VZCZCXYZ0010
RR RUEHWEB

DE RUEHSG #0056 0111025
ZNR UUUUU ZZH
R 111025Z JAN 06
FM AMEMBASSY SANTIAGO
TO SECSTATE WASHDC 8199

UNCLAS SANTIAGO 000056 
 
SIPDIS 
 
SIPDIS 
 
STATE FOR INR/R/MR, I/PP, WHA/BSC, WHA/PDA, WHA/EPSC STATE FOR 
INR/IAA, PM, INL 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: OPRC KMDR KPAO CI
SUBJECT: MEDIA REACTION - LATIN AMERICA 
 
 
On January 7, conservative, influential newspaper-of-record "El 
Mercurio" (circ. 116,807) carried a column by attorney and former 
ambassador Hernan Felipe Errazuriz entitled, "Challenges for 2006." 
Quote: 
 
"To face 2006 it is advisable that we strengthen our ties with other 
governments in the region such as Brazil and Colombia that are 
unwilling to commit to the axis formed by Chavez and Castro; by 
optimizing excellent ties with the United States; intensifying 
diplomatic-defense coordination...strengthening border controls that 
have proven vulnerable to drug traffickers and terrorists...and 
finally advancing a greater energy autonomy..." 
 
KELLY