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Inquietud por la personalidad y el modo de trabajo de Kirchner

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La Secretaría de Estado norteamericana ha mostrado una gran curiosidad por conocer la personalidad de la presidenta argentina Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (CFK) y la manera de trabajar de lo que en la mayoría de los telegramas de su Embajada en Buenos Aires se denomina "pareja gobernante" (ruling couple) o Primera Pareja (First Couple), es decir, la propia presidenta y su marido, el recientemente fallecido Néstor Kirchner.
Esa curiosidad llevó a la Oficina de Operaciones de Inteligencia del Departamento de Estado (identificada en el documento como INR / OPS) a no darse por satisfecha con las opiniones recogidas durante las múltiples visitas de políticos que pasan sistemáticamente por la Embajada norteamericana para explicar su análisis de la situación interna del país, y a pedir un perfil más específico. El 31 de diciembre de 2009, la INR / OPS envía un telegrama en el que anuncia que está preparando un "perfil" de Cristina Fernández y se solicita información escrita sobre "su estado mental y salud", "su visión política" y "su forma de trabajo".
Un telegrama anterior (cable 203636, 22 de marzo de 2009) recoge el agradecimiento de la División de Biografías de la Oficina de Enlace de Inteligencia del mismo Departamento de Estado (INR / B) por los datos que le ha enviado la Embajada en Buenos Aires sobre "la relación de Taiana [Jorge Taiana, entonces ministro de Asuntos Exteriores argentino] con los montoneros e información adicional sobre su supuesta participación en el atentado con bomba contra un bar en julio de 1975". En el mismo párrafo, los funcionarios de la INR / B muestran su contento por haber recibido datos sobre los "varios nietos de Taiana" y la habilidad del ministro para hacer chistes y aligerar reuniones tensas.
Una visita poco afortunada
La demanda de información sobre la personalidad de Cristina Fernández se produjo poco después de la visita del nuevo secretario de Estado adjunto para América, Arturo Valenzuela, a Buenos Aires (15 de diciembre de 2009), que se desarrolló de forma poco afortunada. Un despacho de la embajada, supervisado por el propio Valenzuela, califica en duros términos al Gobierno argentino por "su intolerancia a la hora de recibir críticas". Valenzuela había provocado un gran revuelo en la prensa argentina, y una dura reacción del Gobierno de CFK, al hacer públicas las quejas de las empresas norteamericanas por la falta de seguridad jurídica que percibían en Argentina.
Quince días después, la Oficina de Operaciones de Inteligencia, una de las muchas con que cuenta el Departamento de Estado, envía un telegrama "secreto" en el que se explica que la Secretaría de Estado quiere analizar "la dinámica interpersonal en el tándem gubernamental". "Tenemos un conocimiento más sólido sobre el estilo y la personalidad de Néstor Kirchner que sobre Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, y nos gustaría ampliar la visión sobre la personalidad de CFK".
La solicitud de "perfiles" de este tipo es considerado muy frecuente dentro de las actividades de la INR / OPS y de la diplomacia norteamericana.
El estado mental de Cristina Fernández
En este caso concreto (cable 242255), se envían tres grupos de preguntas. El primero, bajo el epígrafe "Mental state and health" (Estado mental y salud), dice así: "¿Cómo controla Cristina Fernández de Kirchner sus nervios y su ansiedad? ¿Cómo afecta el estrés a su conducta con sus asesores y/o en su proceso de toma de decisiones? ¿Qué medidas toma CFK o sus asesores para ayudarla a manejar el estrés? ¿Toma alguna medicación? ¿En qué circunstancias controla ella mejor el estrés? ¿Cómo le afectan las emociones en su proceso de toma de decisiones y cómo baja la tensión cuando está angustiada? ¿Qué tal está Néstor Kirchner de su enfermedad gastrointestinal? ¿Le sigue molestando? ¿Toma medicación? Es bien conocido su temperamento, ¿ha demostrado mayor tendencia a oscilar entre extremos emocionales? ¿Cuáles son los objetivos más comunes de la furia de Néstor Kirchner?".

