US INTELLIGENCE USES PUERTO RICO TO SPY ON LATAM SAN JUAN, July 13 (NNN-Prensa Latina) -- US intelligence agencies have used Puerto Rico as a covert operation center to spy on Latin American countries, according to the Center for Investigative Journalism (CIJ). According to the body of the Law School of the Inter-American University of Puerto Rico, some documents leaked by Edward Snowden establish that the National Security Agency and the Central Intelligence Agency have operated for that purpose from the former naval base of Sabana Seca, in Toa Baja municipality, near San Juan.The former technician of the NSA and the CIA revealed that both surveillance mechanisms run a joint operation in Puerto Rican soil, in coordination with stations in Brasilia, Bogota, Caracas, Mexico City and Panama to spy on Latin American countries using the program Fornsat, which allowed US espionage agencies to intercept thousands of millions of telephone calls, e-mails and private communications on the Internet.According to the CPI, this interception work intensified in Colombia and Venezuela through the program Boundless Informant, as late President Chavez faced cancer leading to his death in March.The Puerto Rican CPI cites newspapers O Globo (Brazil), El Pais (Spain) and The Guardian (Britain) as sources of documents leaked by Snowden and mentions Peru and Central American countries as targets of US espionage.The interception of on-line communications was carried out through the program PRISM with collaboration from Facebook and Google, which have denied the accusations, besides giants Microsoft and You Tube.Some denunciations cited by the CPI refer to the program Echelon, which had an operation base in Toa Baja municipality under jurisdiction of the US Navy.