Bolivia Says Morales’s Travels Entangled by Snowden Hunt
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The airplane carrying Bolivian President Evo Morales from a Moscow energy conference resumed its journey after an unplanned stop in Vienna prompted by suspicion that fugitive U.S. leaker Edward Snowden was aboard.
France, Italy, Portugal and Spain originally caused the Bolivian delegation’s 14-hour delay in the Austrian capital after refusing overflight rights, Morales said, prompting calls for an emergency meeting of South American leaders. Spanish insistence on searching the plane during a planned refueling stop in the Canary Islands prolonged the standoff.