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### Viewing cable 08SANJOSE71, RE-BUILDING BRIDGES IN COSTA RICA: A THREE-WAY

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08SANJOSE71 | 2008-01-30 15:03 | 2011-03-21 16:04 | UNCLASSIFIED | Embassy San Jose

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    TO RUEHSJ/AMEMBASSY SAN JOSE
    RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC 9392
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    UNCLAS SAN JOSE 000071

    SIPDIS

    SIPDIS

    DEPARTMENT FOR WHA/CEN, WHA/PPC, WHA/EPSC, PM AND EEB,
    SOUTHCOM ALSO FOR FPA

    E.O. 12958: N/A
    TAGS: CS EAID MASS PGOV PREL
    SUBJECT: RE-BUILDING BRIDGES IN COSTA RICA: A THREE-WAY
    PARTNERSHIP

    REF: A. SAN JOSE 003

         ¶B. SAN JOSE 1891 (NOTAL)

    ¶1. (SBU) SUMMARY:  In an unusual three-way partnership, the
    GOCR, the Costa Rican private sector and the U.S. military
    have embarked on a campaign to replace key bridges damaged or
    washed out by flooding in the heavy 2007 rainy season. Most
    of the work will be undertaken by the National Emergency
    Commission (CNE) and a new business group called "Businessmen
    for Solidarity" (Empresarios Solidarios), which will combine
    forces to replace as many as 30 short-span and culvert
    bridges.  The U.S. role, begun by a SOUTHCOM technical survey
    in December, will be to help the GOCR erect as many as six
    Bailey-type bridges. President Arias requested USG assistance
    for the initiative.  Following the successful medical
    exercise last month (Ref A), this is another example of a new
    Costa Rican willingness to welcome U.S. military humanitarian
    assistance.  END SUMMARY.

    ==================
    A BAD RAINY SEASON
    ==================

    ¶2. (U) The 2007 rainy season (May-December) was particularly
    heavy in Costa Rica, prompting the GOCR to declare a national
    disaster in October.  Communities in all seven provinces were
    affected by flooding, which isolated communities, damaged
    homes and infrastructure, and displaced thousands (Ref B). In
    light of the disaster, the Embassy made available $50,000 in
    OFDA disaster assistance for emergency supplies and fuel.  In
    mid-November, the CNE reported that some 18,000 people had
    been affected overall, with 18 killed and nearly 2,900 left
    homeless.  The CNE initially estimated that 124 major
    stretches of road and 29 bridges had been washed away or
    severely damaged.  Total damages at that time were estimated
    at 35 billion colones ($70 million).  As revised information
    became available, the CNE later raised the tally to 135-160
    bridges and culverts washed out or damaged nationwide.
    Infrastructure damage was so extensive, in fact, that one of
    the first tangible results of Costa Rica,s newly-established
    diplomatic relations with China was $20 million in disaster
    relief funding from Beijing, delivered in mid-December, which
    will go towards housing reconstruction (septel).

    ==============================
    THE PRIVATE SECTOR MOVES FIRST
    ==============================

    ¶3. (SBU) To address the infrastructure reconstruction needs
    and to highlight the Costa Rican private sector,s sense of
    corporate responsibility, a group of firms joined forces to
    help with the post-flooding reconstruction.  Calling
    themselves Empresarios Solidarios (Businessmen for
    Solidarity), the loose consortium was drawn from financial,
    engineering, construction, and media firms under the informal
    leadership of Grupo Nacion, which owns the nation,s leading
    newspaper.  The group,s ambitious initial plan, as briefed
    to the Ambassador and Emboffs on October 29, was to raise USD
    1 million to rebuild eight bridges leading to isolated
    communities around the nation.  The group deliberately
    targeted not only areas in need, but also zones which had
    voted against CAFTA during the October 2007 national
    referendum.  The group also sought to distance itself from
    the GOCR, partially because the businessmen believed they
    could work faster than the government, and partly because
    they wanted to ensure the private sector received due credit.
     The preliminary USG role, according to the Empresarios,
    would be to help locate, deliver or supply Bailey or ACROW
    bridging material.

    ======================
    THE GOCR ASKS FOR HELP
    ======================

    ¶4. (SBU) Through November and December, Emboffs were invited
    to join the weekly planning meetings of the Empresarios
    group.  The ODR Chief and his staff, as well as Pol/C and
    Poloffs, participated.  Our first objective was GOCR support
    for the bridges plan, which would help facilitate any formal
    request for assistance.  In a letter from President Arias to
    the Ambassador on November 5 (copy sent to WHA/CEN and
    SOUTHCOM), we received both.  Arias,s letter expressed
    satisfaction with and gratitude for the Empresarios,
    initiative, and asked for any assistance the USG could
    provide.  Following a late-November call from the Ambassador
    to SOUTHCOM (Adm. Stavrides), SOUTHCOM and Post ODR staff

    began considering specific ways the USG could help.

