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Viewing cable 08SAOPAULO282, MEDIA REACTION: WESTERN HEMISPHERE: COLOMBIA; SCO PAULO

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Reference ID Created Released Classification Origin
08SAOPAULO282 2008-06-06 10:49 2011-07-11 00:00 UNCLASSIFIED Consulate Sao Paulo 
VZCZCXYZ0000
OO RUEHWEB

DE RUEHSO #0282 1581049
ZNR UUUUU ZZH
O 061049Z JUN 08
FM AMCONSUL SAO PAULO
TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC IMMEDIATE 8273
INFO RHEHNSC/NATIONAL SECURTY COUNCIL WASHDC IMMEDIATE
RUEHBR/AMEMBASSY BRAILIA PRIORITY 9404
RUEHRI/AMCONSUL RIO DE JANEIROPRIORITY 8744
RUCPDOC/USDOC WASHDC 3104
 
UNCLAS SAO PAULO 000282 
 
SIPDIS 
 
STATE INR/R/MR;IIP/R/MR; WHA/PD 
 
DEPT PASS USTR 
 
 
 
USDOC 4322/MAC/OLAC/JAFEE 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: KMDR OPRC OIIP ETRD BR
SUBJECT: MEDIA REACTION: WESTERN HEMISPHERE: COLOMBIA; SCO PAULO 
 
 
Uribe Mimics Chavez 
 
Article in liberal Folha de S. Paulo(6/6) says: "[Venezuelan 
President Hugo] Chavez had his project to perpetuate himself in 
power stopped at the ballot.... Now [Colombian President Alvaro] 
Uribe flirts with that idea.... He does not dismiss the possibility 
of altering the Constitution in order to allow him to run for a 
third term. One should acknowledge that ...his security policies are 
a success.... It is for no other reason Uribe is the most popular 
president in the Americas with an 84% approval rate. On the 
political front, however, his administration is vulnerable.... To 
make matters worse, the president is now accused of buying votes to 
approve the constitutional amendment which authorized his second 
term.... He said once that only a 'hecatomb' could make him seek 
reelection. The fear now is that he will arrange for one. " 
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