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Today's Topics:

1. [OS] HAITI - Nascent Union Charges Reprisals by Textile
Factory Owners (Carlos Lopez Portillo)
2. [OS] MEXICO/ENERGY - IEA Sees Mexico Lagging Behind in Shale
Gas Exploitation (Araceli Santos)
3. [OS] MEXICO/ECON - Carstens says Mexico won't enter a crisis
environment like EU (Araceli Santos)
4. [OS] MEXICO/POL - Deputies Urge Calderon To Postpone G20
Summit (Araceli Santos)
5. [OS] MEXICO/ENERGY - BMV Calls for Private Sector Investment
in Pemex (Araceli Santos)
6. [OS] MEXICO/US/CT - US Drivers Owe Ciudad Juarez $10 Million
in Fines (Carlos Lopez Portillo)
7. [OS] MIL/MEXICO/CT - Army Destroys Nearly 1, 400 Marijuana
Fields in Two Months (Araceli Santos)
8. [OS] MEXICO/CT - UN Official: Guerrero Most Dangerous State
for Free Expression (Araceli Santos)
9. [OS] MEXICO/CT - PEP Officer Shot to Death in Ensenada
(Araceli Santos)
10. [OS] MEXICO/CT - Weapons Traded For Laptops Destroyed in
Chiapas (Araceli Santos)
11. [OS] MEXICO/POL - Deputies Approve Political Reforms
(Araceli Santos)
12. [OS] MEXICO/CT - Commando raids City Hall in Ecatepec, steals
weapons and ammunition (Araceli Santos)
13. [OS] MEXICO/CT - Nogales Police Officer Among 10 Found Dead
in Sonora Border Towns (Araceli Santos)
14. [OS] MEXICO/CT - Morelos Prisons' 'About to Collapse'
(Araceli Santos)
15. [OS] MEXICO/CT - Several schools suspend classes due to
violence (Araceli Santos)
16. [OS] MEXICO/ECON - Banxico Warns Rise of State Debt
Threatening Fiscal Sustainability (Araceli Santos)
17. [OS] MEXICO/CT - Fifteen of 48 Arrested Cops Remain Under
Criminal Investigation in Cadereyta, Zuazua (Araceli Santos)
18. [OS] MIL/MEXICO/CT - Army, Federal Agents Fight Gunmen in
Eastern Michoacan (Araceli Santos)
19. [OS] MEXICO/CT - Three Arrested With 1.721 Tonnes of
Marijuana in Ensenada (Araceli Santos)
20. [OS] MEXICO/CT - Ciudad Juarez Police Officer Killed During
Ambush (Araceli Santos)
21. [OS] MEXICO/CT - Intelligence Bunker Opened in Mexico City
(Araceli Santos)
22. [OS] MEXICO/CT - Authorities Find Four Bodies in Zapopan
(Araceli Santos)
23. [OS] MEXICO/CT - Capo 'El Hongo' Apprehended in State of
Mexico (Araceli Santos)
24. [OS] MEXICO/POL - Legislators reject reelection clause
(Araceli Santos)
25. [OS] MEXICO/POL/ECON - Tax organization in Edomex needs new
regulations, says PAN (Araceli Santos)
26. [OS] MEXICO/POL - Hidalgo gov guarantees PRI will form
alliance with Panal (Araceli Santos)
27. [OS] MEXICO/ECON/BRAZIL/INDIA/RUSSIA/CHINA - Mexico Lags
Behind BRIC Nation Growth (Araceli Santos)
28. [OS] MEXICO/ECON/POL - Ebrard to meet with Coparmex in Oaxaca
(Araceli Santos)
29. [OS] COLOMBIA/CT - Colombia is 5th most dangerous place on
earth: Study (Paulo Gregoire)
30. [OS] MEXICO/POL/ECON - Public march to begin at 4 pm local
time in Mexico City (Araceli Santos)
31. [OS] MEXICO/MINING - Mexico is top producer of silver, 9th of
gold (Araceli Santos)
32. [OS] MEXICO/ENERGY/SPAIN - Pemex won't aim for 2nd seat on
Repsol board (Araceli Santos)
33. [OS] MEXICO/CT - 2 from La Barredora, 2 from Acapulco Cartel
arrested (Araceli Santos)
34. [OS] MEXICO/CT - 46 police officers in NL arrested in purge
(Araceli Santos)
35. [OS] MEXICO/CT - 2 more arrests in Casino Royale case
(Araceli Santos)
36. [OS] US/MEXICO/CT - US includes Martin Gaudencio Aveda?o,
Sinaloa Cartel lieutenant (Araceli Santos)
37. [OS] MEXICO/CT - Beltran Leyva, LFM negotiate control of
Edomex (Araceli Santos)
38. [OS] US/MEXICO/CT - Mexico's FM says it knows about US agents
in Mexico (Araceli Santos)
39. [OS] BOLIVIA/FOOD/ECON - Bolivia Moves to Control Food Prices
(Paulo Gregoire)
40. [OS] COLOMBIA/MEXICO/ENERGY - Colombia's Ecopetrol Reports
Oil Find In Gulf Of Mexico (Paulo Gregoire)
41. [OS] ECUADOR/PERU/GV - Ecuador's foreign minister visits Peru
for bilateral meeting (Paulo Gregoire)
42. [OS] VENEZUELA - Ex-Baseball Executive Key to Anti-Chavez
Strategy (Rebecca Keller)
43. [OS] MEXICO/CT - US says Mexico racetrack has Sinaloa cartel
ties (Rebecca Keller)
44. [OS] COLOMBIA/CT - Colombian police seize 300kg of cocaine in
Cali (Paulo Gregoire)
45. [OS] COLOMBIA/CANADA/ENERGY (Rebecca Keller)
46. [OS] MEXICO/ECON - AHMSA, an important mining and steel
Mexican company, duplicates quarter's profits (Carlos Lopez Portillo)
47. [OS] VENEZUELA/ECON - The president of the Real Estate
Chamber of Venezuela, Aquiles Martini said that there is no
respect for property (Antonio Caracciolo)
48. [OS] VENEZUELA/ENERGY - Petriopiar's oil upgrader suffers
another breakdown (Antonio Caracciolo)
49. [OS] CALENDAR - BBC Monitoring News Diary for Friday 28
October 2011 - DPRK/RUSSIA/PARAGUAY/JAPAN/AUSTRALIA/SOUTH
AFRICA/BELARUS/ROK/ETHIOPIA/PHILIPPINES/EGYPT/VIETNAM/TAJIKISTAN/NEW
ZEALAND/LIBYA/KIRIBATI/US/AFRICA/UK (Marc Lanthemann)
50. [OS] MEXICO - Sanctions for corruption to seven thousand
federal officials (Carlos Lopez Portillo)
51. [OS] VENEZUELA/ECON - Economist Angel Garcia Banchs believes
that in 2012 the Government will need to make adjustments to the
exchange rate if oil prices are between 80 and 100 dollars a
barrel (Antonio Caracciolo)
52. [OS] COLOMBIA/CT/GV - 'Face to face' with Santos could end
university strike: Students (Paulo Gregoire)
53. [OS] VENEZUELA/ECON/ENERGY - The National Executive
authorized a loan of 67 million bolivars in order to raise by
more than 50% the production capacity of the quarries of Empresa
Arag?e?a de Minas (Minarsa) (Antonio Caracciolo)
54. [OS] MEXICO - Secretary of Interior (Segob) says that
impunity is not the norm in Mexico (Carlos Lopez Portillo)
55. [OS] VENEZUELA/ECON - Chavez: "Venezuela prepares itself to
export glass" (Antonio Caracciolo)
56. [OS] MEXICO/US/CT - Texas increases surveillance in Mexico's
border. (Carlos Lopez Portillo)
57. [OS] MEXICO/CT - Navy dismantles financial Zeta's network
(Carlos Lopez Portillo)
58. [OS] VENEZUELA - Executive Secretary of the MUD, Ram?n
Guillermo Aveledo, said that the increase of 50% in the FAN
salaries is an attempt to divide civilians and the military
(Antonio Caracciolo)
59. [OS] MEXICO - Televisa owner, Emilio Azcarraga, asks for
clear rules in TV competiton (Carlos Lopez Portillo)
60. [OS] VENEZUELA/ECON - President Chavez authorizes price rise
for cement. Prices were constant since 2003 (Antonio Caracciolo)
61. [OS] MEXICO - PRD calls to increase 1000 million pesos for
support to immigrants in 2012 (Carlos Lopez Portillo)
62. [OS] VENEZUELA - AD unanimously decides to support the
candidature of Pablo P?rez (Antonio Caracciolo)
63. [OS] VENEZUELA/ECON - Representatives of private clinics and
of the Agency for Health Alliance which include 10 government
entities will have on November 2nd a negotiating table on rates
of hospital services (Antonio Caracciolo)
64. [OS] MEXICO - Legislators discuss mandate revocation in the
Lower Chamber (Carlos Lopez Portillo)
65. [OS] MEXICO/US/CT - California, the main supplier of
ammunition for Mexican cartels: InSight Crime (Carlos Lopez Portillo)
66. [OS] MEXICO/US/CT - Cooperation between Mexico and DEA
increased since Fox's administration: Alejandra Sota, government
spokeswoman (Carlos Lopez Portillo)
67. [OS] MEXICO/CT - Sustained increase in high-impact crimes in
Mexico (Carlos Lopez Portillo)
68. [OS] Fwd: [latam] Venezuela Brief 111027 (Antonio Caracciolo)
69. [OS] MEXICO/ENERGY - Society movement searching for 2 million
firms to stop light increases (Carlos Lopez Portillo)
70. [OS] MEXICO/CT - Authorities can be arming the Mexican
cartels: Expert (Carlos Lopez Portillo)
71. [OS] VENEZUELA/ECON - Hugo Chavez signed the decree of
temporary occupation of Orpin Farma laboratory, located in Ciudad
Industrial Guarenas (Antonio Caracciolo)
72. [OS] MEXICO/US/CT/MIL - ?El Chapo,? wanted drug lord, grows
stronger in Mexico?s Sierra Madre (Clint Richards)
73. [OS] BRAZIL/CT/ENERGY - Indigenous campaigners occupy Belo
Monte Amazon dam (Clint Richards)
74. [OS] BRAZIL/LATAM/AFRICA/CT - Trans-border drug ring busted
by feds (Renato Whitaker)
75. [OS] BRAZIL - New Minister of Sports decrees end to
NGO/Ministry partnership (Renato Whitaker)
76. [OS] COLOMBIA/CT - Santos favorable to marijuana legalization
(Renato Whitaker)
77. [OS] ARGENTINA/ECON/GV - Argentina Central Bank Toughens
Foreign Exchange Rules Amid Capital Flight (Clint Richards)
78. [OS] COLOMBIA/CT - Report: Colombia 5th most dangerous place
on Earth (Renato Whitaker)
79. [OS] MEXICO/US/CT - Mexico nabs drug cartel finance operator,
2 Americans with $950, 000 (Clint Richards)
80. [OS] CHINA/CUBA/MIL - Senior Chinese military official visits
Cuban military complex (Clint Richards)
81. [OS] BRAZIL/UKRAINE/ECON/ENERGY - Brazilian, Ukrainian
presidents discuss economy, nuclear power, space research
(Chris Farnham)
82. [OS] IRAN/BOLIVIA/GV - Iran, Bolivia keen on enhancing ties
(John Blasing)
83. [OS] BRAZIL/GERMANY/ECON/HEALTH - ThyssenKrupp sues
environmental report condemning company health issues
(Renato Whitaker)
84. [OS] BRAZIL/CT/CALENDAR - New UPP in Mangueira will
inaugurate on the 3rd (Renato Whitaker)
85. [OS] BRAZIL/ECON - Canceled exam has constitutionality debate
in Attorney Organization (Renato Whitaker)
86. [OS] CHILE/GV - Chile declares red alert due to volcanic
activity in South (Paulo Gregoire)
87. [OS] CHILE/MINING/GV - Indigenous Chileans take mining giant
to international court (Paulo Gregoire)
88. [OS] BRAZIL/CT - Student protest in S?o Paulo U. ends in
violence (Renato Whitaker)
89. Re: [OS] MEXICO/US/CT/MIL - ?El Chapo,? wanted drug lord,
grows stronger in Mexico?s Sierra Madre (John Blasing)
90. [OS] BRAZIL/ECON - Internet service providers have harder
requirements now (Renato Whitaker)
91. [OS] BOLIVIA/CT/GV - Coca growers and indigenous groups from
Cochabamba demand the road construction and an explanation from
the leader of indigenous organization Cidob, Adolfo Chavez, and
deputy Pedro Nuni to justify the la w that protects Tipnis
(Paulo Gregoire)
92. [OS] AFGHANISTAN/LATAM/EAST ASIA/MESA - Full text of joint
communique of US-South Korea security meeting on 28 October -
US/HAITI/DPRK/AFGHANISTAN/LEBANON/ROK/IRAQ (Benjamin Preisler)
93. [OS] CHILE/CT/GV - President Pinera contacted opposition
Congressmen for an education agreement (Paulo Gregoire)
94. [OS] BRAZIL/ECON - Inflation rises in October, but not as
much. (Renato Whitaker)
95. [OS] BOLIVIA/PARAGUAY/LATAM/GV - Bolivian foreign minister,
David Choquehuanca, will travel to Paraguay today to participate
in the IberianAmerican Summit in Asuncion, President Morales will
also attend the Summit (Paulo Gregoire)
96. [OS] BRAZIL/EU/CT/MIL - Army and Feds were to use Super
Cougar helicopter to rescue hostages from Native Protestors
(Renato Whitaker)
97. [OS] BOLIVIA/ENERGY/ECON - Purchase of fuel by the govt this
year has surpassed the govt?s estimates, Bolivia has imported USD
786 million in fuel so far this year (Paulo Gregoire)
98. [OS] BRAZIL/MIL/GV - Senate approves Truth Commission.
(Renato Whitaker)
99. [OS] BOLIVIA/MINING/ECON - Mining companies will generate
around USD 150 million in tax revenues for the govt this year,
the department f Potosi will get the most, around USd 100 million
(Paulo Gregoire)
100. [OS] ECUADOR/FOOD/ECON - Shrimp industry grew 25% this year
(Paulo Gregoire)
101. [OS] ECUADOR/PERU/CT/ENERGY/GV - Ecuador and Peru signed
cooperation agreement to fight drug trafficking, fuel smuggling,
and insecurity on the border between both countries (Paulo Gregoire)
102. [OS] COLOMBIA/CT - Narco-paramilitary presence climbs to 347
Colombian municipalities: NGO (Paulo Gregoire)
103. [OS] S3 - INSIGHT - MEXICO/CT - Gunbattle in Nuevo Laredo
possibly involving HVT (Benjamin Preisler)
104. [OS] COLOMBIA/CT/GV - House administrative director
dismissed from office following scandal (Paulo Gregoire)
105. [OS] BRAZIL/MEXICO/ENERGY/GV - Counselor in Pemex says
joint-venture favorable (Renato Whitaker)
106. [OS] BRAZIL/ENERGY/GV - Slow-downs and stoppages begin
suddenly in Petrobras installations. (Renato Whitaker)
107. [OS] ECUADOR/US/ECON - Ecuadorian businesses from Guayaquil
the govt to speed up trade agreement with the US (Paulo Gregoire)
108. [OS] ECUADOR/COLOMBIA/CT - Colombian citizen was killed by a
hitman in Guayaquil (Paulo Gregoire)
109. [OS] ARGENTINA/ECON - Argentina losing out on Latin American
FDI flows (Carlos Lopez Portillo)
110. [OS] ARGENTINA - CGT, Argentinian labor union, charges again
about company profit distribution (Carlos Lopez Portillo)
111. [OS] ARGENTINA/ECON - New lending to the government from
National Institute for Retirees and Pensioners (PAMI)
(Carlos Lopez Portillo)
112. [OS] ARGENTINA - Ministry of Health, Juan Manzur, renounced
to his charge. Will be back on December. (Carlos Lopez Portillo)
113. [OS] ARGENTINA/CT - Money laundering: the Government should
continue paying a quarterly review (Carlos Lopez Portillo)
114. [OS] VENEZUELA/BRAZIL - Hugo Chavez said that former
President of Brazil, Luis Inacio Lula da Silva will visit the
country next November 11 - CALENDAR (Antonio Caracciolo)
115. [OS] ARGENTINA - Signs and challenges of the new Cristina,
article. (Carlos Lopez Portillo)
116. [OS] ARGENTINA/ECON - Government strategy: use wheat to get
dollars (Carlos Lopez Portillo)
117. [OS] VENEZUELA/BRAZIL/ENERGY - Venezuela's PDVSA state oil
company is negotiating the construction of a refinery in the
Brazilian state of Maranh?o (Northeast), which would not be
associated with Petrobras, said the newspaper O Estado de S?o
Paulo. (Antonio Caracciolo)
118. [OS] COSTA RICA/ECON - Analysts predict fiscal reform
approval in Costa Rica (Araceli Santos)
119. [OS] COSTA RICA/PARAGUAY - CR's VP arrives in Paraguay on
official visit (Araceli Santos)
120. [OS] VENEZUELA - The Supreme Court endorsed a decree law
issued by President Hugo Chavez to create the Caribbean island of
Venezuela and strengthen the power of government over a set of
islands. (Antonio Caracciolo)
121. [OS] PANAMA/COSTA RICA/CT - Panama, CR sign deal to fight
crime on border (Araceli Santos)
122. [OS] VENEZUELA - The national government's representative to
the United Nations (UN), Jorge Valero, said that the current
administration is ensuring "human rights for all and not just a
privileged few" (Antonio Caracciolo)
123. [OS] ARGENTINA/ECON - Doubts among insurers by the
obligation to repatriate funds (Carlos Lopez Portillo)
124. [OS] COSTA RICA/CT - half of population lives in districts
with low security levels (Araceli Santos)
125. [OS] MIL/GUATEMALA/MEXICO/CT - Guatemala Military Sanctions
Officers over InSight 'Zetas' Video (Araceli Santos)
126. [OS] COSTA RICA - Chinchilla denounces irresponsibility of
countries with high CO2 emissions (Araceli Santos)
127. [OS] GUATEMALA/MIL/CT - Three Generals Finally Arrested and
Indicted for Genocide (Araceli Santos)
128. [OS] ARGENTINA/ECON - Scioli will award evasion allegations
(Carlos Lopez Portillo)
129. [OS] GUATEMALA/CT/POL - Electoral tribunal votes to
centralize voting stations because security can't be guaranteed
in conflict zones (Araceli Santos)
130. [OS] GUATEMALA - Guatemala still has highest fertility rate
in Latin America (Araceli Santos)
131. [OS] HONDURAS - New airport to be built in 2012 (Araceli Santos)
132. [OS] HONDURAS/CENTAM/ECON - Honduran Finance Min. assumes
presidency of Centam's finance ministers council (Araceli Santos)
133. [OS] VENEZUELA - In a telephone conversation with Venezolana
de Television President of the Republic, Hugo Chavez, said the
opposition factions attacked him and the military, because they
hate the military and want to "leave them without
self-consciousness" (Antonio Caracciolo)
134. [OS] HONDURAS/CT - University students demonstrate against
violence, call for justice (Araceli Santos)
135. [OS] EL SALVADOR - ES govt seeking more international aid
post-floods (Araceli Santos)
136. [OS] FOOD/ECUADOR/EL SALVADOR - Ecuador sends 14 tons of
food aid to ES (Araceli Santos)
137. [OS] HONDURAS/CT - Honduras Set to Launch Operation
Lightning (Araceli Santos)
138. [OS] EL SALVADOR/CT - NGOs say ES hasn't fulfilled
recommendations related to student massacre, Romero's death in
1980's (Araceli Santos)
139. [OS] VENEZUELA/MIL - Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez at
the meeting on Wednesday with troops from the Armed Forces,
called for maintaining unity within the Venezuelan military
(Antonio Caracciolo)
140. [OS] EL SALVADOR/CT - ES is highest ranked latam country on
the list of countries with most number of violent deaths
(Araceli Santos)
141. [OS] EL SALVADOR/MEXICO/CT/GUATEMALA - Mexican police rescue
ES youth kidnapped in Guatemala (Araceli Santos)
142. [OS] ARGENTINA/ECON - Small and medium companies praise
govmt measures to prevent speculation against the dollar
(Carlos Lopez Portillo)
143. [OS] VENEZUELA/CT - The CICPC of Nueva Esparta arrested the
criminal organization of Los Occidentales which was smuggling
drugs (Antonio Caracciolo)
144. [OS] VENEZUELA/ECON - The socialist bloc in the National
Assembly (AN) approved in second reading the bill for the
Regularization and Control for landlords, whose legal framework
seeks to foster relations and fight speculation (Antonio Caracciolo)
145. [OS] VENEZUELA/CUBA/ISREAL/US - Venezuela calls on UN to end
US embargo on Cuba (Antonio Caracciolo)
146. [OS] NICARAGUA - Ortega ahead by 18 points in the polls
(Araceli Santos)
147. [OS] ECON/NICARAGUA/POL - Economic growth and cronyism give
Ortega upper hand in Nicaragua elections (Araceli Santos)
148. [OS] VENEZUELA/ECON - Chavez authorized increase of 139.5%
for cement prices (Antonio Caracciolo)
149. [OS] NICARAGUA/FOOD/COSTA RICA/NETHERLANDS - Nicaragua:
Import onions and potatoes from Costa Rica and Holland
(Araceli Santos)
150. [OS] PANAMA/MEXICO/CT - Panama, Mexico agree to boost
bilateral fight against crime (Araceli Santos)
151. [OS] UN/NICARAGUA - UN makes a call for emergency aid for
Nicaragua (Araceli Santos)
152. [OS] NICARAGUA - Opposition candidate says Ortega is trying
to install a dictatorship (Araceli Santos)
153. [OS] Fwd: [latam] Venezuela Brief 111028 (Antonio Caracciolo)
154. [OS] PANAMA/PARAGUAY/LATAM - Martinelli to head to Paraguay
to participate in Iberoamerica summit (Araceli Santos)
155. [OS] CUBA/CHINA/MIL - Cuba, China to enhance military ties
(Araceli Santos)
156. [OS] CUBA/IRAN/GV - Cuba backs Iran against West: Minister
(John Blasing)
157. [OS] CUBA/ECON - Microbusiness in Cuba is weighed down by
limits, uncertainty (Araceli Santos)
158. [OS] ARGENTINA - Extension and agricultural drought
emergency in El Carmen (Carlos Lopez Portillo)
159. [OS] PERU/ECON - The Minister of Economy and Finance Luis
Miguel Castilla, and Executive Director of the Agency for
Promotion of Private Investment (ProInversi?n), Jorge Leon, now
promote private sector participation in the program execution of
works in exchange for taxes. (Antonio Caracciolo)
160. [OS] PERU/ENERGY - Perupetro president, Aurelio Ochoa,
reported today that the institution has submitted a draft
regulation for the hydrocarbon sector in the Law of Prior
Consultation, which states that consultation activities are
carried out by the State before the start of a business in the
area. (Antonio Caracciolo)
161. [OS] PERU/MINING - More than U.S. $ 1000 million illegal
mining generates for not paying taxes, royalties and mining
royalties alone for the benefit of Peru and its regions, said
the National Society of Mining, Petroleum and Energy (SNMPE)
(Antonio Caracciolo)
162. [OS] PERU/ECUADOR - President Ollanta Humala Tasso and his
counterpart from Ecuador, Rafael Correa, along with their
cabinets, will hold a binational meeting on the 17th of November
in the Peruvian city of Ja?n, Cajamarca region - CALENDAR
(Antonio Caracciolo)
163. [OS] PERU - The First Vice President of the Republic,
Marisol Espinoza, now assume the task of the presidential office
for the duration of the voyage of the head of state, Ollanta
Humala, to Paraguay to participate in the XXI Ibero-American
Summit and the V Summit of UNASUR. (Antonio Caracciolo)
164. [OS] PERU/ECON - Making the calculation based on figures
published by the Commission of Peru Export and Tourism
(Prom-Peru), at least U.S. $ 500 million will go to the
tourism-related businesses throughout our territory.
(Antonio Caracciolo)
165. [OS] PERU/CT - Members of the National Police captured
Meliton Julian Acosta, an alleged member of Sendero Luminoso, in
the Upper Huallaga (Antonio Caracciolo)
166. [OS] PERU/ENERGY - The Supervising Agency for Investment in
Energy and Mining (Osinergmin) today issued a resolution that set
the new price band for the products included in the Fund for the
Stabilization of Prices of Petroleum Products Fuels, with the aim
of establishing those who receive subsidies. (Antonio Caracciolo)
167. [OS] CHILE/ARGENTINA/WEATHER - Ash Cloud Rises Above Chilean
Volcano (Rebecca Keller)
168. [OS] PARAGUAY/ECON - Paraguay to have two new pay TV
operators (Renato Whitaker)
169. [OS] PARAGUAY/CT - Reporters, foreign and national, call for
legislation change for greater protection (Renato Whitaker)


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*IEA Sees Mexico Lagging Behind in Shale Gas Exploitation
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-- Mexico City Reforma reports that a report by the International Energy
Agency (IEA) points out that while Pemex will have drilled three
explorato ry shale gas wells by the end of 2011 and plans to drill 20
more in 2012, Argentina has drilled 15 wells in t he last month alone.
The IEA reported that Argentina was the third country with the highest
levels of prospective shale gas resources, after China and the United
States, while Mexico was fourth on the list. Argentinean energy company
YPF, which is owned by Spain's Repsol, has invested heavily ($5 billion)
in shale gas drilling in the country's Neuquen province, while Pemex has
announced $1 billion to be invested in shale gas during 2012, with $2
billion more budgeted for following years. Milton Costa, chairman and
director of the Regional Association of Oil, Gas, and Biofuel Companies
in Latin America and the Caribbean (Arpel), declared that Pemex's shale
gas goals were lagging, and he urged the Mexican company to step up its
prospecting and drilling efforts. Furthermore, Costa encouraged Mexico
to promote technical degrees and the training of personnel specialized i
n non- conventional drilling. (Mexico City REFORMA.com in Spanish --
Website of major center-right daily owned by Grupo Reforma; URL:

--

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*Carstens says Mexico won't enter a crisis environment like EU*

Wednesday October 26, 2011 20:57:15 GMT
-- Mexico City El Universal reports that according to Banxico (Bank of
Mexico) governor Agustin Carstens Carstens, it would take a series of
"catastrophic" developments for the sound health of Mexico's financial
system to be affected by the current global economic upheaval. At a
press conference to present a report on Mexico's financial system,
Carstens declared that the country "will not enter a crisis environment
like Europe," although he added that the global economy would experience
weak growth, which would undoubtedly have an effect on Mexico's growth
figures, and he pointed out that Mexican exports were already
decelerating. (Mexico City EL UNIVERSAL.com.mx in Spanish -- Website of
influential centrist daily; URL

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Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2011 12:04:23 -0500
From: Araceli Santos <santos@stratfor.com>
To: The OS List <os@stratfor.com>
Subject: [OS] MEXICO/POL - Deputies Urge Calderon To Postpone G20
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*Deputies Urge Calderon To Postpone G20 Summit
*
-- Mexico City Milenio reports that a plenary session of the Chamber of
Deputies urged President Felipe Calderon to postpone the celebration of
a G20 summit scheduled for late June 2012, in order to ensure that it
would not interfere with the 1 July presidential elections. "The
president would receive unmatchable media exposure just days before the
election, as this event would dominate all television, radio, printed,
and electronic media for four days," the Chamber declared. Calderon is
set to welcome the heads of State and government of all G20 countries --
including the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, China,
Canada, Argentina, and Brazil -- to Los Cabos, Baja California in late
June 2012. PT Deputy Porfirio Munoz Ledo pointed out that Mexico's
chairmanship of the G20 would last from 5 November 2011 to 5 November
2012, which left plenty of room to reschedule the Los Cabos summit.
(Mexico City Milenio.com in Spanish -- Website of in dependent, centrist
daily owned by Grupo Editorial Milenio; URL:
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Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2011 12:06:32 -0500
From: Araceli Santos <santos@stratfor.com>
To: The OS List <os@stratfor.com>
Subject: [OS] MEXICO/ENERGY - BMV Calls for Private Sector Investment
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*BMV Calls for Private Sector Investment in Pemex
*
-- Mexico City El Universal reports that Luis Tellez, chairman of the
Mexican Securities Exchange (BMV), defended the need to open up Mexico's
energy sector -- including Pemex -- to the Mexican and foreign p rivate
sector, allowing more medium-sized companies to obtain financing from
foreign investors, which would boost Mexico's economic growth.
Addressing a business summit in Queretaro, Tellez declared that "in
Mexico we have an anachronistic, ridiculous situation that is completely
out of touch with developments in the 21 st century; we have two
monopolies (Pemex and the Federal Electricity Commission -- CFE) in the
energy sector, which in other parts of the world has been a development
factor for financial markets and economies." Tellez mentioned Brazil's
Petrobras as an example of a company that had raised foreign capital
after being floated on international financial markets, with a positive
effect that had also spilled over to smaller Brazilian companies.
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Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2011 12:11:07 -0500
From: Carlos Lopez Portillo <carlos.lopezportillo@stratfor.com>
To: os@stratfor.com
Subject: [OS] MEXICO/US/CT - US Drivers Owe Ciudad Juarez $10 Million
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Message: 7
Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2011 12:18:37 -0500
From: Araceli Santos <santos@stratfor.com>
To: The OS List <os@stratfor.com>
Subject: [OS] MIL/MEXICO/CT - Army Destroys Nearly 1, 400 Marijuana
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*Army Destroys Nearly 1,400 Marijuana Fields in Two Months
*
-- Guadalajara El Informador reports that the 15th Military Zone
published the results of its operations in Jalisco in September and thus
far in October. Over this period, soldiers have destroyed 1,386
marijuana fields, covering nearly 180 hectares. They have also destroyed
56 marijuana drying sheds, which housed some 9.7tonnes of marijuana.
Thus far this year, the 15th Military Zone has destroyed nearly 5,903
marijuana fields, covering a surfa ce area of 697 hectares. The
authorities believe their actions have prevented the production of more
than 697tonnes of marijuana. In this calculation, they are also co
nsidering lost production due to the financial losses incurred.
(Guadalajara Informador.com.mx in Spanish -- Website of influential
daily from Guadalajara, Jalisco State; URL:
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Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2011 12:18:25 -0500
From: Araceli Santos <santos@stratfor.com>
To: The OS List <os@stratfor.com>
Subject: [OS] MEXICO/CT - UN Official: Guerrero Most Dangerous State
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*UN Official: Guerrero Most Dangerous State for Free Expression
*
-- El Sur reports that according to Alan Garcia, M exico representative
of United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Guerrero became
the most dangerous state for the exercise of freedom of expression in
2010. He made his comments during the presentation of a report on the
subject drafted by United Nations and the Inter-American Court on Human
Rights (IACHR). In response, Juan Alarcon Hernandez, chair of the State
Committee on Defending Human Rights (Coddehum), termed the claim
"alarming."
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Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2011 12:17:41 -0500
From: Araceli Santos <santos@stratfor.com>
To: The OS List <os@stratfor.com>
Subject: [OS] MEXICO/CT - PEP Officer Shot to Death in Ensenada
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*PEP Officer Shot to Death in Ensenada

