BUENOS AIRES, Mar. 26 diplomats from Spain, U.S., Germany and Finland privately commented that corruption in Argentina forced their companies to pay bribes, according to the latest U.S. diplomatic cable published by Wikileaks. Officials from these countries crossed about the bribes they were told their companies and in some cases, we demanded that the Argentine government.
Specifically, the secretary general of the Presidency, Bernardino Leon, said in September 2008 that "Argentina is very worrying," the U.S. cable as "Spanish companies in the country were concerned about the American populist tone of the Government, political polarization and corruption levels.
" Leon sent the then head of the Latin American State Department and now ambassador to Brazil, Tom Shannon, people and movements that had "complicated" about the presidency and that many positions were living by the motto "a politician who is poor is a poor politician. " The irregularities have come to the point that the U.S.
ambassador in Buenos Aires, Earl Anthony Wayne, said in February 2008, when Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner took less than two months in office, that the level of official corruption detected seemed "so bad or worse than with (Carlos) Menem. " "In the oil sector, two old friends of Nestor Kirchner has won many of the concessions offered publicly," laments Wayne in reference to diplomatic cables and Christopher Lopez Lazaro Baez, who stayed with 14 of the 15 awarded in oil March 2007.
"In an almost perverse, when the Argentine government officials repeatedly told that 'no money to do in Argentina', perhaps the real message is that, yes, there's money to make, provided you know how-and who-really 'doing business' in Argentina, "said the ambassador. Also the German ambassador Rolf Wolf Schumacher, forwarded to the United States what he called "widespread corruption." In particular, recounted how the president of a German company went to the Planning Minister Julio De Vido, to complain because one of his deputies had asked for a bribe and the president had refused.
" "Apparently De Vido no interest in obtaining the name of the corrupt, but recommended to the president of the company that videotapes the next request for a bribe," said Wikileaks cable. In another case of allegations of corruption at the diplomatic level, the charge d'affaires of the Finnish Embassy in Buenos Aires, Petra Theman said that corruption was the decisive cause of the Botnia paper is decided by Uruguay and Argentina not to place the mill project, which eventually led to a diplomatic standoff between Buenos Aires and Montevideo due to protests from environmental groups in Argentina.
Theman said that Argentina, and the province of Entre Rios, in particular, tried to carry the trash to its territory, but that "highly corrupt" local, "compared to the much lower in Uruguay" was one of the factors investments for which chose the other side of river. 
Specifically, the secretary general of the Presidency, Bernardino Leon, said in September 2008 that "Argentina is very worrying," the U.S. cable as "Spanish companies in the country were concerned about the American populist tone of the Government, political polarization and corruption levels.
" Leon sent the then head of the Latin American State Department and now ambassador to Brazil, Tom Shannon, people and movements that had "complicated" about the presidency and that many positions were living by the motto "a politician who is poor is a poor politician. " The irregularities have come to the point that the U.S.
ambassador in Buenos Aires, Earl Anthony Wayne, said in February 2008, when Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner took less than two months in office, that the level of official corruption detected seemed "so bad or worse than with (Carlos) Menem. " "In the oil sector, two old friends of Nestor Kirchner has won many of the concessions offered publicly," laments Wayne in reference to diplomatic cables and Christopher Lopez Lazaro Baez, who stayed with 14 of the 15 awarded in oil March 2007.
"In an almost perverse, when the Argentine government officials repeatedly told that 'no money to do in Argentina', perhaps the real message is that, yes, there's money to make, provided you know how-and who-really 'doing business' in Argentina, "said the ambassador. Also the German ambassador Rolf Wolf Schumacher, forwarded to the United States what he called "widespread corruption." In particular, recounted how the president of a German company went to the Planning Minister Julio De Vido, to complain because one of his deputies had asked for a bribe and the president had refused.
" "Apparently De Vido no interest in obtaining the name of the corrupt, but recommended to the president of the company that videotapes the next request for a bribe," said Wikileaks cable. In another case of allegations of corruption at the diplomatic level, the charge d'affaires of the Finnish Embassy in Buenos Aires, Petra Theman said that corruption was the decisive cause of the Botnia paper is decided by Uruguay and Argentina not to place the mill project, which eventually led to a diplomatic standoff between Buenos Aires and Montevideo due to protests from environmental groups in Argentina.
Theman said that Argentina, and the province of Entre Rios, in particular, tried to carry the trash to its territory, but that "highly corrupt" local, "compared to the much lower in Uruguay" was one of the factors investments for which chose the other side of river.
- U.S. Groups Encourage Spain to Prosecute Bush Officials (11/02/2011)
- Πούρα Αβάνας from the Diplomaticos Cigar Line (27/01/2011)
- WikiLeaks Triggers New Wave of Disruption Across Latin America: Infolatam, Spain (27/02/2011)
- Argentina: What's not to gusta? - Bariloche, Argentina (14/03/2011)
- Corruption in Argentina widespread and unpunished: WikiLeaks (09/02/2011)
No comments:
Post a Comment