Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro on Friday said his country will offer sanctuary to Edward Snowden, the American intelligence contractor who disclosed a secret U.S. surveillance program.
Venezuela "decided to offer humanitarian asylum to the young American Edward Snowden so that he can live [without] ... persecution from the empire,” Maduro said, referring to the United States.
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