*Tijuana el mexicano reports that one suspect was arrested in last
night's murder of State Preventive Police (PEP) Officer Carlos Hernandez
Garcia (28), who was gunned down on Bahia del Rosario Street in the
Vista Hermosa neighborhood of Ensenada. Unofficial accounts indicate
that his partner was also wounded. The article does not give the name of
the suspect. (Tijuana el mexicano Online in Spanish -- Website of
high-circulation daily from Baja California State, founded in 1959 and
published by Editorial Kino, S.A.; URL:
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Message: 10
Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2011 12:20:05 -0500
From: Araceli Santos <santos@stratfor.com>
To: The OS List <os@stratfor.com>
Subject: [OS] MEXICO/CT - Weapons Traded For Laptops Destroyed in
Chiapas
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*Weapons Traded For Laptops Destroyed in Chiapas
*
-- Mexico City La Jornada reports 871 weapons were received by
authorities during an official campaign to trade them for laptop
computers in Tuxtla Gutierrez, Chiapas State. Chiapas Governor Juan
Sabines Guerrero and Juan Manuel Rico Gamez, commander of the 31
Military Zone, witnessed the destruction of these weapons. The firearms
will be melted and a UN monument to peace will be replicated with the
metal. Authorities said those who refused to take part in this peaceful
effort to remove firearms from Chiapas households will be "searched for
intensively" and their weapons seized. (Mexico City La Jornada Online in
Spanish -- Website of major left-leaning daily, critical of PAN and PRI
administrations; URL:
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Message: 11
Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2011 12:04:39 -0500
From: Araceli Santos <santos@stratfor.com>
To: The OS List <os@stratfor.com>
Subject: [OS] MEXICO/POL - Deputies Approve Political Reforms
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*Deputies Approve Political Reforms
*
-- Mexico City Reforma reports that a plenary session of the Chamber of
Deputies approved a series of political reforms with 418 votes in favor,
after a lengthy debate in which legislators finally exc luded the
revocation of mandate. Legislators belonging to the PAN (National Action
Party), the PRD (Party of the Democratic Revolution), and the PT (Labor
Party) criticized the PRI (Institutional Revolutionary Party) and its
allies in the PVEM (Mexican Green Ecologist Party) and the Panal (New
Alliance Party) for not allowing citizens to revoke the mandate of
elected officials such as mayors, governors, or the president of the
Republic. PAN Deputy Javier Corral declared that the PRI had rejected
this reform because they knew that revocation would be implemented
immediately against state governments such as those of Coahuila or Nuevo
Leon. PRI Deputy Carlos Flores Rico countered by rejecting the
introduction of a "Kafkaesque" reform "through the back door." (Mexico
City REFORMA.com in Spanish -- Website of major center-right daily owned
by Grupo Reforma; URL:



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Message: 12
Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2011 12:19:33 -0500
From: Araceli Santos <santos@stratfor.com>
To: The OS List <os@stratfor.com>
Subject: [OS] MEXICO/CT - Commando raids City Hall in Ecatepec, steals
weapons and ammunition
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*
Commando raids City Hall in Ecatepec, steals weapons and ammunition

*Wednesday October 26, 2011 18:22:29 GMT
-- Mexico City Reforma reports a commando stormed City Hall in Ecatepec,
State of Mexico and stole at least seven pistols and ammunition. The
armed men entered the building where the office of State of Mexico
Governor Eruviel Avila is despite the strong presence of municipal
police officers. The policemen who were safeguarding the building are
giving their statements. The Office of the Attorney General of the State
of Mexico (PGJEM) has not reported how many individuals and vehicles
participated in the burglary but has opened investigation
344610830075811 on the incident. The National Defense Secretariat
(Sedena) and the State Security Agency (ASE) were informed of the
incident. (Mexico City REFORMA.com in Spanish -- Website of major
center-right daily owned by Grupo Reforma; URL:
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Message: 13
Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2011 12:17:14 -0500
From: Araceli Santos <santos@stratfor.com>
To: The OS List <os@stratfor.com>
Subject: [OS] MEXICO/CT - Nogales Police Officer Among 10 Found Dead
in Sonora Border Towns
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*Nogales Police Officer Among 10 Found Dead in Sonora Border Towns

*Nogales El Diario de Sonora reports that three corpses were found late
two nights ago in the Puerto San Luis area near the Sonora-Chihuahua
border in the Agua Prieta municipality. One of the victims was Nogales
Police Officer Jaime Eugenio Ruiz Cota. The other two were identified as
Jorge Armenta Cota and Abel Ayala Andujo. One hour later, Navy troops
discovered six bodies shot to death near km 21.28 of the Sonoyta-Puerto
Penasco Highway in Sonoyta (General Plutarco Elias Calles municipality).
Four of the victims were identified as Alvaro Olivas Zazueta (32), Juan
Carlos Olivas Zazueta (31), Aldo Efrain Solorio Huert a (31), and
Aurelio Moreno Velasquez (21). That afternoon, Rafael Adrian Quintero
Meranza (26) had been found shot to death near Juan Chait Avenue in
Caborca. He had been kidnapped early that morning from his house in the
city's Palma Dorada subdivision. One juvenile suspect has been arrested
in this case. (Nogales El Diario de Sonora in Spanish -- Daily from
Nogales, Sonora State. URL:
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Message: 14
Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2011 12:20:16 -0500
From: Araceli Santos <santos@stratfor.com>
To: The OS List <os@stratfor.com>
Subject: [OS] MEXICO/CT - Morelos Prisons' 'About to Collapse'
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*Morelos Prisons' 'About to Collapse'
*
-- Mexico City El Universal reports human rights organizations and
authorities pointed out organized crime-related violence is quickly
spreading throughout prisons in Morelos and the nation, a problem
exacerbated by overcrowding and corruption. Last 7 September, about 500
inmates of the Atlacholoaya Prison located in southern Morelos rioted
and tried to lynch a group of inmates who had allegedly formed a "power
group" within the prison and had started to extort and collect "taxes"
from the oth er prisoners. The rebellion was quenched by riot policemen
but the threat of organized crime within prisons persists. Authorities
believe much of the violence in Morelos prisons worsened after the death
of Arturo Beltran Leyva, alias "El Barbas" or "El Jefe de Jefes (The
Boss of Bosses)," which caused fractures among his men. Members of La
Familia, the South Pacific Cartel (CPS), the crime cell of Edgar Valdez
Villareal, alias "La Barbie," and the Beltran Leyva brothers Cartel all
have to live together in Morelos prisons. (Mexico City EL
UNIVERSAL.com.mx in Spanish -- Website o f influential centrist daily; URL

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Message: 15
Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2011 12:18:15 -0500
From: Araceli Santos <santos@stratfor.com>
To: The OS List <os@stratfor.com>
Subject: [OS] MEXICO/CT - Several schools suspend classes due to
violence
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*
Several schools suspend classes due to violence *
-- Mexico City Proceso reports that school officials in Coyuca de
Benitez suspended activities for 28 schools after the director of an
elementary school in the community of Tepetixtla was kidnapped by a
group of armed men. In Acapulco, in addition, preparatoria
(pre-university) No. 27 canceled class after one of its students was
shot to death in Colonia Panoramica. The missing school director is Jose
Enrique Suastegui Abarca, of the "Emperador Moctezuma" elementary
school. According to Julio Cesar Bernal Resendiz, a representative of
the Coordinator's Office of Eductional Services of the Secretariat of
Security in G uerrero (SEG), the alleged kidnapping took place on 20
October. (Mexico City proceso.com.mx in Spanish -- Website of major
leftist weekly magazine; URL:
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Message: 16
Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2011 12:07:16 -0500
From: Araceli Santos <santos@stratfor.com>
To: The OS List <os@stratfor.com>
Subject: [OS] MEXICO/ECON - Banxico Warns Rise of State Debt
Threatening Fiscal Sustainability
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*Banxico Warns Rise of State Debt Threatening Fiscal Sustainability
*
-- Mexico City El Universal reports that in a report on Mexico's
financial system, Banxico warned that the rising debt levels of local
authorities threatened the fiscal sustainability of several states.
Banxico declared that the recent rise in short-term debt acquisitions by
local authorities should receive the attention of regulatory and fiscal
authorities, and it warned that state debt had risen from 1.6 percent of
GDP during the period from 2001 to 2008, to 2.3 percent of GDP by June
2011. Nevertheless, Banxico added in the report that this debt level did
not represent a systemic threat as yet.


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Message: 17
Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2011 12:17:31 -0500
From: Araceli Santos <santos@stratfor.com>
To: The OS List <os@stratfor.com>
Subject: [OS] MEXICO/CT - Fifteen of 48 Arrested Cops Remain Under
Criminal Investigation in Cadereyta, Zuazua
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*Fifteen of 48 Arrested Cops Remain Under Criminal Investigation in
Cadereyta, Zuazua

*Monterrey El Norte reports that of the 48 police officers arrested two
days ago in the Cadereyta and Zuazua municipality, 15 are under
investigation for alleged ties to organized crime. Only two of those are
from Zuazua. The other 33 officers have been transferred to the State
Police Academy for evaluations. Four of those are from Zuazua. Many
day-shift officers failed to show up to work on the day of the arrests,
after they were apparently tipped off to the operation. State officials
intend to schedule appointments for future evaluations of these
officers, who will be fired if they fail to arrive.
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Message: 18
Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2011 12:18:58 -0500
From: Araceli Santos <santos@stratfor.com>
To: The OS List <os@stratfor.com>
Subject: [OS] MIL/MEXICO/CT - Army, Federal Agents Fight Gunmen in
Eastern Michoacan
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*Army, Federal Agents Fight Gunmen in Eastern Michoacan
*
-- Morelia Cambio de Michoacan reports that Army troops and Federal
Police officers fought a group of armed men in the municipality of
Zitacuaro. The police are reporting that one of the suspects was killed.
Specifically, the fight took place in the community of Don Gu, which is
now being guarded by Army troops and federal officers. (Morelia Cambio
de Michoacan Online in Spanish -- Website of daily from Michoacan State,
founded in 1992; URL:
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Message: 19
Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2011 12:17:56 -0500
From: Araceli Santos <santos@stratfor.com>
To: The OS List <os@stratfor.com>
Subject: [OS] MEXICO/CT - Three Arrested With 1.721 Tonnes of
Marijuana in Ensenada
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*Three Arrested With 1.721 Tonnes of Marijuana in Ensenada

*Tijuana el mexicano reports that PEP officers seized 1.721 metric tons
of marijuana two days ago at the Playa Dorada tourist resort in the
Coronel Esteban Cantu farm cooperative of Ensenada. Th e drug allegedly
belonged to the Sinaloa Cartel. Officers arrested Gabriel Varela Estrada
(30) and Cristobal Lozano Fisher (32), as well as an unnamed woman that
was with them.
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Message: 20
Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2011 12:18:06 -0500
From: Araceli Santos <santos@stratfor.com>
To: The OS List <os@stratfor.com>
Subject: [OS] MEXICO/CT - Ciudad Juarez Police Officer Killed During
Ambush
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*Ciudad Juarez Police Officer Killed During Ambush

*Ciudad Juarez El Diario.mx reports that gunmen ambushed and killed
Ciudad Juarez Police Officer Alvaro Bustillos Nevarez (27) yesterday
morning while driving on Rafael Perez Serna, Heroico Colegio Militar,
Malecon, and Del Charro avenues in Ciudad Juarez, near the US border.
The gunmen fired about 100 shots during the attack. (Ciudad Juarez El
Diario.mx in Spanish -- Most widely read border daily published in
Chihuahua State. Root URL as of filing date:
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Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2011 12:19:55 -0500
From: Araceli Santos <santos@stratfor.com>
To: The OS List <os@stratfor.com>
Subject: [OS] MEXICO/CT - Intelligence Bunker Opened in Mexico City
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Intelligence Bunker Opened in Mexico City*

-- Reforma reports an intelligence bunker that some sources and
authorities have said is the largest one in Latin America, was opened by
the Mexico City Government in the capital. The more than 11,000 video
surveillance cameras installed in Mexico City streets will be controlled
and monitored from the Center for Command, Control, Communications, Data
Processing, Intelligence, Integration, Information and Investigation
(C4i4). The complete article was translated by OSC as LAP20111026202002.
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Message: 22
Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2011 12:18:46 -0500
From: Araceli Santos <santos@stratfor.com>
To: The OS List <os@stratfor.com>
Subject: [OS] MEXICO/CT - Authorities Find Four Bodies in Zapopan
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*Authorities Find Four Bodies in Zapopan
*
-- El Informador reports that the police recovered four bodies yesterday
in Zapopan. According to their preliminary investigations, the killers
bel ong to "La Resistencia," a drug trafficking organization that
operates in Jalisco. Municipal agents found the first two bodies in
Colonia Volcanes del Colli. The hands and feet were bound, and bags
covered the victims' heads. On 22 October, another body was left in the
same fashion one block away from this site. So far the victims have not
been identified. While the police were investigating the crime scene,
they received a call notifying them that there were two more bodies in
Colonia Lomas del Semario, at the intersection of Calles Santa Catalina
de Siena and Santa Rosa de Lima. When they arrived, they found a crime
scene similar to the one in Volcanes del Colli. The site has been used
before by assassins to dump bodies. The authorities are hoping that
family members will come forth to identify them. MICHOACAN STATE
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Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2011 12:19:44 -0500
From: Araceli Santos <santos@stratfor.com>
To: The OS List <os@stratfor.com>
Subject: [OS] MEXICO/CT - Capo 'El Hongo' Apprehended in State of
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Capo 'El Hongo' Apprehended in State of Mexico*

-- Mexico City El Universal Estado de Mexico reports Adrian Ramirez
Soria, alias "El Hongo," alleged leader of the "Center Cartel," was
arrested in the State of Mexico. The PGJEM and the ASE will present him
to the media today. "El Hongo" was among the most wanted criminals in
the state, as authorities believe he was trying to snatch drug-dealing
territories away from Oscar Oswaldo Garcia Montoya, alias "El
Compayito," and the organization he leads, "The Hand With Eyes (La Mano
Con Ojos)," a splinter group of the Beltran Leyva brothers Cartel. He
was involved in at least seven homi cides and operated in the
municipalities of Ecatepec, Coacalco, Naucalpan, and Cuautitlan Izcalli.
(Mexico City El Universal Estado de Mexico Online in Spanish -- Website
of influential centrist daily focused on news from the State of Mexico; URL:
*
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Message: 24
Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2011 12:51:40 -0500
From: Araceli Santos <santos@stratfor.com>
To: The OS List <os@stratfor.com>
Subject: [OS] MEXICO/POL - Legislators reject reelection clause
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*Diputados rechazan reelecci?n de legisladores
*http://www.elfinanciero.com.mx/index.php/politica/47048

Pol?tica - Mi?rcoles, 26 de Octubre de 2011 (19:04 hrs)

Plantean que sea la ciudadan?a la que decida


(Foto:Archivo)
El Financiero en l?nea
M?xico, 26 de octubre.- El Pleno de la C?mara de Diputados rechaz? con
237 votos en contra 171 a favor y 9 abstenciones, la propuesta de
incorporar la reelecci?n consecutiva de legisladores.

El diputado priista Felipe Sol?s Acero, se?al? que dentro del dictamen
que se est? poniendo a consideraci?n del Pleno, viene establecido un
art?culo transitorio que "plantea que sea la ciudadana la que resuelva
si debe haber o no reelecci?n consecutiva de legisladores mediante una
consulta popular.

Al defender la propuesta al art?culo 59, el diputado panista Javier
Corral Jurado, afirm? que la reelecci?n legislativa es un mecanismo que
permitir?a contrarrestar la fuerza de los partidos pol?tico. Reconoci?
que aunque la reforma pol?tica es insuficiente, s? contribuye a la
democratizaci?n de las instituciones y representa un avance de la
democracia participativa.

En tribuna el vicecoordinador del PRD, Ilich Augusto Lozano Herrera,
se?al? que para que la actitud de los legisladores cambie, se necesita
la reelecci?n. "Tenemos un Congreso debilitado porque no le damos las
herramientas necesarias, somos un Poder que no est? rindiendo cuentas y
la reelecci?n nos permitir?a rendirle cuentas a los ciudadanos", dijo.

Del grupo parlamentario del PT, Jaime C?rdenas Gracia se?al? que
fracci?n votar? a favor de la reelecci?n, toda vez que esta figura
permite premiar o castigar las acciones de los legisladores, adem?s de
que obliga a los parlamentarios ofrecer una rendici?n de cuentas,
fortalecer el profesionalismo del Congreso de la Uni?n y promover la
competencia electoral. (Con informaci?n de Edgar Amig?n/LRM)
*

Desechan PRI, PVEM y Nueva Alianza reelecci?n legislativa*
http://www.milenio.com/cdb/doc/noticias2011/72d37f6785f7d379da89e88756cb3651

POL?TICA . 26 OCTUBRE 2011 - 6:35PM --- FERNANDO DAMI?N E ISRAEL NAVARRO
El pleno cameral rechaz? as? la propuesta presentada por el PAN para
reincorporar al dictamen la reelecci?n, como instrumento para sancionar
el desempe?o de los representantes populares.




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Ciudad de M?xico . La C?mara de Diputados desech? el tema de la
reelecci?n consecutiva de legisladores durante la discusi?n de la
reforma pol?tica, aunque la mayor?a priista mantiene en pie su propuesta
de someter el asunto a consulta p?blica el pr?ximo a?o.

Con 237 votos del PRI, del PVEM y de Nueva Alianza en contra, el pleno
cameral rechaz? as? la propuesta presentada por el PAN para reincorporar
al dictamen la reelecci?n, como instrumento para sancionar el desempe?o
de los representantes populares.

Incluso, los perredistas Dina Herrera, Avelino M?ndez y Rigoberto
Salgado votaron contra ese planteamiento, mientras sus correligionarios
Arturo Santana, Eduardo Mendoza, Emilio Serrano y Leticia Quezada
registraron abstenciones en el tablero electr?nico.

Previamente y tambi?n con los votos de priistas y "ecologistas", el
pleno cameral desech? las reservas presentadas por el PAN y el PT para
flexibilizar los requisitos para convocar a consulta popular y validar
sus resultados.
As?, la ley exigir? las firmas de al menos uno por ciento de los
ciudadanos inscritos en el listado nominal para solicitar una consulta,
as? como la participaci?n de no menos de 25 por ciento del mismo listado
(unos 19 millones de mexicanos) para que los resultados sean de
acatamiento obligatorio para la autoridad.

La C?mara de Diputados acord? continuar la sesi?n de este mi?rcoles
hasta las 9 de la noche, para avanzar lo m?s posible en el desahogo de
las 39 reservas a la reforma pol?tica pendientes de discusi?n y votaci?n.
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Message: 25
Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2011 12:56:49 -0500
From: Araceli Santos <santos@stratfor.com>
To: The OS List <os@stratfor.com>
Subject: [OS] MEXICO/POL/ECON - Tax organization in Edomex needs new
regulations, says PAN
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*?rgano de fiscalizaci?n del Edomex requiere nuevas reglas: PAN*
http://www.eluniversaledomex.mx/toluca/nota23712.html

Carlos Madrazo, diputado local del PAN, propuso modificar el reglamento
del ?rgano Superior de Fiscalizaci?n del Estado de M?xico

Notas Relacionadas
26/09/2011 Entregan informe de Cuenta P?blica 2010 en Edomex
20/10/2011 Legislatura mexiquense aprueba Ley de Extinci?n de Dominio
27 de octubre 2011 07:31




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Carlos Madrazo, diputado local del PAN, propuso modificar el reglamento
del ?rgano Superior de Fiscalizaci?n del Estado de M?xico (OSFEM), con
el objetivo de agilizar los procesos internos y as? los encargados de
finanzas de los ayuntamientos y del gobierno estatal puedan cumplir con
los requerimientos solicitados.

En reuni?n de trabajo de la Comisi?n Legislativa de Vigilancia del
?rgano Superior de Fiscalizaci?n, el legislador panista consider? que
"a pesar de que el OSFEM cuenta con un apoyo presupuestal de 32 millones
560 mil 382 pesos para 2011, y cuenta con instalaciones ?ptimas y todo
el personal necesario laborando, sus informes emitidos no son muy claros
e impiden definir si se encuentra funcionando adecuadamente".

Prosigui?: "Actualmente se han detectado incumplimientos y retrasos en
las solventaciones de observaciones hechas a las cuentas p?blicas de
ayuntamientos y administraci?n estatal, debido a que no se le obliga a
los funcionarios acudir en determinado tiempo".

El presidente de la Comisi?n de Vigilancia del ?rgano Superior de
Fiscalizaci?n del Estado de M?xico en la LVII Legislatura, explic? que
la administraci?n estatal que encabez? Enrique Pe?a Nieto tiene sin
solventar desde el a?o 2008 m?s de mil 300 observaciones entre
disciplinarias y resarcitorias que el OSFEM formul? con base en las
cuentas p?blicas peri?dicas que se entregaron al organismo.

Respecto a 2008, las observaciones ascendieron a mil 21, de las cuales
quedan 216 por solventar; mientras que del 2009 est?n pendientes 116
observaciones administrativas disciplinarias y 49 observaciones
resarcitorias.

Explic? que los ex funcionarios estatales y algunos que repitieron en el
cargo con la nueva administraci?n estatal, a?n se encuentran en tiempo
para aclaraciones, justificaciones o solventaciones, ya que la ley
establece que la comisi?n de Vigilancia del OSFEM cuenta con cinco a?os
para realizar este tipo de solicitudes.


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Message: 26
Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2011 12:52:56 -0500
From: Araceli Santos <santos@stratfor.com>
To: The OS List <os@stratfor.com>
Subject: [OS] MEXICO/POL - Hidalgo gov guarantees PRI will form
alliance with Panal
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*Francisco Olvera avala alianza PRI- Panal en 2012
*
http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/notas/804416.html

Hacer coalici?n con el Panal es una estrategia para apuntalar la
posibilidad de un triunfo en la elecci?n presidencial, expres?

Hidalgo | Jueves 27 de octubre de 2011
Rodrigo Alonso | El Universal
11:08
Francisco Olvera Ruiz, gobernador del estado de Hidalgo, aval? que el
PRI vaya en coalici?n con el Partido Nueva Alianza (Panal), fundado por
la l?der del Sindicato Nacional de Trabajadores de la Educaci?n, Elba
Esther Gordillo, para la elecci?n presidencial del 2012.

"En Hidalgo en la elecci?n para gobernador fuimos- con Nueva Alianza-,
es algo que sucede, no veo que sea algo extra?o", dijo en entrevista con
medios locales al finalizar la inauguraci?n de la Primera Copa Nacional
SEP-Club Pachuca, "5 pasos en 11 jugadas para tu Salud".

"Hacer coalici?n con el Panal es una estrategia para apuntalar la
posibilidad de un triunfo en la elecci?n presidencial", expres?

Olvera Ruiz coment? que cuando fue candidato a la gubernatura de
Hidalgo, "pude darme cuenta que en la declaraci?n de principios,
plataforma ideol?gica -del Panal- hay muchas coincidencias con la que
hist?ricamente ha coincidido el PRI, entonces es una coalici?n l?gica y
concurrente".

Alianza

Durante la Cumbre de Negocios en Quer?taro, el aspirante a la
candidatura presidencial del PRI, Enrique Pe?a Nieto, se pronunci? a
favor de concretar una alianza con el Partido Nueva Alianza, fundado por
la l?der del Sindicato Nacional de Trabajadores de la Educaci?n, Elba
Esther Gordillo.

En aquella ocasi?n, Pe?a Nieto dijo: " el partido est? explorando
justamente con qu? partidos puede haber afinidad en cuanto a la
plataforma de Gobierno; obviamante nos permitir? estar en un frente
mucho m?s competitivo en la elecci?n presidencial".



Con informaci?n de H?ctor Mora


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Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2011 12:56:25 -0500
From: Araceli Santos <santos@stratfor.com>
To: The OS List <os@stratfor.com>
Subject: [OS] MEXICO/ECON/BRAZIL/INDIA/RUSSIA/CHINA - Mexico Lags
Behind BRIC Nation Growth
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*Mexico Lags Behind BRIC Nation Growth*
http://eleconomista.com.mx/focus-on-mexico

Mexico has become stagnated in the 32nd spot out of the 46 countries
surveyed in the past four years for international competition levels in
the index of the Mexican Institute for Competitiveness (Imco). In
attempting to explain the paralysis, Imco's most relevant conclusion is
that in Mexico there is no political and social pact about the growth
strategy that should be followed, in contract to what happens in the
so-called BRICS nations, namely Brazil, Russia, India, China and South
Africa.

"Despite deep contracts in their constitutional framework, those
countries (BRICS) share two fundamental traits: an obsession for
economic growth, and a basic consensus on the measures that are deemed
necessary to advance on the road to prosperity", according to Imco's
opinion paper.

According to the Imco study, Mexico's politicians are directly to blame
for Mexico's low economic growth in the past decade, because they, the
legislators, have been utterly incapable of reaching agreement on major
reforms. In the past decade, Mexico's average annual growth has been 2%,
against 4% for Brazil and South Africa, 7% for Russia, 9% for India and
12% for China.
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Message: 28
Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2011 12:58:16 -0500
From: Araceli Santos <santos@stratfor.com>
To: The OS List <os@stratfor.com>
Subject: [OS] MEXICO/ECON/POL - Ebrard to meet with Coparmex in Oaxaca
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*
Ebrard sostendr? reuni?n con Coparmex en Oaxaca*
http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/notas/804451.html
Se espera que el aspirante presidencial ofrezca un importante
pronunciamiento en materia econ?mica y del papel de los empresarios del pa?s

Oaxaca, Oaxaca | Jueves 27 de octubre de 2011
Sara Pantoja/ enviada | El Universal
12:07
El jefe de Gobierno del Distrito Federal, Marcelo Ebrard, se reunir?
esta tarde con la c?pula empresarial de la Confederaci?n Patronal de la
Rep?blica Mexicana (Coparmex), en el centro de esta capital.

A las 14:00 horas de este jueves, en el Jard?n Etnobot?nico, est?
programada su asistencia a la comida del Encuentro Empresarial Nacional
"M?s exigencia ciudadana mejor democracia".

Se espera que en este evento, el aspirante presidencial ofrezca un
importante pronunciamiento en materia econ?mica y del papel de los
empresarios del pa?s.

El mandatario capitalino volar? a esta reuni?n nacional en la capital
oaxaque?a, luego de asistir a la ceremonia de entrega de la medalla
Belisario Dom?nguez a Cuauht?moc C?rdenas en la antigua sede del Senado
de la Rep?blica en la Ciudad de M?xico.

mvc
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Message: 29
Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2011 12:52:47 -0500 (CDT)
From: Paulo Gregoire <paulo.gregoire@stratfor.com>
To: The OS List <os@stratfor.com>
Subject: [OS] COLOMBIA/CT - Colombia is 5th most dangerous place on
earth: Study
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Colombia is 5th most dangerous place on earth: Study


THURSDAY, 27 OCTOBER 2011 11:49 http://www.colombiareports.com/colombia-news/news/19996-colombia-is-5th-most-dangerous-place-on-earth-study.html




Colombia is the fifth most dangerous country in the world, according to a report released by the Geneva Declaration Thursday.

The report, which analyzes the effects of armed violence on development, revealed that the rate of violent deaths per capita in Colombia is the fifth highest in the world.

The Swiss funded study, called "the global burden of armed violence," provides a global overview of violent deaths across the different forms of violence in both conflict and non-conflict settings.

The term "violent deaths" refers exclusively to the deliberate harming of fellow human beings.

The top 14 countries listed in the report have 5% of the world's population, but account for one quarter of all global violent deaths.

El Salvador was recorded as the most violent country in the world with 60 deaths per 100,000 inhabitants in the period between 2004 - 2009. Colombia recorded a death rate of over 43 deaths per 100,000 citizens in the same period.

The first 14 countries, of which Colombia was number five, were considered to have "extremely high violent death rates" - death rates of over 30 per 100,000 citizens per year. Of these 14 countries, seven are in the Americas. As a result, Central America is considered to be the most dangerous region in the world, while South America is the fifth.

The report found that there is a direct link between lethal armed violence and underdevelopment.

One of the authors and editors on the report, Keith Strausse, said "states with high levels of lethal violence almost always struggle to achieve the millennium development goals. We also know that when a country makes progress in terms of development, it is likely to exhibit decreasing levels of lethal violence."

In terms of the total number of violent deaths, Colombia is one of five countries that witnesses over 1,000 violent deaths per year, along with the democratic Republic of the Congo, Iraq, Sri Lanka and Sudan.

The report also revealed that, contrary to popular belief, crime is a far greater cause of death than war. "Crime is the single largest contributor to violent killings," concluded the UN-backed international study.

Although the media tends to focus heavily on the outcomes of war, the number of people dying in so-called non-conflict settings is actually far higher, with nine out of 10 violent deaths occurring outside of conflicts. Colombia was one of only six countries in the top 14 that were considered active conflict zones during the period 2004 - 2009.

According to the report, Colombia has seen a drop in violent deaths since 2004, when compared with the violent death rates from 2009.

The Geneva Declaration on Armed Violence and Development is a diplomatic initiative created by the United Nations Development Project and the Swiss Government, aimed at addressing the interrelations between armed violence and development.
Paulo Gregoire
Latin America Monitor
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Message: 30
Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2011 12:57:35 -0500
From: Araceli Santos <santos@stratfor.com>
To: The OS List <os@stratfor.com>
Subject: [OS] MEXICO/POL/ECON - Public march to begin at 4 pm local
time in Mexico City
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*Realizar?n indignados marcha a las 16:00 horas*
http://www.milenio.com/cdb/doc/noticias2011/3f852a2a7ce384d866c6c01cc219694f

CD. DE M?XICO . 27 OCTUBRE 2011 - 11:24AM --- MILENIO.COM
Partir?n de la Bolsa Mexicana de Valores hacia el Museo Nacional de
Antropolog?a e Historia.




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Ciudad de M?xico . Integrantes del Sindicato Independiente de la UAM y
el y el Movimiento de los Indignados, realizar?n una marcha de la Bolsa
Mexicana de Valores al Museo Nacional de Antropolog?a e Historia a las
16:00 horas.

La manifestaci?n ser? en rechazo a pol?ticas econ?micas y su impacto en
la crisis mundial y formar? parte de la Primera marcha de los Indignados
de M?xico, impulsada tras la jornada mundial de movilizaciones ocurrida
el pasado 15 de octubre cuando instalaron un plant?n afuera de la BMV.

A la misma hora saldr? una marcha de integrantes del Frente en Defensa
de Wiricuta Tamatsima Waha'a (Huicholes) que partir? del ?ngel de la
Independencia hacia la residencia oficial de los Pinos y Museo Nacional
de Antropolog?a e Historia


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Message: 31
Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2011 12:57:57 -0500
From: Araceli Santos <santos@stratfor.com>
To: The OS List <os@stratfor.com>
Subject: [OS] MEXICO/MINING - Mexico is top producer of silver, 9th of
gold
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*M?xico, primer productor de plata y noveno de oro
*
http://impreso.milenio.com/node/9051469
2011-10-27.Negocios

El presidente Felipe Calder?n dijo que el sector minero se encuentra en
un excelente momento que no se hab?a visto desde hace mucho tiempo, y
destac? que actualmente el pa?s es el primer productor de plata y noveno
en oro.

