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Viewing cable 09BUENOSAIRES1378, MEDIA REACTION: A/S VALENZUELA VISIT TO ARGENTINA; 12/18/09;

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09BUENOSAIRES1378 2009-12-18 15:49 2011-08-25 00:00 UNCLASSIFIED Embassy Buenos Aires
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DE RUEHBU #1378/01 3521549
ZNR UUUUU ZZH
O R 181549Z DEC 09
FM AMEMBASSY BUENOS AIRES
TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC IMMEDIATE 0208
INFO RHMCSUU/CDR USSOCOM MACDILL AFB FL
RUEHBU/AMEMBASSY BUENOS AIRES
UNCLAS BUENOS AIRES 001378 
 
SIPDIS 
STATE FOR INR/R/MR, I/GWHA, WHA, WHA/PDA, WHA/BSC, WHA/EPSC 
CDR USSOCOM FOR J-2 IAD/LAMA 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: OPRC KPAO KMDR PREL
SUBJECT: MEDIA REACTION: A/S VALENZUELA VISIT TO ARGENTINA; 12/18/09; 
BUENOS AIRES 
 
SUBJECT: MEDIA REACTION: A/S VALENZUELA VISIT TO ARGENTINA; 
12/18/09; BUENOS AIRES 
 
 
 
ΒΆ1. SUMMARY 
 
 
 
December 17 newspapers reported on Assistant Secretary Valenzuela's 
remarks during his December 15-16 visit to Argentina about the 
views of U.S. investors regarding legal insecurity and excessive 
state intervention, which he contrasted with the more positive mood 
during a 1996 visit. Daily-of-record "La Nacion," 
business-financials "Ambito Financiero" and "El Cronista" echoed 
Valenzuela's remarks focusing on the need for legal security, while 
left-of-center "Pagina 12" and pro-government "Buenos Aires 
Economico" were critical of an alleged nostalgia for the Menem 
administration, with "Pagina 12" stating that Valenzuela's meeting 
with VP Cobos was not tactful. December 18 local dailies report on 
an "escalation" in the US-Argentine spat with Argentine Ambassador 
to the U.S. Hector Timerman accusing US President Obama of veering 
to the right "in the last 48 hours" in his policy on Argentina. 
Daily-of-record "La Nacion" and conservative "La Prensa" are 
supportive of the U.S. and blame the Argentine government for its 
lack of compliance with legal rules. END SUMMARY. 
 
 
 
-   "The real progressive attitude" 
 
 
 
Daily-of-record "La Nacion" (circulation 160,000) carries an 
opinion piece by political columnist Fernando Laborda, who writes 
(12/17), "CFK has forgotten her personal commitment to 
institutional quality from the time she took office. At least this 
is what both Assistant Secretary for Latin America Arturo 
Valenzuela and Supreme Court Judge Carmen Argibay believe. Both of 
them have targeted one of the weakest points of the Kirchner 
administration, legal insecurity, which is one of main concerns of 
local and foreign businessmen and investors. 
 
 
 
"The U.S. companies' concern is not something new. The striking 
thing about it is that it was made public by an envoy of Barack 
Obama, and the novelty for the CFK administration is that there 
does not seem to be substantial differences between a Democratic 
administration (just like Obama's) and a Republican one (such as 
George W. Bush's) on US policy towards Latin America. In both 
cases, they are trying  energetically to defend the interests of 
the U.S. businessmen all over the world. 
 
 
 
"Neither Judge Argibay's progressive attitude nor Obama's seem to 
be in alignment with the Kirchners' concept of the same. Perhaps 
the time has come for the presidential couple to understand that a 
truly progressive attitude, just like a revolutionary one, lies 
today in honoring legal security and power division." 
 
 
 
-   "Valenzuela's nostalgia and the Department of State's scolding 
the  'backyard'" 
 
 
 
Carlos Eichelbaum, columnist of "Buenos Aires Economico," writes 
(12/17), "It is understandable that U.S. businessmen preferred 
Carlos Menem, Domingo Cavallo and Roque Fernandez's 'economic 
handlings'. The then Labor Minister Armando Caro Figueroa would not 
have dared to react just like Carlos Tomada did at the permanent 
infringement on laws and court rulings incurred into the Argentine 
branch of Kraft multinational corporation, which is precisely a 
U.S. company. 
 
