Video: Venezuela offers asylum to Snowden

Video: Venezuela offers asylum to SnowdenPublished: July 6, 2013 | 0:02 GMT Last Updated: July 6, 2013 | 0:37 GMT

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The president of Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro announced that the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela offers political asylum to Edward Snowden, "so you can live in peace in the homeland of Bolivar and Chavez."All about this topic

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The president of Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro, said that grants asylum to fugitive former employee of the CIA Edward Snowden. Maduro was announced from the Paseo Los Heroes in Caracas, where he headed a civic-military ceremony in commemoration of the 202 years of the Declaration of Independence of Venezuela on July 5, 1811.
In her speech Maduro stressed the need to protect "the young" that what he has done is to "discover the dark secrets of the CIA." "I have decided to offer humanitarian asylum to American young Edward Snowden" he said.
"I announce to the world that friendly governments have decided to offer this figure of international humanitarian law to protect from persecution unleashed the most powerful empire the world against a young man who has done is to tell the truth," said Maduro.
"To be independent you have to feel. But not only feel, but to exercise independence and sovereignty," said Maduro, who called Snowden of "a young man who has decided on a rebellious attitude that the truths of the U.S. spy. States against the world. "
Minutes before Maduro made this statement, the president of Nicaragua, Daniel Ortega, also confirmed that he was willing to grant asylum to Edward Snowden.

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