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### Viewing cable 09MEXICO3278, SECRETARY LEW: YOUR VISIT TO MEXICO

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09MEXICO3278 | 2009-11-19 17:08 | 2011-05-18 18:30 | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | Embassy Mexico
Appears in these articles: http://wikileaks.jornada.com.mx/notas/eu-aplaudio-en-publico-la-pacificacion-de-tijuana-en-privado-tenia-dudas

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    UNCLAS SECTION 01 OF 03 MEXICO 003278

    SENSITIVE

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    D FOR PIPER CAMPBELL, EDWARD MEIER; WHA FOR ROBERTA JACOBSON;
    WHA/MEX FOR ALEX LEE, COLLEEN HOEY, MARY STICKLES

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    TAGS: PGOV PREL PHUM KCRM SNAR ECON MX
    SUBJECT: SECRETARY LEW: YOUR VISIT TO MEXICO
     ¶1. (SBU) Jack: We are extremely grateful for your visit and
    confident you will leave with a solid appreciation of the challenges
    Mexico faces as it confronts the drug cartels, deals with the
    effects of the global recession, and struggles to consolidate
    democracy and the rule of law.  Most importantly, you will see how
    strong our partnership has grown as a result of helping the Calderon
    administration shape its strategic approach to these challenges in a
    spirit of mutual responsibility.  Building on the Secretary's
    meeting with Foreign Secretary Espinosa this past September, we have
    made significant progress in fleshing out the framework for our
    cooperation with Mexico in the context of the Merida Initiative.  As
    you prepare for Hill briefings, your meetings here with President
    Calderon and Foreign Secretary Espinosa, with experts on economic
    competitiveness, with senior law enforcement and  military policy
    officials, with civil society leaders, and with our country team,
    will provide you with insights into the progress USG-Mexican
    cooperation has produced to date and the potential it holds for the
    future.  We welcome the opportunity to engage on the Quadrennial
    Diplomacy and Development Review (QDDR) and to review some of the
    management challenges Mission Mexico faces in pursuing our
    priorities.

    The Way Ahead on Merida

    ¶2.  (SBU) Our engagement with the Mexicans to cooperate beyond the
    current Merida initiative has produced excellent results.  We now
    have a four pillar strategic framework that has been blessed in
    principle by the two secretaries and operationalized through the A/S
    level by both governments.  NSC Senior Director Restrepo and INL
    PDAS McGlynn joined me last week in leading a second high-level
    inter-agency discussion with the Mexicans focused on
    institutionalizing the rule of law (pillar 2) and creating strong
    and resilient communities (pillar 4).  As with our earlier
    discussion on disrupting drug trafficking organizations (pillar 1)
    and building a modern border (pillar 3), the Mexicans are engaging
    with us in a serious exercise to deepen and extend our cooperation.
    The challenges are quite clear: a top heavy bureaucracy that resists
    interagency cooperation, a traditional military that looks
    suspiciously at "interference" by civilian authorities, and high
    levels of violence and corruption, particularly along our common
    border.  The Mexicans have agreed to conduct a bi-lateral assessment
    mission in Tijuana and Ciudad Juarez at the end of November, which
    should help us focus on priority areas for beyond Merida: better
    civilian-military links on operations along the border and better
    interagency cooperation that will allow effective operationalization
    of intelligence.

    ¶3.  (SBU) Mexico continues to face high levels of violence in Ciudad
    Juarez and other parts of the country as its military and law
    enforcement institutions sustain their pressure on the drug cartels.
     Mexican officials appreciate the contribution unprecedented
    cooperation with the U.S. has made to its progress in combating
    organized crime.  At the same time, our Mexican interlocutors have
    conveyed frustration with the perception that delivery on our
    assistance programs is lagging.  It bears noting, however, that a
    number of our key programs - such as our contribution to the Police
    Secretariat's facility in San Luis Potosi that aims to train up to
    9,000 federal police over the next year - are well underway.
    Meanwhile, we expect to deliver on a major ticket item - four Bell
    helicopters - before the end of the year, and an additional three
    Black Hawks in mid-2010.  As the pace of delivery on assistance
    picks up, we intend to shine greater light on the Mexico's own
    efforts, as the GOM invests seven times more than the U.S. Merida
    budget.

