SBU) Post appreciates the U.S. Department of Labor's notification (ref A) of its decision to remove lemons and sugar from its proposed list of goods produced in Arg [...] | 2009-04-09 19:40:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB KTIP PHUM EAGR EINV ETRD SOCI AR |
09BUENOSAIRES427 | Argentina: Education and Law Enforcement Cooperation with [...] (SBU) Ambassador Wayne's March 18 visit to the city of Cordoba emphasized U.S.-Argentine cooperation on issues critical to ordinary Argentines - education and personal security. On the education side, the Ambassador announced new scholarships for students to study English and signed an updated [...] | 2009-04-09 21:30:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KJUS ASEC ECON PGOV AR |
09BUENOSAIRES428 | Argentina: Playing the Judicial Blame Game [...] (SBU) Summary: President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner (CFK) set off a political firestorm between the executive, legislative, and judicial branches on who is to blame for Argentina's increasingly dysfunctional judicial system. The courts have long been plagued by an overwhelming demand for [...] | 2009-04-09 21:48:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV KJUS PHUM ASEC SNAR AR |
09BUENOSAIRES429 | ARGENTINA: TOP CANDIDATES IN KEY LEGISLATIVE [...] (C) Summary: Former president Nestor Kirchner has once again upset the political apple cart, this time by floating the idea that he and the current governor of Buenos Aires province, Daniel Scioli, will head the Victory Front (FpV) slate of candidates for national deputies from the province o [...] | 2009-04-09 22:06:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON AR |
09BUENOSAIRES43 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAMS [...] No summary [...] | 2009-01-12 18:18:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PINR SNAR AR |
09BUENOSAIRES430 | AMBASSADOR BREAKS THE ICE IN NORTHERN PROVINCE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In the first U.S. ambassadorial visit to the northern province of Santiago del Estero in 22 years on April 6, Ambassador Wayne sent a message that Argentina matters to the United States. Pragmatic Governor Gerardo Zamora seized the opportunity to mobilize key private and public [...] | 2009-04-11 14:15:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ECON SCUL SNAR AR |
09BUENOSAIRES432 | Argentina: Budget Transparency [...] (U) The following responds to Reftel questions on budget transparency ("FY09 Prohibition on assistance to central governments whose budgets are not transparent"). 2. (SBU) The Government of Argentina (GoA) is scheduled to receive FY 09 U.S. foreign assistance funds for IMET, INCLE, and NADR [...] | 2009-04-13 16:27:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID EFIN ECON PREL AR |
09BUENOSAIRES435 | ARGENTINA: DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON ENERGY AND CLIMATE [...] On April 13, ESTCouns met with Gabriela Martinic, Deputy Director of the MFA's Office of Regional Affairs and Deputy Summit Coordinator, to relay points in reftel regarding the Energy and Climate Partnership of the Americas (ECPA). Martinic expressed interest in the initiative and appreciatio [...] | 2009-04-13 20:25:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ENERG KSUM SENV KGHG AR |
09BUENOSAIRES436 | Argentine Central Bank Joins Government in Objecting to [...] (SBU) In an April 6 letter to the Ambassador, Argentine Central Bank (BCRA) President Martin Redrado objected to Post's characterization in the latest Investment Climate Statement of BCRA policies' contribution to rising inflation (text provided below). During a subsequent telephone conversatio [...] | 2009-04-14 14:13:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON PREL AR |
09BUENOSAIRES441 | ARGENTINA WILL FILE ICJ BRIEF SUPPORTIVE OF [...] (SBU) Argentine MFA Director for Policy Coordination Rafael Grossi confirmed April 14 to Poloff that Argentina will submit a legal brief to the ICJ that is generally supportive of the Serbian challenge to Kosovo's independence declaration. Grossi was not able to share details of the Argentine [...] | 2009-04-15 13:29:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL AORC ICJ AR KV |
09BUENOSAIRES443 | ARGENTINA: DIM ELECTORAL PROSPECTS FOR KIRCHNERS [...] (C) Summary: Argentina's ruling (Kirchner-allied) Victory Front (FpV) faces bleak prospects in the June 28 midterms in the second-tier electoral districts of Cordoba, Santa Fe, and Mendoza provinces (ref A). In Cordoba and Santa Fe, the second and third most populous provinces, the Kirchners [...] | 2009-04-15 17:38:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON AR |
09BUENOSAIRES445 | ARGENTINA: MFA CONCERNED ABOUT DOL-FUNDED RESEARCH [...] (SBU) MFA North America Director Antonio Trombetta expressed concern to CDA April 14 about the DOL's intention to include Argentina in a multi-country study on the incidence of forced and child labor. (Note: DOL informed the GOA in January that Argentina was one of the eight countries to be [...] | 2009-04-15 19:59:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB KTIP PHUM EAGR EINV ETRD SOCI AR |
09BUENOSAIRES450 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAMS [...] No summary [...] | 2009-04-16 21:41:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PINR MARR AR |
09BUENOSAIRES451 | ARGENTINE GOVERNMENT PROPOSES JOINT DECLARATION TO [...] (C) MFA North America Director Antonio Trombetta passed CDA a non-paper April 14 proposing that the USG and GoA issue a joint declaration clarifying certain aspects of the 1991 Bilateral Investment Treaty (BIT). GoA officials subsequently clarified that their priority is to get USG support fo [...] | 2009-04-17 15:21:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | EINV EFIN ECON AR |
09BUENOSAIRES452 | ARGENTINA: RECENT POLLS GIVE KIRCHNERS EDGE IN [...] (SBU) Argentina's ruling (Kirchner-allied) Victory Front (FpV) received a boost in some polls after former President and First Gentleman Nestor Kirchner (NK) proposed last week that Buenos Aires Governor Daniel Scioli join him in leading the FpV slate for the June 28 Congressional elections (re [...] | 2009-04-17 19:59:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON AR |
09BUENOSAIRES457 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAMS [...] No summary [...] | 2009-04-20 20:28:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PINR MARR AR |
09BUENOSAIRES461 | ARGENTINA: MEDIA PRAISE FOR PRESIDENT OBAMA'S [...] (C) Summary: Argentine press reacted extremely favorably to President Obama's participation in the Fifth Summit of the Americas (SOA),describing the meetings as a new, positive beginning for U.S.-Latin American relations. In a press conference following the April 18 meeting between President [...] | 2009-04-21 14:20:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KSUM EFIN ENRG ECON PGOV CU AR |
09BUENOSAIRES469 | AMEMBASSY BUENOS AIRES DESIGNATION OF TERRORISM [...] (SBU) In response to reftel, Deputy Chief of Mission Thomas P. Kelly is post's Terrorism Finance Coordination Officer (TFCO). Kelly's telephone number is 54-11-5777-4321; IVG: 878-4321. His unclassified email address is KellyTP@state.gov and his classified email address is KellyTP@state.sgov [...] | 2009-04-22 20:00:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KTFN EFIN ETTC AR |
09BUENOSAIRES47 | SERIOUS CONCERNS ABOUT DOL'S DRAFT LIST OF GOODS [...] (SBU) Embassy Buenos Aires appreciates the opportunity to comment on the Department of Labor's draft list of goods from countries that DOL has reason to believe are produced by forced labor or child labor in violation of international standards. However, post requests that the Argentine goods [...] | 2009-01-15 20:04:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB PHUM EAGR EIND ETRD AR |
09BUENOSAIRES470 | ARGENTINA ELECTIONS: RADICALS INVITE PRODIGAL [...] (SBU) Summary: Building on the positive public sentiments generated by the memorializing of the late President Raul Alfonsin (ref A),Argentina's once-dominant Radical Party (UCR) continued its gradual return to relevance with a successful national convention April 17-18 in Mar del Plata. The [...] | 2009-04-23 18:49:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL ECON AR |
09BUENOSAIRES471 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAMS [...] No summary [...] | 2009-04-24 13:17:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PINR MARR AR |
09BUENOSAIRES472 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAMS [...] No summary [...] | 2009-04-24 13:18:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PINR MARR AR |
09BUENOSAIRES475 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAMS [...] No summary [...] | 2009-04-24 13:20:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PINR MARR AR |
09BUENOSAIRES485 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAMS [...] No summary [...] | 2009-04-27 17:45:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PINR MARR AR |
09BUENOSAIRES486 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAMS [...] No summary [...] | 2009-04-27 17:45:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PINR MARR AR |
09BUENOSAIRES49 | SERIOUS CONCERNS ABOUT DOL'S DRAFT LIST OF GOODS [...] (C) Embassy Buenos Aires appreciates the opportunity to comment on the Department of Labor's draft list of goods from countries that DOL has reason to believe are produced by forced labor or child labor in violation of international standards. However, post requests that the Argentine goods l [...] | 2009-01-16 12:29:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | ELAB PHUM EAGR EIND ETRD AR |
09BUENOSAIRES490 | ARGENTINA: FORMER PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE [...] (C) Summary: The Ambassador met April 23 with U.S.-trained economist and conservative politician Ricardo Lopez-Murphy, who predicted the Kirchners would suffer a defeat in the mid-terms, losing 15 to 20 seats in the Chamber of Deputies, resulting in the end of their working majority. He bemoa [...] | 2009-04-27 21:13:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON PINR AR |
09BUENOSAIRES494 | ARGENTINA: PRESIDENT'S POPULARITY DECLINING AHEAD [...] (SBU) President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner (CFK) has experienced a steady decline in her approval rating and personal image since late 2007, and has experienced another dip recently. After enjoying a 56% approval rating in December 2007 upon her inauguration, the President's approval sunk [...] | 2009-04-29 14:47:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON AR |
09BUENOSAIRES498 | ARGENTINE FM TAIANA ON MOD EVICTION AND OTHER [...] (C) Summary: In response to the Ambassador's April 22 letter asking Argentine FM Taiana to intervene with the MOD to help find suitable office space for the Military Group in advance of its eviction from MOD headquarters (ref A),Taiana said he had spoken with MOD Nilda Garre and suggested the [...] | 2009-04-30 13:57:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MASS MARR ASEC KSUM PGOV AR |
09BUENOSAIRES499 | Argentina: International Donor Community [...] (SBU) Summary. The Ambassador hosted a roundtable coffee with the international donor community to discuss the impact of the global economic crisis on international assistance to Argentina. The roundtable was co-organized with the Argentine Network for International Cooperation (RACI) and the [...] | 2009-04-30 21:10:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL EAID ECON SOCI PHUM AR |
09BUENOSAIRES5 | ARGENTINA: MAYOR OF LA PLATA SEEKS CLOSER [...] (SBU) Summary: The Mayor of Buenos Aires province's capital city of La Plata, Pablo Bruera, told Ambassador Wayne on December 15 that he hoped to improve public services to attract greater foreign investment. He applauded the arrival of U.S.-based software development company Accenture, which [...] | 2009-01-02 15:22:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV EINV AR |
09BUENOSAIRES50 | SERIOUS CONCERNS ABOUT DOL'S DRAFT LIST OF GOODS [...] (C) Embassy Buenos Aires appreciates the opportunity to comment on the Department of Labor's draft list of goods from countries that DOL has reason to believe are produced by forced labor or child labor in violation of international standards. However, post requests that the Argentine goods l [...] | 2009-01-16 12:39:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | ELAB PHUM EAGR EIND ETRD AR |
09BUENOSAIRES500 | ARGENTINA: "SALTENOS" WELCOME AMBASSADOR'S APRIL [...] (SBU) Ambassador Wayne made his third visit to Argentina's northwestern province of Salta on April 28. The province is gearing up for national congressional mid-term elections on June 28, with three of its seven deputy seats in play; the province's shifting coalitions partially reflect major n [...] | 2009-04-30 21:11:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV SNAR KTIP AR |
09BUENOSAIRES501 | ARGENTINA HOSTS OAS TIP CONFERENCE; [...] (U) Summary. The Argentine government recently hosted the Organization of American States (OAS) Second Meeting of National Authorities on Trafficking in Persons (TIP),which included representatives from governments, international organizations and civil society organizations. As head of t [...] | 2009-04-30 21:20:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | KWMN KTIP PHUM PREL KCRM SMIG AR |
09BUENOSAIRES502 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAMS [...] No summary [...] | 2009-05-04 13:20:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PINR MARR AR |
09BUENOSAIRES503 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAMS [...] No summary [...] | 2009-05-04 13:21:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PINR MARR AR |
09BUENOSAIRES504 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAMS [...] No summary [...] | 2009-05-04 13:21:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PINR MARR AR |
09BUENOSAIRES509 | Argentina Hosts Lugo and Morales for Signing of Final Act [...] (SBU) Summary: Argentina hosted Paraguayan President Lugo and Bolivian President Morales for an April 27 ceremony to deliver the Final Record of the border commission in execution of the 1938 Peace Treaty between the two countries. The Ambassador attended as representative of one of the six g [...] | 2009-05-04 17:58:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PBTS PA BL AR |
09BUENOSAIRES513 | ARGENTINE MOD GARRE OFFERS TEMPORARY SOLUTION FOR [...] (C) Following up on Argentine FM Taiana's suggestion (reftel),the Ambassador called MOD Garre, who indicated she had just signed a response to the Ambassador's March 31 letter regarding the MOD eviction of the Military Group from MOD headquarters and two other facilities. 2. (C) Garre said [...] | 2009-05-04 21:03:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MASS PGOV ASEC AMGT PHUM KPAO AR |
09BUENOSAIRES514 | ARGENTINA: ANTI-KIRCHNER BRIEFING DELIVERED TO [...] (C) Jorge O'Reilly (PROTECT),a top advisor to Argentina's Cabinet Chief Sergio Massa, offered a blunt critique of Argentina's economy and GoA policies during an April 21 meeting with foreign institutional investors. Speaking in the Casa Rosada, he predicted a sharp recession in 2009, with co [...] | 2009-05-04 21:06:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EINV ETRD EFIN PREL AR |
09BUENOSAIRES515 | ARGENTINA: ALLIANCES ANNOUNCED, CAMPAIGN SEASON [...] (C) Summary: Argentine political parties have registered their alliances (but not yet their candidate slates) for the June 28 mid-term congressional elections. Although a total of 16 electoral alliances have registered in the country's top two key electoral battlegrounds, Buenos Aires province [...] | 2009-05-04 21:19:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON AR |
09BUENOSAIRES520 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAMS [...] No summary [...] | 2009-05-05 16:58:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PINR PTER SNAR AR |
09BUENOSAIRES521 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAMS [...] No summary [...] | 2009-05-05 16:59:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PINR MARR AR |
09BUENOSAIRES523 | ARGENTINA LEANS TOWARDS VOTING TO ABSTAIN ON [...] (C) Summary. Econoff joined German, French, and UK colleagues April 29 in delivering Ref A points on Kosovo's IMF and World Bank membership to Jose Mina, Director of the Argentine MFA's Central and Eastern Europe Office. Mina strongly argued against Kosovo's membership in the IFIs, but agree [...] | 2009-05-05 18:42:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN PREL AR KV |
09BUENOSAIRES526 | ARGENTINA'S PIQUETEROS: THE KIRCHNERS' KEY PROTEST ARM Classified By: CDA Tom Kelly for reasons 1.4 (b) & (d). [...] (SBU) Summary/Introduction: After being largely co-opted by the government of former President Nestor Kirchner (NK),some Argentine social protest groups, the ""piqueteros,"" have begun to distance themselves from current President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner's (CFK) government. They remain a [...] | 2009-05-05 21:19:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ELAB KDEM ECON AR |
