Bolivian minister: Evo Morales’ plane rerouted on suspicion Snowden on board

[Unbelievable servility:] The plane carrying Bolivian President Evo Morales home from Russia was rerouted to Austria on Tuesday after France and Portugal refused to let it cross their airspace because of suspicions that NSA leaker Edward Snowden was on board, the country’s foreign minister said. Foreign Minister David Choquehuanca denied that Snowden was on the plane, which landed in Vienna, and said France and Portugal would have to explain why they canceled authorization for the plane. “We don’t know who invented this lie. We want to denounce to the international community this injustice with the plane of President Evo Morales,” Choquehuanca said from Vienna, where the plane landed. Morales had earlier met with Russian President Vladimir Putin at a summit of major gas exporters in the Kremlin. In an interview with Russia Today television, Morales said that his South American country would be willing to consider granting asylum to Snowden.

"We have the suspicion that [France and Portugal] were used by a foreign power, in this case the United States, as a way of intimidating the Bolivian state and President Evo Morales." Saavedra confirmed that Italy had also denied Bolivia’s aircraft entry into its airspace.

Spain has authorized Bolivia’s presidential jet to pass through its airspace and continue its journey to Bolivia, the Austrian President has said. Spanish authorities requested permission to search President Morales’ plane as a condition of transiting through the country, but Bolivian officials refused. “This is an unacceptable and unjustifiable act that offends Latin America and the Caribbean,” said the Cuban Foreign Minister in a statement. “Everyone has gone insane. The head of state and his plane have total immunity. This level of impunity is unprecedented,” tweeted Kirchner. Ecuador suggested an emergency meeting of the UNASUR after the incident Tuesday.

Peter Symonds: In hunt for Snowden, US forces Bolivian presidential jet to land - In a flagrant breach of international law and diplomatic norms, the Obama administration, in collusion with its European allies, today forced a plane carrying Bolivian President Evo Morales to land in Austria, on suspicion that NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden was on board. The decision to force down the plane has demonstrated the utter lawlessness of the Obama administration, which has risked the life of the Bolivian president and provoked a major diplomatic row in its bid to capture Snowden. His only “crime” has been to expose the criminal actions of the US in establishing a vast NSA spying operation on the American people and the population of the world. There is literally no line that Washington will not cross.

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