Al inaugurar la 29 Convenci?n Internacional de Miner?a, el mandatario
inform? que est? practicamente listo el reglamento de la ley minera y
confi? en que se publique antes de que termine este quinto a?o de gobierno.

Calder?n se congratul? de que la mina de Cananea, en Sonora, haya
reabierto sus puertas al trabajo y a la producci?n.

"Qu? bueno que pudo hacerse imperar la raz?n y la ley, para que Cananea
siguiera generando empleos y actividad econ?mica a miles de familias
mexicanas, y tambi?n aportando al crecimiento de la econom?a nacional",
se?al?.

Indic? que en lo que va de su administraci?n se han consolidado m?s de
12 mil millones de d?lares de inversi?n en el sector minero.

El mandatario estim? que con los proyectos que se puedan concretar el
a?o pr?ximo, este sector podr?a recibir inversiones superiores a 20 mil
millones de d?lares, hacia el final de la presente administraci?n.

Felipe Calder?n indic? que la miner?a en el pa?s se ha consolidado como
una fuente importante de empleo. "M?s de 300 mil familias viven
directamente del sector y probablemente otro mill?n y medio en forma
indirecta", precis?.
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Message: 32
Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2011 12:58:38 -0500
From: Araceli Santos <santos@stratfor.com>
To: The OS List <os@stratfor.com>
Subject: [OS] MEXICO/ENERGY/SPAIN - Pemex won't aim for 2nd seat on
Repsol board
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*Dejar? Pemex de buscar segundo asiento en Repsol*
http://www.milenio.com/cdb/doc/noticias2011/3f852a2a7ce384d866c6c01cc223cc12

NEGOCIOS . 27 OCTUBRE 2011 - 12:24PM --- NAYELI GONZ?LEZ
Jordy Herrera, titular de Energ?a, afirm? que seg?n las leyes en Espa?a,
Pemex no tiene el derecho de hacerse de un segundo puesto dentro de la
petrolera de ese pa?s Repsol.




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Foto: H?ctor T?llez.
EN SEPTIEMBRE PASADO, EL DIRECTOR GENERAL DE PEMEX, JUAN JOS? SU?REZ
COPPEL, ASEGUR? QUE COMO PARTE DE LOS DERECHOS QUE ADQUIRI? LA PETROLERA
MEXICANA EN REPSOL, SE HAR?A ACREEDOR DE TENER OTRO MIEMBRO DENTRO DEL
CONSEJO.

M?S ACERCA DE ESTE ART?CULO
Libra Pemex reacomodos en Repsol
Distrito Federal . Petr?leos Mexicanos (Pemex) ya no buscar? un
segundo asiento en el consejo de administraci?n de la petrolera espa?ola
Repsol, luego de los diversos hechos negativos que se han suscitado en
torno al incremento en su participaci?n accionaria y su pacto sindicado
con la constructora tambi?n espa?ola Sacyr Vallehermoso.

Jordy Herrera, titular de la Secretar?a de Energ?a, afirm? que seg?n las
leyes en Espa?a, Pemex no tiene el derecho de hacerse de un segundo
puesto dentro de Repsol.

"Tan sencillo como revisar la legislaci?n de ese pa?s, la informaci?n a
la cual yo tengo acceso nos indica que el porcentaje que tenemos
solamente nos permite contar con una asiento", explic? despu?s de
participar en el Foro Nacional de la Industria Qu?mica.

Cabe mencionar que la declaraci?n del secretario de Energ?a se
contradice a lo dicho el pasado primero de septiembre por el director
general de Pemex, Juan Jos? Su?rez Coppel, quien en ese momento asegur?
que como parte de los derechos que adquiri? la petrolera mexicana en
Repsol, se har?a acreedor de tener otro miembro dentro del consejo.

"Ciertamente, esta operaci?n es respetuosa de todas las leyes, todos los
reglamentos que le ata?en, nos tocar?a con este cinco por ciento
adicional otro consejero", mencion? en ese momento el director general
de Pemex.
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Message: 33
Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2011 13:02:05 -0500
From: Araceli Santos <santos@stratfor.com>
To: The OS List <os@stratfor.com>
Subject: [OS] MEXICO/CT - 2 from La Barredora, 2 from Acapulco Cartel
arrested
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*Detienen a 2 de 'La Barredora' y a 2 del 'C?rtel de Acapulco'
*
http://noticierostelevisa.esmas.com/nacional/355788/detienen-2-la-barredora-y-2-del-cartel-acapulco
Por: Agencia | Fuente: NOTIMEX | 2011-10-27 09:06

Los cuatros sujetos detenidos por la PF en Guerrero pertenecen a dos de
las organizaciones criminales que se disputan el control de la plaza en
Acapulco

CIUDAD DE M?XICO, M?xico, oct. 27, 2011.- Elementos de la Polic?a
Federal detuvieron a cuatro presuntos integrantes de diferentes grupos
delictivos y liberaron a una v?ctima de secuestro, como parte de las
acciones coordinadas del Guerrero Seguro.

El jefe de Seguridad Regional de la Polic?a Federal, Luis C?rdenas
Palomino, inform? que en uno de los operativos se detuvo a Mart?n
Campos, alias 'el Chivo', y a Benito Ascencio C?rdenas, tambi?n llamado
'el Beni', quienes son considerados presuntos integrantes del grupo
delictivo La Barredora.

Estos sujetos fueron detenidos en las inmediaciones de la Gran Plaza en
Acapulco, Guerrero, en posesi?n de dos hieleras que conten?an restos
humanos y son considerados probables responsables del secuestro, agreg?
el funcionario de la secretaria de Seguridad P?blica (SSP) federal.

Los presuntos delincuentes tambi?n ten?an en su poder a una v?ctima de
16 a?os, que fue rescatada con vida, y se les asegur? un veh?culo, una
arma larga, diversos cartuchos ?tiles, equipo de radio y comunicaci?n y
documentos diversos.

Agreg? que en una acci?n distinta fueron detenidos Joel Ramos,
identificado como 'el Indio', y Samuel Oliver Bello Castro, conocido
como 'el Moreno', presuntos integrantes del grupo delictivo denominado
C?rtel Independiente de Acapulco, rival de la organizaci?n criminal La
Barredora.

Durante la presentaci?n de los cuatro presuntos plagiarios en las
instalaciones del Centro de Mando de la Polic?a Federal, C?rdenas
Palomino detall? que estas personas fueron capturadas en calles de la
colonia Ciudad Renacimiento de dicho puerto.

Precis? que los presuntos delincuentes circulaban a bordo de un
autom?vil y cuando se percataron de la presencia de los elementos
federales, intentaron escapar a pie pero fueron apresados.

A estas personas se les encontr? en posesi?n de dos armas cortas,
diversos cartuchos ?tiles, dos celulares, documentos, cinco kilogramos
de marihuana y 25 dosis de un polvo blanco presuntamente coca?na.

Los detenidos y los objetos asegurados ser?n puestos a disposici?n del
Ministerio P?blico de la Federaci?n que continuar? con las
investigaciones correspondientes.
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Message: 34
Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2011 13:02:26 -0500
From: Araceli Santos <santos@stratfor.com>
To: The OS List <os@stratfor.com>
Subject: [OS] MEXICO/CT - 46 police officers in NL arrested in purge
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*
Retienen a 46 polic?as de Montemorelos, NL*
http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/notas/804450.html

Desde temprano, la corporaci?n de la Polic?a Municipal fue sitiada por
efectivos del Ej?rcito mexicano y detectives de la Polic?a Ministerial

Monterrey, NL | Jueves 27 de octubre de 2011
Corresponsal?a | El Universal
12:07

El operativo mixto implementado como parte de la depuraci?n de las
corporaciones policiales municipales se extendi? esta ma?ana hacia el
municipio de Montemorelos, en donde detuvieron a 46 uniformados.

Desde temprano, la corporaci?n de la Polic?a de Montemorelos, ubicado a
98 kil?metros del ?rea metropolitana, fue sitiada por efectivos del
Ej?rcito mexicano y detectives de la Polic?a Ministerial para nombrar a
los uniformados que ser?an retenidos.

Una fuente cercana al operativo inform? que los retenidos fueron 37
elementos policiales y 9 de vialidad; seis de ellos son escoltas del
alcalde Pablo Elizondo, cuatro del secretario de Seguridad, Salvador
Sep?lveda y dos de la esposa del edil.

Los uniformados entregaron sus pertenencias a familiares y fueron
formados frente al cuartel donde fueron trasladados en varios autobuses
hacia la Academia Estatal de Polic?a en el ?rea metropolitana de Monterrey.

spb



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Message: 35
Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2011 13:02:40 -0500
From: Araceli Santos <santos@stratfor.com>
To: The OS List <os@stratfor.com>
Subject: [OS] MEXICO/CT - 2 more arrests in Casino Royale case
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*Caen dos presuntos implicados en atentado contra Casino Royale*
http://www.milenio.com/cdb/doc/noticias2011/72d37f6785f7d379da89e88756eafbf5

POLIC?A . 26 OCTUBRE 2011 - 10:31PM --- MILENIO.COM
La Secretar?a de la Defensa Nacional inform? que en las pr?ximas horas
presentar? a estas personas por los que la PGR ofrec?a 15 millones de pesos.




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PGR afirma que s? hay coordinaci?n con PGJ de Nuevo Le?n
Monterrey . La Secretar?a de la Defensa Nacional inform? que hoy
lograron la detenci?n de dos sujetos se?alados como participante en el
atentado Casino Royal, en esta ciudad, por los que la Procuradur?a
General de la Rep?blica ofrec?a 15 millones de pesos.

En un comunicado la dependencia agreg? que en las pr?ximas horas
presentar?n a estas personas.

Ayer, el subprocurador de Control Regional, Procedimientos Penales y
Amparo de la PGR, Jos? Salinas, inform? que todav?a estaban pr?fugos dos
presuntos miembros de "alto rango" del grupo criminal que participaron
en la agresi?n al casino:

Francisco Medina Mej?a, alias "El Comandante Quemado" y Baltazar Saucedo
Estrada, alias "El Mataperros", ambos sujetos son acusados de planear el
atentado y ordenar que se realizara el incendio.
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Message: 36
Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2011 13:03:54 -0500
From: Araceli Santos <santos@stratfor.com>
To: The OS List <os@stratfor.com>
Subject: [OS] US/MEXICO/CT - US includes Martin Gaudencio Aveda?o,
Sinaloa Cartel lieutenant
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*
Presunto lugarteniente del 'Mayo', en lista de narcos de EU*
http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/notas/804461.html

El Departamento del Tesoro norteamericano, a trav?s de la Oficina de
Control de Bienes Extranjeros, congel? los bienes de Mart?n Gaudencio
Aveda?o por presuntamente usarlos para lavado de dinero del c?rtel de
Sinaloa

Ciudad de M?xico | Jueves 27 de octubre de 2011
Silvia Otero | El Universal
12:24
El gobierno de Estados Unidos incluy? en su lista de narcotraficantes a
Mart?n Gaudencio Aveda?o, como presunto lugarteniente del C?rtel de
Sinaloa, as? como a sus dos hermanos, que est?n bajo sospecha junto con
el Aut?dromo Culiac?n, presuntamente utilizado para el lavado de dinero
de la organizaci?n al servicio de Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada.

Las investigaciones llevaron al Departamento del Tesoro norteamericano,
a trav?s de la Oficina de Control de Bienes Extranjeros (OFAC) a incluir
en lista negra a los hermanos Mart?n, H?ctor Manuel y Sergio, de acuerdo
con la Ley de Designaci?n de Cabecillas Extranjeros del Narcotr?fico
(conocida como Ley Kingpin).

Todos los bienes de estos hermanos que est?n en Estados Unidos ser?n
congelados, y ninguna empresa o particular en ese pa?s podr? realizar
negocios con los Avenda?o Ojeda.

Adam Szubin, director de la OFAC inform? que "la acci?n de hoy tiene
como objetivo interrumpir la capacidad de la red de Mart?n Avenda?o
Ojeda, de distribuci?n de drogas y sus negocios de lavado de dinero que
genera fondos para el C?rtel de Sinaloa".

A Martin Guadencio Avenda?o se le imputa que "controla una red de lavado
de dinero y distribuci?n de narc?ticos con sede en Culiac?n, Sinaloa,
suministrada por el l?der del C?rtel de Sinaloa, Ismael "El Mayo"
Zambada Garc?a; facilita la importaci?n de narc?ticos de M?xico a
Estados Unidos con la ayuda de sus hermanos, H?ctor Manuel y Sergio,
quienes tambi?n est?n siendo designados en la actualidad"

La OFAC tambi?n puso bajo sospechas las empresas Autos Mini, un
concesionario de autom?viles en Ensenada, Baja California, y el
Aut?dromo Culiac?n, una pista de carreras de autom?vil ubicada en
Culiac?n, Sinaloa que son propiedad de Martin y H?ctor Manuel Avenda?o.

Michele Leonhart, la administradora de la DEA, dijo que estas sanciones
del Tesoro representan otro golpe contra el liderazgo del c?rtel de
Sinaloa y las redes financieras que alimentan sus actividades, ya que la
organizaci?n "amasa una fortuna en bienes il?citos por tr?fico de drogas
a Estados Unidos".
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Message: 37
Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2011 13:04:27 -0500
From: Araceli Santos <santos@stratfor.com>
To: The OS List <os@stratfor.com>
Subject: [OS] MEXICO/CT - Beltran Leyva, LFM negotiate control of
Edomex
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*Los Beltr?n Leyva y La Familia negociaron control del Edomex*
http://www.eluniversaledomex.mx/otros/nota23714.html

As? lo narra Adri?n Ram?rez Soria, alias "El H" o "El Hongo", l?der del
C?rtel del Centro, quien fue detenido por la Agencia de Seguridad
Estatal y la Procuradur?a General de Justicia de la entidad

Notas Relacionadas
26/10/2011 ASE y PGJEM presentan a El Hongo, rival de La Mano con Ojos
26/10/2011 L?der del C?rtel del Centro viv?a en Quer?taro: PGJEM
26/10/2011 Mata polic?as, el arma mortal decomisada a El Hongo
26/10/2011 El Hongo recurri? al bistur? para evadir a las autoridades
27 de octubre 2011 08:09




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27 de octubre 2011
08:09
El c?rtel de los Beltr?n Leyva negoci? con la organizaci?n delictiva de
La Familia Michoacana el control del tr?fico de drogas en el estado de
M?xico.

En una reuni?n que encabez? Arturo Beltr?n Leyva, quien fue uno de los
l?deres de aquella c?lula criminal, ?ste pidi? a La Familia que les
fuera entregado el control del Edomex.

As? lo narra Adri?n Ram?rez Soria, alias "El H" o "El Hongo", l?der del
C?rtel del Centro, quien fue detenido por la Agencia de Seguridad
Estatal y la Procuradur?a General de Justicia de la entidad.

Ram?rez Soria, de 31 a?os de edad, narra en un video que difundieron la
ASE y la PGJEM, que dicha reuni?n form? parte de un pacto que buscaron
ambas organizaciones para evitar la confrontaci?n.

"El H" cuenta que en dicho encuentro las cosas "salieron mal", pues los
representantes de La Familia Michoacana se negaron ante la petici?n de
Arturo Beltr?n Leyva de dejar de secuestrar y extorsionar en el estado
de M?xico.

"No se pact? porque Arturo Beltr?n se para y les dice que se acaban los
secuestros y extorsiones y el encargado de La Familia les dijo que no,
que ?se era su fuerte, que ellos no pod?an dejar de hacer eso y don
Arturo les dijo que ellos no eran secuestradores ni extorsionadores",
narra "El Hongo".

A partir de ese momento se recrudeci? la violencia entre ambas
organizaciones. El propio Ram?rez Soria asegur? que recibi? las ?rdenes
de sacar a La Familia de Ecatepec.

Al respecto, confes? haber asesinado a 26 presuntos integrantes de dicha
c?lula delictiva que operaban en este municipio.
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Message: 38
Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2011 13:03:07 -0500
From: Araceli Santos <santos@stratfor.com>
To: The OS List <os@stratfor.com>
Subject: [OS] US/MEXICO/CT - Mexico's FM says it knows about US agents
in Mexico
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M?xico conoce presencia de agentes de EU: SRE*
http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/notas/804281.html

La canciller Patricia Espinosa afirma que su presencia forma parte de
los distintos esquemas de cooperaci?n bilateral, pero su ubicaci?n y
n?mero es reservado

RELACI?N BILATERAL La canciller Patricia Espinosa y la vocera de
seguridad, Alejandra Sota, en conferencia (Foto: )

Ciudad de M?xico | Mi?rcoles 26 de octubre de 2011
Silvia Otero | El Universal
18:51
Patricia Espinosa, titular de la Secretar?a de Relaciones Exteriores,
se?al? que M?xico conoce la presencia de los agentes de Estados Unidos
en nuestro pa?s, pero su ubicaci?n y n?mero es reservado, dejando en
claro que hay reglas estrictas para su estancia en el pa?s y todo se
realiza con respeto al Estado de Derecho.

En conferencia de prensa conjunta con la vocera del gobierno federal,
Alejandra Sota, ambas funcionarias sostuvieron que el intercambio de
informaci?n, los trabajos de inteligencia y la cooperaci?n en materia de
seguridad con Estados Unidos se realiza con respeto a la soberan?a
nacional y a las leyes mexicanas.

Las funcionarias fueron cuestionadas sobre informaci?n reciente
difundida por The New York Times de que la agencia antidrogas tiene una
rede informantes para realizar labores de inteligencia contra el
narcotr?fico.

Al respecto, la canciller dijo que la presencia de los agentes
estadounidenses en M?xico forma parte de los distintos esquemas de
cooperaci?n bilateral.

"M?xico conoce la presencia de los agentes", dijo.

Pero existen reglas que se aplican de manera estricta para la estancia
de estos agentes.

Dijo que hay una prohibici?n estricta para que realicen actividades que
solo competen a las fuerzas de seguridad mexicanas.

Sin embargo, rechaz? dar a conocer cu?ntos y en d?nde se encuentran los
agentes estadounidenses, pues dicha informaci?n es reservada.

Destac? que la cooperaci?n que se ha estrechado con Estados Unidos es
necesaria y ?sta se ha ce?ido al marco jur?dico.

Por su parte, Sota reiter? que la cooperaci?n bilateral se hace con
absoluto respeto de la jurisdicci?n de ambos pa?ses as? como de su
soberan?a.


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Message: 39
Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2011 13:27:18 -0500 (CDT)
From: Paulo Gregoire <paulo.gregoire@stratfor.com>
To: The OS List <os@stratfor.com>
Subject: [OS] BOLIVIA/FOOD/ECON - Bolivia Moves to Control Food Prices
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Bolivia Moves to Control Food Prices
http://www.plenglish.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=431795&Itemid=1



La Paz, Oct 27 (Prensa Latina) Bolivia's Central Bank (BCB) assured that food price control defends consumers and may help reduce inflation, predicted at 6% for this year, and protect consumers.

The state-run daily Cambio says the BCB report confirms that its policies fully match the government's security and food sovereignty policies and statements published and outlined in the Annual Report or Monetary Policy Analysis, among other fiscal reports.

Such studies, which also chart national indicators, reflect the price policies to counteract speculation and contraband that flourished from 2007-2008 and from 2010-2011.
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Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2011 13:35:47 -0500 (CDT)
From: Paulo Gregoire <paulo.gregoire@stratfor.com>
To: The OS List <os@stratfor.com>
Subject: [OS] COLOMBIA/MEXICO/ENERGY - Colombia's Ecopetrol Reports
Oil Find In Gulf Of Mexico
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Colombia's Ecopetrol Reports Oil Find In Gulf Of Mexico





By Darcy Crowe

Published October 27, 2011

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Read more: http://www.foxbusiness.com/industries/2011/10/27/colombias-ecopetrol-reports-oil-find-in-gulf-mexico/#ixzz1c0avcNyO


BOGOTA -( Dow Jones )- Colombia's state-run oil firm Ecopetrol SA (EC, ECOPETROL.BO) said Thursday that it had found oil in an exploratory well in the Gulf of Mexico, the company's first success in that region.

Ecopetrol said that the Logan 1 well showed the presence of oil and that the new studies were being carried out to determine the volume of the discovery. The well, located in the Walker Ridge 969 block, is operated by Norwegian oil and gas company Statoil ASA (STO, STL.OS) while Ecopetrol has a 20% stake in the project.

Ecopetrol has moved in recent years to broaden its exploratory efforts overseas, focusing partly in the Gulf of Mexico. The Colombian firm is present in 112 blocks in that region through partnerships with other large oil firms.

The company is spending $8.5 billion in capital investments this year, with a large share geared at exploration and production. Its target is to increase crude output 12% on a yearly basis.

Ecopetrol's production, without its affiliates, rose to 677,500 barrels a day of oil equivalent in the third quarter, a 13% gain from that quarter of last year, the company said.

Analysts attribute the increased oil output by Ecopetrol to higher recovery rates in mature fields and new projects coming online.

Read more: http://www.foxbusiness.com/industries/2011/10/27/colombias-ecopetrol-reports-oil-find-in-gulf-mexico/#ixzz1c0b3MvOb
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Message: 41
Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2011 14:06:19 -0500 (CDT)
From: Paulo Gregoire <paulo.gregoire@stratfor.com>
To: The OS List <os@stratfor.com>
Subject: [OS] ECUADOR/PERU/GV - Ecuador's foreign minister visits Peru
for bilateral meeting
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Ecuador's foreign minister visits Peru for bilateral meeting

? http://www.andina.com.pe/Ingles/Noticia.aspx?Id=9bGvdFSFAl8=


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Lima, Oct. 27 (ANDINA). Ecuadorian Foreign Minister Ricardo Pati?o visits Peru Thursday to participate in the tenth meeting of the neighborhood bilateral commission to be held in the northern city of Piura, where he hopes to meet with his Peruvian counterpart, Rafael Roncagliolo.

According to Ecuador?s Foreign Ministry, the executive secretary of the commission, in charge of Ecuador, will report on the status of neighborly relations.

In addition, executive director of Peru?s binational plan of development Vicente Rojas will speak about integration programs for the border area, while ministers will sign an agreement.

The Neighborhood Commission comprises 4 Binational Technical Committees (BTC): Border Regime and Rights of People; Social, Cultural and Cooperation Affairs; Facilitation of Trade, Tourism and Investment; as well as Production and Environmental Affairs.

A new meeting of the bilateral ministerial team, headed by the presidents of both countries, is expected to take place on November 17 in Jaen, located in Peru?s Andean region of Cajamarca.

(END) GCO/GCO/PSY/LVT

Paulo Gregoire
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Message: 42
Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2011 14:25:29 -0500
From: Rebecca Keller <rebecca.keller@stratfor.com>
To: os@stratfor.com
Subject: [OS] VENEZUELA - Ex-Baseball Executive Key to Anti-Chavez
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Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2011 15:15:39 -0500
From: Rebecca Keller <rebecca.keller@stratfor.com>
To: os@stratfor.com
Subject: [OS] MEXICO/CT - US says Mexico racetrack has Sinaloa cartel
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Message: 44
Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2011 15:18:45 -0500 (CDT)
From: Paulo Gregoire <paulo.gregoire@stratfor.com>
To: The OS List <os@stratfor.com>
Subject: [OS] COLOMBIA/CT - Colombian police seize 300kg of cocaine in
Cali
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Colombian police seize 300kg of cocaine in Cali


THURSDAY, 27 OCTOBER 2011 13:03

http://www.colombiareports.com/colombia-news/news/20002-colombian-police-seize-300kg-of-cocaine-in-cali.html

Colombian police seized 300 kilograms of pure cocaine, on a bus headed for the central Colombian department of Antioquia, Colombian media reported Thursday.

The drugs were being transported in boxes marked with the logos of international media organizations, representing a new drug trafficking method.

According to the reports, the criminal gangs have allegedly been using the international media logos in order to avoid suspicion and evade controls.

The drugs allegedly belong to the criminal gang led by brothers Javier Antonio and Luis Enrique Calle Serna, better known as "Los Comba."

The cocaine was going to be moved on a tourism bus that would have taken the drugs from Cali in the west Colombian department of Valle del Cauca to Antioquia. Paulo Gregoire
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Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2011 15:23:34 -0500
From: Rebecca Keller <rebecca.keller@stratfor.com>
To: os@stratfor.com
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Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2011 15:38:19 -0500
From: Carlos Lopez Portillo <carlos.lopezportillo@stratfor.com>
To: os@stratfor.com
Subject: [OS] MEXICO/ECON - AHMSA, an important mining and steel
Mexican company, duplicates quarter's profits
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Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2011 16:15:08 -0500
From: Antonio Caracciolo <antonio.caracciolo@stratfor.com>
To: "os >> The OS List" <os@stratfor.com>
Subject: [OS] VENEZUELA/ECON - The president of the Real Estate
Chamber of Venezuela, Aquiles Martini said that there is no respect
for property
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Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2011 16:18:13 -0500
From: Antonio Caracciolo <antonio.caracciolo@stratfor.com>
To: The OS List <os@stratfor.com>
Subject: [OS] VENEZUELA/ENERGY - Petriopiar's oil upgrader suffers
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Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2011 16:19:15 -0500
From: Marc Lanthemann <marc.lanthemann@stratfor.com>
To: The OS List <os@stratfor.com>
Cc: clint Richards <clint.richards@stratfor.com>
Subject: [OS] CALENDAR - BBC Monitoring News Diary for Friday 28
October 2011 - DPRK/RUSSIA/PARAGUAY/JAPAN/AUSTRALIA/SOUTH
AFRICA/BELARUS/ROK/ETHIOPIA/PHILIPPINES/EGYPT/VIETNAM/TAJIKISTAN/NEW
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Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2011 16:19:30 -0500
From: Carlos Lopez Portillo <carlos.lopezportillo@stratfor.com>
To: os@stratfor.com
Subject: [OS] MEXICO - Sanctions for corruption to seven thousand
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Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2011 16:19:40 -0500
From: Antonio Caracciolo <antonio.caracciolo@stratfor.com>
To: "os >> The OS List" <os@stratfor.com>
Subject: [OS] VENEZUELA/ECON - Economist Angel Garcia Banchs believes
that in 2012 the Government will need to make adjustments to the
exchange rate if oil prices are between 80 and 100 dollars a barrel
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Message: 52
Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2011 15:54:31 -0500 (CDT)
From: Paulo Gregoire <paulo.gregoire@stratfor.com>
To: The OS List <os@stratfor.com>
Subject: [OS] COLOMBIA/CT/GV - 'Face to face' with Santos could end
university strike: Students
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YOU ARE HERE: NEWS NEWS 'FACE TO FACE' WITH SANTOS COULD END UNIVERSITY STRIKE: STUDENTS








'Face to face' with Santos could end university strike: Students


THURSDAY, 27 OCTOBER 2011 13:43










http://www.colombiareports.com/colombia-news/news/20003-face-to-face-with-santos-could-end-university-strike-students.html


A "face to face" with President Juan Manuel Santos could lead to the end of the public university strikes, but the government still must withdraw the proposed reform of higher education before dialogue can continue, a student representative announced on Thursday.

According to newspaper El Tiempo , the spokespeople of the students in Congress offered Santos the opportunity to have a discussion scheduled by the students on November 3.

"We want to open the debate, but there will not be a negotiation with the government while they do not withdraw the proposal, we need the construction of education that the nation really needs," said Sergio Fernandez, the spokesman of the Colombian Organization of Students.

President Juan Manuel Santos recently responded to the new wave of student protests , arguing that public deliberation about education reform should take place in Congress and not in the streets.

"We know we can rely on large majorities in Congress, and the proposal could be approved without debate... the natural setting of the discussion is not only in Congress.

According to the student representatives, "this isn't the generation that will watch the public university die."










Paulo Gregoire
Latin America Monitor
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Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2011 16:13:36 -0500
From: Antonio Caracciolo <antonio.caracciolo@stratfor.com>
To: "os >> The OS List" <os@stratfor.com>
Subject: [OS] VENEZUELA/ECON/ENERGY - The National Executive
authorized a loan of 67 million bolivars in order to raise by more
than 50% the production capacity of the quarries of Empresa Arag?e?a
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Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2011 16:13:37 -0500
From: Carlos Lopez Portillo <carlos.lopezportillo@stratfor.com>
To: os@stratfor.com
Subject: [OS] MEXICO - Secretary of Interior (Segob) says that
impunity is not the norm in Mexico
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Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2011 16:31:04 -0500
From: Antonio Caracciolo <antonio.caracciolo@stratfor.com>
To: "os >> The OS List" <os@stratfor.com>
Subject: [OS] VENEZUELA/ECON - Chavez: "Venezuela prepares itself to
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Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2011 16:06:25 -0500
From: Carlos Lopez Portillo <carlos.lopezportillo@stratfor.com>
To: os@stratfor.com
Subject: [OS] MEXICO/US/CT - Texas increases surveillance in Mexico's
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Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2011 16:08:59 -0500
From: Carlos Lopez Portillo <carlos.lopezportillo@stratfor.com>
To: os@stratfor.com
Subject: [OS] MEXICO/CT - Navy dismantles financial Zeta's network
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Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2011 16:10:14 -0500
From: Antonio Caracciolo <antonio.caracciolo@stratfor.com>
To: "os >> The OS List" <os@stratfor.com>
Subject: [OS] VENEZUELA - Executive Secretary of the MUD, Ram?n
Guillermo Aveledo, said that the increase of 50% in the FAN salaries
is an attempt to divide civilians and the military
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Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2011 16:17:13 -0500
From: Carlos Lopez Portillo <carlos.lopezportillo@stratfor.com>
To: os@stratfor.com
Subject: [OS] MEXICO - Televisa owner, Emilio Azcarraga, asks for
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Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2011 16:16:28 -0500
From: Antonio Caracciolo <antonio.caracciolo@stratfor.com>
To: "os >> The OS List" <os@stratfor.com>
Subject: [OS] VENEZUELA/ECON - President Chavez authorizes price rise
for cement. Prices were constant since 2003
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Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2011 16:24:02 -0500
From: Carlos Lopez Portillo <carlos.lopezportillo@stratfor.com>
To: os@stratfor.com
Subject: [OS] MEXICO - PRD calls to increase 1000 million pesos for
support to immigrants in 2012
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Message: 62
Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2011 16:11:34 -0500
From: Antonio Caracciolo <antonio.caracciolo@stratfor.com>
To: The OS List <os@stratfor.com>
Subject: [OS] VENEZUELA - AD unanimously decides to support the
candidature of Pablo P?rez
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Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2011 16:23:56 -0500
From: Antonio Caracciolo <antonio.caracciolo@stratfor.com>
To: "os >> The OS List" <os@stratfor.com>
Subject: [OS] VENEZUELA/ECON - Representatives of private clinics and
of the Agency for Health Alliance which include 10 government entities
will have on November 2nd a negotiating table on rates of hospital
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Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2011 16:29:05 -0500
From: Carlos Lopez Portillo <carlos.lopezportillo@stratfor.com>
To: os@stratfor.com
Subject: [OS] MEXICO - Legislators discuss mandate revocation in the
Lower Chamber
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Message: 65
Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2011 16:40:31 -0500
From: Carlos Lopez Portillo <carlos.lopezportillo@stratfor.com>
To: os@stratfor.com
Subject: [OS] MEXICO/US/CT - California, the main supplier of
ammunition for Mexican cartels: InSight Crime
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Message: 66
Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2011 16:38:05 -0500
From: Carlos Lopez Portillo <carlos.lopezportillo@stratfor.com>
To: os@stratfor.com
Subject: [OS] MEXICO/US/CT - Cooperation between Mexico and DEA
increased since Fox's administration: Alejandra Sota, government
spokeswoman
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Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2011 16:32:20 -0500
From: Carlos Lopez Portillo <carlos.lopezportillo@stratfor.com>
To: os@stratfor.com
Subject: [OS] MEXICO/CT - Sustained increase in high-impact crimes in
Mexico
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Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2011 16:44:10 -0500
From: Antonio Caracciolo <antonio.caracciolo@stratfor.com>
To: The OS List <os@stratfor.com>
Subject: [OS] Fwd: [latam] Venezuela Brief 111027
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Message: 69
Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2011 16:26:29 -0500
From: Carlos Lopez Portillo <carlos.lopezportillo@stratfor.com>
To: os@stratfor.com
Subject: [OS] MEXICO/ENERGY - Society movement searching for 2 million
firms to stop light increases
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Message: 70
Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2011 16:43:15 -0500
From: Carlos Lopez Portillo <carlos.lopezportillo@stratfor.com>
To: os@stratfor.com
Subject: [OS] MEXICO/CT - Authorities can be arming the Mexican
cartels: Expert
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Message: 71
Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2011 16:26:01 -0500
From: Antonio Caracciolo <antonio.caracciolo@stratfor.com>
To: "os >> The OS List" <os@stratfor.com>
Subject: [OS] VENEZUELA/ECON - Hugo Chavez signed the decree of
temporary occupation of Orpin Farma laboratory, located in Ciudad
Industrial Guarenas
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Message: 72
Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2011 09:04:50 +0900
From: Clint Richards <clint.richards@stratfor.com>
To: The OS List <os@stratfor.com>
Subject: [OS] MEXICO/US/CT/MIL - ?El Chapo,? wanted drug lord, grows
stronger in Mexico?s Sierra Madre
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Interesting backgrounder on el chapo that gives some insight into the
kind of assets being used to capture him. It's a 3 page article but I
can only get the 1st w/o a sub - CR

*?El Chapo,? wanted drug lord, grows stronger in Mexico?s Sierra Madre*
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/americas/el-chapo-wanted-drug-lord-grows-stronger-in-mexicos-sierra-madre/2011/10/14/gIQAfcUDNM_story.html
By William Booth and Nick Miroff, Friday, October 28, 7:52 AM

SANTIAGO DE LOS CABALLEROS, Mexico ? He was the barefoot son of a
peasant farmer who became one of the richest moguls in the world, a
billionaire entrepreneur with a third-grade education. He controls a
vast drug distribution empire that spans six continents, but he still
carries his own AK-47. He is generous and feared, a mass murderer and a
folk hero. He is a ghost who has become a legend.