09BUENOSAIRES530 | ARGENTINA: GOA SUPPORTIVE OF AUSTRALIAN PROPOSAL ON IMO [...] (SBU) Counselor Javier Figueroa of the Argentine MFA's Office of the Legal Advisor expressed support for the Australian proposal on ship recycling in the International Maritime Organization (IMO),following the delivery of reftel demarche presented jointly by Econoff and Nick McCaffrey, First S [...] | 2009-05-06 18:51:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EIDN ETRD EWWT IMO KTIA PREL SENV AR |
09BUENOSAIRES532 | ARGENTINA: "VALIJAGATE" JUDGE DENIES DEFENDANT'S [...] (SBU) Investigating Judge Daniel Petrone ruled May 5 against an appeal by lawyers for former Argentine government official Claudio Uberti to dismiss evidence from the Miami trial of Franklin Duran. The local investigation into the infamous suitcase carried by Venezuelan-American Guido Antonin [...] | 2009-05-06 20:25:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV KCOR SNAR CJAN KFRD AR |
09BUENOSAIRES534 | (C) ARGENTINA: RECENT UNSETTLING DEVELOPMENTS [...] (C) Summary: Recent moves by the Government of Argentina (GoA) undermine the independence and efficacy of Argentine agencies with jurisdiction over corruption cases. In early March, Manuel Garrido, Argentina's chief prosecutor for corrupton cases resigned, claiming frustration over perc [...] | 2009-05-06 21:41:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KCOR KDEM PHUM KFRD SNAR ASEC AR |
09BUENOSAIRES538 | ARGENTINA ELECTIONS: NO KIRCHNER COATTAILS IN [...] (C) Summary: Argentina's northern province of Salta, a picturesque, agriculturally productive regional center bordering Bolivia, offers another demonstration of Argentina's confusion of competing Peronists and temporary alliances in the run-up to national mid-terms on June 28. With only three [...] | 2009-05-07 16:19:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON SNAR AR |
09BUENOSAIRES548 | Glyphosate Herbicide, a Catalyst for Argentine Politics [...] (SBU) Summary: Argentina's pro-government press has been waging a campaign against the use of glyphosate, the active ingredient in Monsanto's widely used Roundup herbicide, which appears to be driven more by local politics than health concerns. The press campaign started with reports in the l [...] | 2009-05-07 20:27:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR SNAR ECON EINV PGOV ELAB PHUM TBIO AR |
09BUENOSAIRES549 | UN SPECIAL RAPPORTEUR ON THE INDEPENDENCE OF [...] (SBU) Action Request: The Ambassador received from Leandro Despouy, the UN Special Rapporteur on the Independence of Judges and Lawyers a May 4 letter (in English) requesting the USG support the candidacy of Amcit Reed Brody to replace him. Text of letter follows in para 2. Embassy requests [...] | 2009-05-07 21:09:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL AR |
09BUENOSAIRES557 | Argentina: Logistical Challenges in Convening [...] (C) Summary/Introduction: The GOA's decision in mid- March to move up the legislative elections by four months (ref A) has raised concerns among local observers that some organizational requirements, such as voter registration and the identification and manning of polling places, may not be sa [...] | 2009-05-11 19:17:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON AR |
09BUENOSAIRES558 | Argentina Elections: VP Cobos Still Popular in [...] (C) Summary: Argentine Vice President Cobos's presidential aspirations are riding on the fate of the slate of candidates he is backing in the June 28 congressional mid-term elections. Currently, his slate for Mendoza's five national deputy slots and three Senate seats is favored to win 40% o [...] | 2009-05-11 19:26:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON AR |
09BUENOSAIRES56 | Argentina: Supreme Court gradually reasserts itself [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Although Argentina's overall court system is still perceived as inordinately slow and ineffective, the Supreme Court gained considerable ground in 2008. By rendering politically-sensitive judgments in leading cases or mandating executive branch action in some areas, Argentina's [...] | 2009-01-16 20:45:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV KJUS ELAB SENV PHUM AR |
09BUENOSAIRES561 | Argentina: Candidates Announced; Former President [...] (C) Summary and introduction: Former president Nestor Kirchner (NK) and his former vice president Daniel Scioli will head the ruling coalition's (FpV) ticket for congressional seats representing the electoral plum of Buenos Aires province, where the Kirchners have set their hopes on winning e [...] | 2009-05-12 14:02:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON AR |
09BUENOSAIRES563 | Argentina: Hidden Camera Investigation Uncovers TIP in [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Argentine press recently reported a hidden camera investigation conducted by anti-trafficking NGO La Alameda that appears to show drug and human trafficking activity in brothels located in the capital city of Santa Cruz, the home province of President Cristina Fernandez de Kirch [...] | 2009-05-12 15:16:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM KTIP KCRM KWMN PGOV SNAR AR |
09BUENOSAIRES568 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAMS [...] No summary [...] | 2009-05-13 13:03:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PINR MARR AR |
09BUENOSAIRES569 | ARGENTINES FLOCK TO DISNEY, LEAVING THE CRISES BEHIND [...] (U) While Argentina's economy has contracted sharply in the wake of the global financial crisis and negative GDP growth is widely projected for 2009, demand for non-immigrant visas (NIVs) continues to rise. In the first quarter of 2009, daily demand for visas has gone from an average of 525 ap [...] | 2009-05-13 17:00:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | CVIS CMGT ECON EFIN AR |
09BUENOSAIRES57 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAMS [...] No summary [...] | 2009-01-20 11:24:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PINR MARR AR |
09BUENOSAIRES578 | ARGENTINA AND CLAIM TO ANTARCTIC CONTINENTAL SHELF: [...] (SBU) On May 14, ESTHCouns met with Ricardo Larriera, Chief of Staff of Argentina's Vice-Minister for Foreign Affairs, to deliver talking points in reftel and request that the GOA submit a revised note to the UN Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf (CLCS). Larriera was the MFA off [...] | 2009-05-15 21:03:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL TPHY AR |
09BUENOSAIRES579 | TFFLU01: H1N1 Influenza Outbreak and Argentina: SITREP #3 [...] (U) Summary: Argentina has only one confirmed case of Influenza A (H1N1) to date, while 88 are still under study. The Ministry of Health requested information from Post about four Americans who may have been on a flight from Mexico that carried a "suspected" H1N1 case. Post was able to track [...] | 2009-05-18 10:44:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TBIO KFLU CASC AEMR AMED KSAF KFLO AR |
09BUENOSAIRES585 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAMS [...] No summary [...] | 2009-05-18 15:10:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PINR MARR AR |
09BUENOSAIRES592 | ARGENTINA: AMIA SPECIAL PROSECUTOR READY TO [...] (C) Special Prosecutor Alberto Nisman called on the Ambassador May 19 to notify us that the following day he would ask Judge Rodolfo Canicoba-Corral to indict a new suspect in the 1994 bombing of the Argentine Jewish Mutual Association (AMIA). Nisman described his painstaking effort to establ [...] | 2009-05-19 22:45:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PREL ASEC MASS PHUM SNAR KJUS IR LE AR |
09BUENOSAIRES593 | ARGENTINA: CRISTINA HOSTS HUGO CHAVEZ, BUT BEGS TO [...] (C) Summary and introduction: Hugo Chavez paid a visit to Argentina May 15-16 to kick off a bilateral consultative process, sign some agreements, and see some sights near the Kirchners' home in El Calafate, Santa Cruz. During a 100-minute joint press conference, CFK denied she plans to sell [...] | 2009-05-19 23:41:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON VZ AR |
09BUENOSAIRES594 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAMS [...] No summary [...] | 2009-05-19 23:45:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PINR SNAR AR |
09BUENOSAIRES597 | ARGENTINA: SCENESETTER FOR CODEL THOMPSON VISIT [...] (U) On behalf of Embassy Buenos Aires, I warmly welcome your May 28-30 visit to Argentina, which occurs one week before I leave post for my next assignment, in which I will oversee U.S. non-military assistance to Afghanistan. We propose to schedule meetings for you with Argentina's Minister o [...] | 2009-05-21 13:31:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PHUM OREP ECON PTER MASS ASEC AR |
09BUENOSAIRES598 | (C) ANTONINI-WILSON BANKRUPTCY CASE NAMES [...] (C) President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, former President Nestor Kirchner and Planning Minister Julio De Vido were named as "interested parties" in an April 15 voluntary personal Chapter 7 bankruptcy filing in Florida of "Suitcase scandal" principal Alejandro Antonini-Wilson (A-W). A sup [...] | 2009-05-21 13:35:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL SNAR KCOR KJUS PGOV CJAN KFRD VZ AR |
09BUENOSAIRES599 | ARGENTINA: 15 ARRESTED FOR ANTI-SEMITIC VIOLENCE [...] (SBU) Summary: Argentine police have arrested 15 persons for their involvement in a violent attack on a Buenos Aires city celebration May 17 marking the 61st anniversary of the founding of Israel. The attack left five persons injured, including two federal police officers. On May 18, two sy [...] | 2009-05-21 13:37:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PTER PREL ASEC AR |
09BUENOSAIRES6 | Argentine Government Delays Charges Against AES, According [...] (SBU) Argentine media reports that the GoA has decided internally not to charge U.S. energy company AES Corporation's local affiliate (EDELAP) for bookkeeping irregularities (reported ref A). The press reports allege that the GoA is backing off because it could not find any interested buyers f [...] | 2009-01-02 17:07:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINV ECON EIND AR |
09BUENOSAIRES600 | ARGENTINA: POLLS SHOW KIRCHNER-ALLIED FPV SLIGHTLY [...] (SBU) With six weeks before the June 28 congressional midterms, the Kirchner-allied ruling Victory Front (FpV) continues to enjoy a slim advantage in the key electoral district of Buenos Aires province, but possibly not enough to maintain its majority in the Lower House, according to recent po [...] | 2009-05-21 13:42:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL AR |
09BUENOSAIRES602 | ARGENTINA: AMBASSADOR THANKS MOJ FOR LAW [...] (C) Summary. On May 20, the Ambassador paid a farewell call on Minister of Justice Anibal Fernandez and thanked him for the Ministry of Justice's (MoJ) collaboration in promoting human rights and addressing international crime, including drug trafficking, trafficking in persons (TIP),m [...] | 2009-05-21 22:19:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KTIP SNAR PTER EFIN KCRM AR |
09BUENOSAIRES603 | ARGENTINA: A USEFUL PARTNER ON CLIMATE CHANGE [...] Summary: With its reliance on agricultural exports and hydro-electric power generation, Argentina is highly vulnerable to the effects of climate change. As such, the country's plans tend to focus on adaptation rather than mitigation. Argentina was an early participant in the negotiations lea [...] | 2009-05-22 11:24:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV KGHG ENRG PREL AR |
09BUENOSAIRES612 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAMS [...] No summary [...] | 2009-05-26 18:28:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PINR MARR AR |
09BUENOSAIRES613 | ARGENTINA: CFK EUPHORIC ABOUT PRESIDENT OBAMA'S [...] (U) The Argentine presidency released to the press the text of President Obama's national day message for the May 25 holiday (ref A),and President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner (CFK) said ""it is something more than a gesture of greeting for all Argentines. The text speaks of democracies tha [...] | 2009-05-26 19:36:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL OPDC AR |
09BUENOSAIRES614 | ARGENTINA: INFORMATION FOR COUNTRY REVIEW [...] (SBU) Post responses to questions in para 5 of ref A follow: 2. (C) Has the host country, in Post's opinion, worked to promote the advancement of democracy and human rights in Cuba? Answer: No. The GOA has not taken public or private actions in the past year to promote the advancement of [...] | 2009-05-26 20:10:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ETRD ETTC CU AR |
09BUENOSAIRES620 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAMS [...] No summary [...] | 2009-05-27 21:11:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PINR MARR AR |
09BUENOSAIRES621 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAMS [...] No summary [...] | 2009-05-27 21:13:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PINR MARR AR |
09BUENOSAIRES622 | ARGENTINA: CODEL THOMPSON, MAY 28-30, 2009 [...] The Ambassador warmly welcomes Representative Bennie G. Thompson and the congressional delegation he is leading to Argentina. The purpose of the trip is to examine counterterrorism cooperation, emerging threats, maritime security, and Department of Homeland Security operations. See ref B for [...] | 2009-05-28 11:19:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | OREP AMGT ASEC AFIN AR |
09BUENOSAIRES626 | ARGENTINA: AMBASSADOR THANKS SUPREME COURT CHIEF [...] (SBU) Summary: The Ambassador paid a farewell call, May 26, on Supreme Court Chief Justice Ricardo Lorenzetti, commending the Court for its efforts to strengthen the judicial system and to improve its functioning and access for the country's most vulnerable sectors. The Chief Justice had rec [...] | 2009-05-28 21:22:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV KJUS SNAR PHUM AR |
09BUENOSAIRES627 | Argentina: GoA Pension Fund Gives Credits to General Motors [...] (SBU) The GOA's national pension fund (ANSES) will provide GM Argentina up to US$ 70 million in credits to support the company's production of its new "Viva" compact car. The Viva will incorporate Brazilian parts and be targeted for export to other Latin American markets. President Cristina F [...] | 2009-05-28 21:25:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EINV EIND ELTN ETRD AR |
09BUENOSAIRES628 | IAEA DG RACE: JAPANESE REQUEST APPROACHING CFK VIA [...] (C) The head of the Japanese Embassy's political section in Buenos Aires, First Secretary Kenya Uno, called on polcouns May 26 and said Ambassador Yukiya Amano, Japanese candidate for Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency, had visited Buenos Aires and met with Argentine FM [...] | 2009-05-28 21:34:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KNNP AORC IAEA PARM AR |
09BUENOSAIRES631 | ARGENTINA: SUPREME COURT OPENS THE DOOR FOR AMIA [...] (SBU) On May 27, Argentina's Supreme Court ordered the reopening of the investigation into the so-called "local connection" involved in the 1994 bombing of the Argentine-Jewish Mutual Association (AMIA). The court ruled 4 to 2 that Carlos Telleldin, who was previously acquitted, should be tri [...] | 2009-05-29 15:11:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PREL ASEC MASS PHUM SNAR KJUS IR LE AR |
09BUENOSAIRES632 | ARGENTINA: AMBASSADOR'S FAREWELL CALL ON CFK [...] (C) Summary and introduction: During his one-on-one May 27 farewell call on Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner (CFK),the Ambassador orally delivered a message from the President of appreciation for Argentine cooperation at the recent summits (para 5). CFK thanked the Ambassad [...] | 2009-05-29 17:30:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECON AR |
09BUENOSAIRES634 | (C) ARGENTINE PLANS TO WORK TOWARD COMPROMISE ON [...] (C) During the Ambassador's May 28 farewell call on Argentine FM Jorge Taiana (septel),Taiana characterized the Cuba issue as "the big challenge" at the June 1-3 OAS General Assembly. Taiana noted there were three groups within the OAS: "Bolivarian bloc" hardliners pushing for Cuba's re-admi [...] | 2009-05-29 19:30:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL OAS CU AR |
09BUENOSAIRES641 | ARGENTINA: AMBASSADOR’S FAREWELL CALL ON FM TAIANA [...] (C) Summary and introduction: Argentine FM Jorge Taiana told the Ambassador, during the latter's May 28 farewell call, that the GOA had no intention of following Venezuela's lead on expropriations. Taiana expressed concern about the visit of a team from the FAA and the prospect (which has since rec [...] | 2009-06-02 14:42:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECON EAIR MASS SENV AMGT VZ AR |
