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Viewing cable 07BUENOSAIRES1536, MEDIA REACTION; ARGENTINE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE CRISTINA

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Reference ID Created Released Classification Origin
07BUENOSAIRES1536 2007-08-08 13:58 2011-08-25 00:00 UNCLASSIFIED Embassy Buenos Aires
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DE RUEHBU #1536/01 2201358
ZNR UUUUU ZZH
O 081358Z AUG 07
FM AMEMBASSY BUENOS AIRES
TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC IMMEDIATE 8850
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RULGPUA/USCOMSOLANT
UNCLAS BUENOS AIRES 001536 
 
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
SUBJECT: MEDIA REACTION; ARGENTINE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE CRISTINA 
KIRCHNER ADDRESS TO THE COUNCIL OF THE AMERICAS; 
ARGENTINE-VENEZUELAN TIES; 08/08/07 
 
 
1. SUMMARY STATEMENT 
 
Leading international stories today include the implications of 
Argentine Presidential Candidate Cristina Fernndez de Kirchner's 
address to the Council of the Americas; and the impact of current 
Argentine-Venezuelan ties on Argentina's foreign policy. 
 
2. OPINION PIECES AND EDITORIALS 
 
- "The difficult balance between Chavez and the idea of a better 
relationship with the US" 
 
Eduardo van der Kooy, political columnist of leading "Clarin," 
writes (08/08) "Cristina Kirchner has started to 'walk along the 
difficult road' her husband Nestor Kirchner created during his years 
of government - a constant political and economic relationship with 
Venezuela (with occasional ups and downs) as well as a proper 
relationship with Washington that has always been clouded at all 
levels by Hugo Chavez's rapprochement. 
 
"How can both factors be combined in Argentina's foreign policy? How 
can they be balanced? The senator has begun to seek some response to 
this real question. It is advisable to recall that neither of the 
Kirchners has biases against Washington. The two of them dislike the 
Bush administration. Kirchner decided to freeze his relationship 
with the Republican leader following their incident at the 2005 Mar 
del Plata SOA, and he will end his presidency in this way. However, 
in the event Cristina wins the presidency, the first half of her 
term will coincide with the last half of the Bush administration. 
 
"... Cristina's address to the Council of the Americas focused on 
the country's remarkable economic recovery of recent years... 
Chavez's stay in Buenos Aires was short and discreet - he had the 
clear purpose of not putting the official presidential candidate 
into trouble. However, neither of those gestures is still enough to 
dispel doubts. 
 
"... Cristina is reported to have talked in front of Chavez... about 
the need to make an effort to improve the relationship between 
Washington and Caracas, which many times prevents the Argentine 
Government from implementing initiatives with the US and the main 
cities of Europe... The caudillo confessed there is no possibility 
of negotiation with Bush, but that the horizon could be better in 
the event Democrats take power... However, this would be too long 
for Cristina. She and her husband believe that the sustainability of 
the country's economic growth will be determined by an improvement 
in the quality of foreign investment, much of which is hindered by 
Washington's political opinion. Other investors are mistrustful 
because the country has not recovered its international financial 
reliability... 
 
"Perhaps, Kirchner's advice to Chavez to smooth his impaired ties to 
Mexico is intended to soften the caudillo's isolation in the region 
and also to heal his ties to Washington." 
 
- "Cristina Kirchner asks for more investment" 
 
Paola Juarez, political columnist of daily-of-record "La Nacion," 
writes (08/08) "Cristina Kirchner sought to convey a message of 
stability before a very valued audience - the representatives of 
powerful US corporations. In the closing ceremony of the Council of 
the Americas meeting, Cristina said 'Argentina is a very good 
opportunity to do business.' She never raised the tone of her voice 
and stressed that Argentina is today 'less vulnerable' than in the 
'90s. 
 
"... She again put forward that if she takes power, she will promote 
a deal among the Government, businessmen and workers in order to 
establish long-term policies.' She stated: 'We Argentines have 
decided to establish a definitive primary fiscal and trade surplus 
as well as an unusual indebtedness process.'" 
 
- "Cristina's pendulum" 
 
Business-financial "Ambito Financiero" (08/08) front-pages 
"According to the Venezuelan leader, in less than 24 hours, Cristina 
de Kirchner passed from the Chavez revolution to intimacy with the 
imperial Dracula (the US). Or, according to the US version, she 
passed from talking to the Caribbean dictator to the purest US 
spirit, which was represented by the Council of the Americas... In 
both places she felt comfortable, flattered... In both places, she 
had to listen to charges - those from the Venezuelans against the 
US, and others from the Americans against Hugo Chavez. From what was 
heard, she does not mediate in the conflict... and, curiously 
enough, she avoids defending a friend in front of an enemy and vice 
versa. Her attitude is surprising based on the fact that the 
 
 
presidential candidate's position is not between the two extremes 
but on every single occasion she supports every one of them, 
according to the moment, place and convenience... 
 
"One should accept that Cristina and her husband's obvious pendulum 
seem to please their visitors... They must enjoy it - Chavez does 
not take notice of the lack of solidarity..." 
 
- "Negative impact of (Argentina's) ties to Chavez" 
 
Daily-of-record "La Nacion" front-pages an opinion piece by 
political analyst Joaquin Morales Sol, who opines (08/08) "Nestor 
Kirchner's problem is that Hugo Chavez is negative rather than 
positive for him. Does he not know it? Does he ignore that an 
important number of Argentines and great part of the world have a 
very critical opinion of the Venezuelan leader? If this is so, the 
Argentine president is reported to have lost social sensitivity and 
foreign opinion would be indifferent to him... 
 
"According to the Argentine diplomatic tradition, the country seldom 
distanced itself from any foreign government. Chavez is an example 
of this... 
 
"Nevertheless, the difference with Kirchner is that his relationship 
with Chavez is the only international relationship the Argentine 
president takes care of and cultivates. He has had tension and 
disagreement with Brazil and Spain themselves... Instead, he is not 
reported to have any vital point of disagreement with the Caracas 
caudillo. According to Kirchner, Chavez has an asset that he cannot 
afford to lose - money and energy. 
 
"With those two things, Chavez has done good business with 
Argentina... 
 
"... Does Argentina depend on Chavez?  In a certain way, it does. 
Kirchner often says that his partnership with the Venezuelan is a 
relationship of mutual interest, not an ideological one. The 
conflict appears when interests are so profound and imperative that 
they end up getting confused with ideas. 
 
"The problem is not only with Argentina... Almost all Mercosur 
countries have quickly forgotten that, in addition to the bloc's 
tariff- and rate-related commitments, there is a Democratic Charter 
in South America's alliance that should be honored by all its member 
countries. Chavez does not honor it except for the democratic origin 
of his power." 
 
To see more Buenos Aires reporting, visit our 
classified website at: 
http://www.state.sqov.gov/p/wha/buenosaires 
 
WAYNE