Venezuela's Maduro offers asylum to U.S. fugitive Snowden Related News - Snowden could win Nicaragua asylum if circumstances permit: Ortega<http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/07/06/us-usa-security-snowden-nicaragua-idUSBRE96411P20130706> 8:03pm EDT
[image: Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro talks to the media during a news conference in Port-au-Prince, in this handout photo provided by Miraflores Palace June 25, 2013. REUTERS/Miraflores Palace/Handout via Reuters] CARACAS | Fri Jul 5, 2013 8:16pm EDT (Reuters) - Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said on Friday he had decided to offer asylum to former U.S. intelligence contractor Edward Snowden, who has petitioned several countries to avoid capture by Washington. "I have decided to offer humanitarian asylum to the young American, Edward Snowden, so that in the fatherland of (Simon) Bolivar and (Hugo) Chavez, he can come and live away from the imperial North American persecution," Maduro told a televised parade marking Venezuela's independence day. Snowden is believed to be holed up in the transit area of a Moscow international airport. Venezuela offers asylum to Snowden Caracas, July 5 AVN. - President of the Republic, Nicolas Maduro, offered asylum to Edward Snowden. http://www.avn.info.ve/contenido/venezuela-ofrece-asilo-snowden [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe: <mailto:[email protected]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe: <mailto:[email protected]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Digest: <mailto:[email protected]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Help: <mailto:[email protected]?subject=laamn> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Post: <mailto:[email protected]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive1: <http://www.egroups.com/messages/laamn> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive2: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