09BUENOSAIRES643 | ARGENTINA: BUENOS AIRES GOVERNOR'S OFFICE THANKS [...] (C) Summary: Secretary General to the Buenos Aires Governor's Office Jose Scioli (JS) visited Ambassador Wayne May 29 to extend the appreciation of his brother, Buenos Aires Governor Daniel Scioli, for the Embassy's close collaboration. JS is a chief adviser to Governor Scioli, Argentina's fo [...] | 2009-06-02 17:40:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV SNAR AR |
09BUENOSAIRES644 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SECURITY ASSISTANCE PROGRAM [...] No summary [...] | 2009-06-02 20:29:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PINR MARR AR |
09BUENOSAIRES647 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAMS [...] No summary [...] | 2009-06-03 17:38:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PINR MARR AR |
09BUENOSAIRES648 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAMS [...] No summary [...] | 2009-06-03 17:39:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PINR MARR AR |
09BUENOSAIRES649 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAMS [...] No summary [...] | 2009-06-03 17:41:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PINR MARR AR |
09BUENOSAIRES65 | ARGENTINA: ANNUAL OVERSEAS SECURITY ADVISORY [...] (SBU) Overall Crime and Safety Situation. A. Crime Threat Levels. Crime is a serious problem in Argentina, but one that can be managed with common sense precautions. Street crime has become common and increasingly more violent, and often is perpetrated with a firearm or other deadly wea [...] | 2009-01-21 15:12:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC AR CASC |
09BUENOSAIRES653 | ARGENTINA: AMBASSADOR'S FAREWELL ON VP COBOS [...] (C) Summary: The Ambassador engaged with Vice President Julio Cobos during a June 1 farewell call at his Senate President office on improvements in bilateral cooperation over the past three years, Argentina's upcoming congressional elections, and the importance of a strong education system. Co [...] | 2009-06-04 17:51:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV AR |
09BUENOSAIRES654 | ARGENTINA: ARGENTINA: LES WAGE LEVELS CONTINUE TO [...] (U) This document is sensitive but unclassified. It should not be disseminated outside of USG channels or in any public forum without the written concurrence of the originator. It should not be posted on the internet. ------- Summary ------- 2. (SBU) With the Argentine economy slowing [...] | 2009-06-04 19:20:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN AMGT AFSN APER ECON AR |
09BUENOSAIRES655 | ARGENTINA: CAMPAIGNING K STYLE [...] (SBU) Summary: With congressional midterm elections less than a month away, campaign season is in full swing throughout Argentina. In Buenos Aires province, the key electoral district in the June 28 race, principal candidates of the three main electoral forces -- the Kirchner-allied ruling Vi [...] | 2009-06-04 20:11:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON AR |
09BUENOSAIRES656 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAMS [...] No summary [...] | 2009-06-04 20:17:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PINR MARR AR |
09BUENOSAIRES657 | ARGENTINA: CFK PRAISES U.S. ROLE IN OAS RESOLUTION [...] (C) Summary and introduction: President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner (CFK) praised the USG's role in the the OAS decision to lift the ban on Cuba's participation, which she called "historic" and a portent of "new winds" blowing in the hemisphere. Foreign Minister Jorge Taiana took credit f [...] | 2009-06-04 20:41:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM ETRD OAS CU AR |
09BUENOSAIRES658 | ARGENTINA: CODEL Thompson Advances Bilateral Homeland [...] (U) Summary: The May 28-30 visit of CODEL Bennie Thompson to Argentina helped to advance bilateral cooperation on port and other infrastructure security issues, as well as positively demonstrate broad USG interest in bilateral cooperation with Argentina. Representatives Thompson (Chairman, Home [...] | 2009-06-04 20:52:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OREP PREL PGOV PTER SNAR AR |
09BUENOSAIRES66 | ARGENTINA: CENTRAL BANK PRESIDENT DEFENDS [...] (C) Central Bank (BCRA) President Martin Redrado emphasized his success maintaining relative market confidence in the Argentine Peso in the face of four major financial crises since August 2007. In a January 16 meeting with Ambassador, he discounted market expectations of a large depreciation [...] | 2009-01-21 19:23:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN AR |
09BUENOSAIRES665 | ARGENTINA: U.S. ELECTRONICS FIRMS FACE GOA TAX MEASURES [...] (SBU) The GoA has proposed a legislative initiative that aims to promote domestic assembly of computer and telecom electronics and create jobs in Argentina's southern Tierra del Fuego (TdF) province by raising taxes on products imported or manufactured elsewhere in Argentina. President Cristin [...] | 2009-06-07 19:34:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EINV EIND ELTN ETRD AR |
09BUENOSAIRES666 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAMS [...] No summary [...] | 2009-06-09 11:31:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PINR SNAR AR |
09BUENOSAIRES668 | ARGENTINA ON IAEA FUEL BANK DISCUSSIONS AND IAEA [...] (SBU) Political Officer spoke June 5 with the Argentine Foreign Ministry's Director for International Security, Nuclear and Space Affairs (DIGAN),Gustavo Ainchil, to deliver Refs A and B demarches. 2. (SBU) Addressing the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) budget, Ainchil said that [...] | 2009-06-09 13:35:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PARM KNNP IAEA AR |
09BUENOSAIRES669 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAMS [...] No summary [...] | 2009-06-09 16:12:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PINR SNAR AR |
09BUENOSAIRES67 | CANADIAN AMBASSADOR ON ARGENTINE SUMMITRY, NUCLEAR [...] (SBU) A January 14 discussion between Ambassador Wayne and Canadian Ambassador Tim Martin covered Argentina's poor preparation for regional summits and the G-20, as well as Canada's nuclear energy and mining agenda with Argentina. 2. (SBU) Brazil's regional agenda and the Summit of the Amer [...] | 2009-01-21 20:21:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EMIN KSUM PREL CA AR |
09BUENOSAIRES679 | Staffdel Winters in Argentina - Piracy and Television [...] (U) This document is sensitive but unclassified. It should not be disseminated outside of USG channels or in any public forum without the written concurrence of the originator. It should not be posted on the Internet. ------- Summary ------- 2. (SBU) Staffdel Winters visited Argentina [...] | 2009-06-10 20:58:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KIPR ECON PGOV PREL AR |
09BUENOSAIRES68 | ARGENTINA: TECHINT CEO ON VENEZUELA [...] (C) On January 16, Ambassador had breakfast with Paolo Rocca, CEO of Argentine multinational Techint. The two reviewed Techint,s current problems with the Government of Argentina (GoA) over rescheduling debt payments of the regulated Argentine natural gas pipeline company TGN; over Techint's p [...] | 2009-01-21 20:42:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EPET ELAB EINV VZ AR |
09BUENOSAIRES684 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAMS [...] No summary [...] | 2009-06-11 20:20:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PINR MARR AR |
09BUENOSAIRES686 | ARGENTINA: INPUT FOR LABOR SECRETARY SOLIS MEETING IN [...] THIS CABLE IS SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED. NOT FOR INTERNET DISTRIBUTION. 2. (SBU) Summary and Introduction: Labor Secretary Solis' upcoming June 15 meeting with Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner (CFK) represents an opportunity to assure the Argentine government (GOA) tha [...] | 2009-06-11 20:49:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB KTIP SOCI AR |
09BUENOSAIRES693 | ARGENTINA: CFK ANNOUNCES CUBA HAS AUTHORIZED [...] (SBU) Argentine media are reporting that President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner (CFK) announced June 12 that Cuban authorities issued a passport to dissident neurosurgeon Hilda Molina and are allowing her to leave the island. For 15 years, Molina had been seeking permission to travel to Arg [...] | 2009-06-12 22:25:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM CU AR |
09BUENOSAIRES694 | ARGENTINA: DEMARCHES ON IAEA FUEL BANK DISCUSSIONS [...] (C) Political Officer spoke June 12 with Dr. Carlos Cherniak in the Argentine Foreign Ministry's Directorate for International Security, Nuclear and Space Affairs (DIGAN),to deliver Ref A demarche. Cherniak was familiar with the Director General's latest reports on Iran and Syria and said th [...] | 2009-06-12 22:31:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL IAEA PARM KNNP AR |
09BUENOSAIRES695 | ARGENTINA: H1N1: HEALTH MINISTRY HAS BEEN WORKING AT ALERT [...] On June 11, ESTCouns called Sebastian Tobar, Director of International Health Relations at the Ministry of Health (MOH),to discuss the recent WHO announcement that it had raised the alert level for Influenza A H1N1 from level five to level six. Tobar commented that the Argentina MOH had been [...] | 2009-06-13 19:03:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | TBIO SOCI PGOV PREL AR |
09BUENOSAIRES698 | ARGENTINA: KIRCHNER USES DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE ARM [...] (C) Summary: Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner's husband and former President Nestor Kirchner (NK) reportedly has called on Argentina's Secretariat of Intelligence (SIDE) to dig up dirt against his closest competitor, Peronist dissident Francisco De Narvaez, and other politica [...] | 2009-06-16 10:35:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV SNAR KJUS PHUM ECON AR |
09BUENOSAIRES699 | Poverty in Argentina: A Silent Crisis? [...] (SBU) According to official GoA statistics, poverty levels continued to fall in the second half of 2008, reaching 15.3% of the urban Argentine population (with extreme poverty declining to 4.4%). However, doubts about the validity of other official Argentine statistics have led many analysts a [...] | 2009-06-16 17:47:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN PGOV AR |
09BUENOSAIRES70 | ARGENTINE REACTION TO PRESIDENTIAL INAUGURATION OVERWHELMINGLY POSITIVE [...] No summary [...] | 2009-01-22 16:41:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV AR |
09BUENOSAIRES700 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAMS [...] No summary [...] | 2009-06-17 17:29:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PINR MARR AR |
09BUENOSAIRES701 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAMS [...] No summary [...] | 2009-06-17 17:29:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PINR MARR AR |
09BUENOSAIRES702 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAMS [...] No summary [...] | 2009-06-17 17:30:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PINR MARR AR |
09BUENOSAIRES704 | ARGENTINE JUDGE INDICTS DOZEN INVOLVED IN MAY 17 [...] (SBU) Summary: An Argentine judge has indicted a dozen persons for their involvement in a violent attack (reftel) on a Buenos Aires city celebration May 17 marking the 61st anniversary of the founding of Israel. The Israeli Ambassador and the head of the Jewish community's political advocacy [...] | 2009-06-17 20:48:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PTER PHUM ASEC AR |
09BUENOSAIRES71 | Buenos Aires Inaugural Reception Attracts Argentine Elite, [...] SUMMARY: An Inauguration Reception held at Ambassador Wayne's residence in Buenos Aires on January 20 brought substantial praise from both participants and the Argentine press. The over 200 key Argentine contacts attending the event in the midst of summer holidays; thus were treated to a Pow [...] | 2009-01-22 17:06:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL OEXC OIIP SCUL KPAO PGOV AR |
09BUENOSAIRES712 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAMS [...] No summary [...] | 2009-06-19 18:29:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PINR MARR AR |
09BUENOSAIRES721 | ARGENTINA: H1N1 DEATH TOLL CLIMBS TO SIX [...] Summary: H1N1 cases in Argentina continue to increase. In response, the Ministry of Health (MOH) has begun to focus on defined risk groups. Reacting to an increased pattern of local transmission rather than contagion from outside the country, the MOH has moved from a strategy of containment [...] | 2009-06-19 21:51:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | TBIO SOCI PGOV PREL AR |
09BUENOSAIRES722 | ARGENTINA: PRO UNION'S MULTIMILLION DOLLAR CAMPAIGN [...] (C) Summary: With less than one week remaining before the June 28 congressional elections, most polls continue to show the Kirchner-allied Victory Front (FpV) and the Peronist dissident slate, PRO Union, in a statistical dead heat in this race's key electoral district, Buenos Aires province. T [...] | 2009-06-22 16:39:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON AR |
09BUENOSAIRES729 | ARGENTINE MID-TERMS: RADICALS AND CIVIC COALITION [...] (C) Summary: Argentina's center-left alliance of the opposition Civic Coalition (CC),Radical Civic Union (UCR),and Socialist parties is likely to gain congressional seats nationwide in June 28 elections. Their campaign, however, has not caught hold in either Buenos Aires city or province, w [...] | 2009-06-23 12:57:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON AR |
09BUENOSAIRES734 | ARGENTINA SEEKS U.S PARTICIPATION AT FIFTH HEMISPHERIC [...] (SBU) This is an action request for WHA/PDA and USDOC/USFCS/OIO/WH. Please see para 5 for request. 2. (SBU) CDA Kelly attended a June 22 MFA briefing for all Western Hemisphere missions on the Fifth Hemispheric Summit of Mayors and Local Officials to be held, September 2-4 in Mar del Plata, [...] | 2009-06-24 14:54:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KDEM KSUM EAID KPAO BEXP AR |
09BUENOSAIRES739 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAMS [...] No summary [...] | 2009-06-25 14:09:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PINR PTER MARR AR |
09BUENOSAIRES740 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAMS [...] No summary [...] | 2009-06-25 14:10:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PINS PTER AR |
09BUENOSAIRES741 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAMS [...] No summary [...] | 2009-06-25 14:12:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PINR MARR AR |
09BUENOSAIRES742 | ARGENTINA'S JUNE 28 CONGRESSIONAL ELECTIONS: THE [...] (C) Summary and introduction: Argentina's ruling Victory Front alliance (FpV) appears headed for a nationwide defeat in the June 28 mid-term congressional elections and will likely lose its majority in the Chamber of Deputies and possibly in the Senate. The election is unlikely to clarify ful [...] | 2009-06-25 21:56:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM PINR PHUM AR |
09BUENOSAIRES747 | Argentina: Buenos Aires City Mayor Mauricio Macri [...] Post received a June 22 letter from Buenos Aires City Mayor Mauricio Macri to President Obama applauding the President's efforts to promote the Middle East Peace process and pledging to do his part to promote peace between Argentina's large Jewish and Muslim communities. Macri, a businessman [...] | 2009-06-26 18:38:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL OPDC KPAO PTER PBTS XF AR |
09BUENOSAIRES748 | (C) ARGENTINA: H1N1 DEATHS SURGING [...] (C) Summary: Argentina's Ministry of Health (MOH) puts the number of confirmed H1N1 cases at 1486, 335 of whom are currently hospitalized. Officially, 23 patients have died, but several sources claim that there have been at least 15 additional deaths and a broader incidence of cases. Eighty [...] | 2009-06-26 20:31:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | TBIO SOCI PGOV PREL AR AMED |
09BUENOSAIRES750 | Argentine Mid-Terms: Kirchners Suffer a Major Setback [...] (SBU) Summary: Argentina's ruling party and allies suffered a major setback in the June 28 congressional mid-term elections, winning only about 30% of the vote nationwide and likely losing its majority in both chambers of Congress. In the key race of Buenos Aires province, the ticket headed b [...] | 2009-06-29 17:14:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PINR AR |
09BUENOSAIRES752 | ARGENTINE HEALTH MINISTER RESIGNS JOB MID-PANDEMIC [...] (SBU) Summary: Argentine Minister of Health Graciela Ocana has resigned the day after the GOA lost big in mid-term legislative elections. Ocana reportedly resigned due to her belief that she was not getting the support she needed to combat an ongoing dengue crisis that has been partly eclips [...] | 2009-06-29 20:47:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TBIO SOCI PGOV PREL AMED ELAB AR |