In the fifth year of a terrible war in Mexico that has exhausted the
military, consumed the presidency of Felipe Calderon and left more than
43,000 dead in drug violence, Joaquin ?El Chapo? Guzman, the founder of
the Sinaloa cartel, reigns supreme.

His pursuers compare him to Al Capone, Butch Cassidy or Osama bin Laden.
But none of these gets it quite right. Guzman is the single largest
supplier of illegal drugs to the United States, and though he is in
hiding, he is not on the run.

Ten years after he escaped from prison in a laundry basket on the eve of
his extradition to the United States, Chapo is more powerful than ever:
His networks are deeper, his territory is expanding, and his supply of
cocaine, marijuana, heroin and methamphetamine are essentially
undiminished, according to U.S. and Mexican agents and officials, who
were grinding their teeth at the news that Guzman?s 22-year-old beauty
queen wife was able to travel to a Los Angeles County hospital in
August, where she gave birth to healthy twins.

Calderon, reportedly desperate to nail his nemesis and prove himself a
winning commander in chief in an increasingly unpopular war that may
cost his party the presidency, has raised the stakes to demand that
Chapo be taken down before he leaves office next year.

As a sign of the intensified effort, Mexico now operates at least three
full-time capture-kill units solely dedicated to ending the reign of
Guzman, according to officials with direct knowledge of the groups.
These special operations teams ? one each in the Mexican army, navy and
federal police ? have been vetted to work alongside agents with the U.S.
Drug Enforcement Administration, who have supplied detailed intelligence
about Guzman?s possible locations.

Calderon and his top law enforcement officials say they have come close
to getting Guzman ? within an hour or two ? several times in the past
two years but never quite close enough.

Despite such assertions, Calderon has been dogged by perceptions among
many Mexicans that his administration, especially his military, has gone
easy on Guzman?s cartel, or even that it?s deliberately helping him,
while it goes after his biggest rivals, Los Zetas, a rising criminal
power in the country.

?He?s protected by the government,? said Javier Valdez, a top editor of
the Sinaloa-based journal Rio Doce, who said he doesn?t think any urgent
effort is underway to find Guzman.

Elusive ?Lord of the Mountains?

Guzman, one of the most wanted criminals in North America, has proven
impossible to catch ? even as U.S. drones penetrate Mexican airspace,
and Mexican security forces, supplied with sophisticated U.S.
eavesdropping equipment, scan the ether for the sound of his encrypted
voice. Chapo?s pursuers suspect he is most likely in a mountain
stronghold here in the Sierra Madre range of northwest Mexico, a
hardscrabble backwater of Mexican hillbillies that gives new meaning to
the words ?poor? and ?remote.?

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Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2011 09:12:29 +0900
From: Clint Richards <clint.richards@stratfor.com>
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Subject: [OS] BRAZIL/CT/ENERGY - Indigenous campaigners occupy Belo
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*Indigenous campaigners occupy Belo Monte Amazon dam*
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-15487852
28 October 2011 Last updated at 00:22

Hundreds of campaigners have occupied the construction site of the Belo
Monte dam project in the Brazilian Amazon.

They are demanding that work on the multi-billion dollar dam be stopped,
arguing that it would displace thousands of indigenous people and damage
the environment.

The protesters, many of them members of indigenous groups, said they
would stay at the site indefinitely.

The government says the project is crucial to meeting energy needs.

The Indian Missionary Council, an organisation backed by the Catholic
Church, said more than 600 Indians, fishermen and locals had occupied
the site and the road leading to it.

A spokesman for the Council told the AFP news agency the occupation was
peaceful and there had been no incidents.

The Council demanded the government send representatives to negotiate
with the indigenous groups, who they say would suffer from the building
of the dam.

"In the face of the government's intransigence and its insistence on
disrespecting us, we now occupy the Belo Monte construction site and
block access to it from the Transamazon highway," the Council stated on
its website.

The BBC's Paulo Cabral in Sao Paulo says a local judge has told the
protesters to leave the site or face a $300 (?185) daily fine.

Legal battle

Building work on the dam was halted last month after a judge ruled
against it on environmental grounds, but the construction of
accommodation blocks for the project's workers was allowed to continue.

Judge Carlos Castro Martins barred any work that would interfere with
the natural flow of the Xingu river.

He ruled in favour of a fisheries group which argued that the Belo Monte
dam would affect local fish stocks and could harm indigenous families
who make a living from fishing.

Judge Martins barred the Norte Energia company behind the project from
"building a port, using explosives, installing dikes, building canals
and any other infrastructure work that would interfere with the natural
flow of the Xingu river, thereby affecting local fish stocks".

He said the building of canals and dykes could have negative
repercussions for river communities living off small-scale fishing.

The consortium behind the project is expected to appeal against the
decision.

In June, the Brazilian environment agency backed the construction,
dismissing concerns by environmentalists and indigenous groups who argue
that it will harm the world's largest tropical rainforest and displace
tens of thousands of people.

The agency, Ibama, said the dam had been subjected to "robust analysis"
of its impact on the environment.

The 11,000-megawatt dam would be the third biggest in the world - after
the Three Gorges in China and Itaipu, which is jointly run by Brazil and
Paraguay.

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Subject: [OS] BRAZIL/LATAM/AFRICA/CT - Trans-border drug ring busted
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Message: 77
Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2011 10:04:29 +0900
From: Clint Richards <clint.richards@stratfor.com>
To: The OS List <os@stratfor.com>
Subject: [OS] ARGENTINA/ECON/GV - Argentina Central Bank Toughens
Foreign Exchange Rules Amid Capital Flight
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*Argentina Central Bank Toughens Foreign Exchange Rules Amid Capital Flight*
Q
By Joshua Goodman - Oct 28, 2011 9:13 AM GMT+0900
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-10-27/argentina-central-bank-toughens-foreign-exchange-rules-amid-capital-flight.html

Argentina's central bank announced new restrictions on foreign currency
purchases as President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner struggles to stem
accelerating capital flight in South America's second-biggest economy.

The new rules require foreign investors, including individuals, to
register foreign currency inflows tied to investments in property and
other local assets. Those that fail to register the funds brought into
the country will need to seek the central bank's permission before
repatriating any proceeds, the bank said in a statement.

In addition, Argentines purchasing more than $250,000 per calendar year
will need to demonstrate the origin of the funds in a bid to clamp down
on illegal currency transactions, the bank said. Companies will be
allowed to purchase dollars and other foreign currencies at a level
compatible with their net worth excluding investments in assets abroad,
stakes in other local firms, and dollar deposits in Argentine banks and
adjusted for the amount of dividends, earnings and currency transactions
in a given financial quarter.

The new restrictions come a day after Argentina ordered oil, gas and
mining companies to repatriate all future export revenue. Fernandez, in
her first move since winning re-election Oct. 23, changed a 2002 decree
requiring companies such as Repsol YPF SA, Total SA and Petroleo
Brasileiro SA to keep at least 30 percent of their export revenue in the
country.
Falling Investment

Foreign direct investment in Argentina fell to $2.4 billion from $3.5
billion in the first six months of the year, while increasing 54 percent
to $83 billion for Latin America as a whole, according to a United
Nations report published this week. Faced with inflation economists
estimate at 24 percent, Argentines pulled $9.8 billion out of the
economy in the first half of this year, compared with $11.4 billion in
all of 2010.

Capital flight prompted the central bank to sell $2.7 billion of
reserves in August and September to curb a slump in the peso, which has
weakened 6 percent this year. Reserves have fallen to $47.8 billion this
year from a record $52.6 billion while central banks in Brazil, Mexico
and Chile build up savings.

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Global Monitor
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Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2011 21:28:18 -0500
From: Renato Whitaker <renato.whitaker@stratfor.com>
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Subject: [OS] COLOMBIA/CT - Report: Colombia 5th most dangerous place
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Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2011 12:50:31 +0900
From: Clint Richards <clint.richards@stratfor.com>
To: The OS List <os@stratfor.com>
Subject: [OS] MEXICO/US/CT - Mexico nabs drug cartel finance operator,
2 Americans with $950, 000
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*Mexico nabs drug cartel finance operator, 2 Americans with $950,000*
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/americas/mexico-nabs-drug-cartel-finance-operator-2-americans-with-950000/2011/10/27/gIQA1xJONM_story.html
By Associated Press, Updated: Friday, October 28, 10:56 AM

MONTERREY, Mexico --- Mexican authorities said Thursday they have
detained a woman who allegedly worked as a top financial operator for
the Zetas drug cartel, and collared two Americans with $950,000 in cash
in a separate bust.

Mexican marines detained alleged Zetas "accountant" Carmen del Consuelo
Saenz two days ago in the Gulf coast state of Veracruz, along 10 other
alleged Zetas members.

Saenz, 29, was allegedly in charge of receiving proceeds from drug
sales, pirated goods, kidnappings and extortions in five southern states
of Mexico, said Navy spokesman Jose Luis Vergara.

Saenz used the illicit proceeds to bribe authorities and meet the drug
gang's payroll, Vergara said.

The Zetas are a hyper-violent drug cartel that is based along Mexico's
Gulf coast, but who have recently expanded further into the interior of
the country.

In a separate bust at an airport just west of Mexico City, Mexican
federal police said Thursday they had detained two American men for
attempting to fly out of Mexico with $950,000 in undeclared cash in a
suitcase.

The men's luggage was searched Monday at an airport in Toluca, just
outside of Mexico City, as they prepared to board a private jet to the
United States. Police said the men appeared nervous when questioned, and
background checks revealed one of the men had served a prison sentence
for drug-related offenses.

Federal police said the men could not prove the licit origin of the
money, and were turned over to prosecutors pending possible charges.

The U.S. Embassy in Mexico City did not immediately respond to requests
to confirm the men's' nationality, names or hometowns.

Also Thursday, the U.S. Treasury Department announced it is imposing
sanctions on the owner of a Mexican racetrack and car dealership for
alleged involvement with the Sinaloa drug cartel.

The Treasury Department said it has designated Martin Guadencio Avendano
and his two brothers as foreign drug traffickers under the Kingpin Act.
That prohibits people in the U.S. from conducting businesses with them
and freezes their U.S. assets.

The department said the 42-year-old Avendano launders money for the
cartel's co-leader, Ismael Zambada. The other leader is Joaquin Guzman,
known as "El Chapo." Both are fugitive.

Treasury says Avendano has a car dealership in Ensenada and a racetrack
in Culiacan. There was no response to an e-mail sent to the track.

Also Thursday, the mayor of an upscale suburb of the northern city of
Monterrey said he was going to keep the municipal police chief and the
director of the municipal police monitoring center in their jobs, even
though they had failed to pass background and security tests.

Mayor Mauricio Fernandez Garza of the suburb of San Pedro Garza Garcia
said he will ask federal authorities to allow the two to take the tests
again, in hopes they would pass.

"The progress San Pedro is making in public safety is extraordinary ...
the people who I have in charge are doing a good job," Fernandez Garza said.

Federal authorities have said that all those who fail the vetting
process should be fired, but left open the possibility that some might
be reassigned.

On Wednesday, Mexico's National Public Safety System reported that
almost one-third of 63,436 low-ranking Mexican police officers tested so
far have failed background and security checks.

Almost one-quarter of the police chiefs and top commanders tested so far
have also failed, as had about 10 percent of midlevel police commanders
and officers.

On Thursday, the Defense Department said soldiers in the northern state
of San Luis Potosi detained two local police officers from the city of
Cardenas with 39 doses of cocaine in their possession; a dose in Mexico
is usually measured as a gram.

The soldiers then detained the city's police chief and a police
commander, who allegedly gave orders to the police officers to commit
illegal acts; documents linking them to a drug cartel were found in the
raid, the army reported.

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Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2011 13:17:58 +0900
From: Clint Richards <clint.richards@stratfor.com>
To: The OS List <os@stratfor.com>
Subject: [OS] CHINA/CUBA/MIL - Senior Chinese military official visits
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*Senior Chinese military official visits Cuban military complex*
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/china/2011-10/28/c_131217460.htm
English.news.cn 2011-10-28 10:56:22 FeedbackPrintRSS

HAVANA, Oct. 27 (Xinhua) -- Visiting Vice Chairman of China's Central
Military Commission Guo Boxiong on Thursday visited a Cuban military
complex near Havana.

The senior Chinese military official was welcomed by Alvaro Lopez Miera,
vice minister and chief of the General Staff of the Cuban Revolutionary
Armed Forces.

Accompanied by General Rafael Ignacio Borja, chief of the Great Unit of
the Combative Glory Sanguily's Rescue complex, Guo inspected the troops
and visited communications classrooms and training facilities.

The senior Chinese military official, who arrived here Tuesday for a
five-day goodwill visit, is also scheduled to visit military education
centers.

On Wednesday, Guo met with General Leopoldo Cintra Frias, Cuba's first
deputy minister of the Revolutionary Armed Forces, and the two agreed to
boost bilateral military ties on the basis of the decades-old friendship
and solidarity between the two peoples and countries.

After his trip to Cuba, Guo will head for Columbia and Peru.

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Subject: [OS] BRAZIL/GERMANY/ECON/HEALTH - ThyssenKrupp sues
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Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2011 06:11:24 -0500 (CDT)
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Subject: [OS] CHILE/GV - Chile declares red alert due to volcanic
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Chile declares red alert due to volcanic activity in South


THURSDAY, 27 OCTOBER 2011 19:42 WRITTEN BY MARIANA PENAFORTE
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http://www.santiagotimes.cl/chile/environment/22784-chile-declares-red-alert-due-to-volcanic-activity-in-south
At least 119 people have evacuated the area surrounding the Ays?n Region?s Hudson volcano.

The Hudson volcano in southern Chile?s Ays?n Region became increasingly active this week, forcing 119 people in the area to evacuate. On Wednesday afternoon authorities decreed a red alert in the provinces of Ays?n, Chile Chico and R?o Ib??ez and instructed all people living within a radius of 28 miles of the volcano to evacuate.
The volcanic activity began late Tuesday and gradually increased throughout Wednesday, emitting steam and gases. By Thursday afternoon, it had left a plume over a mile and a half high. The volcanic activity cannot yet be declared an eruption yet, since there has been no release of magma or pyroclastic material.

The National Geology and Mining Service (Sernageomin) defines a red alert as ?the imminence of a greater eruption in hours or days.? Sernageomin Director Enrique Valdivieso conducted a flyover with Ays?n Regional Governor Pilar Cuevas before declaring the alert.

During the flight around the six-mile diameter crater they observed a white gas column, caused by melted snow and ash that was visible from Puerto Ib??ez. The intense volcanic activity was accompanied by more than 900 tremors in the region, but most of them were impossible to detect.

Two people living in very isolated holdouts refused to evacuate, and 11 other workers who initially remained unreachable were found by the regional superintendency and transported to safe areas on Thursday afternoon.

The Ays?n regional governor is closely watching the rising water levels in local rivers, which could flood as they approach homes and villas.

?There are three fissures in the Hudson volcano, which then merge into one big column of smoke. But for now, our main concern is flooding of the rivers, specifically the Huemules River," Cuevas said.

In modern times, the Hudson volcano has tended to erupt every 20 years. Both the eruption in August 1971 and the second and last eruption, in August 1991, left disastrous consequences. At the time, the plume from the eruption reached six miles high and left a ash layer that covered fields, killing animals and affecting about 85,000 head of cattle. Rivers were blocked, roads were cut off and several roofs collapsed. Area residents reportedly suffered eye irritations and respiratory problems.

This is not Chile?s first encounter with volcanic activity this year. One of the largest eruptions in recent years occurred in the Puyehue-Cord?n Caulle Volcanic Complex, also in southern Chile. The eruption, which began in June 2011 and led to the evacuation of thousands of people on both sides of the Chilean-Argentine border.

Five months later, the area is still on red alert and local airlines continue to suspend flights occasionally to southern airports in Puerto Montt and Punta Arenas due to spewing ash from Puyehue-Cord?n Caulle. Many tourist operators blame the extensive ash for ruining the 2011 winter ski season at the Argentine resort town of Bariloche.

By Mariana Penaforte (editor@santiagotimes.cl) Paulo Gregoire
Latin America Monitor
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Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2011 06:15:34 -0500 (CDT)
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Subject: [OS] CHILE/MINING/GV - Indigenous Chileans take mining giant
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Indigenous Chileans take mining giant to international court


THURSDAY, 27 OCTOBER 2011 19:24 WRITTEN BY JOE HINCHLIFFE
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http://www.santiagotimes.cl/chile/human-rights-a-law/22788-indigenous-chileans-take-mining-giant-to-international-court


Chile to face two different accusations of human rights abuses on the same day.

The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights will begin a trial on Friday to determine if a controversial mine on the ancestral land of Chile?s indigenous Diaguita community violates their fundamental human rights, as established under the American Convention on Human Rights.
The case relates to mining giant Barrick Gold?s Pascua Lama project -- already in the early phases of production -- that stretches across the Andean border between Chile and Argentina.

Representatives of the indigenous community of Huasco Alto in Chile?s northern Atacama Region submitted the plea, along with a swath of reports detailing the potential negative effects of the mine on the indigenous community.

The reports also detailed concerns over the impact that heavy chemicals used in the extraction process, such as cyanide, will have on glaciers that surround the mine and the rivers of the Huasco valley that they feed.

In drafting the plea the Diaguita community received legal advice from Nancy Y??ez, co-director of Observatorio Ciudadano, a Chilean NGO that protects indigenous rights.

?Rights are not only laid down in this [Chilean] body of law, but also in the Indigenous Act, on the basis of the environmental sustainability and on Convention 169 [of the International Labor Organization, which Chile has ratified],? said the lawyer.

Y??ez criticized the government for green-lighting the project without a proper assessment of its impact.

?We are seeing an irresponsible attitude on the part of the State which has effectively argued that the only path is to assure that this project is executed, without considering the good of the community and the obligation of the state, much less the public interest.?

Community leader Sergio Campusano accused Barrick Gold of an international campaign that depicts the community in a folkloric manner, and portrays the community as being in favor of the project.

Campusano said that the community had been divided over the issue.

"They [Barrick Gold] have everything: money, trucks, training, travel. They have studied us well and know what the basic needs of people living in Huasco Alto are and they use them,? he said.

He also criticized the policy of local governments in dealing with the dislocation of people caused by the project.

?Many have considered selling their properties to move to La Serena, Copiapo and Vallenar,? said Campusano, referring to other northern cities. ?There are people who have left their jobs on farms and are living on subsidies that are given to them by the municipality. The people are all subsidized, so [they think] why go to work??

Campusano was critical of the fact that the Diaguita community has been forced to seek justice outside of Chile?s tribunal system.

"We hope that justice is done, as we could not find it in Chile? he said. ?But we will not be quiet, we will continue to denounce what is happening in Huasco Alto.?

The Human Rights Commission will hold another hearing from a Chilean human rights organization on the same day, as the Institute for Equality will raise concerns about police violence exercised during the last few months of the student protests in Chile.

The protests have been occurring for nearly six months now, drawing crowds of hundreds of thousands across the country and becoming the nation?s most debated political issue.

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Message: 91
Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2011 06:27:39 -0500 (CDT)
From: Paulo Gregoire <paulo.gregoire@stratfor.com>
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Subject: [OS] BOLIVIA/CT/GV - Coca growers and indigenous groups from
Cochabamba demand the road construction and an explanation from the
leader of indigenous organization Cidob, Adolfo Chavez, and deputy
Pedro Nuni to justify the la w that protects Tipnis
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En Chapare se movilizan a favor de ruta por Tipnis


Por Redacci?n Central | - Los Tiempos - 28/10/2011



http://www.lostiempos.com/diario/actualidad/economia/20111028/en-chapare-se-movilizan-a-favor-de-ruta-por-tipnis_147310_304783.html

El secretario ejecutivo de la Federaci?n de cocaleros del Tr?pico, Mario Castillo, inform? ayer la realizaci?n de un ampliado de emergencia en Lauca ? ?hoy a las 10:00? de las seis federaciones para evaluar el tema de la carretera Villa Tunari-San Ignacio de Moxos, y la Federaci?n de Campesinos, af?n al Gobierno, se declar? en emergencia.





Ambos sectores exigen la construcci?n de la ruta Villa Tunari-San Ignacio de Moxos a trav?s del Tipnis.





Por el mismo motivo, ind?genas del tr?pico de Cochabamba salieron de sus comunidades hasta el sector de El Castillo para instalar una vigilia.





Por otra parte, el diario brasile?o Valor Econ?mico inform? ayer que Brasil est? dispuesto a financiar el nuevo tramo, pero primero Bolivia debe resolver problemas t?cnicos, ambientales y pol?ticos.





?No s?lo las Seis Federaciones del tr?pico de Cochabamba tienen que unificarse, sino los sindicatos de transporte libre y federado, las 16 provincias del departamento y los comit?s c?vicos. Parece que nos estamos haciendo rebasar. Tenemos que apoyar, el camino se construye. No podemos permitir que perjudiquen algunas cuantas personas?, dijo el dirigente cocalero Castillo.





Los ind?genas que instalaron la vigilia exigen una explicaci?n de los l?deres Adolfo Ch?vez, Pedro Nuni, Fernando Vargas y Rosa Chao, quienes presidieron la marcha hacia La Paz, para que justifiquen la Ley de Protecci?n del Tipnis que declara el territorio como ?intangible?.





El cacique mayor del Consejo Ind?gena del Sur (Conisur), Gumercindo Pradel, advirti? ayer que si el diputado Pedro Nuni y el presidente de la Confederaci?n de Pueblos Ind?genas de Bolivia (Cidob), Adolfo Ch?vez, no llegan hasta las 14:00 de hoy, inmediatamente bloquear?n la carretera hacia Santa Cruz y en una reuni?n definir?n m?s medidas para exigir la modificaci?n de la norma y viabilizar la construcci?n de la carretera por el Territorio Ind?gena y Parque Nacional Isiboro S?cure (Tipnis).





En tanto, Rosa Chao, presidenta de la Coordinadora de Pueblos Ind?genas del Tr?pico de Cochabamba (Cpitco), dijo que no sab?a de la invitaci?n, por lo que no asistir? a la reuni?n pero s? ingresar? hasta su comunidad para informar sobre los resultados de la marcha.





Mientras que el sector campesino de Cochabamba tambi?n se declar? en estado de emergencia y convoc? a un ampliado urgente despu?s de la fiesta de Todos Santos, para evaluar la situaci?n, apoyar el pedido y las medidas de presi?n de los ind?genas y cocaleros de Chapare.





El ejecutivo de la Federaci?n de Campesinos de Cochabamba, Manuel Mamani, dijo que algunas instituciones o t?cnicos ?han hecho equivocar a los ind?genas? al declarar el Tipnis como intangible. Asegur? que los dirigentes que apoyaron la ley corta ?se van a arrepentir? porque esto significa la prohibici?n de siembras, chaqueos o cualquier actividad dentro del Parque.

No asistir?n





La presidenta de la Confederaci?n Nacional de Mujeres Ind?genas de Bolivia (Cnamib), Justa Cabrera, dijo que los ind?genas del Conisur est?n en su derecho de asumir cualquier medida.





Dijo que no asistir?n a ninguna convocatoria porque ?no tienen que rendir ninguna cuenta. Nosotros somos independientes y soberanos?. Adem?s acus? a los ind?genas del Chapare de apoyar la construcci?n de la carretera porque quieren seguir sembrando coca.





El asamble?sta departamental por el pueblo Yuqui, Abel Yaira, dijo que las comunidades ind?genas est?n divididas por la construcci?n de la carretera porque muchos rechazan esta v?a mientras que otros est?n de acuerdo. Paulo Gregoire
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Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2011 12:44:31 +0100
From: Benjamin Preisler <ben.preisler@stratfor.com>
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Subject: [OS] AFGHANISTAN/LATAM/EAST ASIA/MESA - Full text of joint
communique of US-South Korea security meeting on 28 October -
US/HAITI/DPRK/AFGHANISTAN/LEBANON/ROK/IRAQ
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Message: 93
Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2011 06:49:28 -0500 (CDT)
From: Paulo Gregoire <paulo.gregoire@stratfor.com>
To: The OS List <os@stratfor.com>
Subject: [OS] CHILE/CT/GV - President Pinera contacted opposition
Congressmen for an education agreement
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Pi?era contacta a parlamentarios de oposici?n por acuerdo en Educaci?n



http://diario.latercera.com/2011/10/28/01/contenido/pais/31-88446-9-pinera-contacta-a-parlamentarios-de--oposicion-por-acuerdo-en-educacion.shtml

VIERNES 28 DE OCTUBRE DE 2011

En conversaciones privadas, Mandatario ha planteado su preocupaci?n por la extensi?n del conflicto estudiantil.

El conflicto educacional, que amenaza ahora con entrabar la discusi?n del Presupuesto 2012, fue el tema central de la conversaci?n a puertas cerradas que el Presidente Sebasti?n Pi?era sostuvo, el viernes pasado, con el vicepresidente del Senado, Juan Pablo Letelier (PS).

El parlamentario socialista, quien en las semanas previas hab?a jugado un papel clave para intentar acercar posturas entre el gobierno y los dirigentes estudiantiles, concurri? ese d?a a La Moneda, junto a representantes de la Unicef y organizaciones sociales, para pedirle el patrocinio a una reforma sobre protecci?n de los derechos del ni?o.

Tras la cita, sin embargo, Pi?era le pidi? reunirse en privado. Seg?n fuentes de gobierno, en la conversaci?n, el Mandatario le hizo ver su preocupaci?n por la extensi?n y magnitud que ha alcanzado el conflicto.

"Al Presidente le interesa que se encauce el debate", dijo ayer a La Tercera Letelier, aunque advirti? que no revelar?a detalles de su conversaci?n con el Mandatario.

El senador PS, sin embargo, no era el primer parlamentario opositor con que Pi?era abordaba la posibilidad de un acuerdo en educaci?n. D?as antes, el Presidente -que esta semana dio se?ales p?blicas de apertura para aumentar los recursos comprometidos en el Presupuesto- hab?a conversado tambi?n sobre el tema con el jefe de senadores DC, Andr?s Zald?var.

Aprovechando una actividad p?blica, en la que ambos coincidieron, el Mandatario se acerc? al parlamentario falangista, para discutir los alcances de un documento con propuestas que ?ste le hab?a hecho llegar poco antes.

En dicha conversaci?n, el Presidente plante? la necesidad de que la oposici?n se abra a firmar un acuerdo que permita darle una salida al conflicto. "Conversamos sobre la base del documento. El Presidente me hizo ver que compart?a mi preocupaci?n por la extensi?n de esta crisis", dijo ayer el senador.

Fuentes de La Moneda aseguran que el Mandatario ha decidido asumir un rol activo, para tratar de lograr un acuerdo pol?tico que, junto con asegurar la aprobaci?n del Presupuesto, permita descomprimir el conflicto educacional. Por ello, afirman, ha sostenido conversaciones privadas no s?lo con Letelier y Zald?var, sino tambi?n con varios otros parlamentarios, tanto de oposici?n como del oficialismo.

Precisamente, en esa l?nea, Pi?era ha aprovechado la gira que realiza por Paraguay y Uruguay, para abordar el tema con los legisladores que integran la delegaci?n, especialmente, con el jefe de los diputados PPD y miembro de la Comisi?n de Presupuesto, Pepe Auth.

En dichas conversaciones, el Mandatario ha hecho ver que si bien su gobierno est? dispuesto a buscar un acuerdo, la oposici?n no puede pretender que asuma toda la responsabilidad de una crisis arrastrada por d?cadas.

Esa misma idea la expres? ayer, en un encuentro con empresarios uruguayos en el Club de Golf de Montevideo. "No me parece pedirle a un gobierno que en un a?o resuelva problemas que se arrastran durante d?cadas, lo que s? me parece razonable es un acuerdo, que lo vamos a buscar en el Congreso", dijo el Gobernante, quien desliz? que el posible acuerdo podr?a involucrar medidas para este a?o y dejar otras en varios a?os.

"Es imposible que todos los problemas puedan enfrentarse aqu?, ahora, para todos y siempre", agreg? Pi?era.

Desde la Concertaci?n se?alan que, en los acercamientos con el Mandatario, han puesto sobre la mesa alrededor de cinco puntos y han sugerido que la Ley de Presupuesto sea aprovechada por el gobierno para abrirse a negociar.

