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The Digital Empire’s Threat to Latin America

Jul 9, 2013
"Every day, hundreds of millions of messages from the entire Latin American continent are devoured by US spy agencies, and stored forever in warehouses the size of small cities," WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange writes in The Guardian on Tuesday. "The geographical facts about the infrastructure of the internet therefore have consequences for the independence and sovereignty of Latin America."
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