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### Viewing cable 05ASUNCION668, PARAGUAY: UPDATE ON CUBAS KIDNAPPING INVESTIGATION

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05ASUNCION668 | 2005-05-18 20:43 | 2011-04-29 00:00 | SECRET | Embassy Asuncion
Appears in these articles: http://www.semana.com/wikileaks/Seccion/168.aspx

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    id: 32876
    date: 5/18/2005 20:43
    refid: 05ASUNCION668
    origin: Embassy Asuncion
    classification: SECRET
    destination: 05ASUNCION589
    header:
    This record is a partial extract of the original cable. The full text of the original cable is not available.

    ----------------- header ends ----------------

    S E C R E T SECTION 01 OF 03 ASUNCION 000668

    SIPDIS

    WHA FOR A/S NORIEGA, PDAS DERHAM
    STATE PASS TO USAID LAC/AA
    NSC FOR KIM BREIER
    SOUTHCOM FOR POLAD DAN JOHNSON

    E.O. 12958: DECL: 05/17/2015
    TAGS: PGOV PREL PINR PTER KCRM AR BO BR CO PA VE
    SUBJECT: PARAGUAY: UPDATE ON CUBAS KIDNAPPING INVESTIGATION
    AND FARC ACTIVITY

    REF: A. ASUNCION 00589

         ¶B. ASUNCION 00246 AND PRECEDING
         ¶C. ASUNCION 00232

    Classified By: PolOff Mark Stamilio, reasons 1.4(b),(c),(d).

    Summary
    -------
    ¶1. (U) As reported in the press, a dissident Patria Libre
    party (PPL) member testified that a Colombian national who
    advised the PPL faction responsible for the kidnapping and
    murder of former President Raul Cubas's daughter, Cecilia
    Cubas (ref B), recommended that the group kill Ms. Cubas
    after ransom negotiations faltered.  Prosecutors have
    suggested that the Colombian adviser was FARC "Foreign
    Minister" Rodrigo Granda.  According to the witness's
    testimony, the adviser also encouraged the PPL to establish
    an armed wing in Paraguay.  Six additional PPL members now
    face criminal charges based on the witness's testimony,
    bringing the total to 28.

    ¶2. (S) Paraguayan Attorney General Oscar Latorre shared with
    the Ambassador new evidence showing additional email
    communication between the PPL in Paraguay and senior FARC
    leaders in Colombia, and between the PPL and a FARC operative
    possibly based in Argentina.  Among other things, the new
    evidence indicates that the PPL communicated with the FARC
    regarding at least one other kidnapping for ransom prior to
    the Cubas kidnapping.

    ¶3. (U) Additionally, prosecutors are investigating reports
    that six FARC members entered Paraguay by way of Bolivia to
    assist with the Cubas kidnapping, and reports that a presumed
    FARC member was involved in an attempted kidnapping in Ciudad
    del Este (ref A).  End Summary.

    Testimony of Dissident PPL Member
    ---------------------------------
    ¶4. (U) In a pre-trial deposition before a judge in late
    April, dissident PPL member turned police informant Dionisio
    Olazar Balbuena testified that a Colombian national
    accompanied Osmar Martinez, the leader of the PPL faction
    believed to be responsible for the Cubas kidnapping and
    murder, to a meeting in Paraguay.  Olazar testified that the
    Colombian national used the alias "Comandante Santiago" and
    served as an adviser to the Martinez faction in connection
    with the kidnapping.  Based on Olazar's general description
    of Comandante Santiago -- white male with graying hair,
    glasses, and a "Central American" accent -- prosecutors have
    suggested that he may have been FARC "Foreign Minister"
    Rodrigo Granda.  (Note: Paraguayans sometimes refer to any
    unfamiliar Spanish accent as "Central American."  End Note.)

    ¶5. (U) According to Olazar, the Martinez faction perpetrated
    the Cubas kidnapping "to recover money from those who had
    stolen it from the people."  Their plan was to demand an
    initial USD 300,000 as "punishment," and then negotiate a
    ransom of USD 3 million - 5 million.  When negotiations with
    the Cubas family faltered, Comandante Santiago recommended
    that the group kill Ms. Cubas, and then left Paraguay.
    Olazar testified that Comandante Santiago also encouraged the
    PPL to establish an armed wing in Paraguay.

    ¶6. (U) Olazar testified that he quit the PPL after a
    falling-out with PPL leader Juan Arrom.  (Note: Arrom is
    accused of orchestrating the 2001 kidnapping of Maria Edith
    Bordon de Debernardi, and was granted refugee status in
    Brazil after he was allegedly tortured by authorities in
    Paraguay.  End Note.)  According to Olazar, the falling-out
    occurred when he questioned Arrom about the accusations
    against him in the Debernardi case.  Olazar further testified
    that Martinez, Comandante Santiago, and two unnamed Deputies
    from Brazil's Workers Party (PT) tried to convince him to
    rejoin the PPL in support of South America's leftist movement.

