In a press conference in the early hours of Wednesday morning, Bolivian Vice President Álvaro García Linera, confirmed the country’s president, Evo Morales, was on his way back to Bolivia after his flight from Moscow had to stop in Austria, allegedly due to suspicion the plane was carrying NSA leaker Edward Snowden. Linera, who was Bolivia’s acting president during Morales’ foreign trip, said he spoke to Morales at 5:30 AM and that Morales “informed us that the flight plan had been authorized.”
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