France, Portugal to allow Bolivian plane to fly through their airspace, Spain allowed refueling -NYT

[flamingdem]

12. From the same article - sounds like a lot of he said, she said

Such as Spain doing a revision of the plane. The Guardian doesn't say if this is normal procedure, it might be. The "abruptly cancelled" just how abrupt would that be? Maybe there were technical difficulties, and there is no statement from Portugal yet.

But the kidnapped by imperialism shows the mindset, pretty extreme, understandable considering the confusion but not accurate.

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In a midnight press conference, Bolivian vice-president Alvaro Garcia said Italy and Spain were also denying the plane permission to fly through their airspace. He described Morales as being "kidnapped by imperialism" in Europe.

"The ambassador for Spain in Austria has just informed us that there is no authorisation to fly over Spanish territory and that at 9am Wednesday they would be in contact with us again," defence minister Ruben Saavedra said.

The Spanish government had made "revision of the presidential plane" a condition of granting it passage, he said.

Choquehuanca earlier told reporters Portugal and France had abruptly cancelled air permits. "They say it was due to technical issues, but after getting explanations from some authorities we found that there appeared to be some unfounded suspicions that Mr Snowden was on the plane."