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Bolivia's leader threatens to close US embassy
AFP Updated July 5, 2013, 12:12 pm
COCHABAMBA, Bolivia (AFP) - Bolivia's president threatened to close the US embassy as leftist Latin American leaders joined him in blasting Europe and the United States after his plane was rerouted amid suspicions US fugitive Edward Snowden was aboard.
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"We don't need a US embassy in Bolivia," he said. "My hand would not shake to close the US embassy. We have dignity, sovereignty. Without the United States, we are better politically, democratically."
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At a rally before the meeting, Maduro claimed that the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) had ordered France, Portugal, Italy and Spain to deny access to Morales's plane on Tuesday.
"A minister of one of these European governments personally told us by telephone that they were going to apologize because they were surprised, and that those who gave the order to aviation authorities in this country ... were the CIA," he said.
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http://au.news.yahoo.com/world/a/-/world/17876985/bolivias-leader-threatens-to-close-us-embassy/
Do read the whole article.
Video in Spanish of Maduro the same thing about the CIA (ordering the air space be closed country by country) in a different venue than the quote. In Spanish for the moment.