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### Viewing cable 06CARACAS3688, ECUADORIAN PRESIDENT-ELECT CORREA'S VISIT TO

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06CARACAS3688 | 2006-12-27 17:05 | 2011-04-10 17:05 | CONFIDENTIAL | Embassy Caracas
Appears in these articles: http://www.eluniverso.com/2011/04/10/1/1355/cable-91011.html

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    VZCZCXRO4798
    PP RUEHAG RUEHROV
    DE RUEHCV #3688/01 3611713
    ZNY CCCCC ZZH
    P 271713Z DEC 06
    FM AMEMBASSY CARACAS
    TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC PRIORITY 7372
    INFO RUCNMEM/EU MEMBER STATES COLLECTIVE PRIORITY
    RUEHWH/WESTERN HEMISPHERIC AFFAIRS DIPL POSTS PRIORITY
    RUMIAAA/HQ USSOUTHCOM MIAMI FL PRIORITY
    RHEHNSC/NSC WASHDC PRIORITY

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    C O N F I D E N T I A L SECTION 01 OF 02 CARACAS 003688

    SIPDIS

    SIPDIS

    HQSOUTHCOM ALSO FOR POLAD

    E.O. 12958: DECL: 12/26/2016
    TAGS: PREL PGOV SNAR ETRD VE EC
    SUBJECT: ECUADORIAN PRESIDENT-ELECT CORREA'S VISIT TO
    CARACAS: PROTOCOL ...

    id: 91011
    date: 12/27/2006 17:13
    refid: 06CARACAS3688
    origin: Embassy Caracas
    classification: CONFIDENTIAL
    destination: 06CARACAS3557
    header:
    VZCZCXRO4798
    PP RUEHAG RUEHROV
    DE RUEHCV #3688/01 3611713
    ZNY CCCCC ZZH
    P 271713Z DEC 06
    FM AMEMBASSY CARACAS
    TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC PRIORITY 7372
    INFO RUCNMEM/EU MEMBER STATES COLLECTIVE PRIORITY
    RUEHWH/WESTERN HEMISPHERIC AFFAIRS DIPL POSTS PRIORITY
    RUMIAAA/HQ USSOUTHCOM MIAMI FL PRIORITY
    RHEHNSC/NSC WASHDC PRIORITY

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

    C O N F I D E N T I A L SECTION 01 OF 02 CARACAS 003688

    SIPDIS

    SIPDIS

    HQSOUTHCOM ALSO FOR POLAD

    E.O. 12958: DECL: 12/26/2016
    TAGS: PREL PGOV SNAR ETRD VE EC
    SUBJECT: ECUADORIAN PRESIDENT-ELECT CORREA'S VISIT TO
    CARACAS: PROTOCOL PLUS POLEMICS

    REF: CARACAS 003557

    CARACAS 00003688  001.2 OF 002

    Classified By: ACTING POLITICAL COUNSELOR DANIEL LAWTON,
    REASONS 1.4 (D)

    ¶1. (SBU) Summary.  President Hugo Chavez hosted Ecuadorian
    president-elect Rafael Correa December 20-21.  Both Chavez
    and Correa pledged to enhance bilateral economic integration,
    particularly energy cooperation.  Chavez also said he would
    consider the request of Correa and Bolivian President Morales
    that Venezuela rejoin the Andean Community.  Prior to his
    departure, Correa announced that he was scrubbing his
    follow-on visit to Bogota to protest Colombia's aerial spray
    coca eradication program along the Ecuadorian border.
    Foreign Minister Nicolas Maduro subsequently denounced the
    Colombian Interior Minister's comments to the media
    suggesting that Chavez influenced Correa's decision.  End
    Summary.

    ---------------------------
    Strengthening Bilateral Ties
    ---------------------------

    ¶2. (U) President Chavez personally greeted Ecuadorian
    president-elect Rafael Correa on the red carpet at Maiquetia
    International Airport on December 21.  Correa traveled to
    Venezuelan on a Venezuelan government airplane.  In arrival
    remarks to the press, Chavez praised Ecuador as a "brother
    country" committed to a "united, prosperous, and just Latin
    America without subjugation, lackeys, and slaves."  Correa,
    for his part, said the two countries have a "common destiny"
    and needed to promote further integration that "overcomes
    mercantile logic" and "absurdities imposed by the North."

