"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
“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)