Snoops and snubs

LATIN AMERICANS were already fuming after leaks in May from Edward Snowden, a former contractor for the United States’ National Security Agency (NSA), suggested that spies had monitored their phone and internet activity for a decade. On September 1st TV Globo, a Brazilian network, claimed the snooping had gone right to the top. It showed what it said was a slide from an NSA presentation displaying text messages sent by Mexico’s president, Enrique Peña Nieto, during his election campaign last year. The same presentation detailed the tracking of the e-mails, calls and text messages of advisers to Dilma Rousseff, Brazil’s president.