09BUENOSAIRES756 | ARGENTINE PRESIDENT CFK CALMLY SPINS ADVERSE [...] (C) Summary and introduction: Argentine president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner (CFK) addressed the nation June 29 via live television to put the previous day's election results in perspective. She sought to put the best possible face on the electoral results, noting it was not unusual for [...] | 2009-06-30 21:13:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR KDEM AR |
09BUENOSAIRES757 | ARGENTINE PRESIDENT CFK PLANNING TO ESCORT ZELAYA [...] (SBU) Argentine president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner (CFK) announced during a June 29 press conference regarding the previous day's legislative elections (septel) that she had spoken June 28 with Honduran President Zelaya, Chilean President Bachelet, and Ecuadorian President Correa regardin [...] | 2009-06-30 21:24:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM OAS HO AR |
09BUENOSAIRES759 | ARGENTINA NOT MOVING YET ON IAEA DG RACE, BUT [...] (C) Argentina continues to largely accept the U.S. analysis of the July 2nd IAEA vote and is clearly considering the U.S. case for voting in favor of Japanese candidate Amano. Charge d'Affaires spoke with Ministry of Foreign Affairs Cabinet Chief D'Alotto on Friday, June 26, to elicit his fee [...] | 2009-07-01 14:48:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL IAEA PARM KNNP AR |
09BUENOSAIRES762 | (C) ARGENTINA OFFERS ABSTENTION ON FIFTH ROUND IN [...] (C) Following up on Charge d'Affaires' June 26 outreach (ref B),Argentina Ministry of Foreign Affairs Chief of Staff Alberto D'Alotto phoned CDA July 1 to inform him that Argentina had reconsidered its position on the IAEA DG race. D'Alotto said that Foreign Minister Taiana had determined tha [...] | 2009-07-01 20:03:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PARM KNNP IAEA AR |
09BUENOSAIRES77 | Argentina: Message from Argentine Foreign Minister to [...] Argentine Foreign Minister Jorge E. Taiana sent January 22 a new message of congratulations to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on taking office, following up on the (ref A) letter he sent on her nomination. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs informed the Embassy that it sent to Washington the [...] | 2009-01-23 18:29:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL OVIP OPDC AR |
09BUENOSAIRES772 | ARGENTINA ACCEPTS OBLIGATIONS UNDER UNSCR 1874 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-07-02 13:22:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PARM PREL MNUC MTCRE KN AR |
09BUENOSAIRES773 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAMS [...] No summary [...] | 2009-07-02 14:03:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PINR MARR AR |
09BUENOSAIRES775 | (C) ARGENTINA: EMBASSY RECOMMENDS THANKING FM [...] (U) Action Request for Department in paragraph three. 2. (C) Following the decision by the GOA on July 1 (ref B) to offer an abstention in the fifth round of voting for IAEA DG candidate Amano, Political Counselor received a call July 2 from Japanese Embassy First Secretary Kenya Uno to expr [...] | 2009-07-02 20:08:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PARM KNNP IAEA AR |
09BUENOSAIRES776 | Argentina: Transport Secretary Resigns; Other Key Changes [...] (SBU) Ricardo Jaime, Argentine Secretary of Transportation, resigned on July 1 in the face of numerous criminal charges on grounds of alleged corruption. His replacement is close to one of the President's most trusted advisors. Several other changes are rumored to be close, or even to have al [...] | 2009-07-02 21:49:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ECON EFIN SNAR KCOR AR |
09BUENOSAIRES778 | H1N1: ARGENTINA DECLINES TO DECLARE H1N1 EMERGENCY--FOR [...] SUMMARY: The death toll in Argentina attributed to H1N1 influenza has reached 55. In the midst of this crisis, the Government of Argentina (GOA) has appointed a new Minister with extensive public health experience (reftel). Although the new Minister declined to declare a national health eme [...] | 2009-07-06 11:41:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | TBIO SOCI PGOV PREL AMED ELAB AR |
09BUENOSAIRES783 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAMS [...] No summary [...] | 2009-07-06 17:39:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PINR MARR AR |
09BUENOSAIRES784 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAMS [...] No summary [...] | 2009-07-06 17:41:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PINR MARR AR |
09BUENOSAIRES787 | ARGENTINE PRESIDENT CFK RETURNS EMPTY-HANDED FROM [...] (C) Summary: Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner (CFK) returned to Buenos Aires July 6 from a 60-hour trip that took her to Washington and El Salvador in a failed attempt to restore Manuel Zelaya to the presidency of Honduras. In El Salvador, CFK argued that she was on a missi [...] | 2009-07-06 21:51:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM PHUM OAS HO AR |
09BUENOSAIRES790 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAMS [...] No summary [...] | 2009-07-07 19:14:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PINR MARR AR |
09BUENOSAIRES794 | ARGENTINA: PROFILING KEY KIRCHNER-ALLIED PIQUETERO LEADERS REF: (A) BUENOS AIRES 0526 (B) 08 BUENOS AIRES 1550 AND PREVIOUS (C) 08 BUENOS AIRES 1715 (D) BUENOS AIRES 0315 (E) BUENOS AIRES 0750 AND [...] (SBU) Summary: Despite sharing the same goals -- job creation, social inclusion, and state intervention in the economy -- the leaders of Argentina's social activist movements, known as ""piqueteros,"" differ on how to achieve those objectives. Indeed, former President Nestor Kirchner's efforts t [...] | 2009-07-07 21:35:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON PHUM SOCI ASEC PTER AR |
09BUENOSAIRES795 | Argentina: Keeping Score on the Pollsters [...] (SBU) Summary: Most Argentine polling firms did not foresee former President Nestor Kirchner and his Victory Front (FpV) slate's second-place finish in the June 28 election in Buenos Aires province. Only four polling firms (Poliarquia, Giacobbe, Isonomia, and Management and Fit) accurately pr [...] | 2009-07-07 21:47:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV AR |
09BUENOSAIRES796 | ARGENTINA WILL PARTICIPATE IN ITSO ASSEMBLY [...] No summary [...] | 2009-07-07 22:00:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECPS EFIN AORC ECON INTELSAT KTIA PREL TSPA AR |
09BUENOSAIRES799 | ARGENTINA PONDERS A POST-KIRCHNER WORLD [...] (C) Summary and introduction: As Argentines continue to sort through the implications of the June 28 congressional mid-term elections, it is still too early to determine whether president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner (CFK) and her husband Nestor (NK) suffered a mortal blow or merely a tempo [...] | 2009-07-08 19:32:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM ECON AR |
09BUENOSAIRES8 | ARGENTINA: DEPUTIES ENGAGE WITH CODEL MEEKS ON [...] (SBU) Summary: Argentine Members of Congress meeting with CODEL Meeks December 17 saw the beginning of a new U.S. administration as a "window of opportunity" to strengthen bilateral relations while bemoaning what they characterized as the USG's past focus on confronting "problem" countries ins [...] | 2009-01-02 18:38:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL OREP PGOV ECON SNAR PTER AR |
09BUENOSAIRES801 | ARGENTINA: POWERFUL KIRCHNER ALLY ON [...] (C) Summary: CDA and Buenos Aires Province Vice-Governor Alberto Balestrini discussed July 7 Argentina's political panorama following former President Nestor Kirchner (NK) and his Victory Front (FpV) slate's second-place finish in the June 28 election in Buenos Aires province. A powerful insider an [...] | 2009-07-08 20:32:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV SNAR AR |
09BUENOSAIRES802 | ARGENTINA: CABINET SHUFFLE UNLIKELY TO AUGUR MAJOR [...] (C) Summary: Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner (CFK) shuffled her Cabinet on July 7 a week after her party's defeat in a mid-term vote, but the personnel moves do not bring much new blood to the administration. CFK named feisty Minister of Justice Anibal Fernandez as her new [...] | 2009-07-08 20:36:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR ECON SNAR MASS AR |
09BUENOSAIRES805 | Argentine Economy Minister Shuffle Augurs No Economic [...] (SBU) As predicted in Ref A (para 14),the GoA appointed Amado Boudou, previously the head of the GoA's social security administration, as the new Minister of Economy on July 7. Boudou, with a classical background in economics and a reputation as a mercenary, is seen as someone who will not in [...] | 2009-07-08 21:46:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ECON PREL PINR AR |
09BUENOSAIRES806 | ARGENTINA: H1N1 EPICENTER OF THE WORLD [...] SUMMARY: A Mexican H1N1 expert believes that Argentina is now the epicenter of the worldwide H1N1 pandemic. To aggressively counteract the disease's spread, a consortium of Argentine health experts and officials agree to standardize treatment with oseltamivir. In preparation, hundreds of th [...] | 2009-07-08 22:20:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | TBIO SOCI PGOV PREL AMED ELAB AR |
09BUENOSAIRES807 | Argentine Government Responds Calmly to GSP Review [...] (SBU) The GoA's response to the removal of Argentine biodiesel from receiving duty-free treatment after a review of the Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) program was measured. A Foreign Ministry press release on the review didn't mention the removal, and a GoA Minister said there was "no [...] | 2009-07-10 11:49:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD EINV AR |
09BUENOSAIRES811 | ARGENTINA: FIRST AND SECOND QUARTER INL REPORT [...] (SBU) Summary: Argentina experienced increased drug trafficking pressure during the first six months of 2009, with the apparently expanding use of small aircraft to traffic cocaine and marijuana across the country's northern borders. Cargoes are quickly offloaded at clandestine strips and dist [...] | 2009-07-13 11:39:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SNAR PREL AFIN KCRM PGOV AR |
09BUENOSAIRES816 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAMS [...] No summary [...] | 2009-07-13 20:39:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PINR PTER SNAR AR |
09BUENOSAIRES817 | ARGENTINE CANDIDATE FOR UNESCO SEEKS SUPPORT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Daniel Filmus, Argentina's former Minister of Education, Science, and Technology, is now running for President of UNESCO 35th Conference. He seeks U.S. support for his candidacy. END SUMMARY. 2. (SBU) The Argentine MFA hosted a meeting for chiefs of mission on July 8 to pro [...] | 2009-07-13 21:06:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL SCUL AORC UNESCO AR |
09BUENOSAIRES819 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAMS [...] No summary [...] | 2009-07-14 13:16:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PINR MARR AR |
09BUENOSAIRES82 | ARGENTINA BACKS OFF BOTNIA PROTEST [...] (SBU) Summary: After allowing protesters to block the main bridge between Argentina and Uruguay for over two years, the Government of Argentina has reversed course and begun to express opposition to the protest. The Kirchner-allied governor of Entre Rios in December made headlines by concedin [...] | 2009-01-23 20:36:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL SENV PBTS ASEC CASC AR |
09BUENOSAIRES824 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAMS [...] No summary [...] | 2009-07-14 19:12:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PINR MARR AR |
09BUENOSAIRES827 | NOW WHAT? THE KIRCHNERS' OPTIONS IN POST-ELECTION [...] (C) Summary/Introduction. More than two weeks have passed since Argentina's ruling first couple lost badly in mid-term congressional elections. It has taken President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner (CFK) and her husband Nestor time to process the meaning of the debacle and respond. Though the GOA h [...] | 2009-07-15 18:28:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | SECRET | PGOV PREL ECON AR |
09BUENOSAIRES831 | (C/NF) ARGENTINA: INTELLIGENCE CHIEF IN SANTA CRUZ [...] (C/NF) SUMMARY. Local press recently linked Wilfredo Roque, the chief of the Santa Cruz provincial office of Argentina's intelligence agency, SIDE, to a trafficking in persons (TIP) ring led by Alejandro Guerrero and his wife "Yani." A local TV show aired footage showing Roque's right hand m [...] | 2009-07-16 13:24:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PHUM KTIP KCRM KWMN PGOV SNAR ASEC ELAB AR |
09BUENOSAIRES839 | ARGENTINA: KIRCHNERS AND LABOR LEADER MOYANO RENEW [...] (C) Summary: Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner (CFK) and her husband, former President Nestor Kirchner, are solicitously rewarding General Workers Confederation (CGT) leader Hugo Moyano in order to ensure his support at a time when many others seem to be defecting from govern [...] | 2009-07-16 21:49:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ELAB AR |
09BUENOSAIRES841 | ARGENTINE PROPOSAL ON COOPERATION FOR CONSERVATION OF THE [...] (SBU) Charge received on July 15 a non-paper from Ambassador Antonio Trombetta, the Argentine MFA's Director of North American Affairs, and Marcelo Santos, National Director of Fishing Coordination at the Secretariat of Agriculture. The non-paper is a proposed MOU between the GoA and the USG i [...] | 2009-07-17 17:01:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV EFIS PREL ECON PBTS AR UK |
09BUENOSAIRES844 | ARGENTINA: SECOND LARGEST NUMBER OF H1N1- [...] (U) SUMMARY: With 2,485 confirmed cases and 137 deaths, Argentina is now second only to the United States in the number of fatalities attributed to the H1N1 influenza outbreak. A USG donation of 120,000 treatment units of Tamiflu to Argentina was well-received, with the new Health Minister s [...] | 2009-07-17 20:44:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TBIO SOCI PGOV PREL AMED ELAB CASC AR |
09BUENOSAIRES846 | 2009 REPORT ON INVESTMENT DISPUTES AND EXPROPRIATION [...] (SBU) The United States Government is aware of sixteen (16) claims against the Government of Argentina (GOA),one of which was resolved during 2007 but whose award has not been implemented by the GOA yet (Claimant C),and two others that were resolved during 2008 and 2009 (Claimant I and Claim [...] | 2009-07-20 18:45:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINV KIDE ECON PGOV PREL OPIC AR |
09BUENOSAIRES849 | ARGENTINA: NEW JUSTICE MINISTER PLEDGES TO [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see para 6. 2. (C) Summary. Argentina's newly-appointed Minister of Justice Julio Cesar Alak pledged to continue bilateral law enforcement cooperation in a productive courtesy call meeting with CDA on July 21. During the meeting, the CDA briefed Alak [...] | 2009-07-21 22:07:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KTIP SNAR PTER EFIN KCRM MASS AR |
09BUENOSAIRES851 | ARGENTINA: DATA COLLECTION OF GOVERNMENT INTERVENTIONS RE [...] Through contacts with Argentine officials and healthcare professionals, Post developed the following timeline of public health interventions, as requested in reftel: -- First cases: The first case of H1N1 in Argentina was detected on May 7, 2009, in Buenos Aires and the second on May 22 in [...] | 2009-07-22 14:13:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TBIO SOCI PGOV PREL AMED ELB CASC AR |
09BUENOSAIRES853 | (S/NF) ARGENTINA: WILL CRISTINA FINISH HER TERM? [...] (S/NF) Summary/Introduction. The devastating setback dealt by Argentine voters to the government in the June 28 mid-term elections has restored to respectability last year's fashionable political forecast -- that Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner (CFK) will not reach the end of her term as President i [...] | 2009-07-22 16:47:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | SECRET | PGOV ECON AR |
09BUENOSAIRES857 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAMS [...] No summary [...] | 2009-07-22 21:02:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PINR MARR AR |
09BUENOSAIRES86 | Argentina - Scenesetter for Codel Costello [...] (SBU) On behalf of Embassy Buenos Aires, I warmly welcome your visit to Argentina January 30 - February 1. We have arranged meetings for your Transportation Committee delegation with U.S. private sector civil aviation representatives and have requested meetings with senior Government of Argent [...] | 2009-01-26 20:36:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OVIP CODEL ECON PREL BEXP AR |
