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mongering after the Venezuelan presidential jet was blocked from

“I would like to announce that we are preparing a lawsuit against
Barack Obama to condemn him for crimes against humanity,” said
President Morales at a press conference in the Bolivian city of Santa
Cruz. He branded the US president as a “criminal” who violates

In solidarity with Venezuela, Bolivia will begin preparing a lawsuit
against the US head of state to be taken to the international court.
Furthermore, Morales has called an emergency meeting of the
Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) to
discuss what has been condemned by Venezuela as “an act of
intimidation by North American imperialism.”

The Bolivian president has suggested that the members of CELAC
withdraw their ambassadors from the US to send a message to the
Obama Administration. As an additional measure he will call on the
member nations of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Americas to
boycott the next meeting of the UN. Members of the Alliance include
Antigua and Barbuda, Cuba, Dominica, Ecuador, Nicaragua,

“The US cannot be allowed to continue with its policy of intimidation
and blockading presidential flights,” stressed Morales.

The Venezuelan government announced on Thursday that President
Nicolas Maduro’s plane had been denied entry into Puerto Rican

“We have received the information from American officials that we
have been denied travel over its airspace,” Venezuelan Foreign
Minister Elias Jaua said, speaking to reporters during an official
meeting with his South African counterpart. Jaua decried the move
“as yet another act of aggression on the part of North American
imperialism against the government of the Bolivarian Republic.”

President Maduro was due to arrive in Beijing this weekend for
bilateral talks with the Chinese government. Jaua was adamant that
the Venezuelan leader would reach his destination, regardless of any

The US government has not yet made any statement regarding the
closing of its airspace to the Venezuelan presidential plane. Puerto

Washington’s relations with Latin America have deteriorated since
the beginning of the year following the aerial blockade that forced
Bolivian President Evo Morales’ plane to land in Austria in July.
Several EU countries closed their airspace to the presidential jet
because of suspicions that former CIA employee Edward Snowden -wanted in the US on espionage charges - was on board. Bolivia
alleged that the US was behind the aerial blockade.

In response to the incident, Latin American leaders joined together in
condemnation of what they described as “neo-colonial intimidation.”

Later in the year, the revelations on the US’ global spy network
released by Edward Snowden did little to improve relations. Leaked
wires revealed that the National Security Agency (NSA) had
monitored the private communications of both the Brazilian and

The Brazilian government denounced the NSA surveillance as
“impermissible and unacceptable,” and a violation of Brazilian
sovereignty. As a result of US spying Brazilian President Dilma
Rousseff has postponed a state visit to Washington in October.