Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff led the day’s speeches at the United Nations General Assembly, using her time to shame the United States, which was caught eavesdropping on Rousseff’s communications, as well as several other members of her government and Brazil’s oil company.

“Without the right to privacy,” said President Rousseff, “there is no real freedom of speech and freedom of opinion.”

Relations between the two biggest economies in the western hemisphere were warming before the spying revelations, which were contained in the trove of secrets smuggled out of the USA by for National Security Agency (NSA) subcontractor Edward Snowden and fed to reporter Glenn Greenwald.  The resentment ran so deep that Rousseff cancelled her visit to the White House and US President Obama, who in a quirk of scheduling, spoke at the General Assembly just after Rousseff’s condemnations.

Rousseff said the eavesdropping violated human rights and international law.

“Personal data of citizens was intercepted indiscriminately.  Corporate information - often of high economic and even strategic value - was at the center of espionage activity.”

The rift has apparently scuttled the Brazilian purchase of billions of dollars of US Fighter Jets and parts, as well as US cooperation in exploring oil fields off Brazil’s coast.