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Viewing cable 08SANTIAGO1103, CHILE MEDIA REPORT - DECEMBER 16

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Reference ID Created Released Classification Origin
08SANTIAGO1103 2008-12-16 16:42 2011-08-25 00:00 UNCLASSIFIED Embassy Santiago
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DE RUEHSG #1103/01 3511642
ZNR UUUUU ZZH
R 161642Z DEC 08
FM AMEMBASSY SANTIAGO
TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC 4139
INFO RUEHAC/AMEMBASSY ASUNCION 3675
RUEHBO/AMEMBASSY BOGOTA 2211
RUEHBU/AMEMBASSY BUENOS AIRES 1188
RUEHBR/AMEMBASSY BRASILIA 0582
RUEHCV/AMEMBASSY CARACAS 1880
RUEHPE/AMEMBASSY LIMA 5855
RUEHMN/AMEMBASSY MONTEVIDEO 4151
RUEHQT/AMEMBASSY QUITO 2031
RUEAIIA/CIA WASHDC
RHEFDIA/DIA WASHDC
RHEHNSC/NSC WASHDC
RUEATRS/DEPT OF TREASURY WASHDC
RUCPDOC/DEPT OF COMMERCE WASHDC
UNCLAS SANTIAGO 001103 
 
SIPDIS 
 
STATE FOR R/MR, I/PP, WHA/BSC, WHA/PDA, INR/IAA 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: KMDR KPAO PGOV ECON PREL SNAR EFIN CI
SUBJECT:  CHILE MEDIA REPORT - DECEMBER 16 
 
Lead Stories 
------------ 
1.  All dailies highlighted Claudia Serrano's appointment as the new 
Labor Minister.  Dailies also highlighted the Comptroller's warning 
over the continuous use of emergency funding to finance the 
Transantiago public transport system. 
 
U.S.-Related News 
----------------- 
1.  The Superintendency of Banks and Financial Institutions has 
asked local banks to report if they have suffered the effects from 
fraud committed in the United States by Bernard Madoff. 
Spanish-owned Banco Santander has reported a US$1.9 million loss. 
Asked about this case, Finance Minister Andres Velasco said, "It's 
just one more piece of information of a series of problems regarding 
transparency and financial market policy in the United States, which 
we fortunately don't have in Chile" (El Mercurio, conservative, 
influential newspaper-of-record, circ. 129,000, 12/16; La Segunda, 
conservative, afternoon, circ. 33,000, 12/15). 
 
2.  Editorial:  "A report leaked to the press this weekend prepared 
by a federal ad hoc agency... noted that U.S. initiatives to rebuild 
Iraq amounted to a 'US$100 billion-dollar failure'....  The invasion 
lost legitimacy when it became evident that there were no weapons of 
mass destruction in Iraq... no serious post war plan, and when a 
strong sectarian violence emerged in the absence of a government to 
impose order....  Launching a unilateral invasion based on 
justifications that turned out to be false and getting involved in a 
difficult reconstruction exercise has been a strong blow for the 
world's primary superpower.  It also poses questions about what will 
happen with this key geopolitical area and what the United States 
can do to regain its reputation and power after the Iraq adventure 
launched in 2003" (La Tercera, conservative, independent, circ. 
101,000, 12/16). 
 
Local 
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3.  President Bachelet will travel to Honduras on February 8 and 
then to Cuba for the Havana book fair.  She will travel with a 
delegation of opposition and government coalition congressmen and 
entrepreneurs.  Congress already passed the Economic Complementary 
Agreement that will allow investment in new areas and expand 
bilateral trade between both countries.  At this point, neither 
country has an accredited ambassador, a situation that should be 
resolved in January (La Nacion, government-owned, editorially 
independent, circ. 4,200, 12/16). 
 
4.   The price of copper on the London Exchange Market (LEM) 
yesterday closed at US$1.40/lb.  Estimates are that for every cent 
of a dollar that the price of copper drops, Chile ceases to receive 
US$120 million.  The drop in revenues from low copper prices now 
amounts to US$7.5 billion (El Mercurio, 12/16). 
 
5.  The Chilean Comptrollers' Office warned the government over the 
permanent use of a constitutional 2% emergency fund to finance the 
Transantiago in 2009.  First, because it undermines resources set 
aside for disaster relief, and second, because it is always a risk 
when a temporary solution turns into a permanent mechanism to cover 
a deficit (La Tercera, 12/16). 
 
6.  President Bachelet appointed socialist Claudia Serrano as Labor 
Minister.  "I am a pragmatist and leftists," said Serrano, adding 
that labor rights and employment are her primary concerns at this 
point.  Luis Schmidt, President of the National Agricultural Society 
(SNA), believes that Serrano will help revive the private-public 
sector alliance to be better prepared to face the effects of the 
international financial crisis.  Andres Concha, of the 
Manufacturers' Association, said the minister should focus on 
unemployment insurance and making labor laws more flexible.  An 
Entrepreneurial Generation Survey shows that 77% of entrepreneurs 
and economists alike would like the government to improve labor laws 
by making the system more flexible in terms of hours.  They would 
also like to have a labor force better prepared to carry out 
multiple tasks.  The overall view is that at this moment in time, it 
is more important to provide job security and prevent layoffs than 
to pass initiatives to promote investment (El Mercurio, 12/16). 
 
Cuba 
---- 
7.   Article by Andres Oppenheimer on Cuba:  "Fifty years after 
Fidel Castro took power in Cuba, the big question is whether the 
Cuban revolution was justified and worth the sacrifice.  The 
evidence shows it was clearly not worth it.... 
 
8.  "A look at the statistics shows that that although Cuba has 
eradicated poverty... the standard of living is lower and people 
have less opportunities than five decades ago.... Cuban government 
estimates is that Cuba's per capita income is US$6,000... but the 
government refuses to use international standards for this estimate. 
 The same is true regarding the poverty rate....  Cuba blames the 
U.S. embargo for its economic problem, but... the United States is 
Cuba's main exporter of food products and many other American 
products enter the island through third countries....  The island is 
a giant playland, where everyone has a guaranteed subsistence, but 
where the government decides where individuals study and where they 
work and whether they can travel abroad....  The Cuban dictatorship 
has improved some social indicators, but other Latin American 
countries have done the same without sacrificing basic civil rights, 
and at a much lower human cost and suffering by the Cubans (El 
Mercurio, 12/16). 
 
9.  A Russian fleet will dock in Havana on December 19 -- the first 
time that this fleet docks in Cuba since the collapse of the Soviet 
Union in 1991 (La Tercera, 12/16). 
 
SIMONS