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Viewing cable 06LIMA3137, BIOS FOR AGRICULTURE, ENERGY, TRANSPORT & HOUSING

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Reference ID Created Released Classification Origin
06LIMA3137 2006-08-10 16:20 2011-08-25 00:00 UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY Embassy Lima
VZCZCXYZ0004
RR RUEHWEB

DE RUEHPE #3137/01 2221620
ZNR UUUUU ZZH
R 101620Z AUG 06
FM AMEMBASSY LIMA
TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC 1763
INFO RUEHBO/AMEMBASSY BOGOTA 3746
RUEHBU/AMEMBASSY BUENOS AIRES 2531
RUEHCV/AMEMBASSY CARACAS 9716
RUEHQT/AMEMBASSY QUITO 0602
RUEHLP/AMEMBASSY LA PAZ AUG SANTIAGO 0789
RUCPDOC/DEPT OF COMMERCE WASHINGTON DC
RUEATRS/DEPT OF TREASURY WASHINGTON DC
RHEFDIA/DIA WASHDC
RUMIAAA/USSOUTHCOM MIAMI FL
RUEAIIA/CIA WASHDC
RHEHAAA/NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL WASHINGTON DC
UNCLAS LIMA 003137 
 
SIPDIS 
 
SENSITIVE 
SIPDIS 
 
DEPT FOR WHA/AND, WHA/EPSC, EB/OMA, EB/TPP 
COMMERCE FOR 4331/MAC/WH/MCAMERON 
USTR FOR BHARMAN AND MCARRILLO 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: ECON PGOV ETRD EINV TBIO PREL PE
 
SUBJECT: BIOS FOR AGRICULTURE, ENERGY, TRANSPORT & HOUSING 
MINISTERS 
 
REF: A) LIMA 3102 (B) LIMA 3013 
 
1. (U)  Biographic information for President Alan Garcia's Ministers 
of Agriculture, Energy and Mining, Transportation, and Housing 
follows below.  These ministers took office on July 28, 2006.  See 
Ref A for the bios of the Prime Minister and Foreign, Defense, and 
Interior Ministers, and Ref B for bios on the Ministers of Finance, 
Trade, and Production. 
 
Agriculture - Jose Salazar 
-------------------------- 
2. (U)  Juan Jose SALAZAR Garcia is an agricultural engineer and a 
rice, cotton and sugar cane producer.  He was President of the 
Northwestern Maranon Region from 1989 to 1992 (an ill-fated 
legislative attempt to carve macroregions out of Peru's departments) 
and Mayor of Ferrenafe (Lambayeque Department) for two terms 
(1987-1989 & 2003-2006). 
 
3. (U)  Salazar was born in Ferrenafe on February 18, 1947.  He 
received his agricultural engineering degree from Peru's National 
University of Lambayeque (now Pedro Ruiz Gallo University).  He has 
spoken on local government management, regionalization and 
decentralization at numerous academic events around the world.  He 
is a longtime member of the APRA party. 
 
4. (U)  Comment:  Salazar will be a key player in implementing 
APRA's "Sierra Exportadora" plan to increase exports from the poor 
living in Peru's highlands.  He has already announced that he will 
focus on agricultural research, technical assistance and the 
construction of small irrigation infrastructure as the first step of 
the plan.  Salazar will probably restructure the Ministry of 
Agriculture to emphasize these activities.  He supports the 
U.S.-Peru Trade Promotion Agreement, and has expressed the need to 
switch from traditional crops to exportable products, taking 
advantage of the PTPA as a way to reduce poverty.  End Comment. 
 
Energy & Mines - Juan Valdivia 
------------------------------ 
5. (U)  Juan Gualberto VALDIVIA Romero was elected to represent the 
Ancash region in Congress three times (1985-1990, 1990-1992, and 
2001-2006).  He presided over the Committee on Energy and Mines 
during the last session (2005-2006), and the Committee on Production 
and Small-Medium Enterprises from 2002-2003.  He introduced numerous 
bills related to the energy/mining sector during his legislative 
career, including:  reducing the sulfur content of diesel fuel, 
rural electrification, reforming the electric sector concessions and 
reforming the Camisea Natural Gas project's Socioeconomic 
Development Fund (FOCAM).  He was also key in introducing the 
controversial bill ordering the tax agency SUNAT to require all 
mining companies to pay royalties even if they had a tax stability 
agreement (President Toledo vetoed that bill).  He also served as 
the mayor of El Santa province, Ancash from 1981-1983. 
 
6. (U)  Valdivia was born in Chimbote, Ancash region, on February 6, 
1948, and has been a member of the APRA party since his youth.  He 
graduated as an architect from the Federico Villareal National 
University (UNFV) in Lima, an APRA stronghold.  He is married and 
has four children, three of whom reside in the U.S.  He does not 
speak English. 
 
