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Viewing cable 06BOGOTA910, GUIDANCE REQUESTED ON COLOMBIAN PRIVATE SECTOR

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Reference ID Created Released Classification Origin
06BOGOTA910 2006-01-31 21:46 2011-08-25 00:00 UNCLASSIFIED Embassy Bogota
VZCZCXYZ0004
OO RUEHWEB

DE RUEHBO #0910/01 0312146
ZNR UUUUU ZZH
O 312146Z JAN 06
FM AMEMBASSY BOGOTA
TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC IMMEDIATE 1810
INFO RUEAWJC/DEPT OF JUSTICE WASHDC IMMEDIATE
UNCLAS BOGOTA 000910 
 
SIPDIS 
 
    AID /AID/LAC PASS TO MIKE MAGAN, DAA/LAC 
AID/LAC/SAM 
 
STATE FOR INL 
 
SIPDIS 
 
 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: SOCI PTER PARM PGOV EAID ECON CO
SUBJECT: GUIDANCE REQUESTED ON COLOMBIAN PRIVATE SECTOR 
SUPPORT FOR DEMOBILIZED EX-COMBATANTS 
 
 
1.  (U) This is an action request.  Please see paragraph 
6. 
 
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Summary 
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2.  (U) There is high interest among the Colombian private 
sector in assisting the demobilization effort.  In the 
last two weeks, the embassy has attended two meetings on 
the subject.  One meeting on January 18 among senior 
representatives of more than twenty leading Colombian 
business and industry organizations, directors of 
Colombia's leading non-profit foundations, was organized 
under the auspices of the Ministry of Planning, the World 
Bank and USAID/Colombia.  On January 23, representatives 
of the Ministry of Interior and the Office of the High 
Commissioner for Peace organized a meeting with 
representatives of the Council of American Companies 
(CEA).  In all cases, the private sector representatives 
expressed strong willingness to do their part.  They also 
asked for improved communication with the government on 
demobilization and reincorporation programs, and 
information on their costs.  Many U.S. companies, and 
Colombian companies doing business with the U.S., have 
said that a principal obstacle is uncertainty about 
Patriot Act implications (see action request).  End 
Summary 
 
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January 18 Meeting 
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3.  (U) Senior private sector representatives met on 
January 18 with GOC, World Bank, and USAID representatives 
to discuss private sector participation in reincorporation 
programs for demobilized ex-combatants.  Participants 
included the Colombian Industry Association (ANDI), 
Confederation of Chambers of Commerce (Confecameras), 
National Business Organization (FENALCO), Colombian 
American Chamber of Commerce (COLAMCHAM), Council of 
American Enterprises (CEA), Fundacion Corona, Fundacion 
Carvajal and Fundacion Santo Domingo.  The meeting built 
on a series of strategic analyses by USAID and others 
related to the prerequisites for effective private sector 
involvement in social/economic reinsertion programs and 
was an important breakthrough.  The meetings highlighted 
the importance of a more effective effort on the part of 
the government to define more precisely private sector 
protections, requirements, and program needs.  The private 
sector participants expressed their commitment to assist 
reincorporation, in order to help restore long-term 
economic and social stability.  A working group, led by a 
representative Juan Sebastian Betancur of the prominent 
ProAntioquia organization, will develop private sector 
suggestions and work to broaden further private sector 
participation. 
 
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January 23 Meeting 
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4.  (U) The January 23 meeting was similar.  The Ministry 
of Interior and the Office of the High Commissioner for 
Peace presented to CEA members, representing U.S.-based 
multinationals, a list of 20 projects to employ up to 1400 
demobilized, 500 displaced persons, and 415 small 
producers in conflict zones.  The CEA representative 
expressed the members' readiness to assist, especially in 
developing sustainable opportunities for displaced and 
demobilized in the regions of their origin, but raised 
again the Patriot Act concerns we have heard in the past. 
 
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Comment 
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5. (U) Concern about the Patriot Act implications for 
demobilization is not a new issue.  It is impeding our 
ability to engage private resources in support of 
effective demobilization, and to stimulate sustainable 
private sector involvement, our preferred solution to 
employment generation.  Initial GOC estimates, which we 
have reviewed, put the cost of processing and reinserting 
15,000 beneficiaries (there already are 25,000) at about 
USD 171 million; our own target is that the private sector 
contribute at least USD 17 million of the total.  There is 
 
a high level of willingness within the business community. 
But there is also concern among U.S. companies and 
companies that do business with the U.S. (i.e., all big 
Colombian companies) regarding possible Patriot Act 
implications.  Several companies have suspended assistance 
to reinsertion due to their lawyers' concern that they 
might be violating the Patriot Act prohibition against 
"material support for terrorists."  Congress has now 
authorized use of official funds for the reinsertion 
program and many of the principal authors of the Patriot 
Act have confirmed to the embassy that the Act was not 
intended to impede programs designed to dismantle terror 
organizations. 
 
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Action Requested 
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6. (U) Embassy requests on an urgent basis Department 
instructions on language we can provide businesses wishing 
to participate in the reinsertion program, as the USG 
already is doing, to reassure them that participation in 
this program will not risk violation of the Patriot Act. 
Alternatively, the Department press spokesman could 
express U.S. support for private sector participation in a 
well-structured demobilization program designed to 
dismantle the paramilitary terror group. 
 
WOOD