09BUENOSAIRES861 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAMS [...] No summary [...] | 2009-07-23 16:50:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PINS PTER AR |
09BUENOSAIRES862 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAMS [...] No summary [...] | 2009-07-23 19:56:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PINR MARR AR |
09BUENOSAIRES863 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAMS [...] No summary [...] | 2009-07-23 19:57:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PINR MARR AR |
09BUENOSAIRES868 | ARGENTINA SUGGESTS SOLUTION TO CONTROVERSY OVER ITS CLAIM [...] (SBU) ADCM and ESTCouns met on July 22 at the Argentine MFA with Rafael Grossi, Director General for Political Coordination and a close advisor to Foreign Minister (FM) Jorge Taiana, regarding the issue of Argentina's submission of its claim to the Antarctic continental platform. Grossi reiter [...] | 2009-07-24 17:18:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PTBS PHSA AR |
09BUENOSAIRES869 | ARGENTINA: JEWISH COMMUNITY STILL SEEKS JUSTICE 15 [...] (C) Summary: The Argentine Jewish community commemorated the fifteenth anniversary of the terrorist attack on the Argentine Jewish Mutual Association (AMIA) with a small, informal gathering on July 18. The CDA attended the gathering, as did Chief Cabinet Minister Anibal Fernandez, who afterwa [...] | 2009-07-24 22:22:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PTER PREL PGOV KJUS KTIP SNAR KCRM AR |
09BUENOSAIRES87 | Argentina: Pan American Energy on Bolivian Nationalization [...] (SBU) Dennis Keleher, CFO of Pan American Energy, called Ambassador January 26 to inform him that no/no U.S. citizens were involved in the January 23 Bolivian government take-over of Empresa Petrolera Chaco SA (Chaco). He said only one UK national had been present at the takeover, that all oth [...] | 2009-01-27 09:42:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EPET ETRD EINV AR BL |
09BUENOSAIRES870 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAMS [...] No summary [...] | 2009-07-27 20:33:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PINR MARR AR |
09BUENOSAIRES871 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAMS [...] No summary [...] | 2009-07-28 20:41:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PINR MARR AR |
09BUENOSAIRES876 | ARGENTINA: ISRAELI FM VISITS ARGENTINA AND [...] (C) Summary: In what the Israeli Foreign Ministry called an effort to counter "Iran's heightened activity in South America," Israeli FM Avigdor Lieberman visited Argentina July 23-26 during the first trip to South America by an Israeli FM in over two decades. Argentina was the second stop on [...] | 2009-07-29 21:15:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IS IR AR |
09BUENOSAIRES886 | RESPONSE TO ARGENTINA'S PROPOSAL FOR AN MOU ON PATAGONIAN [...] (SBU) ESTCouns met on July 31 with Ambassador Antonio Trombetta, the Argentine MFA's Director of North American Affairs, to request clarifications (per ref A) on Argentina's proposal for an MOU on Patagonian toothfish (ref B). Trombetta confirmed that the GOA's reasons for proposing an MOU wer [...] | 2009-08-03 12:00:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIS PTBS PREL SENV AR |
09BUENOSAIRES899 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAM - Hostage [...] No summary [...] | 2009-08-04 20:13:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PINR MARR AR |
09BUENOSAIRES900 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAMS [...] No summary [...] | 2009-08-05 12:23:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PINR MARR AR |
09BUENOSAIRES907 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAM - MILITARY [...] No summary [...] | 2009-08-06 14:50:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PINR MARR AR |
09BUENOSAIRES908 | ARGENTINA: UPDATE ON H1N1 INFLUENZA [...] As of August 5, Argentina had confirmed 337 deaths due to H1N1 influenza. According to the press, over half these fatalities were in otherwise healthy patients who had no pre-existing chronic conditions or ailments. Tests to determine the cause of an additional 400 deaths are still pending. [...] | 2009-08-06 16:32:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TBIO SOCI PREL AMED ELAB CASC KIPR AR |
09BUENOSAIRES909 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAM - MILITARY [...] No summary [...] | 2009-08-07 12:31:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PINR MARR AR |
09BUENOSAIRES91 | ARGENTINE PRESIDENT'S VENEZUELA VISIT GIVES THE [...] (SBU) Summary: Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner's (CFK) January 21-23 visit to Caracas following her stop in Cuba (reftel A) sustained local interest in -- and criticism of -- her trip to Cuba and Venezuela. The visit prompted questions about the GOA's judgment on timing (as [...] | 2009-01-28 12:27:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECON EFIN PGOV PHUM AR |
09BUENOSAIRES911 | ARGENTINA: URIBE VISIT POSITIVE BUT CANNOT HEAD [...] (U) Summary: Despite a relatively cordial exchange between visiting Colombian President Uribe and Argentine President Fernandez de Kirchner (CFK),Argentine Government sources told the press both before and after the meeting that Argentina opposed the Colombia-U.S. agreement allowing USG force [...] | 2009-08-07 18:19:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER MASS SNAR PARM PGOV CO AR |
09BUENOSAIRES912 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAM [...] No summary [...] | 2009-08-07 20:41:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PINR MARR AR |
09BUENOSAIRES92 | ARGENTINA: ARGENTINES PLAY UP AMBASSADOR-INTERIOR [...] (SBU) Summary: The GOA heavily advertised the January 22 meeting of Ambassador Wayne and Interior Minister Randazzo, billing it as a GOA "gesture" to the USG which was widely interpreted as an effort to balance President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner's trip to Cuba and Venezuela (reftels) an [...] | 2009-01-28 17:10:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV AR |
09BUENOSAIRES920 | ARGENTINA AGREES TO PROPOSAL TO RESOLVE DISAGREEMENT OVER [...] (SBU) ADCM and ESTCouns delivered ref A points to the Argentine MFA's Director General for Political Coordination, Rafael Grossi, a close advisor to FM Jorge Taiana. Grossi was pleased with the USG proposal regarding Argentina's submission of its claim to the Antarctic continental platform (re [...] | 2009-08-11 19:51:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PTBS PHSA AR |
09BUENOSAIRES921 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAMS [...] No summary [...] | 2009-08-11 20:14:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PINR MARR AR |
09BUENOSAIRES924 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAM - [...] No summary [...] | 2009-08-12 13:52:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PINR MARR AR |
09BUENOSAIRES925 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAMS [...] No summary [...] | 2009-08-12 14:46:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PINR MARR AR |
09BUENOSAIRES926 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAM - TRAFFICKING [...] No summary [...] | 2009-08-12 20:43:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PINS PTER AR |
09BUENOSAIRES927 | (C) ARGENTINA: TAIANA TRIES TO EXPLAIN CFK'S [...] (C) Summary: The GOA confirmed August 12 President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner's (CFK) August 10 invitation to South American heads of government to an August 28 UNASUR meeting on the Colombia-U.S. negotiations of a Defense Cooperation Agreement (DCA). CFK made the invitation during UNASUR [...] | 2009-08-13 22:52:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MASS SNAR PTER PARM PGOV CO AR |
09BUENOSAIRES934 | ARGENTINA: CRISTINA GOES TO CARACAS TO GRAB COLOMBIAN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner (CFK) and Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez met August 11 in Caracas to discuss bilateral trade issues and sign 22 commercial accords valued at an announced US$1.1 billion. These trade agreements followed Chavez's recently annou [...] | 2009-08-14 14:15:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECON PREL AR VE |
09BUENOSAIRES938 | ARGENTINA STILL UNDECIDED ON UNESCO [...] (SBU) Acting PolCouns raised reftel points with Argentine MFA International Organizations Directorate Christian Hotton and asked if Argentina had decided which candidate it would support in the September elections for UNESCO Director-General. Hotton indicated that Argentina had not yet decid [...] | 2009-08-14 20:06:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | UNESCO PREL AR |
09BUENOSAIRES939 | ARGENTINA: SECOND DIPNOTE ON TRANSIT OF MAKIN [...] (U) Action Request for Department, see para 5. 2. (SBU) Embassy Buenos Aires received a second diplomatic note from the GOA dated August 13 regarding the transit of the Amphibious Assault Ship Makin Island LHD8 through the Strait of Magellan. An Embassy translation of the note follows: [...] | 2009-08-14 21:06:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PBTS PHSA MARR PGOV AR |
09BUENOSAIRES94 | Argentina: President Declares Drought Emergency; Farmers [...] (U) Summary: The GOA declared an agricultural emergency on January 26 due to the severe drought affecting most Argentine provinces. Under the decree, the GOA will allow producers in affected regions to delay payment of income taxes and personal property taxes for one year. The GOA will also [...] | 2009-01-29 12:30:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR ECON EINV PGOV ELAB PHUM AR |
09BUENOSAIRES941 | ARGENTINA: DUE DILIGENCE ON THREE ACE AWARD NOMINEES [...] (SBU) Mission Buenos Aires is in the midst of a multi-year strategy to improve the image of the United States in Argentina to combat this country's high levels of anti-Americanism -- among the highest in the Western Hemisphere. A key component of post's public diplomacy outreach is to draw Arg [...] | 2009-08-18 10:54:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EINV EIND ELTN ETRD AR |
09BUENOSAIRES942 | Argentina: GOA Steals the Ball, May Take over Soccer [...] (SBU) On August 11, the Argentine Football (soccer) Association (AFA) unilaterally canceled its contract with satellite TV broadcasters (TSC) -- a consortium which includes U.S. firm DirecTV and possibly some other U.S. investors -- amid rumors that the GoA was poised to offer up to US$165 mill [...] | 2009-08-18 10:54:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINV EFIN ECON PGOV KPAO AR |
09BUENOSAIRES944 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAM - LATIN [...] No summary [...] | 2009-08-18 20:27:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PINR PTER SNAR AR |
09BUENOSAIRES952 | ARGENTINA: H1N1 INFLUENZA BEGINNING TO WANE [...] As of August 20, Argentina had confirmed 441 deaths due to H1N1 influenza. Official estimates indicated that more than 800,000 people had contracted the virus to date. According to Dr. Horacio Lopez, Head of Infectious Diseases at the School of Medicine and Medical Advisor to the City of Bue [...] | 2009-08-21 16:32:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TBIO SOCI PREL AMED ELAB CASC KIPR AR |
09BUENOSAIRES96 | Argentina's Minister of Health - Crusader against [...] (U) Summary: Ambassador Wayne and Health Minister Maria Graciela Ocana discussed her Ministry's efforts to fight corruption within Argentina's public health system, the importance of drug rehabilitation programs, and prospects for future collaboration on health issues during a meeting on Janu [...] | 2009-01-29 19:00:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL SOCI TBIO ECON AR |
09BUENOSAIRES964 | ARGENTINA ENTHUSIASTIC AND RESPONSIVE ON [...] (C) Summary: A delegation led by White House Special Assistant and WMD Coordinator Gary Samore visited Argentina for consultations on August 10, generating significant goodwill and enthusiasm among Argentine interlocutors to continue bilateral consultations and cooperation on key nuclear arms [...] | 2009-08-24 20:37:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PARM PTER ENRG ETTC TRGY SENV AR |
09BUENOSAIRES966 | ARGENTINA: GOVERNMENT JOINS JEWISH COMMUNITY IN [...] (SBU) Summary: The Government of Argentina on August 21 condemned Iranian President Ahmadinejad's August 19 nomination of Ahmad Vahidi as Minister of Defense, labeling the selection an "insult to Argentine justice and to the victims of the brutal terrorists attack against the Argentine Jewish [...] | 2009-08-25 14:29:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER PARM ETTC ENRG IR AR |
09BUENOSAIRES968 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAM - SEARCH AND [...] No summary [...] | 2009-08-25 19:28:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PINR MARR AR |
09BUENOSAIRES969 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAM - Career [...] No summary [...] | 2009-08-25 19:29:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PINR MARR AR |
09BUENOSAIRES975 | ARGENTINA: CODEL GRANGER, AUGUST 30-SEPTEMBER 2 [...] The Charge d'Affaires, Tom Kelly, warmly welcomes Representative Kay Granger and the delegation she is leading to Argentina August 30 - September 2. Per reftel, the purpose of the trip is to examine Department of Justice office operations in Buenos Aires and consult with the Government of Arg [...] | 2009-08-26 15:46:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | OREP AMGT ASEC AFIN SNAR PTER KTIP AR |
09BUENOSAIRES976 | ARGENTINE MINISTER OF ECONOMY SAYS GOA IS READY TO [...] (C) Summary: CDA met August 24 with Minister of Economy and Public Finances Amado Boudou and discussed the upcoming G-20 Summit in Pittsburgh, Argentina's re-engagement with the IMF, an agreement with Paris Club debtors and bond holdouts, as well as Argentina's fiscal and economic outlook. [...] | 2009-08-26 16:04:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | EAGR ECON EFIN ENIV ETRD KSUM PREL AR |
09BUENOSAIRES978 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAM - LATIN [...] No summary [...] | 2009-08-26 19:44:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PINR PTER SNAR AR |
09BUENOSAIRES982 | ARGENTINA: SUPREME COURT RULES FOR LIMITED [...] (U) Summary: As anticipated for many months (reftel),the Argentine Supreme Court ruled August 25 against criminal penalties for the personal possession of marijuana in a case involving five young adults arrested with marijuana cigarettes in 2006. The court ruling appears to open the door to d [...] | 2009-08-28 18:30:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SNAR PREL KCRIM PGOV AR |
09BUENOSAIRES984 | DAS MCMULLEN BRIEFS ARGENTINE OFFICIALS ON [...] (C) Summary: WHA DAS Christopher McMullen visited Buenos Aires August 26-27 to brief Argentine authorities on the USG's Defense Cooperation Agreement (DCA) with Colombia ahead of the August 28 UNASUR conference hosted by Argentina in Bariloche. He had excellent meetings with Cabinet Chief Min [...] | 2009-08-28 22:16:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MASS SNAR PTER PARM PGOV CO AR |
09BUENOSAIRES988 | ARGENTINA'S CORDOBA GOVERNOR ON THE KIRCHNERS, [...] (C) Summary: Cordoba province Governor and Peronist dissident Juan Schiaretti engaged with the CDA on Argentina's First Couple, 2011 presidential candidates, and the province's budgetary woes. Schiaretti said that former President and First Spouse Nestor Kirchner (NK) sees a divided opposition as g [...] | 2009-08-31 23:11:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON EAGR AR |
09BUENOSAIRES997 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAMS [...] No summary [...] | 2009-09-02 16:17:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PINR PTER MARR AR |
09BUENOSAIRES999 | TALES FROM BARILOCHE: ARGENTINA HOSTS A SUCCESSFUL [...] (C) Summary and introduction: The August 28 summit meeting in Bariloche of South American Union (UNASUR) leaders is getting puzzled, mixed reviews. After seven hours of a rambling, inconclusive discussion (on live television) of the U.S.-Colombian Defense Cooperation Agreement (DCA) and other [...] | 2009-09-02 21:22:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL SNAR MASS AR |
09DOHA691 | QATAR INVESTMENT AUTHORITY'S 2010 INVESTMENT [...] (C) At a November 24 meeting with Ambassador, Qatar Investment Authority (QIA) Executive Board Member Dr. Hussain Al-Abdulla outlined Qatar's investment strategy for 2010. Also present at the meeting were FCS Chief Le and Poloff Caudill. In response to Ambassador Dr. Al-Abdulla said that for [...] | 2009-11-25 11:44:00 | Embassy Doha | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV EFIN EINV AR BR CH |
09HAVANA16 | DR HILDA MOLINA AND THE VISIT OF ARGENTINE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Though she would dearly like to travel to Argentina to visit her family, Dr Hilda Molina says she has little real hope that anything will come out of the upcoming visit to Cuba of Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner (CFK). End Summary. 2. (C) Dissident neurosu [...] | 2009-01-12 12:43:00 | US Interests Section Havana | CONFIDENTIAL | AR CU PHUM PREL |
