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EU-USA: DATA SURVEILLANCE: Bolivian President: "“kidnapped by imperialism” in Europe"

03 July 2013

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"According to media reports, France, Spain, Italy and Portugal .. denied his plane the right to fly over their airspace."
"Saavedrd said he considered the whole fiasco as a hostile act perpetrated by the United States which uses EU governments as proxies." [Bolivian Defence Minister] and "Bolivia's vice president, Alvaro Garcia, went further. He said Morales had been “kidnapped by imperialism” in Europe.

See the full article: EU states ground Bolivian leader's plane in Snowden affair (euobserver, link):



-"Just days after the US President’s claim that he would not ‘‘be scrambling jets to get a 29-year-old hacker’’, the Obama administration was accused of doing precisely that."

and see: Bolivians bitter as Snowden stand-off triggers 'hostile act' (CQ News, link)

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