    ¶4.  (SBU) Going forward, we will transition away from delivery of
    expensive hardware such as helicopters, planes, and other costly
    equipment to sponsoring extensive training and technical assistance
    programs to foster stronger law enforcement and judicial
    institutions.  Mexico adopted major justice reform in 2008.  In
    essence, Mexico seeks to transition from an antiquated and corrupt
    inquisitorial justice system to a modern, transparent, accusatorial
    framework, recognizing the presumption of innocence as a
    constitutional right, and oral trials as the primary mechanism for
    administering justice.  Implementation over the next seven years
    poses monumental challenges.  We look to provide training to key
    players in the Mexican judicial system at both the federal and state
    level.  With regards to Mexican law enforcement institutions, we
    have focused to date on working with agencies at the federal level
    given our more advanced relationship with and trust in those
    entities.  However, we are seriously working to develop our efforts
    at both the state and local level where Mexico's law enforcement
    organizations face resource constraints and are fraught with
    corruption.  Tijuana has enjoyed some recent successes by creatively
    structuring its state and local law enforcement institutions.  We
    intend to apply some of the lessons learned in Tijuana to help the
    GOM meet the challenges it faces in Ciudad Juarez.  For President

    MEXICO 00003278  002 OF 003

    Calderon there is no higher short-term priority that reducing the
    grotesque levels of homicides, kidnappings, and drug trafficking in
    this critical border city.

    ¶5.  (SBU) The GOM has deployed over 45,000 soldiers and 5,000
    federal police around the country to face down the drug cartels.
    These entities, together with the local police, can only achieve so
    much absent a capacity to collect and operationalize intelligence on
    the cartels.  Presently, Mexico's efforts are severely handicapped
    by the lack of professional intelligence expertise and a lack of
    trust both within and among institutions that is essential to
    facilitate timely sharing of actionable intelligence.  By working
    with the federal, state, and local authorities in Juarez to create a
    genuine task force model, we seek to give cops, soldiers, and
    prosecutors that missing but essential informational capacity.
    Doing so would greatly enhance GOM abilities to disrupt DTOs in the
    short-term and provide a foundation for the improved interagency
    cooperation needed throughout the justice sector in the long-term.

    ¶6.  (SBU) Human rights remain a crucial element of our dialogue with
    the Mexican government.  Presently, we draw down U.S. DOD funded
    programs to sponsor seminars, conferences and exchanges that promote
    greater human rights respect.  Recently, the GOM signed an MOU with
    the UN's Human Rights Office in Mexico that opens the door to
    working more closely with the Mexican military (SEDENA) to promote
    human rights respect.  Both the Mexican Foreign Ministry and SEDENA
    have reluctantly conveyed a willingness to meet with us formally to
    exchange information on human rights issues.  However, SEDENA is
    still wary of speaking to specifics on cases the human rights
    community and Congressional staffers have raised.  Meanwhile, we
    have opened a robust dialogue with the Mexican human rights
    community in an effort to address its concerns, particularly in
    connection with military judicial transparency, protection of human
    rights defenders, improving mechanisms to prosecute abuses, and
    setting benchmarks for human rights progress.

    ¶7.  (SBU) You should use your lunch with senior law enforcement and
    policy officials to stress our commitment to continued cooperation
    in the context of the Merida Initiative and beyond.  We expect
    SEDENA and SEMAR will each send at least one representative to the
    lunch.  It would be helpful to underscore the centrality of human
    rights and your ongoing dialogue with Congress, raising as well the
    need for all GOM agencies (not just SEDENA) to prosecute the cartels
    in accordance with the rule of law.  You will want to reinforce our
    understanding that beyond Merida cooperation will transition to
    focus primarily on strengthening institutions, particularly at the
    state level, and building the Mexican capacity to collect and
    operationalize intelligence.

    Calderon's Embrace of Economic Competitiveness

    ¶8.  (U) Mexico is still reeling from the impact of the global
    economic crisis and the resulting downturn in the United States, its
    largest trading partner.  According to the Finance Secretariat,
    Mexico's GDP is expected to contract by 6.8 percent this year.  The
    Calderon Administration projects optimistically that the Mexican
    economy will bounce back next year and grow 3 percent in 2010.  To
    do so, Mexico will depend greatly on the United States' recovery,
    the NAFTA, and export-led growth.  However, President Calderon's
    chief economic goal looks beyond a recovery; he wants to make
    inroads into eradicating poverty in Mexico, currently at 47 percent
    but on the rise over the last year.  Therefore, President Calderon
    has called for making Mexico and North America more competitive.  In
    Mexico, he has urged for congressional and private sector
    cooperation in increasing competition and reforming the labor,
    finance, energy, and telecommunications sectors.  As for North
    America, his Administration is already working with its NAFTA
    partners to make standards and regulations more compatible.  In
    addition, Calderon has called for the United States and Mexico to
    develop an aggressive infrastructure plan along the shared border as
    well as increase measures to facilitate cross-border trade.

