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### Viewing cable 05KINGSTON2026, VENEZUELAN PRESIDENT HUGO CHAVEZ VISITS JAMAICA

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05KINGSTON2026 | 2005-08-29 12:46 | 2011-06-13 09:30 | CONFIDENTIAL | Embassy Kingston

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    This record is a partial extract of the original cable. The full text of the original cable is not available.

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    C O N F I D E N T I A L SECTION 01 OF 03 KINGSTON 002026

    SIPDIS

    DEPARTMENT FOR WHA/CAR, WHA/AND, WHA/MEX
    DEPARTMENT PASS USDEPT. OF ENERGY (SAMUEL BROWNE)
    SOUTHCOM FOR POLAD

    E.O. 12958: DECL: 08/26/2015
    TAGS: PREL PGOV ENRG JM
    SUBJECT: VENEZUELAN PRESIDENT HUGO CHAVEZ VISITS JAMAICA

    REF: SIEBENGARTNER/COLLINS 8/23 E-MAIL

    Classified By: Charge d'Affaires Thomas C. Tighe.  Reasons 1.4(b)
    and (d).

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    Summary
    -------

    ¶1. (C) Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez visited Jamaica
    August 23 to conclude a 16-point agreement with Prime
    Minister P.J. Patterson, including a bilateral Petro-Caribe
    accord.  Chavez arrived the day after U.S. televangelist Pat
    Robertson called for the USG to assassinate him, raising the
    profile of a visit that Patterson would just as soon have
    kept more discreet.  At least one member of Patterson's
    Cabinet expressed misgivings to the Prime Minister about
    Chavez's motives, but Patterson evidently decided that
    Jamaica could ill afford to turn down the PetroCaribe offer.
    Senior Foreign Ministry officials insist that the GOJ's goal
    in signing the accord is to ensure access to cheaper
    petroleum, not make a political statement.  At Chavez's
    suggestion, the GOJ is considering playing host to yet
    another gathering of PetroCaribe nations, this one on
    September 6, in Jamaica, in part to commemorate the 190th
    anniversary of Simon Bolivar's 1815 "Letter from Kingston",
    in which the Libertador called for the political integration
    of Latin America and the Caribbean.  End Summary.

    -------------------
    The Visit Shapes Up
    -------------------

    ¶2. (U) Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez visited Montego Bay
    on August 23 to sign a 16-point communiqu with Prime
    Minister P.J. Patterson (e-mailed to Desk per Ref), which
    included finalizing their bilateral PetroCaribe Energy
    Cooperation Agreement.  In the days prior to Chavez's
    arrival, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade
    Minister of State Delano Franklyn issued a statement
    welcoming the Venezuelan leader and pre-emptively offered
    that Franklyn saw no reason why the USG might object.
    According to the joint communiqu of August 23, Chavez was
    accompanied by an official delegation of 14, including
    Foreign Minister Ali Rodriguez, Interior Minister Jesse
    Chacon, and Minister of State for Integration and Foreign
    Trade Gustavo Marquez.  While in Jamaica, Chavez reportedly
    planned to look in on the Venezuelan military construction
    detachment in Brighton, Westmoreland, but he was hours late
    in arriving from Cuba and unable to do so.  U.S.
    televangelist Pat Robertson's August 22 call for the USG to
    assassinate the Venezuelan leader significantly raised the
    profile of Chavez's visit, to the chagrin of the GOJ.

    --------------------------------------------- --------
    Foreign Ministry:  It's About Cheap Oil, Not Politics
    --------------------------------------------- --------

    ¶3.  (C) On August 25, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign
    Trade (MFAFT) Bilateral Affairs Director Courtenay Rattray
    (Jamaica's immediate former DCM in Washington) told Pol/Econ
    Chief that Jamaica's primary motivation in signing the
    PetroCaribe accord with the GOV is cheap oil and favorable
    terms of payment, not politics.  He said that Chavez had
    expressed a sense of obligation to help smaller, vulnerable
    neighbors such as Jamaica and other Caricom states, and that
    PetroCaribe is a concrete expression of that commitment.
    Rattray acknowledged that fellow Caricom states Trinidad and
    Tobago, and Barbados, had expressed concerns about
    PetroCaribe, and implied that their reservations were largely
    due  to domestic petroleum/competition issues (in the case of
    Trinidad) and to concern about potential negative U.S.
    reaction (Barbados).  Jamaica, he said, simply could not
    afford to let pass the opportunity offered by PetroCaribe to
    secure its energy future.

