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Bolivian president Evo Morales this morning offered political asylum to former NSA contractor Edward Snowden, who remains in Moscow's international airport looking for a place to call home.
Morales' offer of safe haven has raised to three the number of travel destinations now on Snowden's potential itinerary. Two of Bolivia's closest allies took identical action yesterday. Venezuela offers Snowden "humanitarian asylum"; Nicaragua "disposed to accept" Edward Snowden.
"I want to tell the Americans, and some Europeans, that I have been thinking about this matter since yesterday, and as a sign of protest for the treatment I was accorded, I'm going to grant asylum to Snowden, who is being persecuted by his country. We're not afraid in the least of the consequences."
The Bolivian leader was referring to the forced grounding of his presidential jet in Vienna on Tuesday, as he returned to La Paz from a Moscow summit. U.S. likely to have more troubles with Bolivia.
Yesterday president Morales said his country will shutter the U.S. embassy in La Paz, a move which is sometimes the final step before severing diplomatic relations. Bolivia will close American embassy.
Snowden's team of Wikileaks advisers has not yet publicly responded to the offers from Nicaragua, Venezuela or Bolivia. Nor have any of those countries indicated whether they are prepared to issue temporary travel documents to the American fugitive - a probable necessity before Russia will allow him to depart. Snowden no ha respondido a ofertas de asilo.
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