Uno de los preacuerdos b?sicos ser?a llegar a un 60% en la cobertura de las becas estudiantiles. A eso se suma el aumento de aportes a las universidades, la accesibilidad a la educaci?n superior y el sistema de acreditaci?n de las casas de estudio.

Dichas ideas ser?n plasmadas en un documento que la Concertaci?n trabaja con el PC y el MAS. Paulo Gregoire
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Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2011 06:53:17 -0500
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Subject: [OS] BRAZIL/ECON - Inflation rises in October, but not as
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Message: 95
Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2011 06:57:24 -0500 (CDT)
From: Paulo Gregoire <paulo.gregoire@stratfor.com>
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Subject: [OS] BOLIVIA/PARAGUAY/LATAM/GV - Bolivian foreign minister,
David Choquehuanca, will travel to Paraguay today to participate in
the IberianAmerican Summit in Asuncion, President Morales will also
attend the Summit
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Viernes, 28 de Octubre de 2011
Nacional

El Canciller viaja a la Cumbre de Paraguay
http://www.la-razon.com/version.php?ArticleId=140162&EditionId=2698
Evo Morales confirma su participaci?n en el c?nclave de presidentes


El canciller del Estado, David Choquehuanca, viaj? a la XXI Cumbre Iberoamericana de Jefes de Estado y de Gobierno que se realizar? en Asunci?n, Paraguay, a partir de hoy con una reuni?n de ministros de Relaciones Exteriores de los pa?ses asistentes, inform? la Canciller?a boliviana.

Choquehuanca se reunir? con sus colegas como antesala a la Cumbre de Jefes de Estado y de Gobierno a la que ha confirmado su asistencia el mandatario Evo Morales.

En la ceremonia inaugural, programada para horas de la noche, har?n uso de la palabra el secretario general Iberoamericano, Enrique Iglesias; la presidenta de la Rep?blica Argentina, Cristina Fern?ndez, y el gobernante de la Rep?blica del Paraguay, Fernando Lugo. Paulo Gregoire
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Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2011 06:58:40 -0500
From: Renato Whitaker <renato.whitaker@stratfor.com>
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Subject: [OS] BRAZIL/EU/CT/MIL - Army and Feds were to use Super
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Message: 97
Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2011 07:03:09 -0500 (CDT)
From: Paulo Gregoire <paulo.gregoire@stratfor.com>
To: The OS List <os@stratfor.com>
Subject: [OS] BOLIVIA/ENERGY/ECON - Purchase of fuel by the govt this
year has surpassed the govt?s estimates, Bolivia has imported USD 786
million in fuel so far this year
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Edici?n Digital - Viernes, 28 de Octubre de 2011
Econom?a

Compra de combustibles super? lo previsto el 2011
Importaci?n. El valor lleg? a $us 786 millones
La Raz?n - W?lter V?squez - La Paz


http://www.la-razon.com/version.php?ArticleId=140165&EditionId=2698

El Presupuesto General del Estado (PGE) 2011 asign? recursos por un valor de $us 1.002 millones para la compra y subvenci?n de combustibles l?quidos para el mercado interno. El 1 de enero, el presidente Evo Morales estim? que de ese monto se gastar?an ?unos $us 750 millones (74,85%)?.

Datos del Instituto Nacional de Estad?stica (INE) se?alan, hasta el tercer trimestre de la gesti?n, que la importaci?n de combustibles y lubricantes alcanz? un valor de $us 786,02 millones. La cifra, adem?s, registr? un increment? del 73,13% con relaci?n a similar per?odo de la gesti?n anterior, cuando el valor de la internaci?n alcanz? s?lo los $us 454,01 millones.

El 2010, el Estado desembols? $us 666 millones para la importaci?n de combustibles, de los cuales $us 380 millones fueron destinados a la subvenci?n del di?sel y la gasolina. Seg?n un c?lculo del Ministerio de Econom?a y Finanzas P?blicas (MEFP), el 64% de lo erogado el a?o anterior para la compra y el subsidio a los carburantes fue desviado al contrabando ($us 425 millones).

En los ?ltimos seis a?os, el Tesoro General de la Naci?n (TGN) pag? m?s de $us 2.200 millones por la importaci?n de combustibles. El gasto subi? de $us 180 millones el 2005 a $us 666 millones en la gesti?n anterior, seg?n datos oficiales.

Asimismo, el valor de la importaci?n que se alcanz? de enero a septiembre de este a?o ($us 786,02 millones) representa el 15,5% del valor total de la exportaci?n de hidrocarburos del pa?s.

La informaci?n del INE se?ala que el valor de las ventas de hidrocarburos (gas natural y combustibles) lleg? a $us 2.932,53 millones, siendo que el 2010 este monto fue de $us 2.185,61 millones, es decir, un incremento del 34,17%.

Por otro lado, desde el 1 de octubre hasta el 31 diciembre rigen precios hist?ricos para el gas natural de exportaci?n.

El precio del gas boliviano que se exporta a la Argentina es de $us 10,73 por mill?n de BTU (unidades t?rmicas brit?nicas), lo que significa un aumento de 5,32% con relaci?n a los $us 10,20 del tercer trimestre. Asimismo, el gas que se exporta a Brasil tiene un precio de $us 8,68 por mill?n de BTU, un 5,72% superior al registrado hasta septiembre.

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Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2011 07:06:28 -0500
From: Renato Whitaker <renato.whitaker@stratfor.com>
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Message: 99
Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2011 07:08:59 -0500 (CDT)
From: Paulo Gregoire <paulo.gregoire@stratfor.com>
To: The OS List <os@stratfor.com>
Subject: [OS] BOLIVIA/MINING/ECON - Mining companies will generate
around USD 150 million in tax revenues for the govt this year, the
department f Potosi will get the most, around USd 100 million
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Las regal?as mineras de este a?o llegar?n a $us 150 MM
http://www.la-razon.com/version.php?ArticleId=140163&EditionId=2698

Viernes, 28 de Octubre de 2011

Beneficio. El departamento de Potos? recibir? m?s de $us 100 MM
La Raz?n - Willy Chipana - La Paz


El anuncio lo hizo el viceministro de Desarrollo Productivo Minero Metal?rgico, Freddy Beltr?n. Explic? que el resultado que se obtendr? ser? porque este a?o fue bueno en promedio, pese a que en los ?ltimos meses hubo una ca?da en los precios de los minerales en el mercado internacional.

?En el caso de las regal?as estamos seguros de que vamos a superar los 120 millones de d?lares del pasado a?o (2010) y nos vamos a acercar con facilidad a los 150 millones de d?lares (en esta gesti?n)?, afirm? Beltr?n en conferencia de prensa.

Seg?n datos extra?dos de la web del Ministerio de Miner?a y Metalurgia, los sectores de la miner?a estatal, mediana, chica y cooperativa erogaron en regal?as el 2010 $us 120,7 millones y el 2009 $us 82,6 millones (ver infograf?a).

En criterio de Beltr?n, el departamento de Potos? ser? el m?s beneficiado con el aumento de la regal?a minera, porque su Gobernaci?n en el 2012 podr?a recibir m?s de $us 100 millones.

?En el mes de septiembre Potos? alcanz? su meta de regal?a que hab?a calculado al comienzo de este a?o y que era cerca de $us 80 millones, por tanto, es posible que en esta regi?n supere los $us 100 millones este a?o, obviamente ser?a un record hist?rico?, dijo.

Adem?s, los departamentos de La Paz y Oruro tambi?n recibir?n regal?as por ser productores de minerales. En el caso de Santa Cruz y Cochabamba sus regal?as van en aumento, aunque Beltr?n no precis? a cu?nto ascender?an.

Los recursos que recibir?n las gobernaciones y los municipios por concepto de regal?as deber?n ser invertidos en inversi?n p?blica que est? relacionada a la construcci?n de caminos, unidades educativas y centros de salud.

En el caso del Impuesto a las Utilidades de las Empresas (IUE), el viceministro agreg? que no se tienen datos y expres? su esperanza en que la empresa Minera San Crist?bal (MSC) aporte al Estado por este concepto en esta gesti?n m?s de $us 100 millones.

?Es la propia empresa la que va a fijar sus costos, los valores de venta, y por tanto, sus utilidades. Sobre esas utilidades debe depositar el 37,5% al Estado, el a?o pasado fue $us 100 millones y esperamos que la cifra sea algo m?s superior este a?o?, afirm? Beltr?n.

El gerente de Relaciones P?blicas e Institucionales de MSC, Javier Prado, se?al? el 19 de septiembre que durante enero y agosto de este a?o se desembols? por concepto de regal?as en favor del departamento de Potos? m?s de $us 25 millones. El representante estim? que por el IUE, la compa??a minera pagar?a este a?o m?s de $us 100 millones, tal como ocurri? en el 2010.

La producci?n minera de esta empresa (concentrados de plata, plomo y zinc), que es administrada por la firma Sumitomo, representa alrededor del 50% de todo lo registrado en el pa?s.

Un analista observa el c?lculo del Gobierno

El analista econ?mico Rolando Jord?n indic? que la estimaci?n realizada por el Gobierno respecto a la recaudaci?n por concepto de regal?as mineras de este a?o s?lo toma en cuenta los precios de los minerales registrados durante el primer semestre y no del tercer trimestre del a?o, que registr? una ca?da.

En criterio de Jord?n, para el pr?ximo a?o los precios de los minerales ser?n fluctuantes y con una tendencia leve a la baja o a una brusca ca?da si las tasas de inter?s suben.

?Si fuera prudente y realista considerar?a el hecho de que esta correcci?n en realidad de tendencia alcista obliga a tener dos tipos de comportamiento: una baja brusca de precios o una baja ordenada lenta de precios hacia adelante?, se?al?. Paulo Gregoire
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Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2011 07:17:01 -0500 (CDT)
From: Paulo Gregoire <paulo.gregoire@stratfor.com>
To: The OS List <os@stratfor.com>
Subject: [OS] ECUADOR/FOOD/ECON - Shrimp industry grew 25% this year
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Sector camaronero ecuatoriano registra crecimiento del 25% en lo que va del a?o


por ANDES/MH ? 0:01 - 28 oct 2011

http://andes.info.ec/actualidad/sector-camaronero-ecuatoriano-registra-crecimiento-del-25-en-lo-que-va-del-ano-105964.html

Guayaquil, 28 oct(Andes).- El sector camaronero ecuatoriano registra un crecimiento del 25% con ventas previstas hasta finales de a?o de USD 950 millones, inform? la directora ejecutiva de la C?mara Nacional de Acuacultura,Yahira Piedrahita, quien precis? que el 2010 cerr? con USD 800 millones en exportaciones.

Este crecimiento lo atribuye a la estabilidad de los precios y la ausencia de enfermedades emergentes en la producci?n local, ?otros pa?ses productores como Vietnam, M?xico, India y Tailandia sufren de enfermedades que afectan al marisco, entre ellas la mancha blanca?.

Los problemas en estos pa?ses originaron la reducci?n de la oferta y el incremento de la demanda, lo cual fue aprovechado por Ecuador para posicionarse en mercados como el de Europa y Estados Unidos.

Los precios seg?n la experta podr?an incrementarse en los pr?ximos d?as, pues estos grandes mercados, a pesar de la crisis, siempre buscan una cadena de distribuci?n segura y tener el producto a tiempo sin que pierda calidad.

Indic? que luego de la crisis de la mancha blanca en 1999 que extermin? extensas plantaciones camaroneras ecuatorianas, el sector mejor? mucho en manejo t?cnico y gen?tico, alimentaci?n y ?reas de producci?n.

?En el pa?s continuamos con el sistema semintensivo, otorgando m?s valor a la calidad que a la cantidad, a diferencia de otros pa?ses donde se maneja enormes vol?menes del producto lo cual al momento de la aparici?n de una enfermedad resulta imposible de manejar?, explic?.

Cit? como ejemplo el sudeste asi?tico, donde se siembran 25 a 30 animales por metro cuadrado, mientras que en Ecuador es de 8 a 12 animales.

En el Ecuador existe un total de 175 mil hect?reas camaroneras lo cual genera 200 mil plazas de trabajo de forma directa e indirecta, es el segundo producto de exportaci?n no petrolera, despu?s del banano. / MH Paulo Gregoire
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Message: 101
Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2011 07:24:28 -0500 (CDT)
From: Paulo Gregoire <paulo.gregoire@stratfor.com>
To: The OS List <os@stratfor.com>
Subject: [OS] ECUADOR/PERU/CT/ENERGY/GV - Ecuador and Peru signed
cooperation agreement to fight drug trafficking, fuel smuggling, and
insecurity on the border between both countries
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Per? y Ecuador luchar?n juntos contra tr?fico de drogas y de combustible en frontera


por ANDES/AR ? 18:09 - 27 oct 2011

http://andes.info.ec/politica/ecuador-y-peru-acuerdan-trabaja-conjuntamente-en-el-combate-al-trafico-de-combustibles-106044.html

Los gobiernos de Per? y Ecuador suscribieron, este 27 de octubre, un acuerdo para contrarrestar los delitos de tr?fico il?cito de drogas, contrabando de combustible e inseguridad, que afectan en las zonas fronterizas de ambas naciones.

En la reuni?n binacional desarrollada en Lima-Per?, los ministros del Interior de Ecuador, Jos? Serrano y del Per?, ?scar Vald?s firmaron un acta de compromiso para tratar estos temas.

Serrano, destac? la importancia de ejecutar acciones encaminadas a fortalecer la seguridad ciudadana en las ciudades fronterizas y ?que permita la lucha conjunta contra el crimen organizado que azota en algunos sectores de la regi?n?.

Con este acuerdo se lograr? una consolidaci?n operativa para establecer estrategias en contra de la delincuencia, insisti? el ministro ecuatoriano.

De su lado Vald?s Dancuart dijo que los proyectos por la seguridad, no se limitar?n al cuidado de la frontera, sino que se extender? a toda la regi?n.

Los acuerdos de esta primera reuni?n servir?n para el encuentro de los gabinetes ministeriales de ambos pa?ses que se llevar?n a cabo en Ja?n, Cajamarca, el pr?ximo 17 de noviembre.

Los Ministros estuvieron acompa?ados de los comandantes de Polic?a de Ecuador y Per?. Paulo Gregoire
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Message: 102
Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2011 07:29:13 -0500 (CDT)
From: Paulo Gregoire <paulo.gregoire@stratfor.com>
To: The OS List <os@stratfor.com>
Subject: [OS] COLOMBIA/CT - Narco-paramilitary presence climbs to 347
Colombian municipalities: NGO
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Narco-paramilitary presence climbs to 347 Colombian municipalities: NGO


FRIDAY, 28 OCTOBER 2011 06:35

http://www.colombiareports.com/colombia-news/news/20013-narco-paramilitary-groups-active-in-347-municipalities-ngo.html

Narco-paramilitary organizations are active in 347 municipalities across Colombia , reported the non-governmental organization Indepez.

According to the NGO, the number of Colombian municipalities with a narco-paramilitary presence has climbed from 259 in 2008 to 347 in 2011.

The largest threat comes from the group "Los Rastrojos ", which according to the NGO is active in 21 municipalities and 207 municipalities.

The second most active narco-paramilitary organization in Colombia is "Los Urabe?os ", which reportedly has a presence in 17 departments and 181 municipalities.

The NGO points out that in 2011 "Los Rastrojos" and "Los Urabe?os" expanded into the north of the country.

The narco-paramilitary organization "Las Aguilas Negras " is active in 19 departments and 181 municipalities. According to Indepez, the group is far less active in the Nari?o department and the rest of the Pacific region, but has made an appearance in Arauca in northern Colombia.

The group ?Los Paisas,? remains a small narco-paramilitary organization relative to ?Los Rastrojos? and ?Los Urabe?os,? said the NGO, but is increasingly active along the border with Venezuela and in the Eje Cafeteria region in central Colombia.

The department most affected is Antioquia in northwest Colombia, where the NGO estimates that narco-paramilitary organizations "Los Rastrojos", "Las Aguilas Negras", "Los Urabe?os", "La Oficinia de Envigado" and "Los Paisas" are active in 40.8% of municipalities.

The second largest haven for narco-paramiliatary organizations is the Atlantico department, followed by the Bolivar, Cesar, Cordoba, and Choco departments. Paulo Gregoire
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Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2011 13:34:32 +0100
From: Benjamin Preisler <ben.preisler@stratfor.com>
To: alerts@stratfor.com
Subject: [OS] S3 - INSIGHT - MEXICO/CT - Gunbattle in Nuevo Laredo
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Message: 104
Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2011 07:37:45 -0500 (CDT)
From: Paulo Gregoire <paulo.gregoire@stratfor.com>
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Subject: [OS] COLOMBIA/CT/GV - House administrative director dismissed
from office following scandal
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House administrative director dismissed from office following scandal


FRIDAY, 28 OCTOBER 2011 07:10

http://www.colombiareports.com/colombia-news/news/20014-house-administrative-director-dismissed-from-office-following-scandal.html

fter two weeks in hiding, the administrative director of Colombia ?s House of Representatives has officially been dismissed following a contracting scandal, Colombian media reported Friday.

Ex-Administrative Director Jairo Jaramillo Matiz was officially dismissed from his post a formal meeting with President of the House Simon Gaviria Mu?oz Thursday evening.

House representatives reported that they will appoint a new administrative director right away.

According to W Radio, the former director reportedly went into hiding for two weeks in order to avoid his official dismissal and questioning over 475 seemingly irregular contracts and the whereabouts of 16 cars.

?To have this guy playing cat and mouse, not notifying the Inspector General, is a shame and a very unfortunate thing,? said the chamber?s president.

Jaramillo and head of the legal division Carlos Florez Rojas were found to have been involved in "serious" irregularities in the selection of a contracting firm to renovate government administrative buildings, including the Salon Eliptico.

The two representatives skipped the public bidding process legally required for choosing a contractor, and instead hired contractor Infactic for the $6 million project.

The former congressional director has been banned from holding public office for 14 years. Paulo Gregoire
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Message: 105
Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2011 07:42:01 -0500
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Subject: [OS] BRAZIL/MEXICO/ENERGY/GV - Counselor in Pemex says
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Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2011 07:53:47 -0500
From: Renato Whitaker <renato.whitaker@stratfor.com>
To: The OS List <os@stratfor.com>
Subject: [OS] BRAZIL/ENERGY/GV - Slow-downs and stoppages begin
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Message: 107
Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2011 07:54:31 -0500 (CDT)
From: Paulo Gregoire <paulo.gregoire@stratfor.com>
To: The OS List <os@stratfor.com>
Subject: [OS] ECUADOR/US/ECON - Ecuadorian businesses from Guayaquil
the govt to speed up trade agreement with the US
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Empresarios piden al gobierno agilizar ?lobbying? para acuerdo comercial con EE.UU.


por ANDES/JL ? 0:04 - 28 oct 2011

http://andes.info.ec/economia/empresarios-piden-al-gobierno-agilizar-%E2%80%98lobbying%E2%80%99-para-acuerdo-comercial-con-ee-uu-105850.html

Empresarios de la C?mara de Comercio Ecuatoriano-Americana se reunieron en la ciudad costera de Guayaquil. Ah? pidieron al gobierno que agilite el ?lobbying? (influir eficazmente en las decisiones de las instituciones p?blicas) con Estados Unidos para la firma de un Acuerdo Comercial permanente con ese pa?s.

El presidente de la C?mara, Joaqu?n Carvajal, dijo a la Agencia Andes que hay dos a?os para negociar y tratar de conseguir un acuerdo, mientras dura la ?ltima extensi?n de las preferencias arancelarias andinas (Atpda por sus siglas en ingl?s).

Seg?n el Banco Central del Ecuador, entre enero y agosto, mientras el pa?s no ten?a el Atpda, las exportaciones al mercado norteamericano fueron alrededor de USD 6 175 millones. Esa cifra representa m?s que el total de exportaciones a EE.UU. en 2010.

El a?o pasado Ecuador export? USD 6 mil millones y cont? con las preferencias arancelarias todo el a?o.

Sin embargo, Carvajal sostiene que no se sinti? un impacto econ?mico severo, en el lapso que el pa?s no gozaba de preferencias, debido a que los empresarios ecuatorianos y estadounidenses asumieron los costos. Record? que ambos sab?an que al renovarse las preferencias, recibir?an el pago retroactivo de lo que cancelaron en impuestos.

?Ya no va a haber renovaci?n de Atpda, nos enfrentamos a otro escenario, porque si concluyen las actuales preferencias arancelarias, ya no habr? una devoluci?n posterior de los aranceles, en caso de que Ecuador no consiga un acuerdo bilateral?, advirti?.

Se?al? que el pa?s puede mantener las exportaciones al mercado norteamericano, pero sin preferencias, el margen de utilidad ser? inferior. Carvajal asegur? que ?al bajar las utilidades, reducimos el empleo pleno y eso no queremos?.

Entretanto, para expertos como Mario Su?rez, consultor para negocios con EE.UU., el Ecuador tiene modelos a seguir como Brasil que no tiene un Tratado de libre Comercio (TLC) o Acuerdo Comercial.

Explic? que ese pa?s exporta a trav?s del sistema DDP (Delivery Duty Paid). Esto consiste en que el productor-exportador env?a la mercanc?a al comprador a su propio pa?s.

Su?rez indic? que aunque el mecanismo implica asumir los impuestos, aranceles, costos de flete, entre otros, recibir? otro tipo de beneficios y tratamiento.

?Ya no es solamente un exportador, sino un comercializador internacional. Eso le da derecho a participar en el margen de utilidad con un porcentaje que bordea el 30%?, precis?.

Puntualiz? que as? pague un 7 % de arancel, sin un acuerdo comercial con EE.UU., el margen
de utilidad le permitir? cubrir ese impuesto, los costos de fletes, y al final tendr? un margen de ganancias superior a lo que otorga un Atpda. /JLF Paulo Gregoire
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Message: 108
Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2011 08:04:45 -0500 (CDT)
From: Paulo Gregoire <paulo.gregoire@stratfor.com>
To: The OS List <os@stratfor.com>
Subject: [OS] ECUADOR/COLOMBIA/CT - Colombian citizen was killed by a
hitman in Guayaquil
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Viernes 28 de octubre del 2011 Seguridad
Colombiano muri? por 5 disparos a quemarropa






http://www.eluniverso.com/2011/10/28/1/1422/colombiano-murio-5-disparos-quemarropa.html




El colombiano Jhon Jairo Dom?nguez Murcia, de 39 a?os, fue acribillado ayer por un sicario que lleg? caminando hasta donde la v?ctima reparaba su cami?n en las calles Azuay entre Leonidas Plaza y Guerrero Mart?nez, y le descarg? cinco disparos a quemarropa para luego huir caminando.

Este crimen se registr? a las 17:00 cuando Dom?nguez reparaba su veh?culo marca Cronos, de placa GRN-733. ?Vino una persona a pie y le dispar? no se sabe por qu?. La gente no da informaci?n?, ?l no ten?a enemigos, se dedicaba a la venta de muebles?, expres? Carlos Dom?nguez, hermano del occiso.

Seg?n testigos, el asesino camin? por la calle Guerrero Mart?nez hasta la av. 4 de Noviembre donde un auto de color rojo lo habr?a recogido. Dom?nguez llevaba 4 a?os en el pa?s.
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Message: 109
Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2011 08:16:46 -0500
From: Carlos Lopez Portillo <carlos.lopezportillo@stratfor.com>
To: os@stratfor.com
Subject: [OS] ARGENTINA/ECON - Argentina losing out on Latin American
FDI flows
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Message: 110
Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2011 08:25:33 -0500
From: Carlos Lopez Portillo <carlos.lopezportillo@stratfor.com>
To: os@stratfor.com
Subject: [OS] ARGENTINA - CGT, Argentinian labor union, charges again
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Message: 111
Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2011 08:29:23 -0500
From: Carlos Lopez Portillo <carlos.lopezportillo@stratfor.com>
To: os@stratfor.com
Subject: [OS] ARGENTINA/ECON - New lending to the government from
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Message: 112
Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2011 08:33:30 -0500
From: Carlos Lopez Portillo <carlos.lopezportillo@stratfor.com>
To: os@stratfor.com
Subject: [OS] ARGENTINA - Ministry of Health, Juan Manzur, renounced
to his charge. Will be back on December.
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Message: 113
Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2011 08:39:17 -0500
From: Carlos Lopez Portillo <carlos.lopezportillo@stratfor.com>
To: os@stratfor.com
Subject: [OS] ARGENTINA/CT - Money laundering: the Government should
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Message: 114
Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2011 08:49:34 -0500
From: Antonio Caracciolo <antonio.caracciolo@stratfor.com>
To: "os >> The OS List" <os@stratfor.com>
Subject: [OS] VENEZUELA/BRAZIL - Hugo Chavez said that former
President of Brazil, Luis Inacio Lula da Silva will visit the country
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Message: 115
Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2011 08:48:23 -0500
From: Carlos Lopez Portillo <carlos.lopezportillo@stratfor.com>
To: os@stratfor.com
Subject: [OS] ARGENTINA - Signs and challenges of the new Cristina,
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Message: 116
Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2011 08:53:11 -0500
From: Carlos Lopez Portillo <carlos.lopezportillo@stratfor.com>
To: os@stratfor.com
Subject: [OS] ARGENTINA/ECON - Government strategy: use wheat to get
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Message: 117
Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2011 08:54:08 -0500
From: Antonio Caracciolo <antonio.caracciolo@stratfor.com>
To: "os >> The OS List" <os@stratfor.com>
Subject: [OS] VENEZUELA/BRAZIL/ENERGY - Venezuela's PDVSA state oil
company is negotiating the construction of a refinery in the Brazilian
state of Maranh?o (Northeast), which would not be associated with
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Message: 118
Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2011 08:54:16 -0500
From: Araceli Santos <santos@stratfor.com>
To: The OS List <os@stratfor.com>
Subject: [OS] COSTA RICA/ECON - Analysts predict fiscal reform
approval in Costa Rica
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*Analysts predict fiscal reform approval in Costa Rica*
http://www.ticotimes.net/Current-Edition/News-Briefs/Analysts-predict-fiscal-reform-approval-in-Costa-Rica_Thursday-October-27-2011

Posted: Thursday, October 27, 2011 - By Adam Williams
While divided factions continue to lobby for and against a new fiscal
reform plan, presented Sept. 27 in the Legislative Assembly, analysts
are beginning to offer projections on whether or not the package will be
passed.

On Monday, Heather Berkman and Adam Siegel, Latin American analysts from
the international consulting firm the Eurasia Group, projected that the
fiscal reform will be approved in the Legislative Assembly in December.

"Tax reform plan will get approved despite resistance," the report
stated. "A fiscal reform package negotiated between the Laura Chinchilla
administration and the opposition Citizen Action Party (PAC) remains on
track to be approved by mid-December despite growing opposition to the
deal."

On Monday, the Costa Rican Investment Promotion Agency (CINDE) voiced
opposition to the tax overhaul before the assembly's fiscal reform
special commission, saying that a proposed 15 percent tax on free-zone
businesses after 2015 could result in the loss of an estimated 5,000 jobs.

"There are already a dozen businesses that have notified us that they
have postponed their final decision to expand operations, open new
locations or invest in Costa Rica, which could result in the loss of the
creation of almost 5,000 new jobs," said Jos? Rossi, CINDE's general
director.

CINDE's presentation to the assembly was followed by a press statement
from PAC saying "the fiscal reform will not affect the arrival of
foreign direct investment."

Berkman and Siegel alluded to the divisive positions of the two sides.

"Those opposed to this tax contend that it would cause businesses to
spurn Costa Rica for other countries. The PAC has insisted that the
free-zone tax remain in the legislation in order for it to approve the
reform package."

The report added that Costa Rica's fiscal deficit is expected to reach
5.5 percent of the gross domestic product by the end of the year, and
that the reform could generate up to an additional $850 million in
annual revenue. Berkman and Siegel concluded that concerns about the
growing deficit paired with Chinchilla's support of the reform will most
likely result in its approval.

"Despite these pressures, Chinchilla and Sol?s remain publicly committed
to their compromise bill and should be able to exercise enough party
discipline to get the necessary votes," the report said. "Warnings that
the country is currently without the funds to address rising insecurity
and the solvency of key social safety nets should grant the government
the needed political space to approve the reform."
--

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Message: 119
Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2011 08:54:41 -0500
From: Araceli Santos <santos@stratfor.com>
To: The OS List <os@stratfor.com>
Subject: [OS] COSTA RICA/PARAGUAY - CR's VP arrives in Paraguay on
official visit
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*Llega a Paraguay vicepresidente de Costa Rica*
http://sdpnoticias.com/nota/214900/Llega_a_Paraguay_vicepresidente_de_Costa_Rica

NOTIMEX

2011-10-27 11:54:00
Asunci?n, 27 Oct (Notimex).- El vicepresidente de Costa Rica, Alfio Piva
Mes?n, arrib? hoy a esta capital para participar en representaci?n de su
pa?s en la XXI Cumbre Iberoamericana de jefes de Estado y de gobierno.

Piva Mes?n es uno de los primeros jefes de delegaci?n en llegar a la
sede de la cita iberoamericana, la cual ser? inaugurada este viernes con
un acto que contar? con la presencia de los reyes de Espa?a y 14
mandatarios, incluyendo al paraguayo Fernando Lugo.

Junto al vicepresidente costarricense llegaron el ministro de Relaciones
Exteriores, Enrique Castillo Barrantes, y otros altos funcionarios del
gobierno que preside Laura Chinchilla, quien manifest? hace unas semanas
su imposibilidad de viajar.

El dignatario fue recibido por el canciller paraguayo, Jorge Lara
Castro, en el espig?n presidencial del Aeropuerto Internacional Silvio
Pettirossi, donde se le rindieron los honores especiales que marca el
protocolo.

"Estoy pisando por primera vez suelo paraguayo. Espero que esta reuni?n
sea muy fruct?fera para todos nosotros, muy especialmente para Paraguay,
que es un gran pueblo y un gran pa?s", manifest? la autoridad
costarricense en un breve mensaje a los periodistas.

La ceremonia de inauguraci?n de la XXI Cumbre Iberoamericana se
realizar? este viernes a las 19:00 horas locales (22:00 GMT) en el
Teatro Jos? Asunci?n Flores del Banco Central del Paraguay (BCP), en una
zona residencial de la ciudad.

Este s?bado, a las 09:00 horas locales (12:00 GMT), est? prevista la
sesi?n plenaria de la cita de jefes de Estado y de gobierno en el Centro
de Convenciones de la Confederaci?n Sudamericana de F?tbol (Conmebol),
en la vecina Luque.

