586 cables Bolivia (Just running in to post this link.)

[EFerrari]

http://wikileaks.org/tag/BL_0.html

[EFerrari]

1. 1350, Colombia

http://wikileaks.org/tag/CO_0.html

[Judi Lynn]

8. Just looked in at the beginning of this section. It's going to be terrific. Looking forward. n/t

[EFerrari]

12. I can't even peek until tonight. Exciting!

[EFerrari]

2. 1253, Chile

http://wikileaks.org/tag/CI_0.html

[EFerrari]

3. 1053, Peru

http://wikileaks.org/tag/PE_0.html

[EFerrari]

4. 1658, Argentina

http://wikileaks.org/tag/AR_0.html

[EFerrari]

5. 4637, Spain, in cablegate search format

http://www.cablegatesearch.net/search.php?q=Spain

2763, new
http://wikileaks.org/tag/SP_0.html

[EFerrari]

6. Fidel Castro, 336 in searchable format.

http://www.cablegatesearch.net/search.php?q=

[EFerrari]

17. US Top Diplomat Monitored Internet in Cuba

Havana, Cuba, Aug 27.- Chief of Mission of the US Interest Section in Havana, Jonathan Farrar, monitored the Internet for possible subversive actions, according to a cable released by Wikileaks and reproduced by Cuban websites on Saturday.
Farrar's monitoring of the Internet along with his wife occurred in August 2008, when he addressed a memorandum to the US State Department described as sensitive, without reporting any obstacle from Cuban authorities.

The diplomat suggested the White House to facilitate programs to circumvent regulations established by local Internet providers, as denounced by cubasi.cu website, reproduced today by Cubadebate website.

The memorandum said that USINT in Cuba welcomes all contributions coming from Washington, where work is undergoing to develop programs to avoid Internet filters.

It also announced that he would try to improve local Internet conditions and consider its possible use in website operations.

http://www.cadenagramonte.cu/english/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=6841:us-top-diplomat-monitored-internet-in-cuba-&catid=2:cuba&Itemid=14

Cable: http://www.cablegatesearch.net/cable.php?id=08HAVANA660&q=cuba

[Judi Lynn]

19. So Farrar has enlisted his wife's services spying on the Cuban internet system.

Husband, wife hard at work against the country whose space they are inhabiting. How special.

From the article:

~snip~
He recognized having access to websites of non governmental organizations dealing with human rights like Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International.

"You can even unload fully the report HRW 2007 if you are patient enough to wait twenty minutes," said Farrar in his memorandum.

He said that you can also surf websites of USINT, the State Department and the United Nations Organization, and even those of The Washington Post and The New York Times journals.

Imagine that, slow internet service in a nation which has had to use very primitive equipment due to the total embargo.

How can that be?

Assholes!

[EFerrari]

7. Hugo Chavez, 1060 in searchable format.

http://www.cablegatesearch.net/search.php?q=

[EFerrari]

18. Hmm. This seems to be the wrong link.

It takes you to a full search, not only to some Chavez cache. Oh, well.

[Judi Lynn]

9. Wow! Have looked through several early messages.

Very interesting in discovering the tone, attitude they copped immediately in their posts regarding Morales. There's no area of confusion about their level of "respect" for the President, if you "know" what I mean, as in this one:

Viewing cable 06LAPAZ1517, MORALES ISSUED LAND DECREES WITHOUT PROMISED

Reference ID Created Released Classification Origin
06LAPAZ1517 2006-06-05 20:43 2011-08-25 00:00 UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY Embassy La Paz
VZCZCXYZ0000
PP RUEHWEB

DE RUEHLP #1517 1562043
ZNR UUUUU ZZH
P 052043Z JUN 06
FM AMEMBASSY LA PAZ
TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC PRIORITY 9452
INFO RUEHAC/AMEMBASSY ASUNCION 5895
RUEHBO/AMEMBASSY BOGOTA 3207
RUEHBR/AMEMBASSY BRASILIA 7056
RUEHBU/AMEMBASSY BUENOS AIRES 4310
RUEHCV/AMEMBASSY CARACAS 1603
RUEHPE/AMEMBASSY LIMA 1595
RUEHMN/AMEMBASSY MONTEVIDEO 3823
RUEHQT/AMEMBASSY QUITO 4237
RUEHSG/AMEMBASSY SANTIAGO 8783
RHEHNSC/NSC WASHINGTON DC
RHMFIUU/HQ USSOUTHCOM MIAMI FLUNCLAS LA PAZ 001517

