Bolivia complains to UN after Evo Morales' plane 'kidnapped'

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Bolivia complains to UN after Evo Morales' plane 'kidnapped'

Bolivia's president Evo Morales at Schwechat airport, near Vienna, where his plane was diverted. Photograph: Helmut Fohringer /AFP

US refuses to comment on Morales plane but admits contact with other nations over potential Snowden flights

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Incident happened in Europe, with South American Presidential plane.

 

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Angry reaction from many, and apologies: BBC News - Snowden case: France apologises in Bolivia plane row

 

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Edward Snowden: South American leaders to meet over Bolivian plane diversion

Latin American presidents plan an emergency meeting on Wednesday over the diversion to Austria of a plane carrying Bolivian President Evo Morales, the Bolivian ambassador to the United Nations said.

Source: Edward Snowden: South American leaders to meet over Bolivian plane diversion - Telegraph

 

[Ray]

This is what is called total Dadagri.

What will be worse if the US President flying to a South American country is forced to land in a South American country and detained.

The bottom line is that Heads of State should not be treated shabbily.

 

[tramp]

Shows a Big Bully in a unipolar world becomes even bigger bully.

 

[Dovah]

Shows a Big Bully in a unipolar world becomes even bigger bully.

Along with his posse of little wannabe bullies.

 

[TrueSpirit]

Angry reaction from many, and apologies: BBC News - Snowden case: France apologises in Bolivia plane row

Is it the French this time acting as US lackey, who pride themselves in being free from Umreeki yoke ?

Whatever happened to the Liberty from Liberty, Equality & Fraternity trioka....

Let me read the article, then would reach out to my French friends....

 

[Abhijeet Dey]

Evo Morales is a leftist politician and a hardcore critic of US foreign policy in South America.

Right now Portugal is in a huge economic crisis so they are looking for a bailout package from the US and EU.

 

[W.G.Ewald]

What hysteria. No aircraft was forced down. Airspace transit permission was delayed. The Bolivians can't even decide if their aircraft was searched or not. The outcry is a chorus of self-pity from self-important leftist tinpot dictators. If they are sincere, let them refuse US aid going forward.

 

[W.G.Ewald]

Here's another opinion, from the US left.

Obama Lets Loose on Evo Morales | Mother Jones

Did we really, seriously, strong-arm the governments of France, Spain, Portugal, and Italy to deny the president of Bolivia permission to fly over their airspace? All because some moron in one of our intelligence services that supposedly tracks every communication on the planet decided that Evo Morales was serious when he joked about taking Edward Snowden home with him from Moscow?

If every country in South America responded by expelling every diplomat in every American embassy, it would hardly seem like an overreaction to me. This would have been outrageous and thuggish behavior even if Snowden had been in Morales' plane. But he wasn't, so it's actually outrageous, thuggish, and clownish.

There is still too much speculation in this story.