09HAVANA357 | DEPARTURE OF DR HILDA MOLINA [...] (C) As has been reported widely in the media, dissident Cuban doctor Hilda Molina departed Cuba late on Saturday, June 13, and traveled to Buenos Aires to be with her seriously ill mother. Demonstrating that it can move very quickly when it wants to, the GOC provided Molina a passport and exi [...] | 2009-06-16 14:31:00 | US Interests Section Havana | CONFIDENTIAL | AR CU PGOV PHUM PREL |
09ISTANBUL346 | CONGRESSIONAL STUDY GROUP GETS BROAD VIEW OF [...] (SBU) Summary. A Congressional Study Group arranged by the Association of Former Members of Congress met with leadership from the Jewish Community, Armenian Archbishop, analyst Hugh Pope, Kurdish intellectual Umit Firat and GOT EU Affairs Minister Egemen Bagis between September 1-3. Both Jewish [...] | 2009-09-11 13:40:00 | Consulate Istanbul | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL PGOV TU AR GR CY OSCE |
09ISTANBUL350 | TURKISH ARMENIANS RELATE HOPE FOR PROGRESS IN [...] (SBU) Summary. During a meeting on September 4, Armenian Archbishop and acting Patriarch Aram Atesyan shared with visiting Ambassador Yovanovitch his optimism about the Turkish-Armenian rapprochement despite his conviction that Turkey will not change its stance on the events of 1915. He expl [...] | 2009-09-14 08:52:00 | Consulate Istanbul | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM OSCE AR TU |
09ISTANBUL403 | 11TH DINK TRIAL HEARING: A CALL FOR FILES FROM [...] (SBU) Summary. At the eleventh hearing of the Dink murder trial on October 12, attended by Istanbul PolOff, the Dink family attorneys requested that Istanbul's 14th Heavy Penal Court consider files from the Ergenekon indictments pertaining to a clandestine organization whose alleged members [...] | 2009-10-22 16:59:00 | Consulate Istanbul | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL PGOV TU AR OSCE |
09LONDON1104 | HMG HAS NOT DECIDED WHOM TO SUPPORT FOR IAEA [...] (S/NF) Summary. HMG has not decided whom to support for Director General (DG) of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA),Simon Manley, the Foreign and Commonwealth Office's (FCO) Director, Defense and Strategic Threats, told the Political Minister Counselor May 11. The issue of whom [...] | 2009-05-11 13:24:00 | Embassy London | SECRET//NOFORN | KNNP AORC IAEA PREL UK AR IR |
09LONDON993 | UK REBUFFS ARGENTINE CLAIM TO SEABED RIGHTS AROUND [...] (SBU) Summary. HMG will contest Argentina's claim for sovereign rights (including oil and mineral rights) to seabed surrounding Britain's South Atlantic Overseas Territories, including the Falkland Islands. Great Britain will submit its own claim for seabed rights for its South Atlantic te [...] | 2009-04-27 17:56:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | EPET ENRG EMIN ECON PGOV PREL MARR MOPS AR |
09MADRID59 | JANUARY 8-9 VISIT BY WHA A/S SHANNON REAFFIRMS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: A/S Shannon's January 8-9 Madrid program and subsequent media play were characterized by bilateral goodwill and Spanish optimism for a new phase in U.S.-Spanish cooperation in Latin America despite significant challenges in the region. He highlighted U.S. engagement in the Americas, [...] | 2009-01-16 16:59:00 | Embassy Madrid | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KSUM AR BL CU SP |
09MONTEVIDEO700 | UPCOMING MERCOSUR SUMMIT UNLIKELY TO SCORE MUCH PROGRESS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On December 8, Montevideo will host Mercosur's 38th Presidential Summit. The GOU's main targets at the beginning of its pro-tempore presidency were on the commercial, external relations and institutional fronts. Achievements seem to have fallen short on every front and no majo [...] | 2009-12-04 15:20:00 | Embassy Montevideo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECIN ECON ETRD BR AR PA UY |
09MOSCOW1873 | U/S BURNS JULY 7 MEETING WITH DFM KARASIN: [...] (C) Summary. In a meeting with U/S Burns July 7, on the margins of the President's visit to Moscow, Deputy Foreign Minister Grigoriy Karasin said he was optimistic about the chances of a settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. He urged the U.S. and Russia to be transparent on dealings in [...] | 2009-07-22 09:55:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR KG GG AZ AR RS |
09ROME1308 | ITALY: ARGENTINA BONDHOLDERS DIGGING IN [...] Confidential - - Entire Text. 2. Summary - Italian bondholders of defaulted Argentine debt are unlikely to take up the most recent GOA buy-out offer and intend to pursue ongoing arbitration. A bondholders' group says its members' interests vary greatly from those of US institutional investors th [...] | 2009-11-25 16:34:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN EINV AR IT |
09SANTIAGO312 | VICE PRESIDENT BIDEN'S MARCH 27 MEETING WITH ARGENTINE PRESIDENT CRISTINA FERNANDEZ DE KIRCHNER [...] (U) March 27, 2009; 7:15 pm ) 7:55 pm; Vina del Mar, Chile. 2. (U) Participants: U.S. Joseph Biden, Vice President Antony Blinken, National Security Advisor to the Vice President Brian McKeon, Deputy National Security Advisor to the Vice President Dan Restrepo, Senior Dire [...] | 2009-04-02 19:50:00 | Embassy Santiago | CONFIDENTIAL | OVIP PREL ECON PGOV SOCI ETRD AR JOSEPH BIDEN |
09SANTIAGO913 | CHILE 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 18:22:00 | Embassy Santiago | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL IR CI BR AR CU |
09STATE106834 | CHANGING THE GLOBAL NUCLEAR ENERGY PARTNERSHIP [...] (U) This is an action request. See paragraphs 4 and 5. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) In his April 5 Prague speech, President Obama called for a new framework for civil nuclear cooperation, including an international fuel bank, so that countries can access peaceful nuclear power with [...] | 2009-10-14 23:24:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG KNNP IAEA AR BR EG MX NL VM SZ KU GG AG EZ |
09STATE110433 | WHA: INSTRUCTIONS FOR 2009 TIP INTERIM ASSESSMENT [...] No summary [...] | 2009-10-26 22:54:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCRM KTIP KWMN PGOV PHUM SMIG AR BH DR GT GY NU XL |
09STATE117710 | NUCLEAR FUEL BANKS - ELICITING SUPPORT FOR THE [...] (U) This is an ACTION REQUEST: Please see para 3. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: At the November 26-27, 2009 meeting of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Board of Governors, the Board will be asked to formally approve the first proposal for an international nuclear fuel bank. Specificall [...] | 2009-11-14 00:07:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AORC KNNP IAEA ENRG TRGY TU AJ CH GM SZ BR RO AR |
09STATE119211 | PSI: UPDATE TO INVITATION TO ATTEND PSI EXERCISE [...] We wish to update all addressees about the upcoming US-UAE hosted PSI Exercise LEADING EDGE2010 and invite them to participate in or observe selected phases. This cable also provides logistical information regarding travel, billeting, and registration requirements. In addition, the exercise p [...] | 2009-11-18 20:37:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | MNUC PARM PREL KNNP MO XD XF XG XI ZK ZR AS AR NZ |
09STATE120282 | NUCLEAR FUEL BANKS - SEEKING CO-SPONSORS FOR [...] (U) This is an ACTION REQUEST: Please see para 4. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: At the November 26-27, 2009 meeting of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Board of Governors, the Board will be asked to formally approve the first proposal for an international nuclear fuel bank. Specificall [...] | 2009-11-21 00:11:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AORC KNNP IAEA ENRG TRGY TU AJ CH GM SZ BR RO AR |
09STATE124184 | INSTRUCTION: JOIN CONSENSUS ON PLENARY RESOLUTION [...] No summary [...] | 2009-12-03 23:14:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | UN PHUM UNGA AR |
09STATE132349 | (C/NF) ARGENTINA: KIRCHNER INTERPERSONAL [...] (S/NF) WASHINGTON ANALYSTS ARE INTERESTED IN ARGENTINE LEADERSHIP DYNAMICS, PARTICULARLY WITH REGARDS TO CRISTINA FERNANDEZ DE KIRCHNER AND NESTOR KIRCHNER. DRAWING ON PREVIOUS REPORTING, AND BUILDING UPON OUR OWN ANALYTIC ASSESSMENTS, WE ARE CURRENTLY PREPARING A WRITTEN PRODUCT EXAMINING THE INTE [...] | 2009-12-31 14:55:00 | Secretary of State | SECRET//NOFORN | PINR PGOV AR |
09STATE1759 | MTCR: ARGENTINE SPACE LAUNCH VEHICLE (SLV) [...] (U) This is an action request. Embassy Buenos Aires, please see paragraph 4. 2. (C) BACKGROUND: Per REF A, the United States and the government of Argentina (GOA) have agreed that Argentina will provide a one-time "state of play" briefing in Washington, D.C., in January-February 2009, [...] | 2009-01-08 16:20:00 | Secretary of State | CONFIDENTIAL | MTCRE KSCA PARM PREL MNUC ETTC TSPA AR |
09STATE18528 | A/S SHANNON,S FEBRUARY 19 MEETING WITH ARGENTINE [...] (U) Classified by: Assistant Secretary Thomas A. Shannon for E.O. 12958, Reasons 1.4 (b) AND (d). 2. (U) February 19, 2009, 10:00a.m. ) 1:00p.m. 3. (U) Participants: United States A/S Thomas Shannon DAS Christopher McMullen WHA/BSC Director Milt Drucker WHA/BSC Deputy Director Bruc [...] | 2009-02-27 16:01:00 | Secretary of State | CONFIDENTIAL | AR BL CO EC OTRA OVIP PA PBTS PREL TD VZ |
09STATE30927 | (C) KUDOS FOR BUENOS AIRES 000174 ,,"" ,,""REF: BUENOS AIRES 000174 ,,"" ,," [...] (C/NF) INR/B ANALYSTS GREATLY APPRECIATED REFTEL, WHICH ,""PROVIDED EXCELLENT INSIGHTS FROM A KNOWN POLITICAL OPERATOR ,,""IN ARGENTINA. DUHALDE'S COMMENTARY, OBSERVATIONS, AND ""ANALYSIS ON THE FIELD OF CANDIDATES IN THE PARTY, AS WELL AS ,""MAJOROPPOSITION PLAYERS WAS IMMENSELY HELPFUL TO ANALY [...] | 2009-03-31 18:58:00 | Secretary of State | SECRET//NOFORN | PINR PGOV AR |
09STATE40423 | (C/NF) KUDOS CABLE FOR EMBASSY BUENOS AIRES [...] (S/NF) INR/B OFFICERS GREATLY APPRECIATED EMBASSY BUENOS AIRES' REPORTING ON KEY FIGURES IN THE ARGENTINE GOVERNMENT. INR/B OFFICERS WERE ABLE TO USE THIS INFORMATION IN FINISHED PRODUCTS FOR SENIOR POLICYMAKERS IN ADVANCE OF THE VICE PRESIDENT'S TRIP TO CHILE IN MARCH AND THE PRESIDENT'S TRIP TO T [...] | 2009-04-22 21:13:00 | Secretary of State | SECRET//NOFORN | PINR AR |
09STATE49854 | (S/NF) KUDOS TO EMBASSY BUENOS AIRES FOR ,,""BIOGRAPHIC REPORTING AND TDY SUPPORT ,,"" ,,""REF: A. BUENOS AIRES 000490 ,," B. BUENOS AIRES 000558 ,,""Classified By: SUZANNE MCCORMICK, DIR., INR/OPS. REASON: 1.4(C). "" [...] (S/NF) INR/B OFFICERS GREATLY APPRECIATE POST'S ,,""CONTINUED COMMITMENT TO BIOGRAPHIC REPORTING AS EVIDENT IN ,," "REFTELS. OFFICERS ALSO GREATLY APPRECIATE ASSISTANCE PROVIDED ,,""BY POLITICAL OFFICER xxxxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxxxx IN BUENOS AIRES DURING ,,""21-23 APRIL. SHE WAS ESSENTIAL IN PROVIDIN [...] | 2009-05-15 14:09:00 | Secretary of State | SECRET//NOFORN | PINR AR |
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 14:41:00 | Secretary of State | SECRET//NOFORN | PINR PREL AC AR BB BF BH BL BR CI CO CS CU DO DR |
09STATE60490 | ARGENTINA -- 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 [...] | 2009-06-11 20:51:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | KTIP ELAB KCRM KPAO KWMN PGOV PHUM PREL SMIG AR |
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 21:51:00 | Secretary of State | SECRET//NOFORN | PINR ETRD MARR PREL PTER SNAR AR BH BL BR CI CO CS |
09STATE73223 | TRAVEL ALERT: ARGENTINA [...] The Department of State alerts U.S. citizens traveling to or residing in Argentina of the health risks associated with the World Health Organization (WHO)- declared 2009-H1N1 influenza pandemic, which has resulted in illness in numerous countries. The current outbreak in Argentina has caused [...] | 2009-07-15 00:02:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | CASC PTER ASEC AR |
09STATE84305 | PSI: ANNOUNCEMENT AND INVITATION TO ATTEND PSI [...] In keeping with the PSI goal to improve interdiction cooperation and capabilities through the conduct of international PSI exercises, we wish to inform all addressees about the upcoming US-UAE hosted PSI Exercise Leading Edge 2010, and invite them to participate or observe selected phases. P [...] | 2009-08-13 13:59:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | MNUC PARM PREL KNNP MO XD XF XG XI ZK ZR AS AR NZ |
09STATE85122 | NUCLEAR FUEL BANKS - LAUNCHING A LISTENING [...] (U) This is an ACTION REQUEST: Please see para 10. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) Since 2004, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Secretariat has promoted the concept of multilateral nuclear fuel assurances. This concept is intended to strengthen the international nuclear [...] | 2009-08-14 20:50:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AORC KNNP IAEA ENRG TRGY BR AR SF EG IN MY RS |
09STATE86157 | GUIDANCE: MIDDLE EAST CONSULTATIONS, AUGUST 19 [...] (U) This is an action request. USUN may draw from para. 2 building blocks when making its intervention during the upcoming Middle East consultations in the Security Council on August 19. 2. (SBU) Begin building blocks: I thank Assistant Secretary-General Fernandez-Taranco for his report [...] | 2009-08-18 23:04:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL UNSC KPAL AR BA EG IS JO LE SY |
09STATE92825 | BLUE LANTERN: VERIFYING BONA FIDES OF REGISTERED [...] This is an Action Request. See paragraphs 3-4. 2. U.S. embassies have frequently inquired about the legitimacy of arms export transactions involving U.S. contractors and host-country partners in support of U.S. efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan, or other U.S. government programs. The Depar [...] | 2009-09-08 10:42:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | ETTC KOMC AR |
09STATE93048 | BLUE LANTERN: VERIFYING BONA FIDES OF REGISTERED [...] This is an Action Request. See paragraphs 3-4. 2. U.S. embassies have frequently inquired about the legitimacy of arms export transactions involving U.S. contractors and host-country partners in support of U.S. efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan, or other U.S. government programs. The Depar [...] | 2009-09-08 16:20:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | ETTC KOMC AR |
09STATE93542 | BLUE LANTERN: VERIFYING BONA FIDES OF REGISTERED [...] This is an Action Request. See paragraphs 3-4. 2. U.S. embassies have frequently inquired about the legitimacy of arms export transactions involving U.S. contractors and host-country partners in support of U.S. efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan, or other U.S. government programs. The Depar [...] | 2009-09-09 15:14:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | ETTC KOMC AR |
09STATE93553 | BLUE LANTERN: VERIFYING BONA FIDES OF REGISTERED [...] This is an Action Request. See paragraphs 3-4. 2. U.S. embassies have frequently inquired about the legitimacy of arms export transactions involving U.S. contractors and host-country partners in support of U.S. efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan, or other U.S. government programs. The Depar [...] | 2009-09-09 15:20:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | ETTC KOMC AR |
09STATE96684 | (U) KUDOS FOR BIOGRAPHIC REPORTING (C-AL9-01990) [...] (C/NF) WASHINGTON ANALYSTS WISH TO THANK POST FOR REFTEL, WHICH PROVIDED AN EXCELLENT READOUT OF ONE OF ARGENTINA'S PRESIDENTIAL CONTENDERS. WE ARE INCREASINGLY INTERESTED IN INFORMATION REGARDING THE PRESIDENTIAL ASPIRATIONS OF ARGENTINE POLITICAL PLAYERS IN THE RUN-UP TO THE 2011 PRESIDEN [...] | 2009-09-17 15:03:00 | Secretary of State | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PINR PGOV AR |
09STATE99390 | BLUE LANTERN LEVEL 3: PRE-LICENSE END-USE CHECK [...] This is an Action Request. See paragraph 4. 2. The Department's Office of Defense Trade Controls Compliance (PM/DTCC) requests Post's assistance in conducting a pre-license check on licenses 050187515, 050190012, and 050190221 for the export of ammunition to Argentina. Post is requested to [...] | 2009-09-24 15:41:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | ETTC KOMC AR |
09TBILISI538 | GEORGIA: GOG TO RECOGNIZE OTHER FAITHS, COULD LEAD [...] (C) Summary: Reintegration Minister Temur Yakobashvili told the Ambassador on March 18 that the GoG is working on a change to the Civil Code to recognize additional churches, namely, the Armenian Apostolic Church (AAC),Catholic, Jewish, and Muslim faiths. Currently, only the Georgian Orth [...] | 2009-03-20 14:29:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV KIRF AR RU GG |
