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Viewing cable 06BUENOSAIRES534, MEDIA REACTION US-BOLIVIA US-CUBA US-INDIAN

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06BUENOSAIRES534 2006-03-08 20:31 2011-08-25 00:00 UNCLASSIFIED Embassy Buenos Aires
VZCZCXYZ0012
OO RUEHWEB

DE RUEHBU #0534/01 0672031
ZNR UUUUU ZZH
O 082031Z MAR 06
FM AMEMBASSY BUENOS AIRES
TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC IMMEDIATE 3732
INFO RHMFIUU/CDR USSOCOM MACDILL AFB FL//SCJ2//
RULGPUA/USCOMSOLANT
UNCLAS BUENOS AIRES 000534 
 
SIPDIS 
 
STATE FOR INR/R/MR, I/GWHA, WHA, WHA/PDA, WHA/BSC, 
WHA/EPSC 
CDR USSOCOM FOR J-2 IAD/LAMA 
 
SIPDIS 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: KPAO OPRC KMDR PREL MEDIA REACTION
SUBJECT: MEDIA REACTION US-BOLIVIA US-CUBA US-INDIAN 
NUCLEAR DEAL US-COLOMBIAN FTA 03/07/06 
 
 
1. SUMMARY STATEMENT 
 
Today's major international stories include Bolivian 
President Evo Morales accusing the USG of "blackmail" 
for withdrawing anti-terrorism funding for his 
country; India's new strategic role in the current 
geopolitical scenario; the recent expulsion of the 
Cuban delegation from Sheraton Maria Isabel Hotel in 
Mexico City; and the upcoming Regional Summit on 
Terrorist Funding Prevention at Argentine Central Bank 
in Buenos Aires. 
 
2. OPINION PIECES AND KEY STORIES 
 
- "According to Evo, (Bolivian) military will not be 
subject to Washington any longer" 
 
Pablo Stefanoni, on special assignment in La Paz for 
left-of-center "Pagina 12," writes (03/07) "Bolivian 
President Evo Morales warned that the US will lose its 
past influence over the country's military policy. 
Also, the (Bolivian) government is deciding whether to 
nationalize companies. 
 
"Strengthened by the national consensus that cleared 
the way for the Constituent Assembly and July 2 
autonomy referendum, the Morales administration has 
toughened his stance vis--vis the US on military 
issues, and he is deciding whether to 'recover the 
corporations that have been privatized' during the 
golden years of neo-liberalism through the control of 
51% of shares. New nationalistic winds are blowing in 
the economic and political fields." 
 
- "Tension between Bolivia and the US - Morales 
denounces 'blackmail'" 
 
Daily-of-record "La Nacion" reports (03/07) "Bolivian 
President Evo Morales accused the US of 'blackmail' 
for cutting its anti-terrorist financial aid for the 
country in a tough statement that is a turning point 
in the coca leader's moderate discourse... 
 
"Visibly irritated, Morales attributed the US decision 
to cut its military financial aid to the (Bolivian) 
government's refusal to veto a Bolivian military 
commander in spite of Washington's request for this. 
However, USG sources told 'La Nacion' that financial 
aid cuts imply the USG's response to Bolivia's refusal 
to grant immunity to US troops at the International 
Criminal Court (ICC), which Washington has not 
acknowledged." 
 
- "Playground politics" 
 
James Scout, columnist of liberal, English-language 
"Buenos Aires Herald," writes (03/07) "The 45-year 
cold war between the US and Cuba recently claimed a 
new casualty: the Sheraton Maria Isabel Hotel in 
Mexico City. 
 
"US officials effectively killed a meeting there last 
month between 16 Cuban officials and Texan oil 
executives interested in drilling in the waters off 
the Caribbean island. 
 
"Threatened with fines for violating the longstanding 
embargo, the hotel management promptly evicted the 
Cuban delegation, barring them from having any food or 
drink on the way out the door. 
 
"Mexico fired back. President Vicente Fox called for 
an investigation into whether any discrimination laws 
had been broken while city officials sent in a team of 
building inspectors who ordered the hotel to close for 
code violations. 
 
"In a political spat that seems better suited for a 
schoolyard playground than the world political stage, 
the Sheraton Hotel has become the latest incident to 
expose what some argue is the futility of the decades- 
old embargo, as well as deepen the growing rift 
between the US and many countries across Latin 
America." 
 
- "Free trade resurrection?" 
 
Daily-of-record "La Nacion" carries an opinion piece 
by columnist Andres Oppenheimer, who writes (03/07) 
"Surprisingly enough, the US-Colombian FTA that was 
announced last week and the probable signature of 
deals of the sort with Ecuador and Panama could mean 
that the US plans to create a hemispheric free trade 
area are not so 'dead' as they seemed some months ago. 
 
"Four months after the disastrous Mar del Plata 
Summit, in which Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez 
captured the media attention by proclaiming that the 
US proposal to create the FTAA was going to be 
'definitively buried,'  the USG officers sustain that 
the free trade agenda is gaining new impetus. 
 
"During a phone conversation, US Assistant Secretary 
Thomas Shannon told me that ever since the Mar del 
Plata Summit, the free trade plan 'is not only rising 
from its tomb, but it is on its feet and walking. 
 
"According to Shannon, in addition to the US-Colombian 
free trade deal, Washington has already signed FTAs 
with countries accounting for two-thirds of the 
hemisphere's GDP, without taking into account the US 
economy." 
 
3. EDITORIALS 
 
- "US-Indian agreement" 
 
Leading "Clarin" editorializes (03/07) "The agreements 
signed between the US and India (which were announced 
in the framework of US President George W. Bush's 
visit to New Delhi) reveal the strategic and 
moderating role the US assigns to India in the search 
for a new international balance, which includes the 
sensitive issue of nuclear power. It is a matter of 
political realism overriding non-proliferation 
international regimes. 
 
"In fact, India is one of the four countries not 
endorsing the NPT and the recent US-Indian deal could 
be setting a precedent of larger uncertainty about the 
enforcement of nuclear commitments. But the truth is 
that the current danger is a consequence of the arms 
race and the powers' nuclear development as well as of 
WMD spreading among belligerent regimes... 
 
"India and Pakistan, whose dispute over Kashmir has 
been for years the main threat to international 
security precisely due to the possession of nuclear 
weapons, are now States deemed by the major powers to 
be reliable partners for containing serious conflicts 
and threats spreading in the region. India has an 
additional strategic value for the US - it is also a 
counterweight to China's power and influence in Asia. 
For the international community, this is more evidence 
of the limitations of the multilateral regimes built 
in the post-war period." 
 
 
 
To see more Buenos Aires reporting, visit our 
classified website at: 
http://www.state.sqov.gov/p/wha/buenosaires 
 
The Media Reaction Report reflects articles and 
opinions by the cited news media and do not 
necessarily reflect U.S. Embassy policy or views.  The 
Public Affairs Section does not independently verify 
information.  The report is intended for internal U.S. 
Government use only. 
 
GUTIERREZ