Venezuela, Nicaragua and Bolivia offer asylum to Edward Snowden

[Ephebus]

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Venezuela, Nicaragua and Bolivia offer asylum to Edward Snowden

President Maduro offers to protect NSA whistleblower 'from persecution by the empire' and rejects US extradition request.

US request for extradition of Edward Snowden - full text

A copy of the request sent to Venezuela to extradite the NSA whistleblower to the US should he arrive in the South American country.

[Gabi]

Finally some free nations!

[questionableideas]

puts hands together like Mr. Burns Excellent. I never thought that Edward deserves a punishment as intense as the US wants.

[steelmets]

wonder where he will choose

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[RapidCoinz]

the saddest thing about this whole episode is that the media (and as a result the general public) have become so infatuated with 'which countries are offering asylum' and 'the airport hotel in which he is in', the whole story has become side tracked, with the onus and spotlight now totally flipped.  what happened to focussing on the infringements and gross violations of our private lives in which snowden revealed?

the media play the fiddlers tune.  no guesses whose fiddling this affair...    

[RoadToHell]

Finally some free nations!

  Do you seriously think that his life wouldn't be in jeopardy if he had leaked Venezuelan state secrets?  Don't mistake the lack of global reach and power of these countries for altruistic benevolence.
Why do you think that the motivation is something other than tweaking the U.S. government?

I'm not supporting the U.S. here - I just don't think that the offers of asylum should be seen as anything other than acts that are politically motivated to embarrass an adversary.