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issued by President Hugo Chavez to create the Caribbean island of
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Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2011 08:55:46 -0500
From: Araceli Santos <santos@stratfor.com>
To: The OS List <os@stratfor.com>
Subject: [OS] PANAMA/COSTA RICA/CT - Panama, CR sign deal to fight
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*Panam? y Costa Rica firman acuerdo para combatir delincuencia en la
frontera*
http://www.google.com/hostednews/epa/article/ALeqM5jpW2LTcQ4y5fxMCw1fn867-qZCow?docId=1640921

Por Agencia EFE -- hace 14 horas
Panam?, 27 oct (EFE).- Panam? y Costa Rica firmaron hoy un acta de
entendimiento para poner en marcha la Comisi?n Binacional Fronteriza
(COMBIFRONT), con la que se busca contrarrestar las actividades
delictivas en la franja lim?trofe que comparten ambos pa?ses, informaron
fuentes oficiales.
El documento fue suscrito por el ministro de Gobierno, Polic?a y
Seguridad P?blica de Costa Rica, Mario Zamora Cordero, y el viceministro
de Seguridad P?blica de Panam?, Alejandro Garuz, detall? la entidad
paname?a de seguridad en un comunicado.
Autoridades de seguridad de ambos pa?ses se reunieron por dos d?as en la
poblaci?n de Paso Canoas, en la provincia paname?a de Chiriqu?, para
trabajar en temas referidos a aspectos jur?dicos, de inteligencia,
trasiego de ganado y productos agr?colas, seguridad, pesca ilegal,
prostituci?n, asuntos mar?timos y de migraci?n.
Zamora se?al? en rueda de prensa que Panam? y Costa Rica est?n
enfrentando enemigos comunes, por lo que el acuerdo permitir? trabajar
en conjunto para combatirlos.
"El crimen organizado que opera en la l?nea fronteriza mata a ciudadanos
de Panam? y Costa Rica, lucran a trav?s del comercio de drogas y
prostituyen las instituciones, por lo que con este acuerdo" se esta
implementando acciones institucionales para que este combate sea real y
efectivo, asever? Zamora.
Por su parte, Garuz precis? que se est? atravesando tiempos dif?ciles en
materia de seguridad, defensa y combate a la delincuencia, una raz?n
importante para aunar esfuerzos regionales en esta l?nea, pero con el
respeto a los deberes y derechos civiles.
"Es fundamental e impostergable dar la relevancia a la creaci?n y
fortalecimiento de un mecanismo binacional que permita un trabajo
continuo y consecuente en los temas de seguridad, espec?ficamente en la
coordinaci?n, evaluaci?n y cumplimiento de los compromisos adquiridos en
defensa y seguridad", destac? el viceministro.
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Subject: [OS] VENEZUELA - The national government's representative to
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Message: 124
Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2011 08:55:22 -0500
From: Araceli Santos <santos@stratfor.com>
To: The OS List <os@stratfor.com>
Subject: [OS] COSTA RICA/CT - half of population lives in districts
with low security levels
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*Mitad de la poblaci?n vive en cantones de m?s inseguridad*
http://www.nacion.com/2011-10-28/ElPais/mitad-de-la-poblacion-vive-en-cantones-de-mas-inseguridad.aspx

60 cantones se hallan en condici?n de seguridad baja o media baja
Pobladores de solo siete regiones rurales gozan de vida m?s segura
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AMY ROSS A. amy.ross@nacion.com 12:00 A.M. 28/10/2011
La mitad de los costarricenses viven en cantones con niveles de
seguridad bajos. Dicha cifra se duplic? desde el 2005, cuando apenas el
28% de las personas se hallaba en esa condici?n.

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El cant?n de Mora obtuvo el mayor puntaje de seguridad.
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Mientras tanto, el 19% de la poblaci?n que anteriormente viv?a en
sectores de alta seguridad se redujo a un 5%.

El deterioro en las condiciones de seguridad del pa?s se evidencia en el
Atlas de desarrollo humano cantonal de Costa Rica, el cual se divulg? el
mi?rcoles.

Se trata de una investigaci?n conjunta entre el Programa de las Naciones
Unidas para el Desarrollo (PNUD) y la Escuela de Estad?stica de la
Universidad de Costa Rica (UCR), y que se elabor? con datos del 2009.

El ?ndice de seguridad ciudadana cantonal (ISCc) toma en cuenta las
tasas de homicidio doloso, robo, hurto y violencia de cada sitio.

A partir de ah? se elabor? un ranquin y se clasificaron los cantones
para determinar si ten?an una seguridad ciudadana alta, media alta,
media baja o baja.

Los tres cantones con el mejor ?ndice fueron Mora, Le?n Cort?s y Po?s.
Las peores calificaciones correspondieron a Puntarenas, Garabito y Aguirre.

Curiosamente, ninguno de los cantones con un ?ndice de desarrollo humano
alto clasific? a la mayor categor?a de seguridad. De los 81 cantones,
?nicamente siete alcanzaron ese nivel y todos est?n ubicados en zonas
rurales.

Adem?s, varios cantones con un alto ?ndice de desarrollo humano se
identificaron como poco seguros.

Mientras tanto, 60 cantones registraron condiciones de seguridad media
bajas y bajas.

El ISCc carece de un par?metro que mida la percepci?n de inseguridad
alrededor del pa?s. Sin embargo, una reciente encuesta de la firma
Unimer confirm? que el problema que inquieta m?s a los costarricenses es
la inseguridad y la delincuencia.

Mayor ?nfasis. Seg?n el documento del PNUD, el patr?n de deterioro se
acent?a en algunos puntos espec?ficos del pa?s.

"Destaca, en el per?odo, el deterioro de la seguridad que se registra en
las costas del pa?s, en las fronteras y en la Gran ?rea Metropolitana",
se?ala el texto.

Lara Blanco, coordinadora de Desarrollo Humano del PNUD, advirti? que
una revisi?n preliminar de los datos del 2010 sugieren que en el 2008 y
el 2009 se vivieron picos de violencia, por lo que la tendencia actual
de inseguridad podr?a ser un poco menor.

Blanco tambi?n recalc? que, al formular pol?ticas, las autoridades deben
fijarse en el peso de las variables espec?ficas.

El viceministro de Seguridad, Celso Gamboa, dijo desconocer los datos
del PNUD, pero explic? que desde mayo se implementa una nueva estrategia
de distribuci?n policial que se basa en datos cuantitativos de delincuencia.

"De junio a la fecha hay una reducci?n significativa en asaltos y robos
a viviendas", asegur?.

Ajustes. Adem?s de medir la seguridad ciudadana por s? sola, la
investigaci?n del PNUD incorpor? un ?ndice de desarrollo humano ajustado
para incluir este factor.

El ?ndice tradicional ?nicamente mide salud, educaci?n y bienestar
material. Al incorporar el elemento de la seguridad, el ranquin cambi?
radicalmente.

Para?so, por ejemplo, aument? 34 posiciones y Jim?nez tuvo una mejora de
31 lugares. Mientras tanto, Puntarenas descendi? 41 puestos y Esparza
cay? 38 posiciones.
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Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2011 08:58:44 -0500
From: Araceli Santos <santos@stratfor.com>
To: The OS List <os@stratfor.com>
Subject: [OS] MIL/GUATEMALA/MEXICO/CT - Guatemala Military Sanctions
Officers over InSight 'Zetas' Video
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*Guatemala Military Sanctions Officers over InSight 'Zetas' Video
*http://insightcrime.org/insight-latest-news/item/1761-guatemala-military-sanctions-officers-over-insight-zetas-video

Written by Steven Dudley

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Guatemala's Ministry of Defense has sanctioned two top level officials
who appeared in a video with suspected drug traffickers, following the
publication of the video by InSight Crime as part of its Zetas in
Guatemala Special.

Colonel Edgar Ernesto Muralles Solorzano and Lt. Colonel Edwin Herminio
Rivas Morales both received 40 demerits for their unauthorized
attendance at a horse race on September 15, 2010. Also present were
suspected drug traffickers from the Zetas gang, and locals from the
Horst Walther Overdick criminal group, gathered to race horses near
Coban airport, in central Guatemala.

"They did not have permission to be at the event," Colonel Rony Urizar,
the Defense Ministry spokesman, told InSight Crime in a telephone interview.

Urizar said the Defense Ministry passed the information obtained from
the video to the Attorney General's Office for further possible criminal
investigation.

The video, which also later appeared as part of a Univison report on the
same subject, shows Muralles and Rivas watching the horse races that
sources said suspected drug traffickers regularly held in that area.

Urizar emphasized that the men's presence at the event is not proof they
were committing a crime, and said the ministry would take no further
action in the case.

The Zetas have allied with local traffickers as part of an effort to
control this important choke point in the cocaine trade and expand other
business interests, such as human smuggling and human trafficking.

To further these ends, the group perpetrated a series of spectacular
crimes, including the massacre and dismembering of 27 farm hands on a
ranch in the Peten state, and the murder of a local prosecutor who was
investigating a cocaine seizure in the Alta Verapaz state.

Their audacious and bloody style, however, appears to have backfired, at
least in the short term. Following the massacre, over 40 suspected
Zetas' operatives have been captured, many of them high level
operatives, and possibly one accountant.

Since last December, the government also declared states of siege in
Peten and Alta Verapaz where the Zetas operate. During these the
government confiscated dozens of vehicles and weapons, and temporarily
pushed the gang from their areas of influence.

Still, the Zetas and Overdick group have a lot of staying power, in part
due to their contacts in the military. During its four-month
investigation, InSight Crime determined that these criminal allies
recruit regularly from the military's highest ranks, obtaining weaponry
and training from active army officials.

Col. Muralles and Lt. Col. Rivas may have been part of this network,
although an Attorney General's Office investigation is ongoing. At the
time when the video was shot, Muralles was stationed at the the military
school Adolfo V. Hall del Norte, in San Pedro Carcha, just outside of
the city of Coban, the Zetas' alleged headquarters.

Spokesman Urizar said the penalty could lead to the officials' dismissal
from the army, when added to previous demerits, but this appears
unlikely. The punishment for cavorting with the Zetas, however, appears
more like a slap on the wrist.

The Guatemalan military has a long history of working with organized
crime, to the point where the nexuses between the military and criminals
have been given a name: Illegal Clandestine Security Apparatuses
(Cuerpos Ilegales y Aparatos Clandestinos de Seguridad - CIACS). The
CIACS have their own criminal networks, or do jobs for other criminal
networks.
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Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2011 08:56:13 -0500
From: Araceli Santos <santos@stratfor.com>
To: The OS List <os@stratfor.com>
Subject: [OS] COSTA RICA - Chinchilla denounces irresponsibility of
countries with high CO2 emissions
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*Denuncia Chinchilla persistente irresponsabilidad de emisores de co2
*http://www.provincia.com.mx/2011/10/denuncia-chinchilla-persistente-irresponsabilidad-de-emisores-de-co2/

Notimex / Provincia
San Jos?, Costa Rica.- La presidenta de Costa Rica, Laura Chinchilla,
denunci? hoy aqu? lo que describi? como la persistente irresponsabilidad
de los pa?ses que son grandes emisores de carbono, a nivel mundial.

Tal actitud perjudica a los pa?ses tropicales, en particular a los
centroamericanos, asegur? Chinchilla, en di?logo con periodistas, luego
de una actividad oficial.

Centroam?rica seguir?, a nivel de foros internacionales, como Naciones
Unidas, exigiendo m?s responsabilidad en la materia, asegur? la jefa de
Estado.

"Sigue habiendo una actitud sumamente irresponsable de los grandes
emisores de co2, a nivel mundial, no logramos avanzar, en el marco de
las cumbres, en materia de calentamiento global", advirti?.

"Toda la irresponsabilidad de estas naciones es la que nos est? haciendo
da?o, precisamente, a los pa?ses que estamos en el tr?pico, y, de manera
muy particular, Centroam?rica, por estar ubicada entre estos dos grandes
oc?anos", asegur?, con ?nfasis.

"De manera que, s?, es compleja la situaci?n, es dif?cil el avance",
reflexion? la presidenta.

"Por otro lado, no logramos, todav?a, que se consoliden fondos para la
asistencia, de manera permanente", para los casos de emergencias
meteorol?gicas fruto de esa situaci?n, agreg?.

"De ah? que el llamado, s?, haya sido importante", agreg?, en alusi?n al
llamado surgido de la reciente reuni?n de gobernantes centroamericanos,
a los pa?ses industrializados, a ra?z del temporal que las pasadas dos
semanas afect? masivamente a la regi?n.

"Centroam?rica va a seguir levantando la voz en todos los foros
internacionales, nos vamos a mover a Naciones Unidas, vamos a pedir m?s
seriedad en la asistencia de los fondos de mitigaci?n".

"Y vamos a pedir, obviamente, y a exigir m?s responsabilidad, en todo
este tipo de cumbres", asegur?.

"Pero no hay la menor duda que el mayor esfuerzo que vamos a tener
proviene de los mismos centroamericanos", plante? Chinchilla.

"De ah? que estamos hablando de establecer una especie de fondo que
pueda financiar operaciones entre pa?ses, porque no siempre los eventos
clim?ticos nos golpean por igual", inform?.

"En algunos casos, es Panam? el que pueda ayudar, en otros, es Costa
Rica, en otros, Guatemala", explic?.

Se trata de "que podamos utilizar los recursos propios, con que ya
contamos, pero financiados, en lo que es su operaci?n, para poder
movilizar esos recursos entre naciones centroamericanas", se?al?.

La jefa de Estado formul? las declaraciones tres d?as despu?s de haber
participado en la reuni?n de gobernantes centroamericanos, llevada a
cabo en El Salvador para evaluar la situaci?n derivada del temporal que
las pasadas dos semanas afect? a Centroam?rica.

En la resoluci?n de tres p?ginas y 12 puntos resolutivos, los
participantes acordaron "instar a los Estados industrializados a que
hagan reducciones significativas de gases de efecto invernadero".

Tambi?n plantearon que "se aliente a la comunidad internacional a
desarrollar iniciativas que permitan cambiar los esquemas de desarrollo
con medidas estructurales de mediano y largo plazo".

La idea consiste en que estas medidas "fomenten la gesti?n integral del
riesgo y la adaptaci?n al cambio clim?tico", indicaron, asimismo.
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Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2011 08:59:02 -0500
From: Araceli Santos <santos@stratfor.com>
To: The OS List <os@stratfor.com>
Subject: [OS] GUATEMALA/MIL/CT - Three Generals Finally Arrested and
Indicted for Genocide
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*Guatemala: Three Generals Finally Arrested and Indicted for Genocide*
http://globalvoicesonline.org/2011/10/27/guatemala-two-generals-finally-arrested-and-indicted-for-genocide/

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Posted 27 October 2011 17:44 GMT


Print version
Update (27 October, 2011):

An earlier version of this post stated that two generals, not three, had
been arrested. The post has been amended accordingly.

Guatemalan courts are set to face a challenge without precedent in the
country: prosecuting genocide. After three decades of failed efforts to
prosecute the Guatemalan Army, three generals are finally under arrest,
accused of perpetrating genocide and other war crimes against the Maya
Ixil people in the years 1982-83 by massacring and burning entire
villages. More arrest warrants will follow.

Former General Hector Lopez Fuentes was the first arrested in connection
with genocide in Guatemala. His arrest was followed by the detention of
Jos? Mauricio Rodr?guez S?nchez, now in prison, and Oscar Mej?a
Victores, who is under hospital arrest whilst he is being evaluated to
check if his health will allow him to stand trial, as reported by Mike
in the blog Central American Politics.


Location where the massacres took place in the Triangulo Ixil, Quiche,
Guatemala. Image by Renata Avila, dedicated to the public domain.
In the words of the 1999 report by the Commission for Historical
Clarification (CEH for its initials in Spanish) [es]:

The Army's perception of Mayan communities as natural allies of the
guerrillas contributed to increasing and aggravating the human rights
violations perpetrated against them, demonstrating an aggressive racist
component of extreme cruelty that led to extermination en masse of
defenseless Mayan communities, including children, women and the
elderly, through methods whose cruelty has outraged the moral conscience
of the civilized world.

NISGUA blog describes:

The members of the military with arrest warrants formed part of the
Department of Defense in the de facto government of General Efra?n R?os
Montt and actively participated in the intellectual planning of the
genocide against the Maya Ixil people through Plan Victoria 82. Their
roles were fundamental in the commission of crimes against humanity and
genocide during this time.

Efra?n Rios Montt, a former dictator and now member of the Guatemalan
Congress, has not been not re-elected and will lose his immunity on
January 14, 2012, when his mandate ends.


Maria Toj, a genocide survivor and advocate for justice. Image by Renata
Avila, dedicated to the public domain.
As the blog Unredacted explains, it is likely that declassified official
government records from both Guatemala and the United States will be
used as evidence:

In 2009, the National Security Archive introduced Plan Sof?a

One of the key records associated with Plan Sof?a is a telegram from
Army Chief of Staff L?pez Fuentes to the commander of his Special Forces
airborne brigade ordering the launching of Operation Sof?a in the Ixil
region of the Quich?.

The counterinsurgency assault that resulted displaced hundreds of Mayan
residents and left an unknown number dead as soldiers destroyed their
villages, burned their houses and slaughtered their livestock. (See
summaries of witness testimony and more about the Spanish proceedings here.)

International Law Girls analyzes the importance of this process for the
Guatemalan system of justice:

Guatemalan law allows for repeated delays in criminal cases as
interlocutory challenges move through a lengthy appeals process. Many
people involved in the genocidal campaigns of the 1980s still hold
positions of power -- including the country's frontrunner for the
presidency, Otto Perez Molina. If it is successful, the prosecution will
be a breakthrough for the fight against impunity on a scale with the
conviction of Peru's former president Fujimori.

While families of the victims, who are following [es] the hearings
closely, applauded [es] the arrests, some citizens strongly oppose the
prosecution of the army, arguing that the country has to dedicate
efforts to solving current violence and that forgiveness and
reconciliation should be the goal.

Others mention that former guerrilla force members should be prosecuted
too, arguing that an amnesty should not shield them from the
responsibility and involvement in crimes against civilians [es],
although a truth commission found that guerillas only participated in 3%
of the crimes, as pointed out by Central American Politics in the post
"Why not prosecute guerrillas?".

Amnesty is inapplicable for international crimes, including genocide,
torture, and forced disappearance. The struggle for justice in Guatemala
is a heroic effort: less than 5% of cases are prosecuted every year. It
seems that finally decades of effort by victims' associations will
deliver justice to the families who survived the war.
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Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2011 08:59:29 -0500
From: Carlos Lopez Portillo <carlos.lopezportillo@stratfor.com>
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Message: 129
Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2011 08:59:36 -0500
From: Araceli Santos <santos@stratfor.com>
To: The OS List <os@stratfor.com>
Subject: [OS] GUATEMALA/CT/POL - Electoral tribunal votes to
centralize voting stations because security can't be guaranteed in
conflict zones
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*Restricci?n afecta a 30 mil votantes*
http://www.prensalibre.com/decision_libre_-_actualidad/Restriccion-afecta-mil-votantes_0_580741938.html

El Tribunal Supremo Electoral (TSE) decidi? modificar el acuerdo que
centraliza las mesas de votaci?n en las cabeceras municipales, porque
los ministros de Gobernaci?n y Defensa no garantizaron la seguridad en
?reas conflictivas.


Los fiscales de los partidos volvieron a sostener una reuni?n acalorada
con magistrados del TSE, en la cual reafirmaron su rechazo a la
disposici?n de centralizar las mesas electorales.
1 de 1
POR KAREN CARDONA Y JULIO LARA
El acuerdo que antes centralizaba 25 circunscripciones electorales o
centros de votaci?n fue reformado y se redujo a 13, en 10 municipios, lo
cual afectar? a 30 mil 330 votantes, seg?n el TSE.

"Los ministros y sus representantes en ning?n momento manifestaron que
iban a tener la seguridad total de los centros de votaci?n. No dijeron
que garantizaban la totalidad de los que nosotros manifestamos que se
quieren descentralizar", afirm? el magistrado Ulises G?mez.

La presidenta del TSE, Mar?a Eugenia Villagr?n, respald? esa versi?n, al
justificar la medida.

Divorcio de responsables

El ministro de Gobernaci?n, Carlos Menocal, dijo en conferencia de
prensa que el TSE no le ha entregado el mapa de riesgo para coordinar
esfuerzos y que est? cansado de que culpen a la Polic?a Nacional Civil
de los hechos violentos relacionados con las elecciones.

Adem?s, Villagr?n ha sostenido que el Ministerio P?blico no ha
investigado ni solicitado detenciones en casos de violencia postelectoral.

El fiscal de Libertad Democr?tica Renovada, Justo P?rez, reiter? su
rechazo a la centralizaci?n de las mesas, por considerar que esa medida
veda el derecho a elegir y ser electo a m?s de 30 mil ciudadanos,
quienes pueden hacer la diferencia en la elecci?n del pr?ximo 6 de
noviembre.

P?rez manifest? que presentar? un recurso de nulidad contra el nuevo
acuerdo, y record? que el primero que hab?an solicitado fue rechazado.

El TSE prev? gestionar transporte p?blico gratuito para las comunidades
afectadas.
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Message: 130
Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2011 08:58:51 -0500
From: Araceli Santos <santos@stratfor.com>
To: The OS List <os@stratfor.com>
Subject: [OS] GUATEMALA - Guatemala still has highest fertility rate
in Latin America
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*Guatemala still has highest fertility rate in Latin America
http://www.guatemala-times.com/news/guatemala/2595-guatemala-still-has-highest-fertility-rate-in-latin-america.html

*THURSDAY, 27 OCTOBER 2011 11:53 BARBARA SCHIEBER


Guatemala City. The State of World Population 2011 reveals that
Guatemalan women between 15 and 49 years have on average 3.8 children
(2010-2015), when the average Latin-American level is 2.2. For
indigenous women, this percentage is 4.5 children per female of
reproductive age, which continues to place the country as the holder of
the highest fertility rate in Latin America.

Barbara Crossette, one of the lead authors of the report, said at United
Nations Headquarters, she had filtered the trends in world population
growth through the stories of people in nine countries. A former
journalist for The New York Times, she had visited China, Egypt,
Ethiopia, Finland, India, Mexico, Mozambique, Nigeria and the former
Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia.

She met with people to lay out the challenges they faced in their daily
lives as the world's population swelled. While lauding the Cairo
conference as a success that had helped change people's thinking, she
said the funding for family planning remained flat and women still faced
everyday obstacles to access family planning measures. For example,
many women in a slum near Mumbai could not visit a nearby family
planning centre because they would be beaten by their husbands upon
returning home.

"Nearly 20 years after the Cairo conference, women in villages, towns,
and urban areas still can't get access to the family planning they need
to control their lives", she said. The report called for additional
investments in the health and education of youth, which would yield
enormous returns in economic growth and development for generations.

In Guatemala City, Marcela Suazo, regional director of the UN Population
Fund (UNFPA) for Latin America and the Caribbean, said the problem is
not population growth, but the lack of state services. "It's not
necessarily the number of children, but the conditions into which the
children are born, they need an environment where they have development,
access to education and opportunities to change their life and destiny
to leave the cycle of poverty," she said.


Social impact
Leonor Calder?n, the country representative of UNFPA, said that only 2
percent of Guatemala's population owns most of the land of the nation.
7.4 million People are poor in Guatemala; 2.2 million live in extreme
poverty.

In Guatemala, the population has doubled in less than 30 years,
according to the National Statistics Institute (INE), now there are 14
million 313 thousand people.

Slow progress
"There are problems, but there is also progress, and is not to promote
any government, because these advances are the work of Guatemalans for
decades and therefore must be protected," said Rene Mauricio Valdes, UN
representative in the country.
He stressed that progress has been slow, but there is increased access
to primary education with gender equality and more children now complete
these studies.

Economic Impact
"The problem is that the country does not increase the productivity, it
does not improve the quality of its workforce or created wealth per
person," said Paulo de Leon, an analyst with Central American Business
Intelligence. He added that population growth means more demand for
products and services such as water, health, electricity and education,
among others.

According to De Leon, an important aspect that has been neglected is
productivity it is not only defined by education and having skilled
labor. "We need structural changes that are not visible: people need
access to credits, infrastructure like roads, bridges, physical
infrastructure, financial capital, access and capabilities," he added.
De Leon said that if it these issues are not addressed, the economy can
continue to grow, but it would not increase the wealth of all
individuals, only a few will benefit.

Paulo de Le?n, said the population increase will require fundamental
reforms and the need to generate more energy, housing, transportation,
food and employment. He added that if it continues like this, with
increased fertility, it may collapse education and basic services
provided by the State.

Structural causes for Guatemala's hunger, poverty and population growth

Land ownership: only 2 percent of Guatemala's population owns most of
the land of the nation, Guatemala has one of the highest inequity rates
in the world.

"If the Guatemalan private sector clearly does not assume their
responsibility to pay taxes in order to have stronger institutions,
there will be gaps and there will be inadequate resources to meet the
needs of the population," said Leonor Calder?n, UNFPA Representative.
"There must be a commitment to address the challenge, and overcome the
problems of the country that has 14 million 713 thousand possibilities,"
she said, in relation to the number of inhabitants.

System fails
Rafael Espada, Guatemala's Vice President, insisted that during the
transition phase to handover power to the next government tax reform has
to be discussed. "Fiscal reform must be honest, transparent and ensure
controlled public spending. Equally important is to fight tax evasion
and incorrect tax privileges. We need to be responsible with our
finances" said. Espada

Women are the Key factor
As detailed in the report, when women have equal rights and
opportunities in their societies, and when girls are educated and
healthy, fertility rates decline. Also need access to family planning
options.

Indicators

Guatemala has several poor indicators of health, education and family
planning.

Health: In the country 39.8 children under 5 years die for every
thousand births, in Costa Rica is 10.6.

Education: The average schooling is 5.59 years, and in rural areas,
3.84; one of the lowest in the continent.
Reproduction: There is 28 percent of unmet need for family planning,
lack of access, among other problems.

Sources: UNFPA, UN


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Message: 131
Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2011 09:09:28 -0500
From: Araceli Santos <santos@stratfor.com>
To: The OS List <os@stratfor.com>
Subject: [OS] HONDURAS - New airport to be built in 2012
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*
En 2012 inicia construcci?n de aeropuerto
http://www.elheraldo.hn/Pa%C3%ADs/Ediciones/2011/10/28/Noticias/En-2012-inicia-construccion-de-aeropuerto

*El gobierno ha dicho que la construcci?n del nuevo aeropuerto de
Comayagua no afectar? las operaciones de la Fuerza de Tarea Conjunto
Bravo de los Estados Unidos.
27.10.11 - Actualizado: 27.10.11 09:32pm - Redacci?n: redaccion@elheraldo.hn
Compartir:

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TEGUCIGALPA, HONDURAS
Los trabajos de construcci?n del aeropuerto de Comayagua podr?an iniciar
en 2012. Eso asegur? ayer el gerente general de Aeropuertos de Honduras,
Edgardo Maradiaga, luego de sostener una reuni?n con las autoridades del
Poder Ejecutivo en Casa Presidencial.

El representante de la concesionaria dijo que todav?a se est?n
analizando los dise?os para la construcci?n del nuevo aeropuerto en las
instalaciones de la base Enrique Soto Cano de Palmerola.

"Estamos avanzando con el gobierno viendo c?mo est?n caminando las
fechas y revisando propuestas de dise?os para optimizar recursos", dijo
el representante de la concesionaria.

Maradiaga sostuvo que se "est?n tomando los tiempos necesarios y estamos
trabajando sobre una base s?lida porque este tema tiene que arrancar el
pr?ximo a?o".

El gobierno se ha comprometido a iniciar los trabajos de construcci?n de
un nuevo aeropuerto en Comayagua que servir? para la operaci?n de los
vuelos internacionales que actualmente funcionan en el aeropuerto Toncont?n.

Adicionalmente, existe el compromiso de la construcci?n de una carretera
tipo autopista que permita circular con mayor agilidad entre Tegucigalpa
y Comayagua.

Maradiaga reiter? que la concesionaria se ha comprometido a ejecutar la
obra mediante una inversi?n inicial de al menos 100 millones de d?lares
que representan casi 1,900 millones de lempiras.
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Message: 132
Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2011 09:08:47 -0500
From: Araceli Santos <santos@stratfor.com>
To: The OS List <os@stratfor.com>
Subject: [OS] HONDURAS/CENTAM/ECON - Honduran Finance Min. assumes
presidency of Centam's finance ministers council
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*Ministro de Finanzas de Honduras asume presidencia del Cosefin*
http://www.google.com/hostednews/epa/article/ALeqM5hVDBxbxJOTwJYeNw2gipzg0d0FMw?docId=1641053

Por Agencia EFE -- hace 11 horas
Tegucigalpa, 27 oct (EFE).- El ministro de Finanzas de Honduras, William
Chong Wong, asumi? hoy la presidencia del Consejo de Ministros de
Hacienda o Finanzas de Centroam?rica, Panam? y Rep?blica Dominicana
(Cosefin).
En una ceremonia celebrada en Tegucigalpa, Chong Wong recibi? el cargo
de manos del ministro de Hacienda y Cr?dito P?blico de Nicaragua,
Alberto Guevara Obreg?n.
En la reuni?n se estableci? la metodolog?a para seleccionar al
secretario ejecutivo de ese organismo regional y se inform? sobre los
avances del plan de inversi?n y financiaci?n del Cosefin.
En la reuni?n tambi?n se dialog? sobre la presentaci?n del grupo de
trabajo de pol?tica tributaria en el ?rea centroamericana.
En el c?nclave, Chong Wong anunci? que se celebrar? una reuni?n con los
ministros de Econom?a y Comercio de la regi?n a fin de consolidar el
sistema aduanero de Centroam?rica.
"Ese es un tema toral porque en la actualidad estamos actuando de forma
diferente, por un lado los ministros de Industria y Comercio del ?rea y
por otro los secretarios de Finanzas, y es un tema que tiene que ver
mucho con los tributos que genera toda la actividad comercial", explic?
Chong Wong.
Agreg? que adicionalmente se debe consolidar la secretar?a ejecutiva del
organismo y seguir adelante con el proceso de modernizaci?n e
interconexi?n entre las aduanas centroamericanas.
El Cosefin es el foro permanente de Ministros de Hacienda o Finanzas de
Centroam?rica, Panam? y Rep?blica Dominicana, conformado para discutir
en forma consistente temas asociados a la informaci?n, armonizaci?n,
convergencia, desarrollo y coordinaci?n de pol?ticas fiscales.
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Message: 133
Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2011 09:08:28 -0500
From: Antonio Caracciolo <antonio.caracciolo@stratfor.com>
To: The OS List <os@stratfor.com>
Subject: [OS] VENEZUELA - In a telephone conversation with Venezolana
de Television President of the Republic, Hugo Chavez, said the
opposition factions attacked him and the military, because they hate
the military and want to "leave them without self-consciousness"
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Message: 134
Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2011 09:09:14 -0500
From: Araceli Santos <santos@stratfor.com>
To: The OS List <os@stratfor.com>
Subject: [OS] HONDURAS/CT - University students demonstrate against
violence, call for justice
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*Universitarios hondure?os se manifiestan contra la violencia y piden
justicia*
http://www.google.com/hostednews/epa/article/ALeqM5hUBGxkyY4PxXnDsW4Yo7VpVCaiiA?docId=1641125

Por Agencia EFE -- hace 8 horas
Tegucigalpa, 27 oct (EFE).- Centenares de estudiantes universitarios de
Honduras se manifestaron hoy para condenar la violencia en el pa?s y
exigir paz y justicia a las autoridades.
En una jornada de solidaridad tras el asesinato de los j?venes Carlos
Pineda Rodr?guez y Rafael Alejandro Vargas Castellanos, los
manifestantes se congregaron con velas y globos en un aparcamiento de la
Universidad Nacional Aut?noma de Honduras (UNAH), en Tegucigalpa, para
condenar la violencia.
El estudiante Rafael Alejandro Vargas era hijo de la rectora de la
Universidad Nacional, Julieta Castellanos, quien particip? hoy en el
acto de solidaridad acompa?ada por familiares y por la madre del otro
joven asesinado, Aurora de Pineda.
"Repudiamos el crimen contra Carlos y Rafael Alejandro", "S? a la vida,
no a la violencia", "Justicia y paz", "Alto al crimen, alto a la
barbarie" y "Alto a los asesinatos y persecuciones de los j?venes en
Honduras", se le?a en algunas de las pancartas que portaban los
universitarios.
Durante la manifestaci?n frente a la estatua del fundador de la UNAH,
Jos? Trinidad Reyes, el ambiente se vio iluminado por las velas que
portaban los estudiantes y por una fogata encendida para representar "la
esperanza en el coraz?n de los hondure?os diciendo: paz en Honduras",
seg?n los organizadores.
La rectora Castellanos expres? que "los niveles de violencia que el pa?s
tiene son responsabilidad de las autoridades que no toman decisiones".
"No podemos culpar a nadie m?s", agreg? la rectora, quien adem?s record?
que ella ha venido trabajando desde hace varios a?os contra la violencia
que sufren los j?venes en Honduras.
Castellanos es fundadora del Observatorio de la Violencia de la UNAH,
que este a?o ha registrado cifras que se?alan que en Honduras son
asesinados 82 personas por cada 100.000 habitantes.
En el acto de esta noche tambi?n se destac? que entre enero y octubre de
este a?o en Honduras han sido asesinados 64 estudiantes de educaci?n
secundaria y universitaria, cuya memoria fue honrada hoy en la m?xima
casa de estudios.
En los ocho centros regionales de la UNAH que funcionan en todo el pa?s
tambi?n se han celebrado actos similares para condenar la violencia en
el pa?s centroamericano.
La "fogata por la paz" fue promovida por estudiantes de todos los
frentes de la universidad con el respaldo de sus autoridades.
El vicerrector de Orientaci?n y Asuntos Estudiantiles, Ayax Ir?as, dijo
a Efe que el acto de hoy es el primero de una serie que realizar? la
Universidad Nacional para crear conciencia en la sociedad sobre la ola
de violencia que vive el pa?s.
Los estudiantes tambi?n colgaron mensajes escritos a mano expresando su
repudio por la violencia en Honduras y pidiendo al Gobierno que preside
Porfirio Lobo que garantice la seguridad.
Mientras que la madre de Carlos Pineda le pidi? a las autoridades que si
no pueden controlar la violencia en el pa?s "entonces renuncien".
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Message: 135
Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2011 09:13:29 -0500
From: Araceli Santos <santos@stratfor.com>
To: The OS List <os@stratfor.com>
Subject: [OS] EL SALVADOR - ES govt seeking more international aid
post-floods
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*Gobierno en busca de m?s ayuda por da?os*
http://www.elsalvador.com/mwedh/nota/nota_completa.asp?idCat=47673&idArt=6330972

Ejecutivo dice que evitar? lo m?s que pueda contratar nueva deuda.
Reorientar?n cr?ditos

La Primera Dama Vanda Pignato solicit? ayuda a Bill Clinton para la
reconstrucci?n del pa?s. Foto EDH / Cortes?a CAPRES

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DANIEL CHOTO NACIONAL@ELDIARIODEHOY.COM
Jueves, 27 de Octubre de 2011
El Gobierno lanz? ayer un nuevo llamado a la comunidad internacional
para que ayude a El Salvador a superar la etapa de emergencia generada
tras la Depresi?n Tropical 12E, que caus? p?rdidas de m?s de $650
millones, que se traducen en aproximadamente tres puntos del Producto
Interno Bruto (PIB).