Fidel: "El modelo cubano no funciona ni para nosotros..."

Fidel: "El modelo cubano no funciona ni para nosotros..." - las declaraciones de Castro a la revista The Atlantic de EEUU. Y AHORA QUE VA HACER CHAVEZ????!!!

Fidel: 'Cuban Model Doesn't Even Work For Us Anymore'

By Jeffrey Goldberg

There were many odd things about my recent Havana stopover (apart from the dolphin show, which I'll get to shortly), but one of the most unusual was Fidel Castro's level of self-reflection. I only have limited experience with Communist autocrats (I have more experience with non-Communist autocrats) but it seemed truly striking that Castro was willing to admit that he misplayed his hand at a crucial moment in the Cuban Missile Crisis (you can read about what he said toward the end of my previous post - but he said, in so many words, that he regrets asking Khruschev to nuke the U.S.).

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Even more striking was something he said at lunch on the day of our first meeting. We were seated around a smallish table; Castro, his wife, Dalia, his son; Antonio; Randy Alonso, a major figure in the government-run media; and Julia Sweig, the friend I brought with me to make sure, among other things, that I didn't say anything too stupid (Julia is a leading Latin American scholar at the Council on Foreign Relations). I initially was mainly interested in watching Fidel eat - it was a combination of digestive problems that conspired to nearly kill him, and so I thought I would do a bit of gastrointestinal Kremlinology and keep a careful eye on what he took in (for the record, he ingested small amounts of fish and salad, and quite a bit of bread dipped in olive oil, as well as a glass of red wine). But during the generally lighthearted conversation (we had just spent three hours talking about Iran and the Middle East), I asked him if he believed the Cuban model was still something worth exporting.

"The Cuban model doesn't even work for us anymore," he said.

This struck me as the mother of all Emily Litella moments. Did the leader of the Revolution just say, in essence, "Never mind"?

I asked Julia to interpret this stunning statement for me. She said, "He wasn't rejecting the ideas of the Revolution. I took it to be an acknowledgment that under 'the Cuban model' the state has much too big a role in the economic life of the country."

Julia pointed out that one effect of such a sentiment might be to create space for his brother, Raul, who is now president, to enact the necessary reforms in the face of what will surely be push-back from orthodox communists within the Party and the bureaucracy. Raul Castro is already loosening the state's hold on the economy. He recently announced, in fact, that small businesses can now operate and that foreign investors could now buy Cuban real estate. (The joke of this new announcement, of course, is that Americans are not allowed to invest in Cuba, not because of Cuban policy, but because of American policy. In other words, Cuba is beginning to adopt the sort of economic ideas that America has long-demanded it adopt, but Americans are not allowed to participate in this free-market experiment because of our government's hypocritical and stupidly self-defeating embargo policy. We'll regret this, of course, when Cubans partner with Europeans and Brazilians to buy up all the best hotels).

But I digress. Toward the end of this long, relaxed lunch, Fidel proved to us that he was truly semi-retired. The next day was Monday, when maximum leaders are expected to be busy single-handedly managing their economies, throwing dissidents into prison, and the like. But Fidel's calendar was open. He asked us, "Would you like to go the aquarium with me to see the dolphin show?"

I wasn't sure I heard him correctly. (This happened a number of times during my visit). "The dolphin show?"

"The dolphins are very intelligent animals," Castro said.

I noted that we had a meeting scheduled for the next morning, with Adela Dworin, the president of Cuba's Jewish community.

"Bring her," Fidel said.

Someone at the table mentioned that the aquarium was closed on Mondays. Fidel said, "It will be open tomorrow."

And so it was.

Late the next morning, after collecting Adela at the synagogue, we met Fidel on the steps of the dolphin house. He kissed Dworin, not incidentally in front of the cameras (another message for Ahmadinejad, perhaps). We went together into a large, blue-lit room that faces a massive, glass-enclosed dolphin tank. Fidel explained, at length, that the Havana Aquarium's dolphin show was the best dolphin show in the world, "completely unique," in fact, because it is an underwater show. Three human divers enter the water, without breathing equipment, and perform intricate acrobatics with the dolphins. "Do you like dolphins?" Fidel asked me.