    ¶9.  (U) At last week's APEC Summit in Singapore, Calderon spoke
    frankly about Mexican frustrations with a U.S. trade relationship
    that has become entrapped in trade disputes such as trucking, with
    little vision on advancing the joint competitiveness of our two
    economies.  Protectionism, he pointed out, is the biggest obstacle
    to recovery and warned that the United States and others are being
    tempted to raise tariff and non-tariff barriers to protect their
    domestic producers and labor markets.  Both sides are attempting to
    resolve these disputes and avoid damaging our overall strong
    bilateral partnership.  At a breakfast meeting with some of Mexico's
    leading economic policy makers, economists, and businessmen, you
    will discuss prospects for Mexico's enhanced competitiveness in the
    North American and global markets, while examining how Mexico's
    security challenges impact these efforts.

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    Tapping Your Leadership on Management Issues

    ¶10.   (SBU) We appreciate your leadership on the Quadrennial
    Diplomacy and Development Review (QDDR) and look forward to seeing
    how Mission Mexico can contribute to the Secretary's initiative.  We
    believe Foreign Secretary Espinosa would welcome the opportunity to
    learn more about what the QDDR involves.  The Mexican Government has
    disparate and weak strategic planning processes.  Resources are more
    often tied to personal relationships than to well- conceived
    objectives.  Spending is frequently reactive and vestigial patronage
    structures impede policy makers looking beyond a 3-4 year horizon.
    However, the Mexican Foreign Ministry has come under pressure to
    control budget increases, particularly when it comes to
    contributions to international organizations.

    ¶11.  (U) We would also like to take advantage of your visit to
    discuss some of our own managerial challenges.  Mission Mexico
    comprises Embassy Mexico City, nine constituent posts and thirteen
    Consular Agencies.  Mexico has 2553 staff, of which State has 1608.
    Thirty-one agencies are represented at Post.  Consular staffing
    continues to grow, with an additional 28 officer positions projected
    by 2012.  MRV fee collections remain a critical source of funding
    for consular positions and other Mission activities, although the
    number of visa applications fell in Mexico last year.  The Merida
    Initiative continues to add USDH and LES positions in FY10.
    Right-sized staffing will rise to 2846 by 2014.  Management
    staffing, however, is strained because it has not grown at the same
    rate as the State Program and other agency personnel it supports.
    WHA's Bureau Strategic Plan included two management positions in an
    effort to address this shortfall, but additional LES positions are
    needed as well.

    ¶12.  (SBU) Meanwhile, violence in northern Mexico has reached
    previously unthinkable levels, disrupting employees' everyday lives
    and affecting post morale.  In October 2009, I met with Under
    Secretary for Management Pat Kennedy to request danger pay for
    employees at all posts in Mexico, except Consulate Merida.  Embassy
    Mexico has also asked OBO for permission to purchase land for a new
    embassy compound (NEC).  Mexico City's NEC project, once scheduled
    for 2009, has been pushed back to 2017, but the embassy hopes to
    take advantage of low real estate prices and current market
    availability.  A NEC would eliminate security vulnerabilities
    inherent to the current location and consolidate staff in one safe,
    secure compound.

    ¶13.  (SBU) You are visiting Mexico at a critical juncture in its
    history.  President Calderon has clearly decided that his legacy
    will rest on confronting organized crime and promoting greater
    security for his citizens.  We have a clear national interest to
    contribute to that vision. Calderon, in defiance of traditional
    Mexican foreign policy, has bet on a genuine partnership with the
    U.S. in pursuit of these objectives.  We enjoy an historical
    opportunity to help Mexico realize its full potential as a stable,
    prosperous, democratic neighbor.  In the process, we can tackle our
    shared challenges both in terms of combating criminal threats and
    enhancing our competitiveness as a region.  Your visit will
    reinforce the importance we attach to cooperation with Mexico and
    should assist you in making the case to Congress for the appropriate
    resources to continue this work.

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