09UNVIEVIENNA563 | IAEA: THE AMANO TRANSITION, SITREP 1 [...] (U) UNVIE will report in weekly to bi-weekly installments, or as events warrant, on the personnel and management transition at the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) under its new Director General. This is the first telegram in a series that will extend into early 2010. 2. (SBU) D [...] | 2009-12-15 12:42:00 | UNVIE | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AORC PREL KNNP JP AR |
09USUNNEWYORK888 | UN GENERAL DEBATE CONTINUES (SEPTEMBER 23 PM): [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The September 23rd afternoon session of the General debate saw the U.S. delegation walk out of Iranian President Ahmedinejad's fiery diatribe against the U.S. and Israel. The Iranian President derided capitalist economic systems, defended recent election results, and condemned bo [...] | 2009-10-09 21:46:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | UNGA PREL PGOV ECON AORC KPKO SW UK IT AR |
09WELLINGTON229 | DATA COLLECTION OF NEW ZEALAND GOVERNMENT INTERVENTIONS RE [...] No summary [...] | 2009-07-23 04:27:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AR AS BC BL BR CI EC FJ ID NZ PA PE PGOV PREL SF |
10ANKARA257 | PARLIAMENT FOREIGN AFFAIRS COMMITTEE WARNS [...] (C) SUMMARY. During an extensive meeting with the Ambassador February 16, eight members of the Parliamentary Foreign Affairs Committee raised concerns about the draft Armenian Genocide Resolution now being discussed in the US Congress and warned that, if passed by the full Congress, an AGR wo [...] | 2010-02-17 10:40:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV AR TU |
10ASUNCION31 | PARAGUAY RAISES PROFILE OF TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS [...] (U) Leading daily newspaper ABC Color ran a full-page article on trafficking in persons (TIP) January 11. The article focused on Ciudad del Este (CdE) and cited the penal code, explained "what is trafficking in persons," and described two ongoing prosecutions. The new penal code increas [...] | 2010-01-15 11:32:00 | Embassy Asuncion | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM KTIP PGOV PREL KPAO PA AR |
10ASUNCION70 | PARAGUAY INCREASES DELIVERY OF AID TO HAITI [...] (U) An additional 3000 kilograms of foodstuffs and 200 kilograms of medicine bound for Haiti left Paraguay January 21 on an Argentine C-130 cargo aircraft. Three additional relief volunteers traveled concurrently, bringing Paraguay's total effort to 16 volunteers and around 8000 delivere [...] | 2010-01-25 20:26:00 | Embassy Asuncion | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL EAID PGOV PA HA AR |
10BEIJING138 | JANUARY 19, 2010 MFA PRESS BRIEFING: CHINA'S INTERNET, [...] Key points at the January 19 MFA press briefing were: -- China asserts that foreign firms, including Google, must respect Chinese laws and customs China claimed to be the biggest victim of hacking attacks. -- A Japanese proposal to build facilities on Okinotori reef is inconsistent with in [...] | 2010-01-19 22:58:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PHUM PARM EINT TINT SENV CH AR AF IN JA |
10BUENOSAIRES100 | MEDIA REACTION: HAITI; CHINA'S CENSORSHIP OF GOOGLE AND [...] Although no longer a front-page news story, Haiti continues to make headlines, with articles now focusing on reconstruction and adoption issues. The Chinese government's censorship of both Google and the Avatar movie, as well as Argentina's nuclear development in view of the upcoming NPT Con [...] | 2010-01-29 15:54:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KPAO KMDR PREL HA CH KNNP AR |
10BUENOSAIRES102 | MEDIA REACTION: STATE OF THE UNION ADDRESS; 1/29/10; BUENOS [...] Local media analyzed President Obama's speech with a flurry of opinion articles, although only three were written by Argentine reporters. Washington correspondents for Argentina's two largest dailies commented on President Obama's attempt to reconnect with the American public but also doubte [...] | 2010-01-29 17:07:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KPAO KMDR PREL AR |
10BUENOSAIRES104 | Argentina Will Consider Approach to Ecuador on Breakaway [...] No summary [...] | 2010-01-29 17:32:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PBTS PNAT PREL GG AR |
10BUENOSAIRES106 | MEDIA REACTION; HAITI; 1/30/10 -2/1/10; BUENOS AIRES [...] Most local newspapers reported that ten U.S. Baptists were arrested after attempting to take 33 children out of Haiti, as well as on the temporary suspension of U.S. medical evacuation flights from Haiti. One positive opinion piece emphasized the important logistic role played by the U.S. in [...] | 2010-02-01 15:44:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KPAO KMDR PREL HA AR |
10BUENOSAIRES107 | Argentina Fires Financial Action Task Force Representative [...] (C) Summary: The GOA fired its Financial Action Task Force (FATF) Coordinator over the weekend, reportedly in response to Ecuadorian criticism of Argentina's vote to blacklist Ecuador at the recent Abu Dhabi Plenary. Argentina is under the gun itself in an ongoing peer assessment that seems l [...] | 2010-02-24 19:27:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN PREL PGOV KJUS KCRM KTFN PTER SNAR EC AR |
10BUENOSAIRES108 | MEDIA REACTION: COMMENTARY CONTINUES FOLLOWING STATE OF THE [...] Over the weekend, only two Argentine dailies, largest daily Clar????n and left-leaning, pro-government P????gina 12, printed opinion articles written by Argentine reporters on President Obama's foreign policy following the State of the Union address. All other dailies published articles fro [...] | 2010-02-01 18:48:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KPAO KMDR PREL AR IS |
10BUENOSAIRES109 | Argentina: Codel Engel Addresses Bilateral Relations [...] (SBU) Summary: Codel Engel enjoyed a very productive visit to Buenos Aires, January 5-7. The Codel was led by Eliot Engel (D-NY) and included Shelly Berkley (D-NV),Pedro Pierluisi (D-PR) and Lynn Woolsey (D-CA). President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner (CFK) met with the Codel for two hours [...] | 2010-02-24 22:49:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | OREP ECON ELAB PGOV PREL AR |
10BUENOSAIRES11 | (C) WHA A/S VALENZUELA MEETS WITH ARGENTINE OFFICIALS, [...] (C) Summary: WHA A/S Arturo Valenzuela met with Argentine Cabinet Chief Anibal Fernandez and Acting Foreign Minister Victorio Taccetti during his December 15-17 visit to Buenos Aires. Valenzuela explained the U.S. position on Honduras, exchanged views on other regional developments, and praise [...] | 2010-01-08 21:46:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECON PHUM AR |
10BUENOSAIRES110 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAMS [...] No summary [...] | 2010-02-01 19:45:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PINR SNAR AR |
10BUENOSAIRES111 | Argentina: Finance Secretary Says Debt Swap Moving Ahead [...] (C) Argentine Finance Secretary Hernan Lorenzino expects the GoA's proposed debt swap agreement to be fully approved by international regulatory authorities and ready for launch by mid-March. Noting the recent negative market environment, he said that the exchange might have to go forward without t [...] | 2010-02-25 15:32:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN EINV PGOV PREL AR |
10BUENOSAIRES114 | MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-CHINA; THE MILITARY IN LATIN AMERICA; [...] China's threats to suspend its military ties with the U.S. and to impose sanctions on U.S. companies selling weapons to Taiwan received wide coverage over the weekend. Opinion articles highlighted U.S.-Chinese interdependence and their need for a strategic partnership based on issues such as [...] | 2010-02-02 13:50:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KPAO KMDR PREL CH AR |
10BUENOSAIRES118 | Argentina: Finance Secretary Says Full Speed Ahead on [...] (SBU) Argentine Finance Secretary Hernan Lorenzino stressed in a February 1 meeting that the debt exchange is moving ahead at full speed. He repeatedly emphasized that there are no political obstacles to moving it forward and that the Central Bank and Redrado affair is not affecting the trans [...] | 2010-02-02 22:19:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN EINV PGOV PREL AR |
10BUENOSAIRES120 | MEDIA REACTION: HAITI; 2/2/10; BUENOS AIRES [...] Most Argentine reporting on the ten U.S. citizens arrested on charges of child trafficking in Haiti was objective. Several cited the State Department spokesperson's remarks that the U.S. is offering assistance aimed at ensuring a fair and transparent trial, noting that the ten Americans have [...] | 2010-02-03 14:37:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KPAO KMDR PREL HA AR |
10BUENOSAIRES122 | MEDIA REACTION: HAITI; 2/3/10; BUENOS AIRES [...] Headlines on Haiti on 2/3 focused on PM Jean-Max Bellerive's remarks that the death toll has now reached over 200,000. Only three newspapers reported on the ten Americans arrested for child trafficking. End summary. NEW DEATH TOLL MAKES HEADLINES --------------- 2. Seve [...] | 2010-02-03 20:12:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KPAO KMDR PREL HA AR |
10BUENOSAIRES124 | MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-CHINA RELATIONS; 2/3-4/10; BUENOS AIRES [...] Local and other international news overshadowed U.S.-China conflicts, with only two newspapers printing articles from their own journalists, and the rest using news wires. All articles speculated on possible Chinese retaliation and questioned U.S. motives for "provoking" the disagreements. [...] | 2010-02-04 17:49:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KPAO KMDR PREL AR CH |
10BUENOSAIRES13 | Argentina: Standoff between the President and the Central [...] (C) Summary: President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner (CFK) set off a major institutional crisis in Argentina with her January 8 dismissal of Central Bank (BCRA) Governor Martin Redrado. The GoA has since been fighting frantically with the opposition-controlled Congress, the courts, and media [...] | 2010-01-11 23:14:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN PREL PGOV AR |
10BUENOSAIRES130 | MEDIA REACTION: FIRST HAITIAN ORPHAN ARRIVES IN ARGENTINA; [...] Haitian orphan Rosalindha's arrival -- the first in Argentina -- received broad press coverage, most of which noted the medical care the baby received in Pittsburgh. Several media praised U.S. efforts to expedite the orphan's arrival to the country, while two reported on the U.S. decision to [...] | 2010-02-04 20:07:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KPAO KMDR PREL HA AR |
10BUENOSAIRES134 | Argentina: Fiscal Situation Steadily Deteriorating But No [...] (SBU) The long-term Argentine fiscal situation is deteriorating. The fiscal gap is manageable in 2010, but will be difficult to overcome in 2011 without a restoration of the government's ability to borrow on the international financial markets. The GOA has, so far, managed to bridge the gap [...] | 2010-02-04 22:37:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN EINV ETRD PGOV PREL AR |
10BUENOSAIRES138 | ARGENTINA - PREPARATIONS FOR GLOBAL NUCLEAR SECURITY SUMMIT [...] (SBU) Emboffs met with Alberto Dojas, Deputy Director at the MFA's Direction for International Security and Nuclear Affairs (DIGAN),and with Francisco Spano and Elena Maceiras, respectively Chairman and Vice-President of the Nuclear Regulatory Agency (ARN),to discuss points raised in reftel. [...] | 2010-02-05 15:07:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PINR PARM KSUM PINS PREL IAEA PTER AR |
10BUENOSAIRES140 | MEDIA REACTION: U.S. ROLE IN HAITI; 2/5/10; BUENOS AIRES [...] Largest circulation Clarin's editorial on 2/5 acknowledged the U.S.' leading role in humanitarian relief efforts in Haiti, but said that more international cooperation is needed. The ten Americans who were formally charged by the Haitian government with child kidnapping and criminal associat [...] | 2010-02-05 15:51:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KPAO KMDR PREL HA AR |
10BUENOSAIRES142 | Argentina Economic and Financial Review, January 29-February [...] (U) Provided below is Embassy Buenos Aires' Economic and Financial Review covering the period January 29-February 4, 2010. The unclassified email version of this report includes tables and charts tracking Argentine economic developments. Contact Econ Deputy Jason Witow at WitowJN@state.gov to [...] | 2010-02-05 17:06:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON EINV ETRD ELAB EAIR AR |
10BUENOSAIRES150 | MEDIA REACTION; U.S. MILITARY PRESENCE IN HAITI; TIP; [...] Haiti continues to make headlines in Argentina, focusing on concerns of prolonged U.S. military involvement, trafficking in persons and the need for more humanitarian assistance. Largest circulation Clarin quoted U.S. Army Col. Gregory Kane, Director of U.S. Joint Task Force Haiti operations [...] | 2010-02-08 20:13:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KPAO KMDR PREL HA AR |
10BUENOSAIRES152 | MEDIA REACTION: IRAN'S NUCLEAR PROGRAM; 2/9/10; BUENOS AIRES [...] Iran's announcement that it is enriching uranium to 20% was widely covered in Argentine newspapers, focusing on U.S. and French discussions in Paris over new sanctions. Articles contained quotes from top U.S. and French officials denouncing Iran's policies and renewing calls for the UN Secur [...] | 2010-02-09 19:50:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KPAO KMDR PREL AR IR |
10BUENOSAIRES154 | ARGENTINA: Firm Offer of 200 Additional Peacekeepers for [...] (SBU) Summary: Ambassador met February 5 and February 8 with Defense Minister Nilda Garre and Foreign Minister Jorge Taiana, respectively, to confirm Argentina's offer of additional peacekeepers to Haiti. Both confirmed that the formal offer to the UN had been made. Garre said the offer was f [...] | 2010-02-10 13:50:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MASS MOPS PREL EAID HA AR |
10BUENOSAIRES158 | MEDIA REACTION: EXPECTATIONS ABOUT UNASUR MEETING ON HAITI; [...] Argentine media reported expectations that the Union of South American Nations (Unasur) meeting in Quito would lead to a South-South cooperation scheme aimed at boosting Haiti's development. Several papers cited comments of the Ambassador and Foreign Minister Jorge Taiana following their 2/8 [...] | 2010-02-10 14:00:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KPAO KMDR PREL HA AR |
10BUENOSAIRES160 | MEDIA REACTION: UNASUR MEETING ON HAITI; 2/10/10; BUENOS [...] Argentine press picked up wire reports on the special UNASUR meeting in Quito. Most highlighted that South American leaders pledged 300 million dollars in international aid for Haiti and called for the cancellation of its foreign debt. One article focused on Argentina's decision to send 150 [...] | 2010-02-10 16:50:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KPAO KMDR PREL HA AR |
10BUENOSAIRES162 | MEDIA REACTION: IRAN'S NUCLEAR PROGRAM; 2/10/10; BUENOS [...] Argentine media coverage of Iran's nuclear program on 2/10 shifted from covering U.S. and French efforts to sanction Iran to the response from Russia, China, and Brazil. Articles were positive towards Russia's possible support of international sanctions, but also gave a lot of weight to neig [...] | 2010-02-10 19:17:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KPAO KMDR PREL AR IR |
10BUENOSAIRES166 | MEDIA REACTION: HAITI; 2/11-12/10; BUENOS AIRES [...] Media continued to focus on the fate of the U.S. missionaries being held on trafficking charges, with one headline referring to them as "appropriators." Pro-government Buenos Aires Economico reported that Coca-Cola Latin America's Group gave a one-million dollar donation to the Red Cross fo [...] | 2010-02-12 16:52:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KPAO KMDR PREL HA AR |
10BUENOSAIRES168 | Argentina Economic and Financial Review, February 5-February [...] (U) Provided below is Embassy Buenos Aires' Economic and Financial Review covering the period January February 5-February 12, 2010. The unclassified email version of this report includes tables and charts tracking Argentine economic developments. Contact Econ Deputy Jason Witow at WitowJN@sta [...] | 2010-02-12 18:14:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON EINV ETRD ELAB EAIR AR |
10BUENOSAIRES178 | MEDIA REACTION: IRAN'S NUCLEAR PROGRAM; 2/11-16/10; BUENOS [...] Argentine President Kirchner's invitation from President Obama to attend a nuclear summit in April received large, positive press coverage. Newspapers also widely reported on Iran's 31st Anniversary of the Islamic Revolution, with articles highlighting the Iranian government trying to suppre [...] | 2010-02-16 19:40:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KPAO KMDR PREL AR |
10BUENOSAIRES180 | MEDIA REACTION: AFGHANISTAN AND SECRETARY CLINTON; [...] Argentine newspapers mostly limited coverage of NATO's new Afghanistan offensive and Secretary Clinton's Middle East trip to newswires. Secretary Clinton's quote that Iran is heading towards a "military dictatorship" appeared in all papers covering the story, usually as the headline. As for [...] | 2010-02-16 19:44:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KPAO KMDR PREL AR AF |
