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Evo Morales, The President Of Bolivia, Accuses The White House Of Kidnapping Him
Wednesday, July 3, 2013 12:52
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Was it an act of intimidation or was it a violation of international protocol and law to mid-flight deny the presidential plane of Evo Morales, president of Bolivia, air passage over France, Portugal and Spain? Or was it both?
It’s a murky story with the US government not issuing any statements, as of Wednesday morning, about the forced diversion of Morales’s presidential plane to Vienna, where it was thoroughly searched by Austrian officials to see if Edward Snowden was on board. The Bolivian foreign minister charges the US with threatening the life of the Morales because the plane was running low on fuel.
It was both! It is absolutely outrageous that a country could do that to the leader of another over suspicions. Suspicions that turned out false! If I were Mr. Morales I would sever any ties I had left with the United States. From what I hear, Evo Morales was pissed and still is and I know that UNASUR is to meet over the incident. UNASUR is kind of a South America UN if you will.
“The decisions of these countries violated international law. We are already making procedures to denounce this to the UN secretary general,” he [the foreign miniter of Bolivia] told the BBC. “We have no doubt that it was an order from the White House….For no reason whatsoever should a diplomatic plane with a president [inside] be diverted from its route and forced to land in another country.”
This is getting pretty ridiculous and I wouldn’t be surprised to see Evo step up and accept Edward Snowden, the NSA whistleblower and man without a country. -Mort
Unbelievable! Why would these European countries do such a thing? And if it came from the White House, why would these EU countries ‘do as they’re told’ by a foreign country?