Brazilian president, at United Nations, blasts spying by Washington

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Brazilian president, at United Nations, blasts spying by Washington

UNITED NATIONS (AFP) - (AFP) - Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff launched a blistering attack on the United States Tuesday at the United Nations over America's widespread spying on her country.

By Carol J. Williams and Vincent Bevins

September 24, 2013, 7:59 a.m.

Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff used her lead-off speech at the annual United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday to blast the United States for operating a worldwide spying network that she said violates the sovereignty of other countries and the civil liberties of their citizens.

Rousseff had already signaled her nation's outrage over reports of National Security Agency data interceptions in Brazil by canceling a summit and state dinner with President Obama that had been set for late October.

"What we have before us is a serious case of violation of human rights and civil liberties," Rousseff told the assembly immediately after opening pleasantries.

She described arguments that the technological surveillance of individuals, businesses and diplomatic missions is necessary in the global fight against terrorism as "untenable" and an affront to the sovereignty of nations.

"Brazil can protect itself," Rousseff declared. "Brazil doesn’t provide shelter to terrorist groups."

Rousseff never mentioned Obama or the NSA by name but said her nation's dismay over "this case of disrespect" had been communicated to Washington, along with its insistence that Brazil "cannot possibly allow recurring and illegal actions to go on as if normal practice."

Since July, Brazilian news organization Globo has published three reports based on documents leaked by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden, which alleged that the United States had spied on Brazilian citizens, Rousseff herself, as well as important state-run oil company, Petrobras.

Rousseff has strongly denounced the alleged eavesdropping and asked Obama for a public apology and concrete actions to curb it.

The decision to cancel the Washington trip, a rare diplomatic snub of the United States, was well received in many parts of Brazil, especially in the base of her left-of-center Workers Party, many of whose members have memories of a U.S.-backed military dictatorship that spied on dissidents.

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Staff writer Williams reported from Los Angeles and special correspondent Bevins from Sao Paulo.

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2bewal at 7:25 AM September 26, 2013

I am brazilian and it is my belief that the US should be watchful with what is happening bellow it's south borders. Dilma is an ex terrorist and a marxist. Her party founded, with Fidel Castro, Hugo Chávez & FARC, the São Paulo Forum. It's aim is to implement Hugo Chávez's Bolivarian Socialism in Latin America & Caribbean. Today, most of LA & Caribbean countries joined the Forum. Brazil's state is growing, it is protecting its industries from foreign markets and her party is destroying Brazil's legislative and judiciary powers. Russia and China's gov't remains in the hands of the communists. They also belong to the BRIC. That's worrisome!

j. von hettlingen at 2:43 PM September 25, 2013

The allegations of widespread espionage against Brazilian citizens were first published in July by Glenn Greenwalt, an American Rio de Janeiro-based journalist, who reports for the British Guardian newspaper. The the NSA was said to have accessed all internet content that Rousseff had visited online.

Until 2002, US ran base in Brazilian capital, Brasilia, to intercept transmissions from foreign satellites. Surveillance carried out through partnerships between Brazilian telecoms firms and US agencies. Major companies and foreign visitors routinely targeted.

According to NSA, Brazil's state oil company, Petrobras is due next month to carry out an important auction for exploration rights of an oil field off the Rio de Janeiro state coast.

Sandy0 at 4:55 PM September 24, 2013

The American people are a paranoid bunch manipulated by their government. Too much interbreeding in the USA.

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