    ¶3. (U) Chavez and Correa agreed to bolster bilateral economic
    cooperation.  Chavez told a December 21 press conference that
    the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (BRV) will refine
    100,000 barrels of Ecuadorian oil a day in Venezuela at no
    extra cost to Ecuador.  "I don't want one cent of profit, or
    then it would not be contributing any aid whatsoever," Chavez
    told the media.  He also reportedly announced that the BRV
    would assist Ecuador to expand existing as well as construct
    new refineries and consider joint oil and gas exploration and
    storage ventures.  In addition, Chavez proposed creating a
    binational fund for social development and said the BRV would
    open an office in Quito to provide microcredits.

    ¶4. (SBU) During his two-day visit to Caracas, Correa laid a
    wreath at the National Pantheon where Simon Bolivar and other
    national heroes are buried.  He was also awarded the keys to
    the Libertador Burough of Caracas by Libertador Mayor Freddy
    Bernal.  In addition, Correa toured the Fabricio Ojeda
    "Endogenous Development" Center, a former PDVSA oil
    distribution facility in the working class neighborhood of
    Catia that has been converted into a government-run social
    services center.  The Center is the BRV's favorite showpiece
    for international visitors and contains a medical clinic, a
    subsidized market, a workers' cooperative that produces
    shoes, and another workers' cooperative that produces
    T-shirts.

    --------------------------------
    Reclama for the Andean Community
    --------------------------------

    ¶5. (U) At the same December 21 press conference, Correa urged
    Chavez to reconsider his decision earlier in 2006 to withdraw
    Venezuela from the Andean Community.  While criticizing the
    Andean Community as ineffective, Correa nevertheless urged
    Chavez to facilitate greater integration between the Andean
    Community and Mercosur, which Venezuela joined after leaving
    the Andean Community.  Noting that Bolivian President Evo
    Morales had also recently asked him to consider Venezuela's
    re-entry into the Andean Community, Chavez said that "at a
    minimum" he would study the possibility.  When Correa
    confirmed to the press that he had studied in the United
    States and referred to himself as a "Chicago Boy," Chavez
    interjected, calling him, "a Chicago Boy of the Left."

    -----------------------------
    Correa Cancels Colombia Visit
    -----------------------------

    ¶6. (U) Correa also provided the pro-government daily "Vea"
    with the exclusive December 21 story that he had decided to
    cancel his planned follow-on visit to Colombia, where he was
    slated to meet with Colombian President Alvaro Uribe.  Correa

    CARACAS 00003688  002.2 OF 002

    told "Vea" that he was protesting the Colombian government's
    aerial spray coca eradication efforts on the Ecuadorian
    border.  He called Colombia's efforts a violation of
    Ecuador's national sovereignty and said the Ecuadorian
    government was already asking its ambassador in Bogota to
    register Ecuador's request that Colombia suspend its spraying
    along the border.

    ¶7. (SBU) Local media outlets subsequently suggested that
    Chavez may have persuaded Correa to drop Bogota from his
    itinerary, but also duly reported denials issued from
    Correa's camp in Quito.  After the local media reported the
    Colombian Interior Minister's suggestion that Chavez
    influenced Correa's decision, Foreign Minister Maduro called
    the Colombian Foreign Minister December 26 to register a BRV
    protest.  Maduro then called a press conference to denounce
    the Colombian Interior Minister's "double offense" against
    Chavez and Correa.  The Colombian Foreign Ministry issued a
    communique denying that the Colombian government ever
    attributed Correa's trip cancellation to Chavez.

    -------
    Comment
    -------

    ¶8. (C) Similar to the December 5-6 visit of Nicaraguan
    President to Caracas (reftel), Chavez exploited Correa's
    visit to court another left-of-center Latin American
    government and to reassert himself as a regional leader.  The
    visit also highlighted the nature of Bolivarian Bipolar
    Disorder: warmly receiving the president-elect of Ecuador
    generated a diplomatic spat with Colombia.

    ZIFF

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

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