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Cables of Interest on Latin America, February 27 to March 6, 2011
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Wikileaks Cables of Interest on Latin America, February 27 to March 6, 2011
ARGENTINA
Argentine prosecutor learns the fine art of bending over backwards to apologize to the US:
http://bit.ly/hT3z9f
#cablegate
BRAZIL
Private sector perspectives on Lula's presidency circa 2006. Summary: Audible sighs of relief:
http://bit.ly/fJmKkd
#cablegate
COSTA RICA
USG concerns w/Costa Rica-China normalizing relationship: human & drug trafficking:
http://bit.ly/hTwe1q
#cablegate
Interesting: China had no official ties with Costa Rica.
http://bit.ly/h89XW0
#cablegate
Closest thing to a UFO cable yet: Costa Rica to Construct Plasma-Propelled Space Rocket
http://bit.ly/hhhPiz
#cablegate
Straight up random: USG warns diplomats not to eat peanuts if they go to Costa Rica:
http://bit.ly/fMnN7g
#cablegate
Tico anti-DR-CAFTA flick featuring Abu Ghraib, A-bomb & Judas kissing Jesus falls "just short of libel":
http://bit.ly/hXolyu
#cablegate
DR-CAFTA: US protected agricultural subsidies but Costa Rica couldn't protect telecoms/insurance
http://bit.ly/ev6Cuu
#cablegate
USG throws up barriers to "free trade" in an attempt to limit Chinese exports
http://bit.ly/hkbpMW
#cablegate
"Legislation to open the insurance and telecommunications industries" required under DR-CAFTA
http://bit.ly/hkqr6Y
#cablegate
COLOMBIA
US weapons and training essential to the war in Colombia:
http://bit.ly/h3ikoh
#cablegate
Gov't of
#Colombia
has to use the media to "talk" with the FARC:
http://bit.ly/gHNVqi
#cablegate
USG operationalized Colombian intel & GOC executed USG plans in 70% of 29 guerrilla takedowns in 05-06:
http://bit.ly/eAoAfw
#cablegate
Colombia, 2003: AUC founder Carlos Castraña gives a recipe for the "Bacrim" that today haunt the country:
http://bit.ly/dFNjDh
#cablegate
Colombian gov't rotten to the core with paramilitary & narco ties, USG willing to believe it's just gossip:
http://bit.ly/enISON
#cablegate
Canadian company Canwest involved in sale of helicopters from Israel to paramilitaries in Colombia:
http://bit.ly/edOtlh
#cablegate
#cdnpoli
Cable traces military helicopters from US to paramilitary warehouse in Colombia, via Israel:
http://bit.ly/edOtlh
#cablegate
Uribe took drug money in campaign donations and the USG doesn't really seem to care
http://bit.ly/eg8C8h
#cablegate
#Colombia
US-Colombia FTA wld help major sugar producers in Valle de Cauca (aka. the Lülle family), the rest lose:
http://bit.ly/f5EUBf
#cablegate
Ex-Governor of Valle de Cauca,
#Colombia
, voted for his own party (PDA) out of loyalty, not conviction:
http://bit.ly/dSFDmH
#cablegate
MEXICO
Canada-Mexico focus: cooperation & intel on migration, emergency mgmt, marine security & law enforcement
http://bit.ly/gXmweB
#cablegate
USG: Canada seeking to "support Calderon's efforts to reform the police, corrections, and judicial sectors."
http://bit.ly/e5gC6e
#cablegate
USG 2009: "Clearly Mexico is not an impending failed state"
http://bit.ly/g8aE1S
#cablegate
Monterrey casinos are ideal places to launder money, rob someone, and deal drugs.
http://bit.ly/eO7ocx
#cablegate
USG: Televisa grenade attack in
#Monterrey
may have been carried out by political mafias, not drug cartels
http://bit.ly/eCAZBu
#cablegate
PERU
Still surprised at how much of a client state Peru is, extradition treaty only requires "probable" cause
http://bit.ly/gFfg4y
#cablegate
Those pesky judges! Peruvian judiciary an "obstacle" to US getting the extraditions they want:
http://bit.ly/fkRzJ7
#cablegate
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