Snowden blowback - list it here if you find it

[tangent4ronpaul]

http://rt.com/usa/nsa-leak-snowden-live-updates-482/

14:34 GMT: EU Parliament has voted to scrap two agreements granting the US access to European financial and travel data, unless Washington reveals the full extent of its spying on Europe.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/07/03/us-usa-security-latinamerica-idUSBRE96214K20130703

Heads of state in the 12-nation South American bloc Unasur denounced the "unfriendly and unjustifiable acts." Initial plans for an emergency meeting of Unasur foreign ministers in Lima on Thursday were still up in the air at the end of the day.

Unasur includes close leftist allies of Bolivia like Venezuela, Ecuador and Argentina as well as more centrist governments like those in Chile and Brazil.

"Latin America demands an explanation," tweeted Ecuadorean leader Rafael Correa. "If what happened to Evo does not merit a Unasur summit, I don't know what does."

Dilma Rousseff, president of regional economic powerhouse Brazil, issued a statement repudiating the European countries that denied Morales access to their airspace based on what she called the "fanciful" notion that Snowden might be on board.

The Chilean foreign ministry issued a statement saying it "lamented" what happened to Morales and that more clarity was needed on the facts.

Much more blunt was the statement from Mexico's Congress condemning what it called the "disgraceful and discriminatory" treatment Morales had received in Europe.

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[tangent4ronpaul]

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/07/03/us-usa-security-latinamerica-idUSBRE9620SS20130703

The unusual treatment of the Bolivian leader touched a sensitive nerve in the region, which has a history of U.S.-backed coups, and other presidents rallied in support of Morales.

"Definitively, they're all crazy," Argentine President Cristina Fernandez wrote on her Twitter account after a phone call to Morales, who was stranded in Vienna overnight.

Fernandez described Morales as defiant. "'I'm not a thief,'" she quoted him as saying, although he was unable to prevent Austrian officials from searching his aircraft. Snowden was not onboard.

Nicaragua and Cuban officials also decried the incident.

The 12-nation UNASUR group, which includes leftist leaders of Venezuela, Ecuador, Argentina and Bolivia as well as the more moderate Chile and Brazil, issued a statement, calling France's and Portugal's actions "dangerous."

UNASUR's secretary general said the group was coordinating with member nations to set a date and place for an emergency summit.
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Bolivia has filed a formal complaint with the United Nations and has called in diplomats from the French, Italian and Portuguese embassies in La Paz to demand an explanation.

In Ecuador, President Rafael Correa called the Europeans' actions "extremely grave."

"We're trying to convene a meeting of ... presidents, and take measures against this affront to Latin America," he wrote on Twitter. "How they've trampled upon international law!"

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I'm not finding it now, but Bolivia was threatening to kick the US embassy out of the country due to the incident.

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[tangent4ronpaul]

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2013/07/14/snowden-chose-not-to-release-most-damaging-data/

A summit of the Latin American Mercosur trade bloc issued a statement Friday reaffirming the right to asylum and rejecting "any attempt at pressure, harassment or criminalization by a state or third parties".

The bloc, meeting in the Uruguayan capital Montevideo, denounced four European countries who denied airspace to a plane carrying Bolivian President Evo Morales back from Moscow earlier this month.

They apparently suspected that Snowden was on board.

Mercosur leaders said they would recall their ambassadors from Spain, France, Italy and Portugal for consultations in protest at the incident.

In a statement, they rejected "any attempt at pressure, harassment or criminalisation by a state or third parties" in response to a decision to grant asylum.