"I like dolphins a lot," I said.

Fidel called over Guillermo Garcia, the director of the aquarium (every employee of the aquarium, of course, showed up for work -- "voluntarily," I was told) and told him to sit with us.

"Goldberg," Fidel said, "ask him questions about dolphins."

"What kind of questions?" I asked.

"You're a journalist, ask good questions," he said, and then interrupted himself. "He doesn't know much about dolphins anyway," he said, pointing to Garcia. He's actually a nuclear physicist."

"You are?" I asked.

"Yes," Garcia said, somewhat apologetically.

"Why are you running the aquarium?" I asked.

"We put him here to keep him from building nuclear bombs!" Fidel said, and then cracked-up laughing.

"In Cuba, we would only use nuclear power for peaceful means," Garcia said, earnestly.

"I didn't think I was in Iran," I answered.

Fidel pointed to the small rug under the special swivel chair his bodyguards bring along for him.

"It's Persian!" he said, and laughed again. Then he said, "Goldberg, ask your questions about dolphins."

Now on the spot, I turned to Garcia and asked, "How much do the dolphins weigh?"

They weigh between 100 and 150 kilograms, he said.

"How do you train the dolphins to do what they do?" I asked.

"That's a good question," Fidel said.

Garcia called over one of the aquarium's veterinarians to help answer the question. Her name was Celia. A few minutes later, Antonio Castro told me her last name: Guevara.

"You're Che's daughter?" I asked.

"Yes," she said.

"And you're a dolphin veterinarian?"

"I take care of all the inhabitants of the aquarium," she said.

"Che liked animals very much," Antonio Castro said.

It was time for the show to start. The lights dimmed, and the divers entered the water. Without describing it overly much, I will say that once again, and to my surprise, I found myself agreeing with Fidel: The aquarium in Havana puts on a fantastic dolphin show, the best I've ever seen, and as the father of three children, I've seen a lot of dolphin shows. I will also say this: I've never seen someone enjoy a dolphin show as much as Fidel Castro enjoyed the dolphin show.

In the next installment, I will deal with such issues as the American embargo, the status of religion in Cuba, the plight of political dissidents, and economic reform. For now, I leave you with this image from our day at the aquarium (I'm in the low chair; Che's daughter is behind me, with the short, blondish hair; Fidel is the guy who looks like Fidel if Fidel shopped at L.L. Bean):

This article available online at:
http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2010/09/fidel-cuban-model-doesnt-even-work-for-us-anymore/62602/

Copyright © 2010 by The Atlantic Monthly Group. All Rights Reserved.

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claro que, en estos momentos de crisis, todo es bueno a la hora de conseguir fondos!!!!

España defiende venta de armas a Venezuela, Marruecos e Irán

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El gobierno español defendió el martes la venta de materiales de defensa a Venezuela, Marruecos, Irán , afirmando que no serán destinados para violar derechos humanos ni alimentar conflictos.

Las exportaciones que se realizan a Marruecos son para vehículos y camiones “no armados” y “en ningún momento se ha destinado a alimentar el conflicto que el país tiene abierto con el Sáhara”,afirmó la secretaria de Estado de Comercio, Silvia Iranzo, en su comparecencia ante la Comisión de Defensa del Congreso, informó la agencia de noticias Europa Press.

En Venezuela, apuntó, la venta ha ido destinada a unidades antidisturbios y “no van a ser utilizados con fines de represión interna”.

Según Europa Press Iranzo explicó que las exportaciones de armamento crecieron el año pasado un 44,1% en relación al año anterior, con un total de 1.346 millones de euros.

Todos los grupos parlamentarios coincidieron en solicitarle que detalle cuál es la distribución de este tipo de material en países de “conflicto” como Irán, Marruecos, Venezuela o Malasia y avisaron de que podrían ser utilizados en contra de los derechos humanos.