    ¶4.  (C) Rattray said that the GOV was quick to provide
    Jamaica with disaster assistance following Hurricane Ivan in
    September 2004, sending a Venezuelan military construction
    detachment to rebuild housing in Westmoreland.  He also cited
    a number of other building projects in which GOV financing
    has been instrumental:  the Montego Bay Civic Center; Port
    Maria Civic Center (Phase I of II has been completed); and
    the Greenfield Multi-purpose Sports Complex in Trelawny.
    Unspecified work- and poverty alleviation programs have also
    received GOV funding, said Rattray.  Asked about the planned
    activities by the "Bolivarian Institute for Cultural
    Cooperation" (Point 12 of Ref communiqu), Rattray replied
    that planning is well advanced for a building in Kingston to
    house the Institute.  He could not specify what the
    Institute's primary purpose would be, but speculated that it
    would include Spanish language instruction and serving as a
    repository for information on Bolivar.

    -----------------------------------------
    Another PetroCaribe Event on September 6?
    -----------------------------------------

    ¶5. (C) According to Rattray, Chavez suggested to Patterson
    that Jamaica host PetroCaribe countries at another ceremony
    (most likely in Kingston or Montego Bay) on September 6, to
    mark the conclusion of the CARICOM PetroCaribe deals being
    concluded bilaterally in capitals.  The GOV-hosted
    PetroCaribe event in Puerto La Cruz, he explained, had been a
    "framework" ceremony after which individual states finalized
    their bilateral accords with the GOV, which is why Chavez
    visited Jamaica.  The significance of the September 6 date,
    he explained, is that it is the 190th anniversary of Simon
    Bolivar's 1815 "Letter from Jamaica" in which the exiled
    Libertador laid out his thoughts on republican government and
    political integration throughout the hemisphere.

    ¶6. (C) Asked whether Cuban President Fidel Castro would
    attend the September event, Rattray professed not to know.
    Pol/Econ Chief raised the possibility that Chavez's petroleum
    generosity might come with strings attached, such as GOV
    expectations about how Jamaica should vote at the UN or OAS;
    Rattray replied that there had been no hint of such
    conditionality by the GOV:  "We must take at face value" that
    the GOV has no ulterior motives in offering PetroCaribe's
    generous terms, he said.  Rattray then asked the USG's
    perspective on PetroCaribe arrangements.  Pol/Econ Chief
    acknowledged the seeming attractiveness of the agreement but
    observed that it seemed highly unlikely that the GOV would
    offer such favorable terms with no expectation of quid pro
    quo.  He then outlined USG concerns about Chavez's
    destabilizing activities in neighboring states, and his
    undermining of democratic institutions at home.

    ¶7.  (C) In an August 25 meeting with Charge and Pol/Econ
    Chief, Ambassador Douglas Saunders, MFAFT Permanent
    Secretary, described the Chavez visit as "largely bilateral."
    Previous arrangements with Mexico governing concessional
    petroleum financing under the San Jose Accord, he said, had
    become so cumbersome that Jamaica and other prospective
    beneficiaries find themselves unable to access the funding
    set aside for their use.  The GOJ raised this with Mexican
    President Vicente Fox during his visit to Jamaica earlier in
    2005, but PetroCaribe is a way of securing petroleum at
    favorable prices, as well as development funding.  Saunders
    said that the GOJ is willing to send a representative to
    Mexico City to testify before the legislature about the
    importance of the Mexican petroleum agreement, and the
    problems with it, and that PetroCaribe provides leverage for
    changes in the Mexican oil agreement.  Meanwhile, the GOV
    deal will not only help to expand Jamaica's refining
    capacity, but to expand the types of petroleum it can refine
    here.

