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July 8, 2013

Snowden Gets Asylum Offers After Forced Landing of Bolivian Plane 
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Russian lawmakers are encouraging National Security Agency whistleblower
Edward Snowden to accept asylum in Venezuela after an offer by
Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro. Speaking to a military parade on
Friday, contrasted his asylum offer to Edward Snowden with the U.S.
refusal to deport former CIA operative Luis Posada Carriles, who is
wanted for the bombing of a Cuban airliner that killed 73 people.

Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro: "Who is the terrorist? A
government like us, who seeks to serve the young Snowden, a figure of
humanitarian asylum from persecution by the American Empire? Or the
United States government that protects with political asylum Luis Posada
Carriles, a confessed convicted murderer and terrorist. Who is wanted by
Venezuela for the bombing of the Cubana plane in 1976."

 

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