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### Viewing cable 07BUENOSAIRES1673, AMBASSADOR WAYNE MEETS CRISTINA'S RUNNING MATE, WITNESSES THE BOOM IN MENDOZA, ARGENTINA Classified By: Ambassador E. Anthony Wayne for Reasons 1.4 (b) and (d). Summary

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    C O N F I D E N T I A L BUENOS AIRES 00167SIPDIS SIPDIS E.O. 12958: DECL: 08/22/2017 AGS: PGOV, PREL, ECON, SOCI, AR

    SUBJECT: AMBASSADOR WAYNE MEETS CRISTINA'S RUNNING MATE, WITNESSES THE BOOM IN MENDOZA, ARGENTINA Classified By: Ambassador E. Anthony Wayne for Reasons 1.4 (b) and (d).  Summary

    ¶1.  (U) In a well-publicized August 16-17 visit to the central-western province of Mendoza, the Ambassador met with Mendoza Governor and Cristina Kirchner's running mate Julio Cobos, who told the Ambassador he expected better U.S.-Argentine relations after the next elections -- in which he expects his ticket to prevail.  However, a Kirchnerista who is running to replace Cobos as governor gave a pretty negative view of Cobos's record as Mendoza's chief executive.  The Ambassador also held a successful social outreach event at a school for the underprivileged, and attended a donation ceremony at another local school and participated in a roundtable at the Mendoza Binational Center with visiting U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings.  The visit received positive coverage in the local media.  END

