Wednesday, July 03, 2013

Bolivian president’s plane forced to land in Austria in hunt for Snowden

MOSCOW — Bolivian President Evo Morales’s plane, forced to land in Austria because of suspicions that American fugitive Edward Snowden was on board, was permitted to fly home Wednesday, Bolivian and European authorities said.

The search for Snowden turned into a major diplomatic fiasco, with Bolivia, Venezuela and several other Latin American countries lashing out at the United States and accusing it of having strong-armed European countries into redirecting the official Bolivian presidential plane.
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I wonder how the US would react if this were done to Air Force One.

1 comment:

rabidgandhi said...

Speaking from Latin America,thank you for raising this question.