El cable original que muestra cómo Sandoval Iñíguez pide intervención del gobierno de Bush contra López Obrador, 2006

Iñiguez request intervention of Washington in internal politics in Mexico.

Cito en: http://wikileaks.org/cable/2006/04/06VATICAN61.html

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Reference ID	Created	Released	Classification	Origin
06VATICAN61	2006-04-03 16:03	2011-07-11 00:00	CONFIDENTIAL	Embassy Vatican

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APR 06 FM AMEMBASSY VATICAN TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC PRIORITY 0296 INFO 
WHA DIPL POSTS COLLECTIVE RUEHROV/AMEMBASSY VATICAN 0324

C O N F I D E N T I A L VATICAN 000061    SIPDIS    SIPDIS    E.O. 12958:
 DECL:  4/3/2016  TAGS: ETRD SOCI VT MX BR SUBJECT: HOLY SEE:  PROMINENT 
 LATIN AMERICAN CARDINALS SEEK USG HELP  IN PROMOTING FREE TRADE    
REF: (A) VATICAN 034, (B) 05 VATICAN 562    
CLASSIFIED BY: Christopher Sandrolini, Deputy Chief of Mission,  EXEC, State.
 REASON: 1.4 (d)    
 ¶1.  (C) Summary.  In separate meetings, two influential 
Latin  American cardinals told Ambassador Rooney of their concerns for  the 
 continent and urged USG support for efforts to promote free  trade and 
understanding of market economies to upper and lower  classes in the region. 
 End summary.    

¶2.  (SBU) Taking advantage of their presence in Rome for 
 the  recent consistory (at which new cardinals were named, including  two 
Americans - ref A) Ambassador called on Mexican Cardinal  Juan Sandoval on
 March 28, and on Brazilian Cardinal Claudio  Hummes on March 29.  
 DCM and Political Officer were present at  both meetings.    

¶3. (C) Sandoval, after mentioning his personal dream of building  a 
 sanctuary in Guadalajara to commemorate Mexican martyrs,  echoed some 
of our Vatican interlocutors in raising concern  about the increasing 
presence of leftist leaders in Latin  America - Castro, Chavez, Morales, 
 Kirchner, Bachelet, and  perhaps Lopez Obrador - and called it a dangerous
trend (ref B).   He asked whether President Bush could help.  Sandoval 
said that  under Lopez Obrador's governance, crime and violence had risen 
 in Mexico City.    

¶4. (C) Ambassador, agreeing on the importance of the 
message,  noted that A/S Shannon had discussed these issues during his  
 recent visit to the Holy See, and also observed the President  Bush had 
promptly raised this topic with the new papal nuncio in  Washington.  
The cardinals felt the poor in Latin America did  not understand the 
 potential benefits to them of free markets  and urged USG help, acknowledging
that the Church, though  necessarily cautious, can also play a greater role. 

¶5. (C) Hummes, for his part, talked at length about the slide of  the 
 Catholic population in Brazil of about one percent annually  for the past
three decades, so that by 2000 only 73% of  Brazilians identified themselves
as Catholic.   Matching the  fall in Catholics is a rise in numbers of 
 fundamentalists,  especially among the poor.  According to Hummes, no real 
dialogue occurs between the Catholic Church and evangelicals.  It's very 
difficult, he said, because the evangelicals are  aggressive and 
 anti-Catholic (he mentioned as an example the  Asamblea de Dios) -- 
they focus more now on prosperity here on earth, rather than on the 
afterlife as they used to do.    

¶6. (C) Hummes expressed surprise and approval of Lula as "a good  governor,
 relatively young, different".  Hummes lamented  Brazil's slow growth at 
only 2.5% annually, with high rates of  tax, interest, and unemployment - 
he feels Brazil's economy is  too conservative, and lacks boldness.    
 By contrast, China and  India have emerged on the world stage, but Brazil 
has not.  The  cardinal said Brazil needs to focus on issues such as 
education,  free markets, and strengthening of regional trade groups and 
 agreements such as the Free Trade Agreement of the Americas.  He  
characterized Mercosur as weak and worried that the world is not  paying 
attention to Latin America, which still suffers from  chaos, weak democracy,
 and crippling poverty.    ¶7. (C) Hummes agreed with ambassador that 
corruption is a  problem and that the Holy See should also pay more attention
 to  Latin America.  He noted the role of the Latin American Bishops  
Council (CELAM) and the potential of next year's planned papal  visit to 
Brazil.    

¶8. (U) Note:  Sandoval expressed interest in meeting Ambassador  Garza.  
 He also discussed his conviction that his predecessor  had been killed by the 
Mexican government in 1994?  Same for  Hummes with Danilovich.  Hummes said he
had recently met Consul  General McMullen but had not had the opportunity to
 meet  Ambassador Danilovich.  End note.   

¶9. (C) Comment:  The two meetings
differed in focus - Sandoval  more concerned about Latin American political 
 trends, and Hummes  more focused on social and economic troubles in Brazil - 
but  shared an emphasis on the need for better understanding of the  power of 
free trade and free markets in the region, and a hope  that the United States 
 government could help bring this about.  Ambassador endorsed this view and 
also encouraged the cardinals  to consider how the Catholic Church might 
contribute to that  outcome.   

ROONEY