Outrage Flares Across Latin America Following NSA Revelations

Just a week after the controversial forced landing of the Bolivian president’s plane and amid new revelations about US secret spying on Latin American countries, anger is reaching a boiling point across the region.

“A shiver ran down my back when I learned that they are spying on all of us,” Argentine President Cristina Fernandez said in a speech on Tuesday, according to a Reuters report.

Fernandez called on several South American countries to convene a meeting Friday to articulate a response to the spying revelations. 

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Meanwhile, Brazil’s government says it is forming a task force to investigate violations of its citizens’ rights.

Chile’s foreign ministry declared, “Chile cannot but firmly and categorically condemn spying practices, whatever their origin, nature and objectives.”

Even Colombia’s right-wing government—close military and political ally to the US—issued a tepid response to the revelations. “In rejecting the acts of espionage that violate people’s rights to privacy as well as the international conventions on telecommunication, Colombia requests the corresponding explanations from the United States government through its ambassador to Colombia,” the foreign ministry said.