    ¶7. (S) Comment: Some aspects of Olazar's testimony are
    self-serving and inconsistent with sensitive reporting.  For
    instance, the PPL formed its armed wing at least ten years
    ago, and according to sensitive reporting, Comandante
    Santiago actually told the PPL that it needed to strengthen
    its political wing so that the armed and political wings
    would better complement each other.  Olazar's focus on the
    formation of an armed wing may be an attempt to exploit the
    public's concerns about security in Paraguay and thereby
    inflate the significance of his testimony.
    ¶8. (S) Comment continued: Also, according to sensitive
    reporting, Olazar was previously unable to identify a
    "Central American" accent as anything other than a
    non-Paraguayan accent.  Further, it is unlikely that he met
    Granda and cannot identify him more positively than the
    general description he provided to the Attorney General's
    Office.  In Post's assessment, it is also unlikely that
    Granda is Comandante Santiago.

    ¶9. (S) Comment continued: Finally, sensitive reporting
    indicates that Olazar kept some distance from the PPL after
    his falling-out with Arrom, but never quit the party.  He
    continued to attend PPL meetings, which is how he obtained
    the information he imparted to the Attorney General's Office
    and in his testimony.  Having been outed as a member of the
    party, however, and no longer in good graces with Arrom, who
    will likely remain its leader, Olazar is hoping to save his
    own skin by cooperating with the authorities and minimizing
    his involvement in PPL activities.  End Comment.

    Growing Rap Sheet
    -----------------
    ¶10. (U) Six additional PPL members now face criminal charges
    based, in part, on Olazar's testimony.  According to Olazar,
    those members were present at a January PPL meeting during
    which Martinez called for a vote on Ms. Cubas's fate.  Three
    of the six supported Martinez's decision to kill Ms. Cubas.
    All six face charges as accomplices for failing to report the
    crime to the authorities.  A total of 28 individuals now face
    charges in the case:

    -- Osmar Martinez
    -- Anastasio Mieres
    -- Jose Martinez
    -- Francisca Andino
    -- Asael Salas
    -- Aldo Meza
    -- Vasiano Acosta
    -- Manuel Portillo
    -- Juan Martinez
    -- Pedro Chamorro
    -- Lidia Samudio
    -- Rosalba Jara
    -- Amalia Britez
    -- Hernan Nunez
    -- Emiliano Rojas
    -- Jose Hidalgo
    -- Manuel Cristaldo
    -- Magna Meza
    -- Osvaldo Villalba
    -- Carlos Espinola
    -- Sebastian Osorio
    -- Lorenzo Gonzalez
    -- Agustin Acosta
    -- Angel Acosta
    -- Blas Franco
    -- Gustavo Lezcano
    -- Aristides Vera
    -- Roque Rodriguez

    New Email Evidence
    ------------------
    ¶11. (S) According to evidence Paraguayan Attorney General
    Oscar Latorre shared with the Ambassador, on July 12, 2004,
    the day Martinez is believed to have met with Granda in
    Caracas, Venezuela (ref C), Granda emailed senior FARC leader
    Raul Reyes on Martinez's behalf to report on the status of
    plans and preparations for the Cubas kidnapping.  The
    evidence indicates that Granda then put Martinez in contact
    with a FARC operative (alias "Hermes") who has an email
    account registered in Argentina (cocobolivar@yahoo.com.ar).
    (Note: According to press reports, the Paraguayan authorities
    believe Hermes is part of a FARC cell in Buenos Aires.  The
    evidence Latorre shared with the Ambassador indicates that
    Martinez met Hermes in Brazil, perhaps on his way back to
    Paraguay from Venezuela.  End Note.)

    ¶12. (S) The evidence also indicates that the PPL communicated
    with the FARC regarding at least one other kidnapping for
    ransom, in June 2003, roughly one year before the Cubas
    kidnapping.  The exchange was between alias "Javier" and
    alias "Arturo" by means of the musguero@hotmail.com email
    account later linked to Martinez in the Cubas investigation
    (ref B).  The drafter used the same agricultural references
    ("fruit" to refer to the victim, "crop" to refer to the
    kidnapping, etc.) that Martinez and Granda later used to
    discuss the Cubas kidnapping.  Paraguayan authorities'
    analysis of the communication suggests that the kidnapping
    victim in the June 2003 case was a Brazilian national (based
    on an allusion to the color "yellow-green," the predominant
    color in Brazil's national flag) and that the PPL requested
    the assistance of a FARC advisor (based on an allusion to a
    "member of the cooperative").

    Other FARC Activity
    -------------------
    ¶13. (U) Prosecutors are investigating reports that six FARC
    members entered Paraguay by way of Bolivia to assist with the
    Cubas kidnapping.  Separately, police in Ciudad del Este
    reportedly thwarted an attempt to kidnap a relative of "a
    well-known physician" by a group that reportedly included a
    Colombian national named Jose Raul Castro Fernandez.
    Paraguayan authorities reportedly told the press that Castro
    "could be a member of the FARC."
    KEANE

    =======================CABLE ENDS============================

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