    =================
    REFINING THE PLAN
    =================

    ¶5. (SBU) Our second objective was to persuade the Empresarios
    to coordinate with the CNE to ensure that any private sector
    bridge reconstruction meshed with national needs.  Despite
    the group,s initial reluctance to work with the GOCR, they
    quickly realized that CNE expertise and cooperation would be
    essential.  As the weekly meetings continued (with CNE
    involvement), the Empresarios, plan was refined.  The group
    would target communities in need, financing and building
    bridges which had been washed out by the rain (and not
    structures the Ministry of Transport planned to improve or
    replace at some point.)  The group hoped the bridges would be
    just the first step in a long-term private sector commitment
    to infrastructure improvement.

    ¶6. (U) By the end of November, the CNE and the Empresarios
    had agreed to work first on a list of 15 priority short-span
    (less than 15 meters in length) bridges.  All would be
    constructed using local materials (concrete) and local labor.
     The total cost was projected to be over USD 1 million,
    exhausting what the business group had collected to that
    point.  The group planned to approach additional companies
    (including some U.S. multinationals) for additional
    contributions.  The Empresarios (wisely) postponed their
    original plans to spend money on a few, more impressive (but
    far more costly) longer-span structures.

    =================
    SOUTHCOM RESPONDS
    =================

    ¶7.  (SBU) Our third objective was to focus and refine the USG
    role.  Initially, the Empresarios group had inflated
    expectations about what the U.S. could provide, and how
    quickly.  By early December, we had re-shaped the potential
    USG role to a realistic four components: a) survey the
    longer-span bridge sites the CNE had already identified, b)
    provide technical assistance to the CNE to erect replacement
    Bailey- or ACROW-type bridges, c) actually erect a Bailey- or
    ACROW-type bridge, using a deployed U.S. military unit, and
    d) if necessary in the future, help locate, find the best
    price and help arrange transportation for additional Bailey
    or ACROW bridging materials, to be funded by the Empresarios
    group.   At an Embassy-hosted meeting on December 10, the CNE
    and Empresarios agreed to this approach.

    ¶8. (U) December 17-21, a two-member engineering team from
    SOUTHCOM (an Army engineer and a Navy Seabee) joined CNE
    engineers and PolOff on a survey of six longer-span bridging
    sites which may be candidates for USG technical assistance.
    The six sites spanned the length and breadth of Costa Rica,
    from the central Pacific to the central Caribbean, and from
    the central south to near the Nicaraguan border, covering
    parts of Puntarenas, Heredia and Guanacaste provinces and the
    canton of Perez Zeledon. The engineers also inspected stored
    bridging materials, to ensure that what was assigned to each
    site would indeed function there.

    ¶9.  (U) As a result of the team,s four-day, 800-mile
    circuit, the U.S. engineers were able to identify and
    recommend alternative sites for two of the
    six bridges, as well as additional engineering work to be
    performed at all sites, such as new abutments, box culverts
    and improved access.  The U.S. team also recommended raising
    some bridges to
    above flood level, to avoid future problems.  Finally, one
    bridge
    was identified as being in need of maintenance and
    improvements, but not of complete replacement.  The CNE
    director and his engineering staff agreed with and welcomed
    the recommendations.

    ==========
    NEXT STEPS
    ==========

    ¶10.  (U) The Empresarios Group is to resume regular meetings
    this month, with an eye to launching its initiative (and the
    first one or two short-bridge construction projects) at the
    end of January.  For the longer-span bridges, the SOUTHCOM
    survey team will identify U.S. units (e.g., from Ft. Leonard

    Woord, the Army Corps of Engineers, the 416th Engineering
    Company or a USN SeaBee unit) that could deploy a small team
    to provide subject matter expertise to help the CNE erect new
    ACROW- or Bailey-type bridges, using materials the CNE
    already has on hand.  The CNE must first complete its
    planning, which includes preparing the bridging site(s).  The
    first U.S.-assisted bridge site could be the 32 meter gap
    across the Pacuar River, in Perez Zeledon canton (N 09 22,
    29.7" x W 084 01, 21.9"), at the end of March, if the GOCR
    completes the site preparations in time.

    =======
    COMMENT
    =======

    ¶11.  (SBU) What began as an effort to highlight corporate
    responsibility following the hard-fought CAFTA referendum has
    become another opportunity to display USG "soft power" on
    Costa Rica.  The businessmen deserve credit for launching
    this unusual initiative and for obtaining the letter from
    President Arias.  The CNE deserves kudos for being receptive
    to the private sector assistance. Our goal is
    capacity-building, not doing everything for the Ticos, and
    the GOCR (and the Empresarios) seem to agree. Even if the
    ambitious private sector plan slows, the U.S. military has an
    important, high-impact (and low-cost) role to play in
    providing technical assistance.  Our thanks to SOUTHCOM and
    the units involved for responding so quickly to this
    opportunity.
    BRENNAN

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