    SUMMARY.Meeting with Governor and VP candidate Cobos 2.  (U) On August 16, Ambassador Wayne met with Mendoza Governor and National Vice Presidential candidate Julio
    Cobos, Cristina Kirchner's running mate.  They agreed on the
    importance of relations between Argentina and the United
    States and on expanding those relations to include science,
    technology, culture, education, and commerce.  Cobos shared
    his view on the importance of education and its connection to
    public security.  Cobos added that Argentina needs to
    implement a strong campaign to educate people on the rule of
    law.  He said that they need to "break the chain" of
    tolerating crimes, which will require a cultural change.
    Cobos explained that Mendoza has made several progressive
    changes in its education system, which is regarded as perhaps
    the best in Argentina, including giving indigent children
    free room and board at special schools housed in refitted
    military buildings.  Cobos said he believes that by making
    sure these children are given an education, housing, and
    food, they are reducing the chances the children will become
    involved in drugs, alcohol, and crime.  Ambassador Wayne
    noted Argentina's educational system strengths and stressed
    the need to continue investing in the youth of Argentina.
     ¶3.  (C)  Cobos was vague when describing campaign plans for
    his and Senator and First Lady Cristina Fernandez de
    Kirchner's vice presidential and presidential (respectively)
    candidacies.  Cobos said he thought that their campaign
    platform would have three or four key points, probably
    including improving Argentina's foreign relations, education,
    and strengthening Argentina's infrastructure.  He said that
    the Fernandez de Kirchner-Cobos administration will be unique
    in its inclusion of political figures from various backgrounds.  He said that he believes the "concertacion" (as it is called locally) will open more positions than just the }vice president slot to "Radicals K" -- Radical party members who support President Nestor Kirchner.  Cobos cautioned that the Fernandez de Kirchner - Cobos ticket first had to win in October, and then they could try to make sure the
    administration included a good mix of Radicals, Peronists,
    and Victory Front members.  Cobos mentioned that he has had a
    lot of experience working with a mix of political groups in
    Mendoza.  He said he thought relations between Argentina and
    the U.S. would improve under a Fernandez de Kirchneradministration.
     4th Air Force Brigade 4.  (U)  Ambassador Wayne visited the Air Force 4th Brigade where pilots train on the domestically-produced Pampas jet. Brigade Commander Sergio Mayor told Ambassador that the brigade trains pilots for all jets in Argentina using the Pampas aircraft that is manufactured by Lockheed-Martin Argentina S.A. in Cordoba province.  U.S. exchange officer Major Douglas Sirk gave a presentation on the activity of the brigade, which includes training, control of air traffic along the northern and western borders, and search and rescuemi-------- University of the River Plate Foundation
    ¶5.  (U) Ambassador Wayne addressed a group of political and
    business leaders organized by the local University of the
    River Plate Foundation (FURP) members at the Park Hyatt
    Mendoza.  Ambassador stressed the importance of relations
    between Argentina and the U.S.  Questions from the FURP
    members mainly focused on Ambassador Wayne's impressions of
    Argentina and the USG's agenda for Latin America as a whole
    and Argentina specifically.  Mendoza's Vice Governor Juan
    Carlos Jaliff and two candidates for governor of Mendoza,
    Cesar Biffi (Radical K) and Omar Demarche (Mendoza Democrat
    party), attended the meeting arranged by FURP president and
    political commentator Luis Rosales.  Rosales also arranged
    for a private dinner at a local vineyard for the Ambassador
    and many of the Mendoza FURP members. ----------------
    Meeting with Directors of the Mendoza Food Bank 6. (U)  On August 17, Ambassador Wayne met with Mendoza Food Bank president Bernardo Zunino and executive director Virginia de Luca.  Zunino and de Luca explained the food bank's main activities and support structure.  The food bank provides food and nutritional seminars for needy families in Mendoza, which, according to Zunino and de Luca, have not diminished in numbers even as poverty in Mendoza has
    decreased.  The food bank has 12 corporate sponsors and works
    with approximately 40 more companies that donate food,
    supplies, and time.  Although Argentina does not have "Good
    Samaritan" legislation to protect donors from legal action if
    a donation harms a recipient, the Mendoza Food bank receives
    monthly certification from the Argentine Institute of
    Normalization and Certification (IRAM), which is similar to
    norms of the International Standards Organization (ISO) for
    food handling.  Thus, food bank donors are protected from
    legal consequences of donations since the food bank takes
    responsibility for ensuring donations will not harm recipients.
     ¶7.  (U)  Zunino and de Luca mentioned that they do not
    receive assistance from the local Walmart, which they claim
    destroys its excess inventory of perishables instead of
    donating it probably out of concern about legal liability.
    Ambassador Wayne said he was aware of Walmart donations in
    other provinces and offered to follow up with Walmart about
    the possibility of donations to the Mendoza food bank.  Eva Peron Boarding School for the Underprivileged 8. (U)  On August 17, Ambassador Wayne visited the Eva Peron Boarding School for underprivileged children and made a donation of books for the school's library.  Approximately half of the students reside at the school during the week and return to their families for weekends.  The teachers and administration were interested in ways to increase cultural exchanges for the students.  Ambassador Wayne explained the GLOBE program provides a forum for virtual classroom
    exchanges via the internet and offered to help the school
    learn more about accessing the program.  Briefing on Mendoza's Economy 9. (U)  Ambassador Wayne visited the Mendoza offices of the Mediterranean Foundation (FM), an Argentine economic think tank, and received a briefing on the economic forecast for Mendoza.  Mendoza has experienced an impressive 13% growth rate for the past four years, but FM predicts that this will not be sustainable.  FM believes that Mendoza's growth depends on three key factors: whether the GoA can maintain (1) a "consumption boom" fueled by income transfer and market  intervention policies; (2) low domestic oil and gas prices and high export prices; and (3) a favorable real exchange rate.  FM sees the consumption boom continuing in the near term, but as world oil prices continue to climb, domestic
