(BBC) Brazil and Mexico have both demanded an explanation from the US over claims that the National Security Agency (NSA) spied on their presidents.
Internet data from Brazilian leader Dilma Rousseff and Mexico's Enrique Pena Nieto was intercepted, journalist Glenn Greenwald told Brazil's TV Globo.
Mr Greenwald obtained secret files from US whistle-blower Edward Snowden.
Brazil said data interception would represent an unacceptable violation of sovereignty. Mexico called for a probe.
"You cannot allow... a US agency, or someone that has been hired by the US government, to follow what any Brazilian citizen is doing," Brazilian Senator Eduardo Suplicy told the BBC's Newshour programme.
Both the Brazilian and Mexican governments summoned their respective US ambassadors. Mexico requested an "an exhaustive investigation" to determine who may be responsible for the alleged spying on Mr Pena Nieto's emails before his election last year, the AFP news agency reported.
In July, Brazilian newspaper O Globo reported that the US had seized web traffic and phone calls across the region.
'Attack on sovereignty'
Mr Greenwald, a columnist for the British Guardian newspaper, told TV Globo's news programme on Sunday - "Fantastico" - that secret documents leaked by Edward Snowden showed how US agents had spied on communications between aides of Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff.
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