LatinNews Daily Report - 25 July 2013

DIPLOMACY | Morales accepts apologies from Europe. On 24 July President Evo Morales accepted apologies from France, Italy, Spain and Portugal, for the incident in early July in which local authorities refused to allow Morales’ presidential plane to transit their on suspicions that the US whistleblower, Edward J. Snowden, was on board the plane en route to Bolivia. Morales’ begrudging acceptance of the apologies (he said he was not "fully satisfied" but accepted them nevertheless) would appear to draw a line under the episode, which had threatened a diplomatic crisis between Europe and Latin America. Morales also ordered the ambassadors to the four European countries, who had been recalled over the incident, to return to their posts.

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