    production will continue to fall.  FM said that domestic
    business profits started to fall in 2005 as wage and input
    price increases cut gross revenue margins.  According to FM,
    the real exchange rate is currently appreciating as domestic
    inflation goes up, which will affect the tourism and commerce
    sectors of Mendoza's economy. 10.  (U)  FM believes that the agroindustrial sector in Mendoza will face significant decreases in its market.  They base this on signs that the 370% growth in the prune industry was temporary (unexplained increase in Russian consumption of Argentine prunes and a poor harvest in the U.S. in 2005) and that Mendoza is showing signs of overproduction of grapes in the wine industry. 11.  (C)  FM reports that inflation in Mendoza is around 14%.  Ambassador Wayne asked why inflation in Mendoza and neighboring provinces is so much higher than in Buenos Aires.
     FM explained that the real inflation rate in Buenos Aires
    and for the country is probably around 14% as well, but that,
    for political convenience, the GoA has adjusted these numbers
    down.  FM said that since 1912 there has been a 95%
    correlation between the inflation rates in Mendoza and for
    the nation.  FM said that it is impossible for all regions of
    Argentina to have increasing inflation except Buenos Aires
    city and province. 12.  (U)  FM explained that Mendoza provincial government policies and actions can really only affect about 5% of
    Mendoza's economy.  FM believes that the province should work
    to facilitate the growth of business by reducing bureaucratic
    obstacles currently in place that make opening legitimate
    enterprises a slow and costly exercise.  FM said that the
    paperwork and fees o legally register a new business are so
    prohibitive and time-consuming that they are an incentive to
    maintain businesses in the informal economy. 13. (U)  FM touched briefly on the energy sector crisis in Argentina, saying that this has been the first year the problem affects everyone in Argentina.  Mendoza has problems transporting sufficient natural gas to meet demand, with current pipeline capacity inadequate.  FM said that energy shortages in Mendoza has forced some vineyards to operate at night when there are less demands on the energy grid.  FM
    fears that the energy issue has already begun to affect
    exports from Mendoza. ---------------------------------------- Candidate for Governor Offers a Critique-14.  (U)  Ambassador Wayne met with Senator and gubernatorial
    candidate Celso Jaque to discuss his views on the key issues
    in Mendoza and his main campaign messages.  Also present were
    emboffs, Zuccardi Vineyards owner Jose Zuccardi, IV grantee
    and Jaque advisor Diego Bossio, and architect Cristian
    Racconto.  Jaque is running as the Victory Front party
    (FPV--President Kirchner's party) candidate for governor of
    Mendoza (elections on October 28).  Jaque frankly shared his
    vision for improving the province of Mendoza.  He said that
    the principal problem in Mendoza is a lack of strong
    institutions, followed by corruption.  He believes Mendoza's
    current leadership (Governor and vice presidential candidate
    Julio Cobos and vice governor Juan Carlos Jaliff) have
    mismanaged Mendoza's abundant resources and perpetuated the
    poverty and misery of many Mendozans. 15.  (C)  Jaque said that Mendoza currently has 22,000 children not attending school.  He said that the cheap cocaine byproduct "paco" has begun to show up in Mendoza and e fears it will lead to more addiction and more crime.  He criticized the province's lack of a strategy to address
    demand for drugs, the supply of drugs, nor the faulty police
    work in counter drugs in Mendoza. 16.  (C)  In commentary on the public security crisis in endoza, which has brought National Gendarmerie to the  streets, Jaque was particularly critical of police training in Mendoza.  He said that in the six-month training course,
    cadets only fire their weapons five times.  He said this
    leads to police on the streets whose fire-arms training is
    insufficient to know when to draw their weapons and when to
    withhold fire.  He added that the cadets must pay for their
    own bullets, but that their salaries are not augmented for
    the extra cost.  Jaque said that if the police continue to be
    paid insufficient wages and to be expected to pay for their
    own ammunition, the officers will end up living in the same
    tough neighborhoods as the "delinquents" they are charged
    with policing.  Jaque said that Governor Cobos's recent
    success in bringing 120 extra gendarmerie troops to Mendoza
    will not help the crime situation in the province.  Jaque was
    clear that he believes the police must be local; they must
    know the neighborhoods and their residents.  He mentioned
    that Cobos's administration had purchased a number of new
    patrol cars, but when Jaque went to see the cars, he found
    that many had burnt-out motors and flat tires.  He cited this
    as a blatant example of Cobos's mismanagement of the
    province. 17.  (C)  Jaque was adamant that the province has so many
    natural and industrial resources that there should not be any
    significant poverty, indigence, or hunger.  He said that if
    he is elected in October, he will begin negotiating a new
    consensus in the province before his accession to power in
    December.  He believes that the government and the economy of
    Mendoza should be decentralized to provide improvements to
    the quality of life for all Mendozans, not just those who
    live in the capital.  He pledged to continue Cobos's record
    of good relations with the federal government, which he named
    as the only positive aspect of Cobos's administration.
     ------------- Press Coverage --------------  18.  (U)  Local press coverage of Ambassador Wayne's trip highlighted his meetings with a broad range of politicians
    and business leaders during his visit.  This was particularly
    mentioned by the city's two leading newspapers, Los Andes and
    Uno, in their coverage of Ambassador's speech to FURP
    members.  Local newspaper, TV, and radio also covered the
    Ambassador's book donation at the Eva Peron school.  At the
    national level, the press carried the news of the
    Ambassador's meeting with Governor Julio Cobos, who had only
    two days before formally launched his candidacy in Buenos
    Aires as Fernandez de Kirchner's running mate. WAYNE

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