Esta segunda petici?n de ayuda internacional surge luego de que el
Sistema de Naciones Unidas activara el mecanismo "Flash Appeal" (pedido
r?pido) que busca un fondo inicial de 15.7 millones de d?lares, para
atender las necesidades prioritarias de los m?s de 300 mil salvadore?os
afectados directamente por el fen?meno natural.

Esta primera ayuda se ejecutar? en los primeros seis meses tras la
emergencia, espec?ficamente en atenci?n a los 611 albergues, asistencia
alimentaria, salud, educaci?n, protecci?n y agricultura, explic? el
secretario t?cnico de la presidencia, Alexander Segovia.

Seg?n ?l, ante la magnitud del da?o se tuvo que trabajar paralelamente a
la emergencia en la rehabilitaci?n y reconstrucci?n, porque el reto es
enorme, y abog? porque con la iniciativa de Naciones Unidas, se comience
a sensibilizar y colocar en la vitrina internacional lo que ha pasado a
El Salvador en estas ?ltimas semanas.

Por su parte el coordinador de Naciones Unidas en el Salvador, Roberto
Valent, tras enumerar la magnitud de los da?os, destac? que el pa?s "se
ha subido las mangas, de hecho, y puesto a trabajar, y esto fue hecho
conjuntamente y por el bien com?n".

El funcionario de la ONU, dijo que la cooperaci?n internacional se sum?
a la ayuda inmediata a la poblaci?n directamente afectada con alimentos,
suministros m?dicos y otras acciones fundamentales para la atenci?n
inmediata de la emergencia por un monto de 1.7 millones de d?lares.

A?adi? que sobre la base de las primeras evaluaciones, se movilizaron
otros 2.6 millones de d?lares, para ayuda humanitaria inmediata.

Las necesidades contin?an siendo monumentales y por lo tanto el
imperativo de apoyo humanitario sigue presente, dijo, sobre todo para
miles de personas que est?n regresando a sus lugares de origen, donde
encuentran fuentes de alimentaci?n devastadas, casas destruidas y v?as
de comunicaci?n colapsadas.

En tanto la secretaria de Inclusi?n Social, Vanda Pignato, se reuni?
ayer con el ex presidente de EE.UU., Bill Clinton, para solicitarle su
respaldo en la b?squeda de m?s ayuda internacional para la
rehabilitaci?n y reconstrucci?n.
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Message: 136
Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2011 09:13:12 -0500
From: Araceli Santos <santos@stratfor.com>
To: The OS List <os@stratfor.com>
Subject: [OS] FOOD/ECUADOR/EL SALVADOR - Ecuador sends 14 tons of food
aid to ES
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*
Gobierno del Ecuador env?a unas 14 toneladas de alimentos a El Salvador*
http://www.hoy.com.ec/noticias-ecuador/breves-de-pais-465-510403.html

El gobierno del Ecuador, a trav?s de la Secretar?a Nacional de Gesti?n
de Riesgos, envi? ayer ayuda humanitaria para El Salvador, pa?s afectado
por las lluvias. La ayuda humanitaria consiste en 14 toneladas, que
incluyen 500 raciones de alimentos, 500 kits de higiene, 500 kits de
limpieza y 500 cobijas.

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Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2011 09:08:55 -0500
From: Araceli Santos <santos@stratfor.com>
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Subject: [OS] HONDURAS/CT - Honduras Set to Launch Operation Lightning
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*Honduras Set to Launch Operation Lightning
*Friday, 28 October 2011 05:21
http://www.hondurasweekly.com/honduras-set-to-launch-operation-lightning-201110284357/

What Mr. Lobo should bear in mind, though, is that launching an
offensive like Operation Lightning is not like switching on a water
faucet. You can't just turn it on and turn it off without any serious
consequences. Either the strategy will work and have a positive impact
on reducing crime in Honduras. Or it will dramatically increase the
violence.


By Marco C?ceres
The Lobo administration's "Operation Lightning" is set to commence on
November 1. The idea is to deploy thousands of police officers and
soldiers on the streets in a joint and coordinated offensive against
criminal elements in Honduras. The move is similar to what is normally
done around this time of the year in preparation for the Christmas and
New Year's festivities, in which people tend to drink too much, stay out
too late, get into more fights, and abuse their relatives more than
usual -- all in the name of honoring the saints and celebrating the
holidays. Besides the impressive sounding name Lightning, which was also
used in May 2005 when some 40,000 Iraqi police and soldiers (supported
by US troops) in Iraq launched an operation to combat suspected
terrorists in Baghad, the only thing different about this deployment
plan is that it breaks out Honduras into eight regions. Tegucigalpa and
San Pedro Sula are each designated as a region, and there are six others.

Operation Lightning in Iraq lasted only a week, and it resulted in more
than 500 arrests. Operation Lightning in Honduras, however, is
envisioned to go on for many months. It has been described as a
"permanent saturation" of police and soldiers within high crime areas.
Military and police commanders will apparently be evaluated every two or
three months based on how much crime rates are reduced in their
respective regions. And President Lobo has said that he wants to hire
and train new police officers and soldiers in order to add muscle to the
operation. He also said that he intends to submit law reform proposals
to Congress to help facilitate actions against suspected criminals.

All of this does indeed suggest that Operation Lightning will not be a
blitzkrieg, but rather an anti-crime strategy that will last through the
end of Mr. Lobo's term in office... another two years. It is essentially
a declaration of war against crime syndicates and gangs in Honduras. But
that is the obvious intent. What is less obvious is that it may also be
a tactic to weed out members of the police suspected of having ties to
organized crime.

By mobilizing so many police officers and partnering them with members
of the Armed Forces (generally regarding as a more professional
institution) in different locations, Mr. Lobo is re-arranging the pieces
on the chessboard, which sometimes produces helpful insights and
information. If there are corrupt police, then the last thing you want
is to allow them to remain in their comfort zones and within reach of
their support networks. Move 'em out and expose them a bit.

Whatever Mr. Lobo has in mind with Operation Lightning, it seems clear
that the President feels has no choice but to try something different --
anything -- because everything his government has done to try to improve
the security situation in Honduras has failed.

"I'm going to tell you what is going on up to now... a government makes
an effort and maybe the strategy produces no results, and so we look for
another way to do things. On the issue of security, I have made an huge
commitment to the Honduran people," said Mr. Lobo. "I am not satisfied
with the results, because the [crime] statistics are cold. I am not
satisfied, and I am going to personally take on this task. We have made
the necessary adjustments. If one thing doesn't turn out, then we'll
look for another way to do it."

What Mr. Lobo should bear in mind, though, is that launching an
offensive like Operation Lightning is not like switching on a water
faucet. You can't just turn it on and turn it off without any serious
consequences. Either the strategy will work and have a positive impact
on reducing crime in Honduras. Or it will dramatically increase the
violence. As President Felipe Calder?n of Mexico has learned, when a
government declares war against organized crime, the criminals tend to
fight back with abandon.

It's worth noting that Operation Lightning in Iraq was followed not by a
decline in terrorist attacks, but by a massive increase in both the
number and ferocity of the attacks. In 2006, the violence in Iraq grew
so much that the US media started using the term "civil war" to describe
the situation. By the end of that year, US Secretary of Defense Donald
Rumsfeld had resigned and been replaced by CIA Director Robert Gates,
who ackowledged for the first time that the US was not winning the war
in Iraq. (10/28/11) (photo of Operation Lightning in Iraq courtesy Internet)


Note: The author is the editor and cofounder of Honduras Weekly. He is
also the cofounder of projecthonduras.com, an international network of
volunteers involved in humanitarian development projects aimed at
empowering the people of Honduras. He directs the annual Conference on
Honduras in the town of Cop?n Ruinas in northwestern Honduras. He was
born in Tegucigalpa.
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Message: 138
Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2011 09:15:38 -0500
From: Araceli Santos <santos@stratfor.com>
To: The OS List <os@stratfor.com>
Subject: [OS] EL SALVADOR/CT - NGOs say ES hasn't fulfilled
recommendations related to student massacre, Romero's death in 1980's
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*El Salvador incumple las recomendaciones en el caso de monse?or Romero,
seg?n ONGs*
http://www.google.com/hostednews/epa/article/ALeqM5gMB01YtbwhcKG-AMwhyHC5ggDHeQ?docId=1641055

Por Agencia EFE -- hace 11 horas
Washington, 27 oct (EFE).- El Salvador "sigue incumpliendo" las
recomendaciones de la Comisi?n Interamericana de Derechos Humanos (CIDH)
sobre el asesinato de monse?or Romero y la masacre en la Universidad
Centroamericana (UCA) en los a?os ochenta, seg?n denunciaron hoy
organizaciones representantes de las v?ctimas.
El Instituto de Derechos Humanos de la Universidad Centroamericana "Jos?
Sime?n Ca?as" (IDHUCA) y el Centro por la Justicia y el Derecho
Internacional (CEJIL) se reunieron en privado con representantes del
Gobierno de El Salvador y de la CIDH para examinar el cumplimiento de
sus recomendaciones en estos casos.
La reuni?n se celebr? en Washington al margen de las audiencias p?blicas
que est? celebrando esta semana el organismo aut?nomo de la Organizaci?n
de Estados Americanos (OEA), encargado de velar por los derechos humanos
en el continente.
Las autoridades de El Salvador reconocieron estas "deudas oficiales" y
aceptaron que no ha adecuado su legislaci?n para dejar sin efecto la Ley
de Amnist?a vigente en el pa?s desde 1993, seg?n indic? CEJIL en un
comunicado, en el que manifest? la "frustraci?n" de ambas organizaciones
por "la falta de avances" en la justicia.
En este sentido denunciaron que el Estado ha obstaculizado los esfuerzos
de la justicia universal impulsados por la Audiencia Nacional de Espa?a
que est? analizando el caso tras la denuncia presentada el 13 de
noviembre de 2008 por el Center for Justice and Accountability (CJA),
para investigar la matanza de la UCA, en la que fueron asesinados seis
sacerdotes jesuitas, la colaboradora de los sacerdotes Julia Elba Ramos
y su hija adolescente, Celina.
Las ONG manifestaron que en agosto pasado la Polic?a Nacional Civil de
El Salvador no detuvo a nueve militares acusados por esos hechos contra
quienes la Interpol hab?a emitido una orden internacional de captura e
hizo lo mismo en septiembre con otros cinco militares imputados.
En el caso de monse?or Romero, se?alaron que el caso permanece cerrado
desde 1993 y el Estado "no ha adoptado ninguna medida para cambiar esta
situaci?n".
Adem?s, indicaron que desde noviembre de 2009 El Salvador se comprometi?
a adoptar medidas simb?licas de reparaci?n, "sin que a la fecha se hayan
dado avances sustanciales".
Las organizaciones lamentaron la "falta de acci?n" para derogar la Ley
de Amnist?a y subrayaron que el "incumplimiento absoluto" de las
recomendaciones de la CIDH "vac?a de significado los actos oficiales de
reconocimiento de responsabilidad por las violaciones cometidas por el
Estado y las medidas simb?licas de reparaci?n".
"Es imposible reparar el da?o causado sin la obtenci?n de justicia",
indic? la representaci?n de las v?ctimas, que solicitaron a la CIDH que
se involucre "de manera m?s cercana" en el seguimiento de sus
recomendaciones para evitar que la impunidad "se siga perpetuando".
? EFE 2011. Est? expresamente prohibida la redistribuci?n y la
redifusi?n de todo o parte de los contenidos de los servicios de Efe,
sin previo y expreso consentimiento de la Agencia EFE S.A.
--

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Message: 139
Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2011 09:13:37 -0500
From: Antonio Caracciolo <antonio.caracciolo@stratfor.com>
To: "os >> The OS List" <os@stratfor.com>
Subject: [OS] VENEZUELA/MIL - Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez at the
meeting on Wednesday with troops from the Armed Forces, called for
maintaining unity within the Venezuelan military
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Message: 140
Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2011 09:14:34 -0500
From: Araceli Santos <santos@stratfor.com>
To: The OS List <os@stratfor.com>
Subject: [OS] EL SALVADOR/CT - ES is highest ranked latam country on
the list of countries with most number of violent deaths
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*El Salvador lidera la lista de los pa?ses con m?s muertes violentas en
el mundo
*
http://www.lagaceta.com.ar/nota/462291/Mundo/Salvador-lidera-lista-paises-mas-muertes-violentas-mundo.html

Cambiar tama?o

Envie por e-mail

Imprima

Viernes 28 de Octubre de 2011 | Seis naciones de Am?rica latina y cinco
de ?frica ocupan los 14 primeros lugares del relevamiento general. En
Brasil hubo m?s homicidios que en Irak entre 2003 y 2008. El peso
tr?gico del narcotr?fico. Objetivos para cuatro a?os

Fotos ver Im?genes del d?a


ampliar | INSEGURIDAD EN CIUDAD JU?REZ. En M?xico, el nivel de violencia
se mantienen estables los niveles de violencia, pero igualmente es
inquietante. NOTICIAS.AOLLATINO.COM
GINEBRA.- Seis de los 14 pa?ses m?s violentos del mundo est?n en Am?rica
Latina, revel? la segunda edici?n del informe Carga mundial de la
violencia armada, publicado ayer por la secretar?a de la Declaraci?n de
Ginebra sobre Violencia Armada y Desarrollo.

"Un cuarto de todas las muertes violentas se produjeron en s?lo 14
pa?ses", se?ala el informe de la iniciativa diplom?tica lanzada en 2008,
basado en estad?sticas de 2009. La primera edici?n no dispon?a de
estad?sticas por pa?ses.

El Salvador, Honduras, Colombia, Venezuela, Guatemala y Belice son los
pa?ses latinoamericanos mencionados en el documento. En ellos, los
grupos armados, a menudo vinculados al tr?fico de drogas, provocan
estragos. La lista se completa con Irak, Jamaica, Sri Lanka, Sud?frica,
Lesoto, Rep?blica Centroafricana, Sud?n y Rep?blica Democr?tica del
Congo (las ?ltimas cinco son naciones africanas).

El Salvador es el pa?s m?s violento del mundo con m?s de 60 muertes por
cada 100.000 habitantes. Entre 2004 y 2009, proporcionalmente murieron
m?s personas de forma violenta en El Salvador que en Irak, que figura en
el segundo lugar de los pa?ses m?s violentos del mundo, con Jamaica en
el tercer escal?n.

En Centroam?rica las muertes violentas tienen un promedio regional de 29
por cada 100.000 habitantes; le siguen el sur de ?frica, 27,4; y el
Caribe, 22,4. Por detr?s se sit?an el centro de ?frica y Sudam?rica.

"Las operaciones del crimen organizado est?n acompa?adas por un nivel
muy elevado de violencia. Esos grupos tienen una extraordinaria
capacidad para hacer borrosos los l?mites entre los tipos de violencia
ya sean de origen criminal o pol?tico, como lo demuestra la guerra de la
droga en M?xico y el resto de Am?rica Central, el Caribe y algunos
pa?ses andinos", se puntualiza en el informe.

Se insisti? tambi?n en la violencia contra las mujeres, en particular en
Guatemala, donde "unas 720 mujeres murieron en 2009, muchas de ellas
luego de haber sido torturadas o abusadas sexualmente, lo que es casi el
doble de las 383 mujeres asesinadas en 2003". Entre ese a?o y 2008,
"ocho pa?ses registraron una cifra anual de muertes violentas
intencionales por encima de la cantidad de decesos por el conflicto en
Irak". El primero de esta estad?stica es Brasil, con 48.000 v?ctimas por
homicidios (ocupa el 18 lugar como pa?s m?s violento del mundo).

Se aclar? que el nivel de violencia en M?xico se mantuvo estable con un
promedio de 11,5 muertes por cada 100.000 habitantes entre 2004 a 2009.
"La mayor parte del pa?s es segura, lo que esconde la amarga realidad de
que algunas ciudades y regiones sufren niveles extraordinarios de
violencia", se afirma.

Violencia sin guerra

"La mayor?a de las sociedades afectadas por las muertes violentas no
est?n en guerra", destac? Keith Krause, profesor del Instituto de Altos
Estudios Internacionales y de Desarrollo de Ginebra que particip? en la
elaboraci?n del estudio. "No hubo grandes cambios en los ?ltimos tres
a?os", agreg?.

Seg?n el informe, 526.000 personas mueren de manera violenta cada a?o en
el mundo, pero s?lo 55.000 perdieron la vida en el marco de un conflicto
o debido al terrorismo. Por otra parte, unas 200.000 personas murieron
en las zonas donde hay enfrentamientos armados por causas indirectas
como la malnutrici?n o enfermedades evitables.

La Declaraci?n de Ginebra fue firmada por m?s de un centenar de pa?ses,
con el objetivo de respaldar a los Estados y a la sociedad civil en sus
esfuerzos para reducir de manera tangible la violencia armada para 2015.
Entre sus promotores figura el Programa de Naciones Unidas para el
Desarrollo (PNUD). El lunes y martes se llevar? a cabo una conferencia
ministerial para examinar los progresos realizados y "fijar claramente
las prioridades". La apertura estar? a cargo de la presidenta de la
Confederaci?n suiza, Michelin Calmy-Rey. (AFP)
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Message: 141
Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2011 09:14:57 -0500
From: Araceli Santos <santos@stratfor.com>
To: The OS List <os@stratfor.com>
Subject: [OS] EL SALVADOR/MEXICO/CT/GUATEMALA - Mexican police rescue
ES youth kidnapped in Guatemala
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*La polic?a mexicana libera a adolescente salvadore?o secuestrado en
Guatemala*
http://www.google.com/hostednews/epa/article/ALeqM5jDlvkIwKIy7-zz8FrZzXn6ZJ-qyw?docId=1641034

Por Agencia EFE -- hace 12 horas
San Crist?bal de las Casas (M?xico), 27 oct (EFE).- Un adolescente
salvadore?o, de 14 a?os, fue rescatado por agentes mexicanos en el
sure?o estado de Chiapas dos meses y medio despu?s de que fuera
secuestrado en Guatemala y por cuya liberaci?n se exig?a el pago de
10.000 d?lares.
El adolescente, cuyo nombre no fue revelado, viajaba con su padre rumbo
a Estados Unidos donde pretend?a reunirse con su madre pero fue
secuestrado en un hotel de Guatemala capital, informaron hoy fuentes
oficiales.
Despu?s el menor fue trasladado por sus secuestradores a la ciudad
mexicana de Tapachula, fronteriza con Guatemala.
Agentes mexicanos dieron con la casa donde estaba el menor y detuvieron
a sus dos secuestradores, identificados como Sandra Patricia Polanco
Monterrosa y Jos? Chac?n Gonz?lez, "Mano de fuego", ambos originarios de
El Salvador.
A los largo de los dos meses y medio los delincuentes se comunicaron en
diversas ocasiones con los familiares del menor en Estados Unidos y en
El Salvador para exigirles 10.000 d?lares por su liberaci?n.
"El menor era amenazado al grado de arrancarle gritos de desesperaci?n
en los que suplicaba el auxilio de sus familiares, momento que los
captores aprovechaban para exigirles que entregaran 10.000 d?lares por
su liberaci?n. De esta forma, se llevaron a cabo cobros en diversos
puntos de la Rep?blica Mexicana, entre ellos el Distrito Federal, Nuevo
Le?n, Sonora y Tapachula, Chiapas", informo la fuente.
El fiscal especializado en Atenci?n a Delitos Cometido en Contra de
Inmigrantes en Chiapas, Enrique M?ndez, entreg? hoy al menor al
vicec?nsul salvadore?o en Tapachula, Luis Perdomo Vidal, quien inform?
que el menor se reunir? en breve con su familia en El Salvador.
--

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Message: 142
Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2011 09:17:39 -0500
From: Carlos Lopez Portillo <carlos.lopezportillo@stratfor.com>
To: os@stratfor.com
Subject: [OS] ARGENTINA/ECON - Small and medium companies praise govmt
measures to prevent speculation against the dollar
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Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2011 09:20:47 -0500
From: Antonio Caracciolo <antonio.caracciolo@stratfor.com>
To: "os >> The OS List" <os@stratfor.com>
Subject: [OS] VENEZUELA/CT - The CICPC of Nueva Esparta arrested the
criminal organization of Los Occidentales which was smuggling drugs
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Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2011 09:19:06 -0500
From: Antonio Caracciolo <antonio.caracciolo@stratfor.com>
To: "os >> The OS List" <os@stratfor.com>
Subject: [OS] VENEZUELA/ECON - The socialist bloc in the National
Assembly (AN) approved in second reading the bill for the
Regularization and Control for landlords, whose legal framework seeks
to foster relations and fight speculation
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Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2011 09:27:59 -0500
From: Antonio Caracciolo <antonio.caracciolo@stratfor.com>
To: "os >> The OS List" <os@stratfor.com>
Subject: [OS] VENEZUELA/CUBA/ISREAL/US - Venezuela calls on UN to end
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Message: 146
Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2011 09:29:28 -0500
From: Araceli Santos <santos@stratfor.com>
To: The OS List <os@stratfor.com>
Subject: [OS] NICARAGUA - Ortega ahead by 18 points in the polls
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*Daniel Ortega aventaja por 18 puntos a su rival m?s cercano*
http://www.eluniversal.com/internacional/111028/daniel-ortega-aventaja-por-18-puntos-a-su-rival-mas-cercano

EL UNIVERSAL
viernes 28 de octubre de 2011 12:00 AM
Managua.- El presidente de Nicaragua, Daniel Ortega, encabeza con 48% la
intenci?n de voto para lograr su reelecci?n en los comicios del 6 de
noviembre, con una amplia ventaja de 18 puntos sobre su rival Fabio
Gadea, seg?n una encuesta de Cid Gallup publicada ayer.

Ortega, del izquierdista Frente Sandinista, subi? 2,2 puntos respecto de
la encuesta anterior de Cid Gallup, divulgada hace un mes; en tanto que
Gadea, del derechista Partido Liberal Independiente (PLI) baj? del 33,5%
al 30%, sostuvo AFP.

El expresidente Arnoldo Alem?n (1997-2002), del Partido liberal
Constitucionalista (PLC), segu?a en un lejano tercer lugar, con 11% del
apoyo electoral.

La encuesta, que tiene un margen de error de 2,8%, se realiz? entre el
10 y el 17 de octubre pasado con 1.200 personas mayores de 16 a?os de
todo el pa?s, habilitadas para votar.

Condenan a Concejal

Un juez de Nicaragua encontr? culpable del delito de calumnias a un
concejal del Partido Liberal Constitucionalista (PLC, derecha), que
hab?a denunciado actos de corrupci?n en la Alcald?a capitalina.

La sentencia fue dictada por el juez Ceso Urbina en contra del concejal
liberal Leonel Teller, que meses atr?s denunci? supuestos malos manejos
en la Municipalidad de Managua, controlada por el gobernante Frente
Sandinista, cit? DPA.
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Message: 147
Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2011 09:29:13 -0500
From: Araceli Santos <santos@stratfor.com>
To: The OS List <os@stratfor.com>
Subject: [OS] ECON/NICARAGUA/POL - Economic growth and cronyism give
Ortega upper hand in Nicaragua elections
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*Economic growth and cronyism give Ortega upper hand in Nicaragua elections*
http://www.ticotimes.net/Current-Edition/Top-Story/Economic-growth-and-cronyism-give-Ortega-upper-hand-in-Nicaragua-elections_Friday-October-28-2011

Posted: Friday, October 28, 2011 - By Larry Luxner
Election Preview: Despite allegations of corruption and strong-armed
tactics, President Daniel Ortega is expected to easily win re-election
on Nov. 6.

As part of Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega's "Solidarity Campaign,"
poor families receive land titles during an Oct. 3 ceremony in Managua.
Ortega handed out 5,000 land titles through the program, which began in
August. Courtesy of Elmer Martinez, AFP

WASHINGTON -- Nicaraguans will go to the polls Nov. 6 to elect a
president, but there's no mystery concerning the outcome. Daniel Ortega,
the aging revolutionary who led his leftist comrades to a military
victory in 1979 and has been a key figure in this Central American
nation ever since, will in all likelihood trounce his two adversaries --
despite past allegations of voter manipulation and outright fraud by
Ortega's ruling Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN).

The reason: Nicaragua's economy is doing relatively well, buoyed by
record factory exports, the sale of Venezuelan oil to other countries
and a steadily growing tourism industry. It also helps that Ortega
enjoys widespread popularity in a still-impoverished country where
personalities usually matter far more than issues.

Ortega's hand-picked man in Washington, Ambassador Francisco Campbell,
wouldn't discuss the upcoming elections with us, though a variety of
Nicaragua experts agree that something doesn't smell quite right in that
129,500-square-kilometer country prone to earthquakes, dictatorships,
revolutions and widespread corruption.

"At least 55 percent of the population says Ortega has been doing a good
job, so the allegations that he's corrupt, even though they're right,
are not an issue for the majority of Nicaraguans," says Manuel Orozco, a
senior analyst at the Washington-based Inter-American Dialogue.

For one thing, Orozco told The Diplomat, the president has succeeded in
keeping the opposition weak and divided. Secondly, he enjoys strong
support from two of Nicaragua's most important institutions: the private
sector and the church. And thirdly, "he's been able to adopt a populist
stand, basically using government resources to provide favors for the
people."

Orozco, a Nicaraguan who was approached by a close ally of Ortega after
the president's 2007 election victory and asked to advise the government
on economic policy (he politely refused), said Ortega has basically won
the support of businessmen through handouts and old-fashioned cronyism.

"He learned right after his defeat in 1990 that in order to win an
election, you have to gain the favor of the private sector," Orozco
said. "So for the past 15 years, he's been respecting private property
and doesn't charge high taxes on the private sector. He was able to keep
the country relatively stable during the recession, mainly by utilizing
revenues from the sale of Venezuelan oil to pay for welfare services."

Orozco estimates that Nicaragua -- thanks to Ortega's solidarity with
fellow populist President Hugo Ch?vez of Venezuela -- receives $500
million a year worth of Venezuelan oil at subsidized prices.

According to the latest CID-Gallup poll, Ortega is by far the leading
candidate, with 45.5 percent of support among likely Nicaraguan voters.
In second place is Fabio Gadea of the Independent Liberal Party with
33.5 percent. Trailing Gadea in the polls is Liberal Constitutional
Party candidate Arnoldo Alem?n, a former president of Nicaragua who was
convicted of embezzlement in 2003, with 10.1 percent.

Thanks to a deal hatched in 1999 between then-President Alem?n and
Ortega, whose FSLN party was in the opposition, a presidential candidate
needs only 35 percent of the vote in order to avoid a runoff election.

The CID-Gallup poll, released Sept. 30, found that 68.9 percent of
voters are sure of their candidate and don't plan on changing their
minds. Only 5.2 percent of respondents said they might switch candidates
on Election Day.

"Politics in many Central American countries, especially Nicaragua, is
based on personal appeal, and Ortega has that. He's also an experienced
politician, and he knows how to move money and satisfy constituencies,"
said Steve Johnson, an analyst at Washington's Center for Strategic and
International Studies (CSIS). "The problem with the opposition is coming
up with a candidate who knows how to appeal to the people and spread
patronage around."

Johnson said Ortega has avoided the radical anti-United States agenda
that marked his years as a Sandinista comandante. In fact, he's gone out
of his way to take full advantage of Nicaragua's free trade agreement
with the U.S. under DR-CAFTA.

"By not upsetting the apple cart with a wholesale return to the days of
sandinismo, he's managed to maintain good graces with a broad base of
the population," said the CSIS expert, who traveled to Nicaragua
frequently during the 1980s as a military attach? with the U.S. Embassy
in Honduras, and in 2001 as an election observer.

