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Viewing cable 07BOGOTA6400, REPRESENTATIVE BLUNT MEETS WITH PRESIDENT URIBE

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07BOGOTA6400 2007-08-31 16:28 2011-08-25 00:00 UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY Embassy Bogota
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RUEHQT/AMEMBASSY QUITO PRIORITY 5946
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UNCLAS BOGOTA 006400 
 
SIPDIS 
 
SENSITIVE 
SIPDIS 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: KJUS PGOV ETRD PREL PTER CO
SUBJECT: REPRESENTATIVE BLUNT MEETS WITH PRESIDENT URIBE 
 
 
1. (SBU) Summary:  President Uribe thanked Representative 
Blunt for his support, and outlined GOC efforts to protect 
union members, prosecute human rights violators, combat 
emerging new criminal groups, and address Colombia's 
socio-economic problems.  Uribe explained that he had begun 
to review the files of paramilitary leaders participating in 
the peace process to determine if they continued to engage in 
criminal activity.  If he found they had violated their peace 
process commitments, he would expel them from the process and 
extradite them to the United State Representative Blunt 
recognized the importance of U.S. aid *as well as approval 
of the bilateral Free Trade Agreement* and said he was 
working to build support in Congress for Plan Colombia and 
the FTA.  End Summary. 
 
2. (U) U.S. Participants: 
 
Representative Roy Blunt 
Brian Diffell, Office of the Republican Whip 
CDA Brian Nichols 
POLCouns John Creamer 
 
Colombian Participants: 
 
President Alvaro Uribe 
Ambassador Carolina Barco 
Camilo Reyes, Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs (MRE) 
Sandra Suarez, High Commissioner for Trade 
Patricia Cortes, North American Principal Desk Officer (MRE) 
 
 
3. (SBU) Representative Roy Blunt called on President Alvaro 
Uribe August 23.  President Uribe said he had instructed GOC 
officials to keep the U.S. Congress informed of the latest 
developments on human rights, counternarcotics, and other key 
issues.  Blunt said GOC's progress in strengthening 
Colombia's democratic institutions and creating democratic 
space impressed him.  The U.S. valued Colombia's cooperation 
on security, intelligence, and counternarcotics.   He 
recognized the importance of continued U.S. aid *as well as 
approval of the bilateral Free Trade Agreement (FTA)* and 
said he was working with Representative Hastert and other 
colleagues to build support for Plan Colombia and the FTA.  A 
 U.S. rejection of the FTA would adversely impact U.S 
relations with Latin America for years to come. 
 
4. (SBU) Uribe said he has reviewed the files of ten 
paramilitary leaders who appear to have engaged in ongoing 
criminal activities despite their participation in the 
demobilization and Justice and Peace law process.  If he 
found they violated their commitments under the peace 
process, he would revoke his suspension of their extradition 
requests and send them to the United States.   Uribe noted 
the overall recidivism rate of the 33,000 demobilized 
paramilitaries was only 5%, but said this equaled over 1500 
individuals.  Many have joined new criminal groups.   Uribe 
said the GOC is combating these new bands, and GOC security 
forces have killed or captured almost 1600. 
 
5. (SBU) Uribe reviewed GOC progress in reducing violence 
against trade unionists, noting the murder rate against 
unionists is lower than the general homicide rate, but said 
the GOC's goal is to be able to say we have &zero8 cases. 
He said the Prosecutor General's Office has resolved 50 cases 
of violence against unionists *resulting in 90 convictions* 
and the GOC is protecting over 1500 unionists within the 
Justice and Interior Ministry's protection program.  Despite 
tight budget constraints, the GOC has included funding in its 
2008 for an additional 500 prosecutors and 1000 other 
professionals for the Prosecutor General's Office. This will 
strengthen the Prosecutor's capacity to resolve human rights 
cases as well as to implement the Justice and Peace Law. 
 
6. (SBU) Uribe said many union members were victims of 
Colombia's history.  In the 1960s and 1970s, the FARC and ELN 
made a conscious effort to penetrate the union movement, 
especially teachers, as part of their commitment to &all 
forms of struggle.8  When paramilitary groups emerged, they 
targeted unionists as alleged guerrilla collaborators.  In 
the last two years, many murders of unionists stemmed from 
internecine conflict between the FARC and ELN in Arauca and 
other departments.  As shown by the July verdict in the 
Drummond case in the United States, employers in Colombia 
were not killing workers to weaken unions. 
 
7. (SBU) Blunt praised the GOC's efforts to combat 
 
narcotrafficking, noting the high cost paid in human lives. 
Uribe said the Colombian army and police lost 597 members in 
2006, with 377 killed so far this year.  Another 1700 are 
victims of mines who are undergoing rehabilitation in local 
hospitals. 
 
8. (SBU) Uribe underscored the GOC's commitment to addressing 
Colombia's socio-economic problems, citing plans to expand 
the coverage of the GOC's main anti-poverty program 
*Families in Action* from 600,000 families to 1.5 million 
families.  Under this program, families receive monthly 
stipends in exchange for ensuring their children receive 
basic health care and attend school.  He would meet with 
local residents in Tumaco, a city on Colombia's troubled 
Pacific Coast, on August 25 to announce plans to enroll more 
residents in Families in Action and to relocate the local 
hospital from a tsunami zone to a safer location.  Uribe said 
the GOC had appropriated $25 million to upgrade the city's 
water supply, but lacked the funds to install a sewage 
system. 
 
9. (U)  Representative Roy Blunt has not cleared this 
message. 
Nichols