SIPDIS

SENSITIVE
SIPDIS

STATE FOR WHA/AND

E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: PGOV PREL ECON BL
SUBJECT: MORALES ISSUED LAND DECREES WITHOUT PROMISED
CONSENSUS

REF: LA PAZ 1337

¶1. (U) Despite his May 18 decision not to promulgate
executive decrees redistributing land without consensus,
President Morales issued seven decrees on June 3 after
negotiations with Santa Cruz agricultural and business
representatives broke down June 2. The GOB will redistribute
2.2 million hectares of government lands and give title to
3.1 million hectares of "unproductive" large landholdings to
indigenous communities in Pando, Beni, Santa Cruz and Tarija.
Morales has called the measures an "agrarian revolution," in
which land will be given to indigenous who do not own land or
who own "insufficient" land, and to those who work the land.
In an effort to avoid mistakes made during the 1950's land
reform, the GOB will give farmers seeds, tools (including ten
tractors for each municipality), and financial assistance and
attempt to secure markets for goods produced by small and
medium farmers.

¶2. (U) Santa Cruz officials have decried Morales' land
decrees, accusing Morales of politicizing the land issue for
his own political gain in the Constituent Assembly and of
revealing his authoritarian tendencies. Morales, in turn,
accused Santa Cruz representatives of breaking off the
dialogue; the press reported that the Agricultural Chamber of
Eastern Bolivia (CAO) and the Chamber of Industry and
Commerce (CAINCO) heard rumors during negotiations that Vice
President Garcia Linera planned to issue the decrees on June
3, which they viewed as negotiating in bad faith.

¶3. (SBU) Comment: Notwithstanding Morales' bump in popularity
following the May 1 hydrocarbons nationalization, a general
apathy toward the Constituent Assembly had settled in among
voters, particularly among the indigenous/rural population.
With his land decrees, Morales has again generated some
enthusiasm for his political project. For the moment, the
indigenous are elated. End comment.
GREENLEE

http://wikileaks.org/cable/2006/06/06LAPAZ1517.html

[Judi Lynn]

10. Have bookmarked this both in DU files, and in my personal files. Invaluable. Rec. n/t

[Judi Lynn]

11. As hard as it is to imagine, some scholar has already unrec'd this find! Figures, eh?

Nothing to add which matters, but all the time in the world to try to tear down real input by Democrats.

[Judi Lynn]

13. Here's info. on Wikipedia Bolivia cables:

Found it in a search, but its rightful place would be this thread in this forum, since its completely relative:

Bolivia: WikiLeaks expose US conspiracy
Monday, August 1, 2011
By Federico Fuentes

Recently released United States embassy cables from Bolivia have provided additional insight to the events leading up to the September 2008 coup attempt against the Andean country’s first indigenous president.

On September 9, 2008, President Evo Morales expelled then-US ambassador Philip Goldberg as evidence emerged that Goldberg and embassy officials had been meeting with several key civilian and military figures involved in an unfolding coup plot.

These meetings took place in the midst of “civic strikes” and roadblocks called by the right-wing opposition prefects (governors) of the eastern states. These actions were denounced by the government as an attempted coup.

~snip~
With coup plans well underway, the article reported that US embassy officials met with four retired generals and a security representative from the Santa Cruz prefecture on September 2.

Three days later, the US embassy’s head of military affairs spoke with high ranking active military officials based in Santa Cruz to “plan the handing over of military units to paramilitary groups”.

The aim was to “create the sensation that the government had lost control of the Armed Forces”, a scenario outlined in US embassy cables issued only months prior.

More:
http://www.greenleft.org.au/node/48367

[Peace Patriot]

14. Thanks, EFerrari! I'm going through 2008 with a fine toothcomb

writing up some comments as I go, and have only made it to the end of February (days before the US/Colombia bombing/raid on Eduador). I'll publish a commentary on 2008 here in the LatAm forum I hope sometime this weekend.

