Bolivia

‘Not Your Colony’: Bolivia Threatens Shutdown of US Embassy

July 5, 2013 Staff, www.afp.com Organize! Argentina, Bolivia, Ecuador, Edward Snowden, Venezuela

In a show of support, Presidents Nicolas Maduro of Venezuela, Cristina Kirchner of Argentina, Rafael Correa of Ecuador, Jose Mujica of Uruguay and Desi Bouterse of Suriname met with Morales in the central city of Cochabamba. Bolivia’s president threatened to close the US embassy as leftist Latin American leaders joined him in blasting Europe and the United States after his plane was rerouted amid suspicions US fugitive Edward Snowden was aboard. At a rally before the meeting, Maduro claimed that the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) had ordered France, Portugal, Italy and Spain to deny access to Morales’s plane on Tuesday. After the meeting, the leaders issued a statement calling on the European governments to publicly apologize “in relation to the serious incidents that occurred,” but Morales said earlier that apologies were not enough. Correa said the leaders would “take decisions and show that we won’t accept this sort of humiliation against any country of (Latin) America.”

US Ambassador Responsible for False Claim Snowden Was on Bolivian Plane

July 5, 2013 Kevin Gosztola, www.dissenter.firedoglake.com Educate! Bolivia, Edward Snowden

The Austrian daily newspaper, Die Presse, has reported that the United States ambassador to Austria was responsible for making false claims that National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden was on board Bolivian President Evo Morales’ plane. In a story published on July 3, the newspaper reported shortly after Morales’ plane landed the “Vienna foreign department received a phone call.” The caller was the US ambassador to Austria, William Eacho. According to Die Presse, Eacho “claimed with great certainty that Edward Snowden was onboard.” He also made reference to a “diplomatic note requesting Snowden’s extradition.”

Forcing Down Evo Morales’s Plane Was an Act of Air Piracy

July 5, 2013 John Pilger, www.guardian.co.uk Educate! Bolivia, Wars and Militarism

Imagine the aircraft of the president of France being forced down in Latin America on "suspicion" that it was carrying a political refugee to safety – and not just any refugee but someone who has provided the people of the world with proof of criminal activity on an epic scale. Imagine the response from Paris, let alone the "international community", as the governments of the west call themselves. To a chorus of baying indignation from Whitehall to Washington, Brussels to Madrid, heroic special forces would be dispatched to rescue their leader and, as sport, smash up the source of such flagrant international gangsterism. Editorials would cheer them on, perhaps reminding readers that this kind of piracy was exhibited by the German Reich in the 1930s.

Latin America Angry at US for Downing Evo Morales Airplane

July 3, 2013 Michael Weissenstein, www.ap.org Educate! Bolivia, Edward Snowden

Shades of outrage were felt across Latin America in countries with long experience on the sharp end of U.S. power, even those whose governments did not take sides with leftist Bolivia. "What happened to Bolivia's president is upsetting and dangerous," said Carlos Acosta, a Panama City clothing salesman, as he read about the case in his local paper. "Not letting your president cross a country's airspace, it's like a slap in the face." Preventing the passage of a presidential jet and even searching it is legal under international law but unprecedented in recent memory, aviation experts said. "It is extraordinary to prohibit passage through one's state air space en route to another state," said Ken Quinn, former chief counsel at the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration and head of the aviation practice at the Washington-based law firm Pillsbury Winthrop. "From a diplomacy standpoint, one does not normally interfere with diplomats and high-ranking public officials in transit."

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