{"id":96337,"date":"2020-03-16T14:27:52","date_gmt":"2020-03-16T21:27:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=96337"},"modified":"2026-04-14T10:45:04","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T17:45:04","slug":"nov-27-78-%e2%80%a2-2013-%e2%80%a2-caracas-state-%e2%80%a2-11175","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=96337","title":{"rendered":"Nov 27, 78 \u2022 2013 \u2022 Caracas-State \u2022 11175"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>[<strong>Editor\u2019s note<\/strong>: The text for this document was released in 2014 by <a href=\"https:\/\/wikileaks.org\/plusd\/cables\/1978CARACA11175_d.html\">Wikileaks<\/a>. It is also available through the <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20260414174359\/https:\/\/wikileaks.org\/plusd\/cables\/1978CARACA11175_d.html\">Internet Archive<\/a>.]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>UNCLASSIFIED<br \/>\nPAGE 01<br \/>\nCARACA 11175 272046Z<br \/>\nACTION ARA-15<br \/>\nINFO OCT-01 ISO-00 SCS-06 SS-15 SSO-00 CA-01 H-02 DODE-00 \/040 W<br \/>\n&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;098791 272059Z \/61 <\/p>\n<p>O 272013Z NOV 78<br \/>\nFM AMEMBASSY CARACAS<br \/>\nTO SECSTATE WASHDC IMMEDIATE 4784<br \/>\nINFO AMEMBASSY GEORGETOWN IMMEDIATE<br \/>\nUNCLAS CARACAS 11175 <\/p>\n<p>E.O. 11652: N\/A<br \/>\nTAGS: CASC, OREP RYAN, LEO), GY, VE<br \/>\nSUBJECT: SMALL AIRCRAFT REQUIREMENTS FOR GUYANA<br \/>\nREF: A) STATE 295945; B) CARACAS 11112 <\/p>\n<p>1. EMBASSY WAS ABLE TO CONTACT PRESIDENT OF LINEA AEROPOSTAL VENEZTLANA (LAV) AIR FORCE BRIGADIER GENERAL OSCAR ALI ARAQUE. CONTRARY TO EMBASSY&#8217;S EARLIER IMPRESSION. LAV EOES, IN FACT, HAVE SOME TWIN OTTERS. <\/p>\n<p>2. GENERAL ARAQUE STATED THAT AFTER THE LOSS OF ONE UNIT IN A CRASH, LAV NOW HAS AVAILABLE ONLY FIVE TWIN OTTERS WHICH ARE IN DAILY SERVICE FLYING TO SMALL AIRPORTS SOUTH OF THE ORINOCO. IT WOULD THEREFORE BE VERY DIFFICULT TO MAKE AVAILABLE TWO UNITS. HOWEVER, THE GENERAL PROMISED TO BRING MATTER UP WITH MINISTER OF TRANSPORT AND COMMUNICATIONS AFTERNOON OF NOV. 27, AND, WHILE NOT MAKING ANY COMMITMENTS, SEES THE POSSIBILITY OF MAKING AVAILABLE ONE UNIT FOR A LIMITED PERIOD OF TIME. IT IS UNCLEAR WHETHER THIS WOULD BE LOAN OR LEASE <\/p>\n<p>UNCLASSIFIED<br \/>\nUNCLASSIFIED<br \/>\nPAGE 02 CARACA 11175 272046Z <\/p>\n<p>BUT PROBABLY THE LATTER. <\/p>\n<p>3. THE MINISTRY OF TRANSPORT AND COMMUNICATIONS OPERATES TWO SHORTS SKYVANS, MAINLY IN LIAISON AND IN NAVAIDS MAINTENANCE WORK. THE DIRECTOR GENERAL OF AIR TRANSPORT AND TRAFFIC, GENERAL SUAREZ, IS ON LEAVE FOR ANOTHER TWO WEEKS; HIS DEPUTY IS FLYING IN THE INTERIOR OF THE COUNTRY. IN ANY CASE, THE FINAL DECISION ON THE SKYVANS WOULE HAVE TO BE MADE BY THE MINISTER OF TRANSPORT COMMUNICATIONS. <\/p>\n<p>4. EMBASSY WILL APPROACH THE MINISTER REGARDING THE LAV TWIN OTTER AND THE MINISTRY&#8217;S SKYVANS. <\/p>\n<p>5. FOREGOING PASSED TO GUYANESE AMBASSADOR. <\/p>\n<p>6. ARE AIRCRAFT STILL DESIRED? <\/p>\n<p>LUERS [William Luers, American Ambassador to Venezuela]<\/p>\n<p>UNCLASSIFIED<br \/>\nNNN<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Editor\u2019s note: The text for this document was released in 2014 by Wikileaks. It is also available through the Internet Archive.] UNCLASSIFIED PAGE 01 CARACA 11175 272046Z ACTION ARA-15 INFO OCT-01 ISO-00 SCS-06 SS-15 SSO-00 CA-01 H-02 DODE-00 \/040 W &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;098791 272059Z \/61 O 272013Z NOV 78 FM AMEMBASSY CARACAS TO SECSTATE WASHDC IMMEDIATE 4784 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":96250,"menu_order":38,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-96337","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/96337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=96337"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/96337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":136385,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/96337\/revisions\/136385"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/96250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=96337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}