 
 
"Valenzuela's remarks are aligned with the US's brand-new decision 
to launch warnings to discipline its 'backyard,' particularly those 
Latin American governments that have revealed attitudes of greater 
independence from Washington. 
 
 
"Rather than specific critical statements of business conditions 
for U.S. corporations, Valenzuela's comments seem to be intended to 
demonstrate that the channels of communication Hillary opened also 
include Buenos Aires." 
 
 
 
-   "Victims of their own deeds" 
 
 
 
Daily-of-record "La Nacion" carries an opinion piece by political 
analyst Joaquin Morales Sola, who writes (12/18), "Arturo 
Valenzuela did not come (to Buenos Aires) to have a dispute with 
the Kirchners, but he is used to speaking his mind, particularly 
when he discovers that the interests of his country are at risk. 
The most important U.S. official for Latin America certainly has 
full knowledge of what is going on in Argentina... The Assistant 
Secretary's remarks on legal insecurity are in line with those of 
U.S. Ambassador Vilma Socorro Martinez just a few days ago. This is 
not by chance. They surely voiced the Obama administration's 
well-known opinion on the Argentine situation. 
 
 
 
"What cannot be understood is why the presidential couple ordered 
three ministers to respond to Valenzuela. A possible answer is that 
the Kirchners always want to have the last world. Another choice is 
that the Kirchners have decided, without any formal announcement, 
to be part of the Latin American current led by Hugo Chavez, which 
seriously questions the Obama administration. What will the local 
government do then with Iran, with which it is in a conflict along 
with the US? Even though the Kirchners always believe they are 
victims of various situations, they themselves trigger those 
situations." 
 
 
 
-   "The nostalgia for '96 and a meeting with an opponent VP" 
 
 
 
Left-of-center "Pagina 12" (circulation 15,000) carries an opinion 
piece by international analyst Luis Bruschtein, who opines (12/17), 
"The visit of the new Assistant Secretary of State for Western 
Hemisphere Affairs, Arturo Valenzuela, left little, if anything, 
for those who expected a change in the US policy towards Latin 
America. 
 
 
 
"Valenzuela's meeting with VP Julio Cobos could be more sensitive 
than a rebuff to the Government from both Valenzuela and Cobos. 
Valenzuela could appear as an 'accomplice' of the institutional 
anomaly implied in the fact that a vice president is also an 
opposition leader. The meeting was hardly a 'diplomatic' gesture 
from the visitor. 
 
 
 
"Valenzuela's remarks that U.S. businessmen are nostalgic for 1996 
imply a 'slap on the face' that almost no one expected from an 
Obama envoy. 
 
 
 
"While Valenzuela met with other members of the opposition, his 
meeting with VP Cobos implied a higher commitment because by doing 
so, Valenzuela infringed on basic diplomatic premises." 
 
 
 
-   "A message with Obama's wink" 
 
 
 
Fernando Gonzalez, editor of business-financial "El Cronista," 
(circulation 12,000) writes (12/17), "The relationship between the 
Cristina Kirchner and the Obama administrations did not start well. 
On January 20, when Barack Obama was sworn in (the first black 
president in the US history), the Argentine President was 
photographed in Cuba with Raul Castro during a visit to the island. 
Obama has already met with Lula, Michelle Bachelet and Tabare 
Vazquez, although he has not met with CFK... This is why one can 
understand the current spat between both governments sparked by 
 
 
Assistant Secretary for Western Hemisphere Affairs Arturo 
Valenzuela's remarks that U.S. businessmen are 'concerned' over 
legal insecurity. The problem for the Kirchners is that Obama is 
not the only one who thinks that legal security is being affected 
in the country, although he is the most powerful man who says it 
and he has just conveyed a public message of huge importance to 
them." 
 
 
 
To see more Buenos Aires reporting, visit our 
 
classified website at: 
 
  
http://www.state.sqov.gov/p/wha/buenosaires 
 
 
 
MARTINEZ 
MARTINEZ