INQUIRER.net: Venezuela will consider asylum for Snowden

INQUIRER.net Philippine News for Filipinos

Venezuela will consider asylum for Snowden Jun 26th 2013, 01:49 CARACAS - Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro said Tuesday he would consider an asylum request from US intelligence leaker Edward Snowden if the country receives one. "We have not received an official request. But in the event we were to receive one, we would evaluate it as we understand Ecuador is doing," Maduro said on state television from Haiti, where he was on an official visit. Ecuador's President Rafael Correa, a Venezuela ally and fellow leftist, has said he will take a decision on Snowden's application "fully respecting our sovereignty." Snowden was believed to be on his way to Ecuador when he left Hong Kong and landed in Moscow on Sunday, but Russian President Vla... Keep on reading: Venezuela will consider asylum for Snowden Media files: venezuela-snowden.jpg (image/jpeg)

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