Brazil’s President Rousseff Cancels US Visit Over NSA Spying
Developing…
The banner from the “Fantastico” news show in Brazil which detailed how the U.S. NSA spied on Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff in order “to access the entire communications network of the president and her staff, including telephone, Internet and social network exchanges.” (Image: Fantasico/O Globo) Brazil’s President Dilma Rousseff has canceled her trip to the U.S. over NSA spying, O Globo reports on Tuesday.
Signs had emerged earlier this month that Rousseff would cancel the state visit scheduled for October 23, including a statement from one unnamed Brazilian official who said, “This is a major, major crisis …. There needs to be an apology. It needs to be public. Without that, it’s basically impossible for her to go to Washington in October.”
Rousseff had a 20-minute phone conversation with President Obama on Monday to discuss the revelations that the NSA had spied on Latin American citizens including the presidents of Brazil and Mexico, but Rousseff was unsatisfied with Obama’s explanations for the surveillance.
______________________
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 License
Copyright: Common Dreams
Source: http://rinf.com/alt-news/breaking-news/brazils-president-rousseff-cancels-us-visit-over-nsa-spying/70451/
