LUSINCHI PRESS CONFERENCE: FOREIGN POLICY AND A COUPLE OF DOMESTIC ISSUES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP08C01297R000700030054-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 25, 2012
• Sequence Number: 54
• Publication Date: November 28, 1983
• Content Type: CABLE

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SUBJECT: LU& NCHI" PRESS CONFERENCE: FOREIGN POLICY AI!C
A (CUP+LE OF DOMESTIC 1SSUFS
1, 1U) SUMMARY: '? THURSDAY h,-VI P?B R Z 5,j A0 ' ESQ E' T L
AT' l'IME -L. 84k' HELD HIS FCUFTH WEEKLY CA wpAI(P
t ' 5 ? S ` C O W E 7 . SHILL' TOUCHING N A COUPLE OF D C P!ES Tic
ISSUES (DRUGSI -BTV), LUSINCHI DEALT ALP"OST EXCLUSI -ELY
WITH QUESTIONS OF FOREIGN POLICY. HE CALLED FOR DEMOCRACY
? I -IN CENTRAL AMERICV AND REITERATED HIS SLPPCFT FCP
C O TADC)P441` WOW .D T RES"0 L3I T 1E I3LC A-~/ENEZUELA 4101
:' PRIVATE AND PUBL1 FOREIGN DEBT; ANC DEFINED LUSINCHI
GOVERNMENT FOREIGN POLICY I N BR OADL'1 NATIONALISTIC TERN-So
END SUMMARY.
2. (U) AT HIS FOJ RTH WEEKLY CA P+FA.I Q1 PRESS CONFERENCE
(NOVEMBER 25) AD 'IRES`IDENTIAL C ANCICATE JAIME LUST 1 CHI
DEALT ALMOST E)fGLJSTVELY WITH 1UESTIC(1S OF FOREIGN POLICY
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HE DID IN ADDTTI O4't HOWEVER t A) CRESS THE OC1?ESTI C ISSUES
OF DRUGS ANC THE 3TV. RESIDES MEMBERS OF THE NATI:CNAL
PRESS, THERE WERE AUSO PRESENT CCRRE_SPCN0 _NTS FROM VARICUS
LATIN APERICAN CO.JNTRIES. TT WAS ANNOUNCEC THAT T -E NEXT
LUSINCHI PRESS COJ FERENCE WILL RE PFIVARILY FOR ?IE.YBERS
OF THE FOREIGN PRI=SS.
3 . (U) DEMOCRACY I N CENTRAL AMERICA: LUSINCHI POINTED CUT
THE NEED 'FOR A 0;1MOCRATIZATI04 CF CENTRAL AMERICA". FE
STATED TH?.T "THE .;.O ERNMENT O NICARAGUA IS AS ANTI-CEF(-
CRATIC AS THAT OF GUATEMALA'" AND CALLED UPON BOTH TO T 1.I-
TIATE THE NECESSARY STEPS TO EST SLRE DEMOCRATIC PLUF.ALIS?v
WITHIN THEIR RESP7CTIVE COUNTRI ES AtD GOVERNMENTS. RE-
MINCING THE PRESS THAT VENEZUELA HA t AIDED THE SANCINI S1A
I STRUGGLE AGAI ST 3 OMOZA IN THE NAVE OF DEMOCRACY,
PRESIDENTIAL CAMO? DATE REMA=RKED TTAT IN NOT FULFILLING IT.'S
PROMISE TO DEMOCR#TT.ZE NICARAGUA THE SANDINISTA REGIME
1 WAS LOSING CRED.IB[ L:TTY WITH. !TS ON PEOPLE AND THE PEOPLE
OF LATIN AMERICA.
4.(U) CONT.ADORA : LUSINCHI REITERATED HIS CONTINUr-TO
SUPPORT FOR CONTA) ORA AND EMPHA ; IZE t THAT ITS PEACE
EFFORTS HAD PREVEVTED TENSIONS I~ CENTRAL AMERICA FRC1!
ESCALATING INTO M%iJIiR ARMED COV FLICT.
5. (U.) GULF OF VENEZUELA MA=RINE/SUE ARIN'E "OIFERE CC" i TH
COLOMBIA: VONG TO RESOLVE T-4E GULF CF VENEZUELA' MARIt!.E/
SUBMARINE DISPNTE WITH CDLGMRIA CURING HIS ADMINISTRATI(Nt
LUSINCHI NEVERTHE_IESS ADDED THAT "VENEZUELA HAS HISTORIC
AND LEGAL PRECEDEdT:S TO JUSTIFY" ITS CLAIMS TO A ZONE 1lICH
IS "STRATEGICALLY V1TAL " TO IT. LNCERSCORING THE SHARED
8CLIVARIAN TRADITIONS AND THE MUTUAL "GEOPOLITICAL. AND
HISTORIC" CHAR ACTER:TST.ICS OF TIE TWC PATIONS, THE PRESI-
DENTIAL CA,NDIOATE SAID HE WAS CONVINCED THAT THE "CIFE-
RE NCO" WOULD OF R SOLVED IN A MANNER BOTH JUST AMD CON-
DUCIVE T O THE CONTINUED "FR TE'JD SH IP ANC SOLIDARITY CF
BOTH COUNTRIES."
? I 6. (U) FOREIGN' DE3 T LUSINCHI PLEDEEC THAT THE RENECOTI_A-
TI CN OF VENEZUELA'S PRIVATE AND PUBLIC FOREIGN DE37 WILL
BE HIS NUMBER ONE PRIORITY AFTER GINNING THE DECEMEER 4
0 I ELECTION. (COMMEV T THIS ITEM WAS ONLY REPORTED IN
CARACAS'S ONE EN G_;:ISH LANGUAGE DAILY. THE SPANI SH_ LAN-
GUAGE DAILIES IGNORED IT COMPLETELY.;)
1* I 7. (U) FOREIGN POLICY UNCER A LUSINCHI GOVERNMENT: WHEN
QUERIED AS TO THE FOREIGN POLICY ORIENTATION OF A LUSI1-CHI
GOVERNMENT, THE A) PRESIDENTIAL CANCICATE DEFINED THAT
POLICY FROM A 3RO1+DLY NATIONAL! STI C PERSPECTIVE. FE SAID
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