Mexico demands information on US spying operations
Iran Press TV
Wed Jul 10, 2013 2:51PM GMT
Mexico has demanded Washington to provide “broad information” about a leaked report that it was among Latin American nations monitored by US spy agencies.
The request by the country’s Foreign Ministry on Tuesday came a day after Brazilian newspaper O Globo reported that US National Security Agency (NSA) had lifted data related to energy and drugs in Mexico.
The newspaper cited documents leaked by former US intelligence contractor Edward Snowden.
"Following the information published today, the Mexican government reiterated to the US government, through diplomatic channels, its demand for broad information on this matter," said a Foreign Ministry spokesman.
Another US ally Colombia has also reacted to the O Globo revelations by requesting Washington to explain why it had targeted its citizens.
A Colombian Foreign Ministry spokesman said the South American country rejects "acts of espionage that violate the rights and privacy of persons and international conventions."
Meanwhile, other Latin American countries, including Venezuela, Nicaragua and Bolivia, have all offered asylum to Snowden, who is currently holed up the transit area of Moscow’s Sheremetyevo International Airport since arriving on a flight from Hong Kong on June 23 to avoid extradition to the United States.
Snowden admitted on June 9 his role in leaking two top-secret US government spying programs, under which the NSA and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) have been eavesdropping on millions of phone records and the Internet data.
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