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| 2013-07-08 | ||
"There has not been any type of communication,'' Foreign Minster Elias Jaua said on state television late on Saturday. "We are waiting until Monday to know whether he confirms his wish to take asylum in Venezuela." News of the apparent deadline followed the announcement by the president of Bolivia that it was joining Venezuela and Nicaragua in indicating that they would offer asylum to fugitive, who is believed to be hiding inside the transit zone of Moscow's Sheremetyevo Airport as the United States continues efforts to have him extradited. Now that the presidents of Nicaragua, Bolivia and Venezuela have offered to grant NSA leaker Edward Snowden asylum, it's unclear what will happen to him or where he will go. But wherever it is, it won't come soon enough for Russian President Putin. President Nicolas Maduro of Venezuela both condemned the U.S. spy programs that Snowden revealed and said he deserved protection. "Who is the guilty one? A young man ... who denounces war plans, or the U.S. government which launches bombs and arms the terrorist Syrian opposition against the people and legitimate President Bashar al-Assad?'' Maduro asked, to applause and cheers from military officers at a parade on Saturday. Venezuela "decided to offer humanitarian asylum to the young American Edward Snowden" so he can live without "persecution from the empire," Maduro said, referring to the U.S. He extended the invitation to Snowden during a speech Friday commemorating the anniversary of Venezuela's independence, according to the Associated Press. Since winning a presidential vote in April that followed leader Hugo Chavez's death from cancer, Maduro has often criticized the United States, and accused it of plotting to kill him.
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| Posted by:Steve White |
| #6 Hot money sez Daniel Ortega likes his look. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2013-07-08 17:17 |
| #5 Snowden hasn't realized yet that nobody's going to hire him for anything now. A traitor can never be trusted again - with anything. |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2013-07-08 16:35 |
| #4 So let's say he goes to Venezuela. Three months pass. What's he going to do for money? He can continue to release secrets, and perhaps he'll pick up cash that way. What's that say about his 'motivation'? If he doesn't take cash for secrets, how's he going to live? It's not like the Venezuelan intel service is going to employ him as a systems administrator. |
| Posted by: Steve White 2013-07-08 15:09 |
| #3 I think Snowden is going to have a heck of a shock. Here he expected to be welcomed by our enemies with open arms and treated like a celebrity. Instead he's going to be regulated to some sh*thole in South America where he can live out his life in imagined fear that some U.S. agent will add something interesting to his food. |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2013-07-08 08:02 |
| #2 Well, it doesn't look like happy happy for Snowden. The outcome should be apparent soon. How would YOU like to be Snowden? It must be about like the rim of Hell. You want to be his kind of role model patriot hero? He is looking down a deep black hole and even if he does find a place that will take him...what has he got to look forward to? And after he gets there? And then who can he trust? And if we know where he is does it matter if he puts a strong lock on his door? yeah? |
| Posted by: Threater Flusoper9823 2013-07-08 05:21 |
| #1 .....so he can live without "persecution from the empire," Which leaves the rest of us here to sort it out with Champ and the regime. Nicely done Eddie, you little pric*. Wherever you decide to go, please take your feckless father along with you. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2013-07-08 03:44 |