    ----------------------------------
    PNP Loyalists Discuss Chavez Visit
    ----------------------------------

    ¶8. (C) Balfour Denniston, a member of the ruling Peoples
    National Party (PNP) National Executive Committee (NEC - the
    party's  highest decision-making body outside of the annual
    convention) told Pol/Econ Chief and poloff August 25 that
    Patterson was the driving force in the GOJ behind concluding
    the PetroCaribe agreement with Chavez, overriding some in his
    Cabinet who raised concern that the benefits of the deal with
    Venezuela might come at the cost of worsened relations with
    the U.S., something that Jamaica could ill afford.  In this
    regard, Denniston specifically mentioned National Security
    Minister Phillips, although he implied that there had been
    others who shared his wariness of Chavez.  Like the MFAFT's
    Rattray, Denniston cited favorable oil prices, not politics,
    as the GOJ's primary motivation in concluding the deal.
    Later in the conversation, however, Denniston implied that
    Patterson might have had additional reasons for agreeing to
    the deal with Chavez.  According to Denniston, there are
    "rumors" in some PNP circles that the USG greatly dislikes
    Patterson and wants to be rid of his government.  According
    to the rumor, said Denniston, the USG "has cut a deal" with
    the opposition Jamaica Labor Party to engineer a PNP defeat
    at the polls during the next general elections, which must be
    held by 2007.  Emboffs pressed for specifics about the rumor
    but none were forthcoming.

    ¶9. (C) Pol/Econ Chief emphasized to Denniston that the USG
    does not have a party preference in Jamaica and that, in
    fact, we have worked closely with the current GOJ on a number
    of significant issues.  USG interests are in strengthened
    democratic institutions and in transparent processes in
    Jamaica, not in which political party governs the country.
    He also suggested that Denniston and others hearing such
    rumors ask tougher questions of those circulating them rather
    than accepting them uncritically.  Denniston seemed to take
    the point.

    ¶10. (C) In an August 24 meeting with Labor Minister Horace
    Dalley on other matters, poloff asked the Minister for his
    views on the Chavez visit.  Dalley, a PNP insider who is
    among the less ideological of senior GOJ officials, replied
    that Mexico has been an unreliable partner in the San Jose
    Accord, which is why Jamaica is looking more toward Venezuela
    for preferential oil arrangements.  Without offering
    specifics, Dalley mentioned that Mexico "owes" Jamaica USD 95
    million under the San Jose Accord, but has not delivered the
    money.  Dalley agreed that PetroCaribe is a very generous
    deal that does not ask much of the GOJ, and explained for
    that reason, the Patterson government was very keen to sign
    it as quickly as possible, while the terms were still very
    favorable.

    ¶11. (C) Offering what he termed a personal assessment of
    Chavez, Dalley said that he does not think the Venezuelan
    president is a very strong or intelligent leader.  When
    poloff pointed out the problems the USG has with Chavez'
    frequent anti-American diatribes, Dalley replied that PM
    Patterson is also uncomfortable with Chavez's rhetorical
    excesses.  He suggested that Patterson looked a bit stiff in
    the media photo of their encounter, which shows the smiling
    Chavez with his arm around a seemingly reticent Patterson.
    Dalley also mentioned that the governments of Trinidad &
    Tobago, Barbados, and Curacao recently had all expressed
    their concern that there has been an increase in drug traffic
    from Venezuela to their respective countries.  He also
    maintained that he heard the Venezuelan army was overhauling
    its stock of weapons, and observed that, while he believes
    most of the illegal firearms arriving in Jamaica today come
    from Haiti, many of the Venezuelan military's old weapons
    could find their way to the Caribbean.

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    ¶12. (C) Temperamentally, Patterson and Chavez seem polar
    opposites, an impression unwittingly reinforced by the
    photograph of their awkward "embrace" shortly after signing
    the PetroCaribe agreement.  Patterson is well aware of
    current difficulties between the USG and the GOV, and of
    potential downsides to concluding the agreement, particularly
    as some in his Cabinet expressed unease about Chavez's
    motives.  Notwithstanding the rumored USG unhappiness with
    Patterson as cited by Denniston, the Prime Minister likely
    concluded that the expected benefits to Jamaica of an
    attractive petroleum deal with Venezuela outweigh the
    potential risks of making Jamaica overly reliant on Chavez.
    Pol/Econ Chief is scheduled to meet on August 29 with a
    senior Commerce Ministry official for additional background
    on the PetroCaribe agreement and will report further at that
    time.
    TIGHE

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