La portavoz del opositor Partido Popular Beatriz Rodríguez aseguró tener la “máxima preocupación” por la venta de armas a Irán y reclamó al Ejecutivo que explique el porqué se le exporta y para qué lo utiliza.

Copyright 2010 The Associated Press.

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Venezuela oil minister seeks U.S. investment | Reuters

Venezuela oil minister seeks U.S. investment

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* In overture to US, Ramirez has 1st talks in DC in 6 yrs

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* Oil market speculation causing current oil price-oilmin (adds comments from Latin America analyst)

By Timothy Gardner and Tom Doggett

WASHINGTON, April 15 (Reuters) - Venezuelan Oil Minister Rafael Ramirez on Thursday welcomed investment by U.S. oil companies to help develop his country's vast crude reserves, as he held energy talks in Washington for the first time in six years.

Ramirez said Venezuela is signing agreements with companies in Russia, China, Europe and Japan to develop its reserves and U.S. companies should be there as well.

"This United States cannot miss this opportunity," he told reporters on the sidelines of a two-day conference of Western Hemisphere countries meeting to address energy and climate change issues.

Relations between the United States and Venezuela have long been strained, hitting a particularly low point in 2006 when visiting Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez took on then-President George W. Bush at the United Nations, calling him a "devil."

Ramirez said foreign oil companies wanting to do business in Venezuela would have to "respect" the country's energy laws and policies.

Venezuela has an estimated 99.4 billion barrels of proven oil reserves, with last year's oil production averaging 2.2 million barrels per day, down 190,000 bpd from the year before. It is the world's eighth largest oil exporter and the fourth biggest foreign oil supplier to the U.S. market.

MONEY NEEDED TO TAP "HEAVY OIL"

To boost its sagging output from traditional wells, Venezuela needs foreign investment and technology to tap the heavy oil of the Orinoco belt that requires much upgrading to turn into lighter crude.

Venezuela was criticized several years ago when it forced foreign companies to renegotiate their oil development contracts, reducing their profits. Several companies, including those U.S.-based, sold their stakes instead of following the Venezuelan government's new terms.

Leading U.S. oil companies Exxon Mobil (XOM.N) and ConocoPhillips (COP.N), left Venezuela in 2007 after being pushed out of multibillion-dollar Orinoco projects.

Before Thursday, Ramirez had not held energy talks in Washington since 2004. He said Venezuelan-U.S. relations had been hurt by the Bush administration, which he said had been "hostile" to his country.

"There's no reason whatsoever for this relationship to have been halted," he said. Ramirez said he expected to have a private meeting with his U.S. counterpart, Energy Secretary Steven Chu, during the conference.

Patrick Esteruelas, Latin America analyst at Eurasia Group in New York, said he did not think Ramirez's comments about U.S. firms was significant because Venezuela has not discriminated against companies from specific countries.

"It has just demanded an equally aggressive share of the (oilfield) rent from all willing investors...very few U.S. companies have shown much willingness to go in and swallow that pill," he said.

MORE OPEC OIL NOT NEEDED

On oil market issues, Ramirez said OPEC will not increase petroleum output to bring down oil costs, even though crude prices have been hovering near 18-month highs.

Global oil inventories are "very high" because demand is low, Ramirez said. Any additional output from the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries would end up in inventories rather than satisfying consumer demand, he said.

"As long as there is no robust increase in demand there will be no increase in supply," said Ramirez.

Oil prices settled near $86 a barrel on Thursday on strong economic data from China, a weaker dollar, and an unexpected drop in U.S. crude inventories. [O/R]

Ramirez side-stepped questions about whether oil prices above $80 to $90 per barrel would hurt global economic growth, saying that high prices were caused by market players betting on the price.

"The current price is result of speculation in oil markets," said Ramirez.

Current prices are stronger than the $70 to $80 range that OPEC ministers said last month is good for both producers and consumers.

(Reporting by Timothy Gardner and Tom Doggett; Editing by Lisa Shumaker and Bob Burgdorfer)

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