What irks Ortega's opponents is the way in which he circumvented
Nicaragua's own election laws to be able to run again, even though the
constitution specifically forbids re-election following a five-year
presidential term.

Tim Rogers, editor of The Nicaragua Dispatch, says Ortega and his
cronies in the judicial system blatantly sidestepped the constitution in
2009 in order to allow him to stand for re-election.

"The Sandinista judge decided that [Article 147 of the constitution],
which says there are no consecutive re-elections, does not apply to
Ortega. They said it violates other articles which state that everyone
is created equally, so if the president can't run again, he's not being
treated equally," Rogers said from Managua.

He added that the term of Roberto Rivas, president of Nicaragua's
Supreme Electoral Council -- which counts the votes -- expired a year
ago, but that he remains on the job thanks to a decree passed by none
other than Ortega.

"This could mark a real turning point in Nicaragua's fragile democracy,
in that here's essentially a candidate whom the opposition calls
illegal, running in an electoral system controlled by his party," he
said. "That electoral council has already been accused of various kinds
of electoral fraud. It's a very precarious situation."

Ortega's running mate is retired Gen. Omar Halleslevens, one of the
founders of the Sandinista army, who until last year commanded the
country's armed forces.

"Halleslevens is highly regarded and gives that ticket a great deal of
respectability, which Ortega lacks, particularly on constitutional
grounds," said Rogers, though he warns that the general's inclusion on
the ticket is also seen as a thinly veiled attempt by Ortega to curry
favor with Nicaragua's military.

"The country has become very polarized, and the Sandinistas are
constantly keeping tabs on their neighbors, on who's supporting whom,"
he said. "Whether or not you're a Sandinista determines whether or not
you receive government aid."

Yet with all the focus on Libya, Syria, Afghanistan and Iran, Foggy
Bottom has been strangely silent on the dubious dealings in Nicaragua,
notes CSIS's Johnson.

"You don't hear anyone in the State Department complaining very loudly
about how he manipulated the constitution to run again, so it's likely
our government will live with it, although an Ortega victory will
certainly leave an unsavory aftertaste," he said.


Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega during an Oct. 6 speech in Managua to
deliver 110 buses imported from Mexico. Courtesy of Elmer Martinez, AFP
One reason might be that the Washington political establishment -- while
not exactly in love with Ortega -- prefers to look the other way as long
as the old rebel stays out of trouble and keeps the door open to U.S.
investors.

There's no question that since Ortega's return to power in 2007,
Nicaraguan exports have doubled and foreign direct investment has grown
nearly fivefold.

"Nicaragua now has the fastest-growing economy in Central America.
Ironically, it's become the poster child for the IMF," Rogers noted.
"Every year Ortega's been in power, Nicaragua has set new records for
exports and FDI. The macroeconomic numbers are encouraging, and at the
end of the day, that's what people care about."

The numbers evidently speak for themselves. In the first half of 2011,
Nicaragua attracted $284 million in FDI. While the rate of investment
may cause the country to fall short of the $1 billion goal Ortega set at
the beginning of the year, it still represents a 32 percent increase
from the year-ago period, according to Ver?nica Rojas, vice minister of
the country's Industry, Commerce and Development Ministry.

Nicaragua is also the only country in Central America to not only
recover the free trade zone jobs it lost during the 2008-2009 global
economic slump, but also surpass previous employment highs in that sector.

Gen. ?lvaro Baltodano, presidential delegate to the investment agency
PRONicaragua, said that by the end of this year, 97,000 Nicaraguans will
be employed in the country's free zones, producing everything from
women's underwear to blue jeans for the nearby U.S. market.

Tourism is booming as well. Just over 1 million foreign tourists visited
Nicaragua in 2010, the first time the country has exceeded that figure;
this represents an 8.4 percent increase over the 931,000 foreigners who
visited Nicaragua in 2009, said Mario Salinas, president of the
Nicaraguan Tourism Institute.

"The increase is due to the fact that Nicaragua is perceived as an
interesting destination on the international level," said Salinas,
noting that his country expects $100 million worth of investment in
tourism projects over the next year.

He said 60 percent of the tourists who visit Nicaragua come from other
Central American countries, mainly Honduras, followed by the U.S.,
Canada and Europe. The average stay in the country is 7.3 days and each
tourist spends an average of $50 per day. Authorities registered gross
income of $360 million from foreign tourism in 2010, up from $346
million in 2009.

Anticipating even more tourism, the Ortega government plans to build an
inter-national airport at Lake Nicaragua's Ometepe, the world's largest
volcanic island in a freshwater lake. The $7 million facility will boast
a 1,500-meter runway and serve aircraft carrying up to 42 passengers,
said Orlando Castillo, manager of the country's state-run airport
authority, EAAI.

Castillo said the new airport will be built on the site of a long-gone
tobacco factory. Costa Rican airline Nature Air has already reportedly
expressed interest in scheduling daily flights to Ometepe once the
airport opens in early 2012.

"The decision to build an airport in Ometepe was taken due to the
island's great potential for tourism development," said Castillo, noting
that EAAI also plans to open two more international airports in
Greytown, in the department of R?o San Juan, and in Punta Huete, in the
department of Managua.

Earlier this year, Ometepe was declared Nicaragua's third Biosphere
Reserve by UNESCO; the others are the Bosawas and the R?o San Juan.

In addition, a $1.5 million project is underway to restore the
historical center of Granada, a charming colonial city and Nicaragua's
leading tourist attraction. The money -- which comes from the Spanish
Agency for International Development Cooperation, the European Union and
the Inter-American Development Bank -- will go toward five specific
projects, including street widening, rehabilitation of Parque Azul and
construction of a pier.

Private money is pouring into tourism projects too.

One of the country's largest planned ventures is Isla Guacalito, a
massive resort that stretches 670 hectares along the Pacific beaches of
Guacalito and Manzanillo. Managua's La Prensa reports that Grupo Pellas
will invest $250 million in the project, including $115 million in the
first phase, which includes a boutique hotel, 490 residential villas and
a golf course. The project's promoter, Sociedad Marina de Guacalito SA,
claims it will generate 4,000 direct and 12,000 indirect jobs at its peak.

Such luxury resorts cater to the ever-growing numbers of U.S. expats
who've decided to retire in Nicaragua, lured by the country's natural
beauty and relatively low cost of living. They also boost Ortega's
standing in the foreign investment community, which values stability and
the rule of law over all else.

If past is prologue, CSIS's Johnson observed, Ortega may be populist
enough to satisfy his Sandinista support base, but pragmatic enough not
to irritate close neighbors.

"He might offer refuge to old fellow travelers like Moammar Gadhafi, but
probably won't block commerce with the United States. It's not a
strategy that will help Nicaragua progress in any sense of the term, but
that was never the point," Johnson said. "It's about running a political
machine, nothing more. And until the majority of voters get sick of the
corruption, that's all it will ever be about."


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From: Araceli Santos <santos@stratfor.com>
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Subject: [OS] NICARAGUA/FOOD/COSTA RICA/NETHERLANDS - Nicaragua:
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*Nicaragua: Import onions and potatoes from Costa Rica and Holland
*
http://www.freshplaza.com/news_detail.asp?id=88277

The Minister of Development, Industry and Commerce, Orlando Solorzano,
announced that in the coming weeks potatoes and onions imported from
Costa Rica and the Netherlands will arrive to the country, to deal with
the losses caused the rains on plantations of these products.

Some perishable have increased in recent days, product of the wet season
that has been hitting the country two weeks ago, and to confront this
situation, the purchase of such products from Costa Rica and the
Netherlands has been authorized.

Shipments begin to arrive next week, said Solorzano, and will continue
to arrive throughout November. It remains be define whether import will
continue to meet the demand in December.

In total, according to official estimates, the partial damage caused by
the rains totaled 44,241 apples, of which 42,187 are from basic grains.
Total losses amounted to 9,305 apples.

In addition to corn and beans, cotton, potato, tomato, onion, pepper and
cabbage crops reported damages.
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Message: 150
Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2011 09:35:39 -0500
From: Araceli Santos <santos@stratfor.com>
To: The OS List <os@stratfor.com>
Subject: [OS] PANAMA/MEXICO/CT - Panama, Mexico agree to boost
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*Alianza entre M?xico y Panam?*
http://www.oem.com.mx/elsoldehidalgo/notas/n2285456.htm

El procurador Alejandro Straffon dialoga con el embajador de Panam?,
Francisco Troya Aguirre, respecto a temas relacionados con la
delincuencia y cooperaci?n bilaterial. Foto: El Sol de Hidalgo.
El Sol de Hidalgo
28 de octubre de 2011

Por La Redacci?n

Pachuca, Hidalgo.- En el marco del intercambio y alianza estrat?gica
para fortalecer la cooperaci?n bilateral entre Panam? y M?xico a fin de
enfrentar a la delincuencia, el embajador paname?o Francisco Troya
Aguirre realiz? una visita de vinculaci?n con la Procuradur?a General de
Justicia del Estado de Hidalgo.

El diplom?tico centroamericano fue recibido por el procurador
hidalguense Alejandro Straffon Ortiz, quien agradeci? la disposici?n del
Embajador Troya Aguirre para tratar sobre temas de procuraci?n de
justicia y diagn?sticos que permitan dimensionar de manera objetiva el
fen?meno de la delincuencia.

El abogado del estado resalt? la necesidad consolidar estrategias de
coordinaci?n y mejorar los esquemas de intercambio de informaci?n entre
ambos pa?ses, "por lo que la efectiva vinculaci?n y relaciones cordiales
entre los organismos de procuraci?n de justicia con todas las instancias
que nos brinden apoyo no solo es bienvenida sino necesaria"..

Ambos funcionarios coincidieron en que es necesario asumir una
responsabilidad compartida en el tema del combate a la delincuencia, as?
que convinieron en redoblar esfuerzos para prevenir y, en su caso,
combatir los delitos a trav?s de mecanismos no s?lo de prevenci?n y
procuraci?n de justicia sino de "la creaci?n de una cultura de la
denuncia, de elementos que generen confianza de la ciudadan?a en las
instituciones".

Finalmente, Straffon Ortiz destac? que de esta primera reuni?n se
desprender?n actividades conjuntas e intercambio de informaciones "que
permitan establecer criterios uniformes en cuanto a los m?todos ya
existentes y los nuevos que necesariamente tendremos que aplicar en la
procuraci?n de justicia", se?al?.

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Message: 151
Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2011 09:28:56 -0500
From: Araceli Santos <santos@stratfor.com>
To: The OS List <os@stratfor.com>
Subject: [OS] UN/NICARAGUA - UN makes a call for emergency aid for
Nicaragua
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*La ONU hace un llamamiento de ayuda de emergencia para Nicaragua*
http://www.google.com/hostednews/epa/article/ALeqM5htz4BWJ3-XqGxhPX4IJ3u-VpLt9Q?docId=1641342

Por Agencia EFE -- Hace 1 hora.
Ginebra, 28 oct (EFE).- La ONU hizo hoy un llamamiento de ayuda de
emergencia para Nicaragua de 14,3 millones de d?lares (10 millones de
euros) para asistir durante los pr?ximos seis meses a 134.000 personas
afectadas por las inundaciones, que han causado ya 123 muertos en toda
la regi?n centroamericana.
Se trata del segundo llamamiento de urgencia de la ONU para
Centroam?rica, ya que el pasado mi?rcoles hizo otro de 15,7 millones de
d?lares (11 millones de euros) para financiar las operaciones de
asistencia en El Salvador, destinadas a atender a 300.000 personas.
Las prioridades en este plan de ayuda urgente en Nicaragua son la
reconstrucci?n de los sistemas de agua y saneamiento, la creaci?n de
refugios para las personas que han perdido sus hogares y la asistencia
sanitaria y alimentaria, seg?n inform? Corinne Momal-Vanian, portavoz de
las oficinas de la ONU en Ginebra.
Entre las 134.000 personas afectadas por las fuertes lluvias de las
?ltimas semanas, la ONU estima que hay 63.000 en situaci?n de
vulnerabilidad concentradas en los siete departamentos m?s perjudicados
por las inundaciones: Le?n, Managua, Matagalpa, Nueva Segovia, Madriz,
Estel? y Chinadenga (en los dos ?ltimos el acceso es todav?a dif?cil y
hay comunidades aisladas).
Las devastadoras lluvias que comenzaron el pasado 10 de octubre en la
regi?n han dejado sin hogar en Nicaragua a unas 12.000 familias,
destruido unos 200 pozos de agua y da?ado unas 2.300 letrinas.
La Organizaci?n Internacional para las Migraciones (OIM), principal
agencia encargada de proporcionar refugio a los afectados, inform? hoy
de que unas 10.000 personas tuvieron que ser evacuadas de sus hogares en
el punto ?lgido de las lluvias, de las que s?lo 3.000 han podido
regresar a sus casas.
El portavoz de esta agencia humanitaria, Jumbe Omari, se?al? en una
rueda de prensa que la mayor?a de estos refugios est?n sobrecargados y
en algunos casos albergan hasta 200 personas.
En Nicaragua, la OIM tambi?n se est? ocupando de proporcionar ayuda
psicol?gica a alrededor de 4.000 ni?os y adolescentes que viven en estos
refugios y de prevenir posibles casos de violencia de g?nero.
Esta organizaci?n, presente en todos los pa?ses afectados por las
inundaciones, est? a cargo de 42 refugios temporales en El Salvador, que
albergan en estos momentos a unas 1.900 personas; adem?s de prestar
asistencia en Nicaragua a unas 2.000 familias que han conseguido
conservar sus casas.
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Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2011 09:29:46 -0500
From: Araceli Santos <santos@stratfor.com>
To: The OS List <os@stratfor.com>
Subject: [OS] NICARAGUA - Opposition candidate says Ortega is trying
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*Nicaragua: candidato opositor acus? a Ortega de "implantar una dictadura" *
http://america.infobae.com/notas/36698-Nicaragua-candidato-opositor-acuso-a-Ortega-de-implantar-una-dictadura--


El principal rival del mandatario nicarag?ense en los comicios del 6 de
noviembre, Fabio Gadea, denunci? que el gobierno actual "es due?o de
todos los poderes del Estado". Advirti? sobre un posible fraude electoral

Cr?dito foto: Reuters


El empresario radial de derecha postulado por la alianza Partido Liberal
Independiente (PLI) asegur? que se siente seguro de "ganarle
limpiamente" a Daniel Ortega -quien busca la reelecci?n para un tercer
mandato-, aunque expres? sus dudas de lograrlo porque no conf?a en la
actuaci?n del Tribunal Electoral.

"Aqu? est? implantada una dictadura. Cuando no se cumple con la
Constituci?n ni las leyes, cuando no se respeta a nadie, cuando se es
due?o de todos los poderes del Estado y no hay independencia de poderes,
estamos en una dictadura", afirm?.

El actual presidente, un ex guerrillero sandinista que gobern? de 1985 a
1990 y volvi? al poder en 2007, fue inscrito como candidato pese a que
la Carta Magna nicarag?ense impide ocupar ese cargo m?s de dos veces y
en dos per?odos continuos. Una pol?mica sentencia de la Corte Suprema
decidi? que ese art?culo es inaplicable sobre Ortega.

Gadea asegur? que el proceso electoral estuvo plagado de
irregularidades, desde una observaci?n internacional tard?a e incompleta
hasta demoras en la entrega de miles de c?dulas de identidad, documento
indispensable para votar. "Hay pueblos que se levantaron porque no les
dan c?dulas a los muchachos y, en cambio, se sabe que el Consejo Supremo
Electoral (CSE) fue a domicilio a entregarlas a las casas de los
sandinistas, y eso es una barbaridad", se?al?.

Acus? al gobierno de poner "trampas y obst?culos" a su candidatura,
incluyendo la amenaza a?n latente de inhibir a sus diputados atendiendo
el reclamo de dos facciones del PLI que disputan los sellos del partido,
un caso que est? en manos del tambi?n cuestionado Poder Judicial
nicarag?ense.

"Nos est?n amenazando por puro nerviosismo, pero los que est?n nerviosos
son ellos. Ortega tiene miedo de perder como en 1990", record? en
alusi?n a la derrota frente a Violeta Chamorro, postulada por la Uni?n
Nacional Opositora (UNO).

Las encuestas de intenci?n de voto ubican a Ortega primero, con m?s del
45%, seguido por Gadea quien alcanzar?a el 33 por ciento. En un lejano
tercer lugar, se ubica el liberal ex jefe de Estado Arnoldo Alem?n y
detr?s, otros dos candidatos de escaso respaldo.

Gadea considera que sus seguidores est?n atra?dos por su oferta de
"instaurar una revoluci?n de la honestidad, donde no haya un solo
ministro que robe, donde no haya filtraciones en el presupuesto de la
Rep?blica y donde tengamos un pa?s ejemplar que pueda recibir ayudas de
toda la comunidad democr?tica mundial".

"Aqu? la corrupci?n est? en lo fino, desde el se?or presidente hasta los
ministros; el mismo presidente del CSE (el magistrado Roberto Rivas) fue
denunciado en los peri?dicos por enormes desfalcos", indic?.

"Don Daniel tiene una gran propaganda, canales de televisi?n, r?tulos
por todas partes, regal?as, l?minas de zinc. Pero la gente no quiere
eso, la gente quiere libertad, estado de Derecho, poder invertir con
seguridad, que no haya mas confiscaci?n de tierras y propiedades",
afirm?. "Los nicarag?enses buscan tener un gobierno diferente, un
gobierno honesto, honrado", sentenci?.

Gadea cont? que, de llegar al poder, una de sus primeras decisiones
ser?a destituir al presidente del Tribunal Electoral. "Deseos no me
faltan, hoy mismo lo har?a", brome? el pol?tico, que celebrar? su 80
cumplea?os tres d?as despu?s de las elecciones.




Fuente: DPA
?Ten?s twitter? ?seguinos!
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Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2011 09:36:17 -0500
From: Araceli Santos <santos@stratfor.com>
To: The OS List <os@stratfor.com>
Subject: [OS] PANAMA/PARAGUAY/LATAM - Martinelli to head to Paraguay
to participate in Iberoamerica summit
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*El presidente de Panam? viajar? ma?ana a Asunci?n para la Cumbre
Iberoamericana*
http://www.google.com/hostednews/epa/article/ALeqM5jqmDo25K2XSJzL5KGBJK9P2up2vA?docId=1641061

Por Agencia EFE -- hace 11 horas
Panam?, 27 oct (EFE).- El presidente de Panam?, Ricardo Martinelli,
viajar? ma?ana hacia Asunci?n para participar en la XXI Cumbre
Iberoamericana que tendr? lugar este fin de semana en el pa?s suramericano.
El tema central de la Cumbre ser? "Transformaci?n del Estado y
Desarrollo", y por ello Martinelli se referir? al plan estrat?gico de su
Gobierno 2010-2014, seg?n un comunicado de la Presidencia paname?a.
El plan de Gobierno de Martinelli incluye mejores condiciones de empleo
digno, fortalecimiento de la institucionalidad laboral, una
administraci?n p?blica transparente y desarrollo del capital humano
local, entre otros.
La delegaci?n paname?a a la Cumbre Iberoamericana la completan el
canciller Roberto Henr?quez; el administrador general de la Autoridad
para la Innovaci?n Gubernamental, Eduardo Ja?n, y el director general de
Organismos Internacionales, Tomas Guardia.
Entre los presidentes que asistir?n a la cumbre est?n: Felipe Calder?n
(M?xico) y Ollanta Humala (Per?).
Las comitivas de jefes de Estado y de Gobierno empiezan a llegar esta
misma noche a Asunci?n para la Cumbre Iberoamericana, cuya inauguraci?n
se celebra ma?ana.
? EFE 2011. Est? expresamente prohibida la redistribuci?n y la
redifusi?n de todo o parte de los contenidos de los servicios de Efe,
sin previo y expreso consentimiento de la Agencia EFE S.A.
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Message: 155
Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2011 09:36:40 -0500
From: Araceli Santos <santos@stratfor.com>
To: The OS List <os@stratfor.com>
Subject: [OS] CUBA/CHINA/MIL - Cuba, China to enhance military ties
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*Cuba, China to enhance military ties*
http://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2011/10/28/Cuba-China-to-enhance-military-ties/UPI-93161319799936/

Published: Oct. 28, 2011 at 7:05 AM
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Soldiers from China's People's Liberation Army 'Guard of Honor' train at
their barracks in Beijing on July 21, 2011. China's military is growing
in a secretive way, raising the risk of conflict due to
"misunderstanding and miscalculation," according to a report by the U.S.
Department of Defense. UPI/Stephen Shaver
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HAVANA, Oct. 28 (UPI) -- Cuba and China pledged to enhance military
cooperation during a meeting between Raul Castro and China's No. 2
military leader, their leaders announced.

The announcement came during in Havana where the Cuban president me with
Guo Boxiong, vice chairman of China's Central Military Commission,
Xinhua reported.

The report, quoting a news release, said the two sides exchanged views
on international issues of common concern, and expressed satisfaction
with the excellent state of the relations between their peoples, parties
and governments.

Castro expressed the hope that both sides would join hands and
strengthen exchanges and cooperation to lift bilateral relations to a
new high.

Guo said China always sees Cuba as a trustworthy friend and a brother in
need, adding China is willing to push their relationship forward.

Guo's trip will also include visits to Colombia and Peru.



Read more:
http://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2011/10/28/Cuba-China-to-enhance-military-ties/UPI-93161319799936/#ixzz1c5T1NMub
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Message: 156
Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2011 17:36:59 +0300
From: John Blasing <john.blasing@stratfor.com>
To: The OS List <os@stratfor.com>
Subject: [OS] CUBA/IRAN/GV - Cuba backs Iran against West: Minister
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Message: 157
Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2011 09:37:13 -0500
From: Araceli Santos <santos@stratfor.com>
To: The OS List <os@stratfor.com>
Subject: [OS] CUBA/ECON - Microbusiness in Cuba is weighed down by
limits, uncertainty
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*Los micronegocios en Cuba, una realidad lastrada por las limitaciones y
la incertidumbre*
http://www.google.com/hostednews/epa/article/ALeqM5hQSBneonvd_zzw3AmVh_bReuIMfQ?docId=1641384

Por Agencia EFE -- Hace 1 hora.
La Habana, 28 oct (EFE).- Los "micronegocios" se han abierto paso en
Cuba un a?o despu?s de que el Gobierno de Ra?l Castro relanzara el
trabajo privado dentro de su plan de ajustes econ?micos, pero el futuro
de esas iniciativas est? lastrado por muchas limitaciones, la
precariedad y la incertidumbre.
"Muchas personas que entran en este mundo del trabajo por cuenta propia
llegan con expectativas pero cuando chocan con la realidad de la vida se
decepcionan". Quien as? habla es Germ?n, vendedor de bisuter?a de 49
a?os y uno de los 330.000 cubanos que actualmente se dedican al
"cuentapropismo".
Este octubre se ha cumplido un a?o desde que entraron en vigor las
nuevas reglas para una modalidad de empleo que ya exist?a en la isla
pero que el presidente Ra?l Castro decidi? revitalizar como una de las
medidas "estrella" de su plan de "actualizaci?n" del modelo socialista.
A diferencia del car?cter temporal y la estigmatizaci?n ideol?gica que
tuvo el "cuentapropismo" en la d?cada de los noventa, el empleo privado
se puede ejercer ahora en m?s actividades y, lo m?s importante, permite
que los particulares contraten mano de obra, lo que ha dado lugar a la
aparici?n de "microempresas".
Instalados en viviendas particulares, soportales de antiguos edificios o
simplemente en la calle han proliferado restaurantes y cafeter?as,
gimnasios o peluquer?as junto a cientos de puestos y "timbiriches" donde
se venden art?culos religiosos, ropa, bisuter?a o copias "piratas" de
m?sica y pel?culas.
En el ?ltimo a?o el Gobierno ha concedido unas 190.000 nuevas licencias
para el trabajo por cuenta propia, que pretende ser una alternativa a la
dr?stica reducci?n del empleo p?blico prevista por el general Castro
para adelgazar el inflado aparato estatal.
Pero tambi?n se calcula que un 25 por ciento de esas iniciativas ha
fracasado (sus titulares han devuelto la licencia) ante dificultades
como los nuevos y altos impuestos, las trabas burocr?ticas, la falta de
un mercado mayorista o la ausencia de demanda por la cr?tica situaci?n
econ?mica del pa?s.
Muchos critican que esta t?mida apertura al sector privado es muy
limitada: s?lo se puede ejercer el autoempleo en una reducida lista de
apenas 180 categor?as, la mayor?a tan espec?ficas y tan singulares
(forrador de botones, desmochador de palmas, pelador de frutas...) que
finalmente suponen un freno m?s a la iniciativa individual.
Otro de los reproches, incluso desde expertos oficialistas, es que el
trabajo privado est? vetado a profesiones cualificadas y se desaprovecha
la "inversi?n" de la revoluci?n cubana en educaci?n superior.
Cuesti?n aparte es de d?nde sacar el dinero para montar uno de estos
negocios: aunque el gobierno cubano ha anunciado que permitir? los
cr?ditos bancarios, esta posibilidad no acaba de arrancar y la mayor?a
de las aventuras del trabajo privado fueron posibles gracias a las
remesas procedentes del exterior.
Una de las quejas m?s extendidas es la falta de un mercado a precios
mayoristas, necesario sobre todo para los nuevos restaurantes
("paladares" en Cuba), cafeter?as o puestos de venta de comida r?pida
que se han multiplicado en el pa?s: m?s de un 22 por ciento de las
nuevas licencias concedidas son para este tipo de actividad.
Las trabas burocr?ticas o las informaciones confusas y contradictorias
sobre la forma de ejercer una actividad aut?noma son otros de los
reproches de los "cuentapropistas", si bien muchos han querido
aprovechar esta posibilidad de empleo para intentar prosperar.
"Para el pa?s no s? qu? pueda significar todo esto, pero los cubanos s?
nos sentimos un poquito m?s 'personas' porque somos gente de mucho
inventar y ya cada cual con sus inventos puede desarrollarse sin
depender del Estado ni trabajar para un jefe", opina Yanira de 29 a?os y
titular de una c?ntrica cafeter?a en La Habana.
Armando, de 32 a?os y due?o desde abril de una "paladar" en el barrio
del Vedado, cree que el Gobierno de Ra?l Castro solo abri? "un poco la
ventana" para aliviar las posibilidades de empleo pero "el pa?s necesita
producir" y el trabajo por cuenta propia que se permite solo ofrece
servicios.
Para superar la grave crisis econ?mica pero sin renunciar al socialismo
y sin reformas pol?ticas sustanciales, Ra?l Castro ha emprendido un plan
de ajustes que incluyen una apertura a peque?a escala del sector no
estatal, la reducci?n de plantillas p?blicas y la eliminaci?n de
subsidios innecesarios y de algunas prohibiciones en el consumo interno.
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Message: 158
Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2011 09:42:57 -0500
From: Carlos Lopez Portillo <carlos.lopezportillo@stratfor.com>
To: os@stratfor.com
Subject: [OS] ARGENTINA - Extension and agricultural drought emergency
in El Carmen
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Message: 159
Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2011 09:57:08 -0500
From: Antonio Caracciolo <antonio.caracciolo@stratfor.com>
To: "os >> The OS List" <os@stratfor.com>
Subject: [OS] PERU/ECON - The Minister of Economy and Finance Luis
Miguel Castilla, and Executive Director of the Agency for Promotion of
Private Investment (ProInversi?n), Jorge Leon, now promote private
sector participation in the program execution of works in exchange for
taxes.
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Message: 160
Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2011 09:57:37 -0500
From: Antonio Caracciolo <antonio.caracciolo@stratfor.com>
To: "OS >> The OS List" <os@stratfor.com>
Subject: [OS] PERU/ENERGY - Perupetro president, Aurelio Ochoa,
reported today that the institution has submitted a draft regulation
for the hydrocarbon sector in the Law of Prior Consultation, which
states that consultation activities are carried out by the State
before the start of a business in the area.
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Message: 161
Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2011 09:59:29 -0500
From: Antonio Caracciolo <antonio.caracciolo@stratfor.com>
To: "os >> The OS List" <os@stratfor.com>
Subject: [OS] PERU/MINING - More than U.S. $ 1000 million illegal
mining generates for not paying taxes, royalties and mining royalties
alone for the benefit of Peru and its regions, said the National
Society of Mining, Petroleum and Energy (SNMPE)
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Message: 162
Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2011 09:58:25 -0500
From: Antonio Caracciolo <antonio.caracciolo@stratfor.com>
To: "os >> The OS List" <os@stratfor.com>
Subject: [OS] PERU/ECUADOR - President Ollanta Humala Tasso and his
counterpart from Ecuador, Rafael Correa, along with their cabinets,
will hold a binational meeting on the 17th of November in the Peruvian
city of Ja?n, Cajamarca region - CALENDAR
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Message: 163
Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2011 09:58:55 -0500
From: Antonio Caracciolo <antonio.caracciolo@stratfor.com>
To: "os >> The OS List" <os@stratfor.com>
Subject: [OS] PERU - The First Vice President of the Republic,
Marisol Espinoza, now assume the task of the presidential office for
the duration of the voyage of the head of state, Ollanta Humala, to
Paraguay to participate in the XXI Ibero-American Summit and the V
Summit of UNASUR.
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Message: 164
Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2011 10:00:38 -0500
From: Antonio Caracciolo <antonio.caracciolo@stratfor.com>
To: "os >> The OS List" <os@stratfor.com>
Subject: [OS] PERU/ECON - Making the calculation based on figures
published by the Commission of Peru Export and Tourism (Prom-Peru), at
least U.S. $ 500 million will go to the tourism-related businesses
throughout our territory.
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Message: 165
Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2011 10:00:01 -0500
From: Antonio Caracciolo <antonio.caracciolo@stratfor.com>
To: "os >> The OS List" <os@stratfor.com>
Subject: [OS] PERU/CT - Members of the National Police captured
Meliton Julian Acosta, an alleged member of Sendero Luminoso, in the
Upper Huallaga
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Message: 166
Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2011 10:01:17 -0500
From: Antonio Caracciolo <antonio.caracciolo@stratfor.com>
To: "os >> The OS List" <os@stratfor.com>
Subject: [OS] PERU/ENERGY - The Supervising Agency for Investment in
Energy and Mining (Osinergmin) today issued a resolution that set the
new price band for the products included in the Fund for the
Stabilization of Prices of Petroleum Products Fuels, with the aim of
establishing those who receive subsidies.
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Message: 167
Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2011 10:31:47 -0500
From: Rebecca Keller <rebecca.keller@stratfor.com>
To: os@stratfor.com
Subject: [OS] CHILE/ARGENTINA/WEATHER - Ash Cloud Rises Above Chilean
Volcano
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Message: 168
Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2011 11:45:19 -0500
From: Renato Whitaker <renato.whitaker@stratfor.com>
To: "os >> The OS List" <os@stratfor.com>
Subject: [OS] PARAGUAY/ECON - Paraguay to have two new pay TV
operators
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Message: 169
Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2011 11:50:56 -0500
From: Renato Whitaker <renato.whitaker@stratfor.com>
To: The OS List <os@stratfor.com>
Subject: [OS] PARAGUAY/CT - Reporters, foreign and national, call for
legislation change for greater protection
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