It's true, as judi Lynn says, above, that they were out to demean and topple Morales, and are allied with the white separatists, at least from the beginning of 2008, but I have to say that it's gratifying to watch their twisted minds, from early in that year, as they paint the "Chilean" scenario that they are trying to make come true, knowing that they fail. My comments will fill in the momentous events that unfold as these cables are written and sent, that will change South America forever--from the South American leaders' reaction to the US/Colombia bombing/raid on Ecuador, on 3/1/08, to the creation of UNASUR, in the summer, to election of yet another Leftist government (in Paraguay) and the failure of the Bushwhacks to get any traction with the "Islamic terrorists" in Bolivia (in the the tri-border area) propaganda, to the unity of South America in defense of Morales. US Amb Goldberg in Bolivia (whom Morales throws out of Bolivia, along with the DEA, in the Fall) and US Amb Wayne in Argentina, in the early 2008 cables (Jan-Feb), are clearly trying to find "divide and conquer" weaknesses, for instance, in a spat between Argentina and Brazil on Bolivia's gas (early in the year) and are almost funny in their objections to Morales' good government policies that will impact the profits of their buds at Pfizer Pharmaceutical or Monsanto. But, of course, this wouldn't be a bit jocular if they had succeeded in their bloody plans.

Again, thanks for the heads up!

[Peace Patriot]

15. K&R! K&R! K&R! K&R! K&R! nt

[Judi Lynn]

16. Here's one on Morales' move to end slavery:

cable 06LAPAZ3375

Reference ID Created Released Classification Origin
06LAPAZ3375 2006-12-14 16:25 2011-08-26 00:00 UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY Embassy La Paz

SUBJECT: BOLIVIA'S FIRST STEPS AT ABOLISHING MODERN SLAVERY


¶1. (U) The International Labor Organization (ILO) estimates
that over seven thousand Guaranis live in forced labor
situations on ranches in Bolivia's Chaco, which overlaps the
departments of Chuquisaca, Santa Cruz and Tarija. Men's
wages are usually between $1.25 to $1.75 USD per day. Women
receive half as much, children and the elderly are often not
paid, yet are still required to work. The ranch owners
deduct food, shelter, and clothing expenses from the
Guaranis' salaries at inflated prices. Annual expenses
usually exceed annual wages, pushing the Guaranis into debt
servitude which is transferred across generations. The
living conditions are very poor; most of the families lack
potable water, electricity, access to schools and medical
care.

¶2. (U) The Bolivian human rights ombudsman conducted an
investigation of the Guaranis' situation and issued a report
in November 2005, urging the national and departmental
governments to address the problem. In 2006, officials from
the Ministry of Justice, with financial and technical
assistance from the ILO and the Swiss, began negotiations
with ranch owners to normalize Guarani working conditions and
obtain payments from ranch owners for unpaid wages. On
November 6, the GOB secured payment to a group of eight
Guarani families. This first settlement of 23,000 bolivanos
($2,875 USD) was divided between the families, with some
receiving $225 USD and others receiving up to $750 USD.
-------
Comment
-------

¶3. (SBU) After many years of government inaction, the
Guaranis are beginning to see concrete results. Per a 2004
report, there 894 Guarani families living in indentured
servitude. Having only compensated eight families, the GOB
has a long way to go to, but it has finally made the
necessary first step. End Comment.
GOLDBERG

~~~~~
Necessary first step? What about all those decades when the Bolivian oligarchy, who does this to people, wouldn't even allow indigenous people to vote, or even walk on the sidewalks?

This gov't have ALWAYS sided with the oligarchy, even assisting violent coups to make sure the oligarchs got back in charge when individual Bolivian Presidents started doing too much in the interests of the country at large.

As we remember, Montana/Wyoming rancher, Ronald Larson is one of those vast land-holding slave owners. Went there as a "Peace Corps worker," ended up becoming nearly the largest landowner in Bolivia.

[Judi Lynn]

20. Kicking back to the top, for easy spotting. n/t