President Evo Morales said Saturday he has rejected a request from the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) to fly over Bolivian territory, and alleged that such flights were a cover for US spying. "Two or three days ago I was told we had a DEA request for overflying Bolivia," said Morales at a meeting with coca leaf growers.
"We do not accept that. No DEA or American (agency) can be overflying our national territory." "Under the pretext of fighting drug trafficking, under the pretext of monitoring coca leaf crops they want to overfly, and we are going to make it clear that we monitor domestically," the president added. "We don''t need anyone spying."