10BUENOSAIRES182 | Argentina: Government Interested in Partnering for [...] (U) Action request for Department in para 6. 2. (SBU) Summary: The Argentine MFA North American Affairs and International Cooperation Directorates asked DCM on February 11 to explore the possibility of establishing a mechanism for coordination of U.S. and Argentine development assist [...] | 2010-02-17 18:34:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID PREL EAGR AR |
10BUENOSAIRES184 | ARGENTINA'S RESPONSE TO CITES COP 15 DEMARCHE [...] On February 16, ESTCouns delivered reftel demarche to the Environment Secretariat's CITES representative Guillermo Lingua and CITES experts Maria Tonelli and Luis Arenas. All three will be part of Argentina's delegation at COP 15. While Lingua did not expect any Argentine objections to the US [...] | 2010-02-17 18:44:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV KSCA AORC UNEP AR |
10BUENOSAIRES186 | MEDIA REACTION: IRAN AND AFGHANISTAN; 2/17/10; BUENOS AIRES [...] Iran's nuclear program continues to make international headlines, with a focus on the increased pressure from the international community on Iran. One opposition paper reported on the role of Brazilian government as a mediator between the Washington and Tehran, as well as the Obama Administr [...] | 2010-02-17 18:52:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KPAO KMDR PREL AR IR AF |
10BUENOSAIRES194 | MEDIA REACTION: DALAI LAMA, IRAN, HAITI, AND U.S. LATIN [...] Although Europe's financial troubles continue to dominate international news sections, several U.S. topics also made headlines. Articles characterized China's disapproval of the Dalai Lama's visit to the U.S. as a sign that China "wants to be heard" on key international issues. In addition, [...] | 2010-02-18 19:23:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KPAO KMDR PREL AR HA IR CO CH |
10BUENOSAIRES196 | ARGENTINA: MISSION CAMPAIGN TO REDUCE ENERGY USE [...] At a typical Argentine barbecue in January, Ambassador Martinez challenged Mission Buenos Aires staff to turn out the lights. Inspired by President Obama and Secretary Clinton's Green Embassies initiative, Mission Buenos Aires is embarking on an internal energy challenge: to reduce energy use [...] | 2010-02-18 20:51:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | ABLD AMGT ASUP ENRG SENV OPRC AR |
10BUENOSAIRES198 | Argentina: Mission Campaign to Reduce Energy Use [...] At a typical Argentine barbecue in January, Ambassador Martinez challenged Mission Buenos Aires staff to turn out the lights. Inspired by President Obama and Secretary Clinton's Green Embassies initiative, Mission Buenos Aires is embarking on an internal energy challenge: to reduce energy use [...] | 2010-02-19 00:07:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | ABLD AMGT ASUP ENRG SENV OPRC AR |
10BUENOSAIRES20 | RECALL 10 BUENOS AIRES 20 [...] No summary [...] | 2010-01-14 13:22:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM AR PINR MARR |
10BUENOSAIRES200 | Argentina: S/GWI Project Proposals [...] Summary: A Country of Healthy Women was developed by Liga Argentina de Lucha Contra El Cancer (LALCEC) with support from Embassy Buenos Aires. Argentina has a low awareness rate of cancer risks, the importance of early detection, and treatment possibilities. Research has shown that a lar [...] | 2010-02-19 15:49:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KWMN KPAO PHUM AID CDC COM TRSY AR |
10BUENOSAIRES202 | ARGENTINA: HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR ILEA/TIP TRAINING [...] No summary [...] | 2010-02-19 15:57:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PINS PTER KTIP AR |
10BUENOSAIRES204 | MEDIA REACTION: DALAI LAMA IN WASHINGTON; 2/19/10; BUENOS [...] President Obama's meeting with the Dalai Obama led international news sections, with commentary ranging from the meeting's "modesty" to the "deteriorating relations" with China. All articles focused on the President's decision to not hold the meeting in the Oval Office in order to "not irrita [...] | 2010-02-19 17:37:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KPAO KMDR PREL AR CH |
10BUENOSAIRES206 | Argentina Economic and Financial Review, February [...] (U) Provided below is Embassy Buenos Aires' Economic and Financial Review covering the period February 12-February 19, 2010. The unclassified email version of this report includes tables and charts tracking Argentine economic developments. Contact Econ Deputy Jason Witow at WitowJN@state.gov [...] | 2010-02-19 18:16:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON EINV ETRD ELAB EAIR AR |
10BUENOSAIRES208 | Argentina: Farmer Demonstration Against Agriculture Policy [...] (SBU) A February 17 demonstration by farmers in Chab????s, Santa Fe province, protesting the government's agriculture policies has brought about welcome policy changes. That evening, hoping to defuse the situation and avoid another all-out strike and sales boycott by farmers, Minister of Agr [...] | 2010-02-19 19:34:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ECON EAGR ELAB EFIN AR |
10BUENOSAIRES21 | Argentina Central Bank Funds Frozen - A Conspiracy to Topple [...] (C) GoA reaction to a U.S. Judge's January 12 decision to embargo some official Argentine funds was swift and strong, but rather than taking aim at the USG, Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner (CFK) and other officials are accusing some Argentines - including Vice President Co [...] | 2010-01-13 22:25:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN PREL PGOV AR |
10BUENOSAIRES210 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAMS [...] No summary [...] | 2010-02-22 12:13:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM AR PINR MARR |
10BUENOSAIRES212 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAMS [...] No summary [...] | 2010-02-22 12:13:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM AR PINR MARR |
10BUENOSAIRES214 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAMS [...] No summary [...] | 2010-02-22 12:13:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM AR PINR MARR |
10BUENOSAIRES216 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAMS [...] No summary [...] | 2010-02-22 12:13:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM AR PINR MARR |
10BUENOSAIRES218 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAMS [...] No summary [...] | 2010-02-22 12:39:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM AR PINR MARR |
10BUENOSAIRES22 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAMS [...] No summary [...] | 2010-01-14 15:03:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM AR PINR MARR |
10BUENOSAIRES220 | ARGENTINA: ABILITY TO FILL COUNTRY-SPECIFIC ALLOCATIONS OF [...] No summary [...] | 2010-02-22 21:09:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR ETRD USTR AR |
10BUENOSAIRES222 | MEDIA REACTION: IRAN, HAITI, AND CHINA; 2/19-22/10; BUENOS [...] Opinion articles about U.S. policy regarding Iran, Haiti, and China filled weekend newspapers in Argentina. The Director of the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Buenos Aires warned against Iran's increasing influence in Latin America, which is "legitimizing" Iran's President. Another article stro [...] | 2010-02-22 21:17:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KPAO KMDR PREL AR IR HA CH |
10BUENOSAIRES226 | MEDIA REACTION: IRAN, FALKLANDS, OAS, U.S.-LATIN AMERICAN [...] Regional issues were the dominating theme on 2/23, including Brazil-Iran relations, the Falkland Islands, the OAS, and an introspective look at Latin American politics. One opinion article criticized Brazil for rolling out the "red carpet" for Iran, while another highlighted differences betw [...] | 2010-02-23 20:50:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KPAO KMDR PREL AR IR BR FK |
10BUENOSAIRES23 | Argentina Reconsidering its Position on "Defamation of [...] (C) A Foreign Ministry contact informed poloff on January 13 that the Government of Argentina (GOA) is strongly reconsidering its previous position on the Defamation of Religion issue in the UN, and is very likely to change its position from abstaining to voting along with the United States. [...] | 2010-01-14 17:11:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM UN AR |
10BUENOSAIRES234 | Argentine Reponse to Distracted Driving Demarche [...] ESTHOff delivered reftel demarche on February 2 to Sandra Campos, Director of Institutional Relations at Argentina's National Road Safety Agency (ANSV). Campos provided basic information about the law and public awareness campaigns related to distracted driving, but said that ANSV does not ha [...] | 2010-02-24 15:54:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON SOCI ELTN UNDP IBRD UNGA AR |
10BUENOSAIRES242 | MEDIA REACTION: FALKLAND ISLANDS; 2/24/10; BUENOS AIRES [...] The Falklands dispute continued to dominate Argentine media on 2/24. Most newspapers picked up remarks made by Assistant Secretary Crowley reiterating U.S. neutrality in the conflict and encouraging Argentina and Great Britain to resolve the issues through direct dialogue. A/S Crowley's cha [...] | 2010-02-24 20:55:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KPAO KMDR PREL AR FK |
10BUENOSAIRES25 | U.S. Court Lifting of Asset Freeze Calms Argentine Waters, [...] (C) Summary: A New York District Judge's decision on January 15 to temporarily lift the freeze on Argentine Central Bank (BCRA) reserves in the U.S. calmed the markets and appeared to give the GoA some breathing room to resolve the issues of Martin Redrado's fate as BCRA President and the fut [...] | 2010-01-20 18:01:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN PREL PGOV AR |
10BUENOSAIRES254 | Argentina Economic and Financial Review, February [...] (U) Provided below is Embassy Buenos Aires' Economic and Financial Review covering the period February 20-February 26, 2010. The unclassified email version of this report includes tables and charts tracking Argentine economic developments. Contact Econ Deputy Jason Witow at WitowJN@state.gov [...] | 2010-02-26 18:25:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON EINV ETRD ELAB EAIR AR |
10BUENOSAIRES256 | MEDIA REACTION: CFK CRITICIZES PRESIDENT OBAMA DAYS BEFORE [...] Argentine President Cristina Kirchner's "critical" interview with CNN and her "photo opportunity" with Secretary Clinton made headlines in all newspapers. Most highlighted Kirchner's comments that President Obama failed "to meet Latin American expectations" and that she disapproved of the wa [...] | 2010-02-26 19:56:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KPAO KMDR PREL AR |
10BUENOSAIRES28 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAMS [...] No summary [...] | 2010-01-19 16:18:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM AR PINR MARR |
10BUENOSAIRES30 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAMS [...] No summary [...] | 2010-01-19 16:35:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM AR PINR MARR |
10BUENOSAIRES36 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAMS [...] No summary [...] | 2010-01-20 15:18:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM AR PINR MARR |
10BUENOSAIRES38 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAMS [...] No summary [...] | 2010-01-20 15:18:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM AR PINR MARR |
10BUENOSAIRES43 | Argentina: Former Vice Mayor Michetti Talks National [...] (C) Summary: The Ambassador met with newly-elected national Deputy from Argentina's center-right Republican Proposal (PRO) party Gabriela Michetti on January 8, and discussed the GOA's showdown with Central Bank Governor Martin Redrado (reftel) and the opposition's legislative plans under t [...] | 2010-01-26 20:58:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM AR |
10BUENOSAIRES46 | MEDIA REACTION: US MILITARY DEPLOYMENT IN HAITI; BUENOS [...] The crisis in Haiti did not make the front pages on January 21, with Argentine dailies focusing instead on domestic political disputes. However, Haiti continued to dominate the international sections, with headlines dramatizing the U.S. military deployment. While reporting generally did not c [...] | 2010-01-21 13:24:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KPAO KMDR PREL HA AR |
10BUENOSAIRES48 | Argentina Economic and Financial Review, January 18-21, 2010 [...] (U) Provided below is Embassy Buenos Aires' Economic and Financial Review covering the period January 18-21, 2010. The unclassified email version of this report includes tables and charts tracking Argentine economic developments. Contact Econ OMS Megan Walton at WaltonM@state.gov to be inclu [...] | 2010-01-21 20:16:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON EINV ETRD ELAB EAIR AR |
10BUENOSAIRES51 | Argentina Telecom Monopoly Dispute Leads to Threats of [...] (SBU) Following a purchase in Europe that gave the owner of one of Argentina's two fixed-line telephone providers a small interest in the other, refusal by the company to divest has led to overt GoA threats of nationalization. Whether this is a real threat or simply a distraction from other pol [...] | 2010-01-28 15:50:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV EINV AR ETTC |
10BUENOSAIRES55 | Argentina: Economy Minister Says Debt Swap On Track [...] (C) In a January 26 meeting with the Ambassador and DCM, Economy Minister Amado Boudou emphasized the positive despite the many challenges he faces. Confident and composed despite the late hour of the meeting and the severe political pressure he has faced in the past month, Boudou insiste [...] | 2010-01-28 20:26:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN EINV ETRD PGOV AR |
10BUENOSAIRES58 | Post Mgt - Arrival of Ambassador [...] No summary [...] | 2010-01-25 19:50:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | AMGT OTRA AR |
10BUENOSAIRES60 | MEDIA REACTION: U.S. HUMANITARIAN ROLE IN HAITI; JANUARY 23- [...] Press coverage of U.S. relief efforts in Haiti was mostly positive over the last three days, highlighting the humanitarian nature of the U.S. role. Local media welcomed the U.S.-U.N. agreement putting the U.N. in charge of security operations, following concerns over the use of U.S. troops. [...] | 2010-01-25 20:06:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KPAO KMDR PREL HA AR |
10BUENOSAIRES61 | Argentina: First Husband's Dollar Purchases Revealed, [...] (SBU) Summary: Following a late January press reports that presidential spouse Nestor Kirchner (NK) had purchased just under US$ 2 million in US currency in October 2008 -- confirmed by GOA sources February 1 -- opposition politicians and political commentators have raised a new alarm about al [...] | 2010-02-02 21:35:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON EFIN AR |
10BUENOSAIRES63 | Argentina: Ambassador Meets New UN Representative [...] (SBU) Ambassador Martinez met on January 28 with the newly-arrived UNDP representative in Argentina, Martin Santiago. Santiago is charged with coordinating the activities of 12 UN agencies in Argentina. Warm and friendly with US officials, Santiago will be a helpful interlocutor and partner i [...] | 2010-02-03 17:25:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM ECON SOCI AR |
10BUENOSAIRES68 | MEDIA REACTION: MONTREAL FIRST INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE FOR [...] Local newspapers report on the Montreal First International Conference for Haitian Relief Efforts, highlighting that Canada and humanitarian NGOs called wealthy countries to cancel Haitian debt. Some papers picked up an Embassy press release on the U.S. Southern Command's 50,000 dollar donatio [...] | 2010-01-26 20:31:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KPAO KMDR PREL HA AR |
10BUENOSAIRES70 | MEDIA REACTION: COUNTDOWN TO STATE OF THE UNION ADDRESS; [...] Argentine newspapers are reporting growing expectations over President Obama's State of the Union address, portraying it as an effort to regain political momentum and regain initiative. Despite one opinion article critical of U.S. foreign policy in Latin America, the speech is expected to con [...] | 2010-01-26 20:59:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KPAO KMDR PREL AR |
10BUENOSAIRES71 | Argentina: Saber Rattling over Oil Exploration in the [...] (C) This is the first in a series of cables which will address the Argentine reaction to hydrocarbons-related activities in the Falklands/Malvinas islands. 2. (C) The GoA is reportedly hardening its policy on the Falkland/Malvinas Islands in response to accelerating oil exploration efforts unde [...] | 2010-02-04 16:14:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN PREL PGOV ENRG AR |