State Department Cables of Interest on Latin America, released by Wikileaks July 24 - August 21 2011
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A selection of State Department Cables of Interest on Latin America, released by Wikileaks July 24 - August 21 2011
COLOMBIA USG list of 22 re-mobilized paramilitary groups in Colombia circa 2006 http://t.co/VXPL2ns#cablegate Shift in State Dept language from "paramilitary" to "criminal" group in Colombia dates from at least '08bit.ly/q0Yb0F#cablegate Uribe blows a lot of hot air about Chavez to the USGbit.ly/qkHFk5#cablegate DOMINICAN REPUBLIC US pulled visa of Dominican Republic's consul in Hong Kong on human smuggling accusationbit.ly/pfeteY#cablegate High level Dominican Republic politician claims many politicians are funded by narcosbit.ly/phpIYp#cablegate #freetrade GUATEMALA Berger era politicos argued for US drug war $ saying "Guatemala is an embryonic Colombian situation"bit.ly/riIipn#cablegate Cable on Otto Perez Molina's '07 presidential run might as well be from todaybit.ly/pklIce#cablegate #guatemala HAITI
USG deploys reference to purse snatchings to balance police massacre of pro-Lavalas demonstrators in #Haitibit.ly/q2GPva#cablegate Pulling UN troops from Haiti "would make future hemispheric peacekeeping efforts more difficult to justify"bit.ly/n7rAMV #cablegate Cable outlines exactly how MINUSTAH occupation serves US interests in #Haiti, and beyondbit.ly/pJU6NZ#cablegate Note Gov't of Canada avoided high profile meeting with Latortue in '09 bit.ly/nPdxUQ#cablegate #Haiti #shh Corrupt Haitian senator Yuri Latortue enjoyed access to Canadian Ambassador in '08bit.ly/mRoYFw#cablegate Breaking: "Ten percent inflation and sixty percent joblessness have no short-term cures."bit.ly/rlUp09#cablegate #Haiti USG pushed judicial "reform" and prison renos in #Haiti in '07bit.ly/otokKT#cablegate Vatican, '10: "Aristide's presence would distract from the relief efforts and could become destabilizing"bit.ly/pEoL1v#cablegate Canada assures USG of its "clear position in opposition to the return of Aristide" in '05bit.ly/qRpOq8#cablegate #Haiti
HONDURAS
US Ambassador to Honduras urged Zelaya to travel to the US & Mexico after the coupbit.ly/oW5Mkp#cablegate Unforeseen outcome of Honduras coup: Nicaragua Burger King can only sell chicken products for three daysbit.ly/oVPqkK#cablegate Cable from Clinton asks how a Nicaraguan attack on post-coup Honduras would play outbit.ly/oaApvJ#cablegate
NICARAGUA USG PO'd that Nicaragua would deny fly over clearance to a NASA space shuttlebit.ly/ohHLqU#cablegate
Cable on Ortega's offer of amnesty to @Pizangoperubit.ly/mXwlAq #cablegate#Nicaragua USG courted Nicaragua for Canada initiated Heavy Oil Working Group bit.ly/mQPfEl#cablegate A single, microcosmic look into how arms flow from the US south:bit.ly/p7A2Z7#cablegate #Nicaragua USG round up of "invasions" of Amcit owned land in Nicaragua in '08 bit.ly/mZLxTz#cablegate Rundown of over 10 US military missions/exercises in Nicaragua in 2008 bit.ly/oLrkiE#cablegate Sandinista foreign advisor to USG: "heed our actions, not our rhetoric"bit.ly/oBcuks#cablegate PERU Cable on that damn leaf the USG loves to hate: Cocabit.ly/oty4gE #cablegate #Peru Laundry list of anti-Humala "scandals" noted by USG in 2006 Peru electionsbit.ly/mYtSLL#cablegate #telenovela Garcia on Humala, '06: "a mendacious agitator and demagogue who recently, at age 45, discovered nationalism"bit.ly/mYtSLL#cablegate VENEZUELA Damn. Blackberry-RIM catered to demands of Chavez gov't & state owned Movilnet in #Venezuela.bit.ly/nKvzRz#cablegate Venezuelan newspaper @ElNacionalWeb asked USG if it could underwrite the paperbit.ly/oKHJyZ#cablegate Cable on NYT journo @viaSimonRomero's experience of "thuggery" in W. #Venezuelabit.ly/oIvC7O#cablegate USG take on attempted coup against Chavez. Pathetic. bit.ly/qkm1o3
#cablegate #Venezuela Vatican favorable to US aid to Venezuela churches to "counteract Chavez" & "blunt his attacks on the Church"bit.ly/occVVV#cablegate #3 at the Vatican "shared U.S. concerns about Chavez and other leftist leaders in Latin America"bit.ly/nsWVvO#cablegate Cable on Venezuela shows the contribution of diplomats in the creation of a coherent anti-Chavez narrativebit.ly/ommp1R#cablegate