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Viewing cable 08BUENOSAIRES641, TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS: ARGENTINA SERIOUS ABOUT

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08BUENOSAIRES641 2008-05-14 20:07 2011-08-25 00:00 UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY Embassy Buenos Aires
VZCZCXYZ0000
RR RUEHWEB

DE RUEHBU #0641/01 1352007
ZNR UUUUU ZZH
R 142007Z MAY 08
FM AMEMBASSY BUENOS AIRES
TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC 1029
INFO RHMFIUU/DEPT OF JUSTICE WASHINGTON DC
RHMFIUU/DEPT OF HOMELAND SECURITY WASHINGTON DC
RHMCSUU/FBI WASHINGTON DC
RUCNMER/MERCOSUR COLLECTIVE
UNCLAS BUENOS AIRES 000641 
 
SIPDIS 
SENSITIVE 
 
STATE FOR G-TIP AMBASSADOR MARK LAGON 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: ELAB KCRM PHUM PREL SMIG KJUS ASEC AR
SUBJECT: TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS: ARGENTINA SERIOUS ABOUT 
IMPLEMENTING NEW LAW 
 
Ref: (A) BUENOS AIRES 0501; (B) BUENOS AIRES 0465; 
(C) BUENOS AIRES 0438 
 
1.  (SBU) Summary:  On the evening of May 7, Argentine Minister of 
Justice and Security Anibal Fernandez told visiting ICE Assistant 
Secretary Myers and Ambassador Wayne that he was serious about 
implementing Argentina's new federal law against Trafficking in 
Persons (TIP) and is very open to working with the USG both to 
develop Argentine capacities and on specific cases.  Fernandez said 
he was convinced that vigorous implementation of the law will lead 
people to conclude that criticism of the law over the issue of 
consent by adults (reftels) is not well-founded.  He invited ICE to 
send an expert to a TIP seminar being organized by his Ministry in 
June. We are hearing from independent sources that Fernandez is 
stressing the law's importance to provincial law enforcement 
officials.  End Summary. 
 
2.  (SBU) Ambassador arranged for Justice and Security Minister 
Anibal Fernandez to meet visiting ICE Assistant Secretary Julie 
Myers the evening of May 7 to discuss implementation of Argentina's 
new federal law against trafficking in persons.  Fernandez's 
Ministry will have primary executive branch responsibility for 
implementing the country's first-ever federal TIP law.  He said a 
number of NGOs and others had raised questions about the new law 
because of the language about adult consent in it.  He said that his 
reading of the law is that if there is evidence of trafficking, 
consent is not an obstacle to prosecution.  He said he believed 
vigorous implementation of the law would demonstrate that the worry 
over consent was not well-founded.  Fernandez said that he saw four 
main steps needed: 1) identify and organize the forces needed to 
target traffickers (he said he plans to have this done in the next 
few days); 2) begin to move against traffickers; 3) set up a 
vigorous victims' assistance and protection program; and 4) start a 
serious national publicity campaign to raise awareness against 
trafficking. 
 
3.  (SBU) Fernandez said he believed there were a number of 
instances where people are being forced to work in situations close 
to slavery, and cited the practice of bringing in families from 
Bolivia to Argentina to work under very bad conditions.  He noted 
that there were some areas in the northeast of Argentina and in 
Paraguay where sex trafficking of fair-haired girls, especially 
minors, was a serious problem.  In these cases, it is necessary to 
bring about changes in local culture/mentality, as well as taking 
police and official actions.  He noted a number of arrests several 
weeks ago at a farm in Buenos Aires Province where workers including 
minors were being forced to work under inhumane conditions.  He said 
a number of other criminal complaints were ready to go forward in 
the weeks ahead. 
 
4.  (SBU) A/S Myers said that ICE might be able to help as this 
process moved ahead and would be interested in cooperating on any 
international trafficking uncovered. Fernandez said he would be very 
open to this type of assistance and cooperation.  He said he was 
working to create a single intelligence office in the Ministry to 
attack trafficking networks.  Myers noted that we could work through 
our ICE Attache to share information with this office. Fernandez 
agreed and suggested that we hold a follow-up meet again with him to 
set up the right channels. He noted that in one case recently, a 
baby had been stolen from a hospital in Argentina shortly after 
birth.  He said his forces suspected it was tied to a specific 
request to traffickers for a newborn, but in a worse case it could 
have been a trafficking-in-organs case. 
 
5.  (SBU) Fernandez said he was organizing a seminar/conference on 
TIP around June 11-12 and would welcome a U.S. expert/specialist (a 
French expert's participation is already confirmed).  Myers said she 
would look into inviting someone.  Fernandez said he had to deal 
with serious corruption problems of local police in the northern and 
northwestern provinces.  He recounted several examples, including 
the case of Argentine NGO leader Susana Trimarco's daughter, where 
local prosecutors and police were tied to or bribed by traffickers. 
 
 
6.  (SBU) A/S Myers again said that ICE could cooperate with 
Argentine authorities on international cases including child sex 
cases and cooperation and communication could take place through law 
enforcement channels.  Fernandez agreed with that idea.  Myers noted 
the importance of public awareness campaigns and said ICE had some 
experience in this area, too.  Fernandez said public communications 
were fundamental in stopping trafficking, and he hoped this would be 
a theme to be treated at his June conference.  He said he wants to 
build a system whereby witnesses and victims could expose 
traffickers and be fully protected. Myers noted that NGOs can help 
in this area.  Fernandez agreed and cited his experience working 
with Susanna Trimarco.  He noted that he had established a child 
 
protection unit two years ago but it had not been nearly as 
successful as he had hoped, in part, because of corruption of local 
authorities given the huge profits involved in child sex schemes. 
He said this was an area where he hoped to make clear progress. 
 
7.  (SBU) We are hearing from independent sources that Fernandez is 
pushing enforcement of the TIP law.  Cordoba Province Attorney 
General Dario Randazzo (protect) told DCM that, at a meeting of 
provincial prosecutors on May 13, Fernandez called the law's 
existence to the group's attention and emphasized that its 
enforcement was a government priority.  He urged the prosecutors to 
work with his Ministry to pursue these cases. 
 
8. (U) A/S Myers did not have a chance to clear this cable. 
 
WAYNE