7. (SBU)  Comment:  Valdivia is not recognized as a real expert on 
energy and mining issues, but has a reputation for honesty and 
belongs to Prime Minister Jorge del Castillo's pro-business faction 
of the APRA Party.  However, Valdivia is a close friend of APRA 
congressman Jose Carlos CARRASCO Tavara, and has supported 
Carrasco's well-known statist positions.  Valdivia has a 
well-publicized debt of around one million dollars resulting from a 
failed agricultural venture, and it was rumored that the debt and 
associated litigation would prevent President Garcia from naming him 
minister.  End Comment. 
 
Transportation & Communications - Veronica Zavala 
--------------------------------------------- ---- 
8. (U)  Veronica ZAVALA Lombardi is a well-known public sector 
 
manager.  She was twice the Secretary for Public Management for the 
Presidency of the Council of Ministers (2001-2002 and 2005-2006). 
She was also the Executive Director of FONAFE (the state holding 
company for public assets and direction of parastatals, 2000-2001), 
Manager of the Institutional Reform branch of the Liberty and 
Democracy Institute, a member of the Directive Council of the 
National Sanitation Services Authority (SUNASS), Project Director at 
the Commission for the Promotion of Private Investment (COPRI), and 
a member of the Market Access and Consumer Protection Committees of 
INDECOPI (the GOP's competition watchdog and intellectual property 
office).  She is a professor at the Catholic University of Peru 
(PUCP), the University of San Martin de Porres (SMP), and the 
University of Applied Sciences (UCA). 
 
9. (U)  Zavala was born in Lima on February 20, 1967.  She has a 
Master's in Public Administration from Harvard University (1995) and 
a law degree from the Catholic University of Peru (PUCP, 1990).  She 
has published numerous articles on institutional reform and public 
administration. 
 
10. (U)  Zavala is not a member of any political party, but is a 
recognized public administration expert and the younger sister of 
the outgoing Minister of Economy and Finance, Fernando Zavala. 
 
Housing - Hernan Garrido-Lecca 
------------------------------ 
11. (U)  Hernan GARRIDO-LECCA Montanez is a jack-of-all trades, who 
was an economic advisor during the first Garcia administration.  In 
1985, at the age of 25, he became the Vice President and CEO of 
Peru's third largest bank (Interbank, which was then state-owned 
with 200 branches and 3,000 employees), after which he became the 
negotiator of Peru's $19 billion foreign debt.  He worked as an 
investment officer for the World Bank's International Financial 
Corporation (IFC) in Washington, DC from 1989-1992.  He then 
returned to Peru in the midst of the Shining Path insurgency and 
founded NorAndina, an investment banking services boutique.  He 
later sold his company and took an early retirement at the age of 
40. 
 
12. (U)  Garrido-Lecca was a founding member of prestigious 
consultancy and pollster Apoyo S.A., and President at various times 
of ProRegiones, Alpamayo Entertainment, Tandem Computers of Peru, 
Agroindustrial Paramonga, 123remate.com, ECONATURA, ProCallao, 
 
Desarrollos Siglo XXI S.A.A, Telecable S.A.A., Bembos S.A.C., 
Agricola San Juan S.A.A., and various banks and financial 
institutions. 
 
13. (U)  Garrido-Lecca has also been a researcher for the Analysis 
for Development Group (GRADE); a print, radio and television 
journalist (one of his TV shows was shut down during Fujimori's 
authoritarian administration); an economics professor at the 
University of the Pacific (UP) and the University of San Martin de 
Porres (USMP); and a narrator and award-winning poet.  He even 
worked as the executive director of a motion picture, forayed into 
graphic design and created a commemorative postage stamp, thought up 
several prize-winning inventions (he is President of the Peruvian 
Society of Inventors), and has been a leader of the consumers' 
rights movement in Peru since 1989.  Garrido-Lecca led the April 
1998 nation-wide "telephone strike" which forced the GOP and the 
telephone company to open the market for competition. 
 
14. (U)  Garrido-Lecca was born in Lima on May 18, 1960.  His 
academic degrees are impressive -- a Master's in Public 
Administration from Harvard University, a Master's in Science and 
Technology Policy from MIT, an undergraduate business degree from UP 
(1981), a Master's in Peruvian and Latin American Literature from 
the National Major University of San Marcos, and a Ph.D. (candidate) 
in Administration from the University of Seville, Spain.  He has 
published over a dozen books on economics, science and technology, 
and consumers' rights.  His most recent passion has been authoring 
children's books, which have won prizes, with one adapted into a 
successful theatrical play.  He is a long-time member of Garcia's 
APRA party, but ran for Congress in 2001 with the Union por el Peru 
(UPP) party because of a temporary falling-out with Garcia. 
 
 
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