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50. 2. Denial of refueling at Lisbon:

... On Monday, Portugal, without explanation, had withdrawn permission for Mr. Morales’s plane to stop in Lisbon to refuel, the foreign minister said. That required Bolivian officials to get permission from Spain to refuel in the Canary Islands ...

Portuguese Reports:

Portugal "lamenta incómodo" causado a Evo Morales mas afasta responsabilidades
Alexandre Martins
03/07/2013 - 13:53
Ministério dos Negócios Estrangeiros cancelou aterragem e sobrevoo do avião do Presidente da Bolívia na segunda-feira "por considerações técnicas", mas voltou a autorizar sobrevoo no mesmo dia. Acusa Bolívia de insistir "num procedimento que teria violado a soberania portuguesa"
http://www.publico.pt/mundo/noticia/portugal-lamenta-incomodo-do-presidente-evo-morales-mas-nega-responsabilidades-1599129

... In a statement, the press office .. asserts the flight plan of the aircraft Falcon 900EX Bolivian Air Force was authorized by the Portuguese authorities on 28 June for a trip of President Evo Morales to Russia with stopovers in Lisbon for both trips -- La Paz / Moscow and Moscow / La Paz. This authorization was "canceled due to technical considerations" on Monday, July 1, one day before the return trip to Evo Morales to his country. "In response to the Bolivian authorities' request for clarification, received at 19h19 that day, they were informed at 21:10 that technical considerations did not preclude overflight of national airspace, and new authorization for overflight was expressly granted. Landing was impossible due to technical considerations ... Bolivian authorities continued to insist on landing in Lisbon" ... Bolivia submitted a new flight plan late Tuesday afternoon, with passage through Portuguese airspace and landing for refueling in Las Palmas, Spain ...