Venezuela offers Snowden asylum

(Vatican Radio) Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro has offered US fugitive security whistle blower Edward Snowden political asylum.

As James Blears reports, the offer is in defiance of Washington, which is demanding his arrest for divulging details of secret U.S. spy programs…

After being caught up in the slipsteam of the denied airspace controversy Bolivia's President Evo Moreles says he might offer asylum.
Nicaragua's President Daniel Ortega rather cryptically mentions asylum could be offered, if the circumstances were right. But Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro, who's an avowed foe of Washington hasn't hestitated.
On Venezuelan Independence day and in a speech refering to Edward Snowden as a young man, he offered humanitarian asylum away from what he termed imperial American persecution.
Snowden who's still reportedly kicking his heels in a departure lounge of Moscow's airport, might yet face difficulties in reaching Venezuelan soil, if airspace becomes an issue yet again.
None of the countries involved in mistakenly refusing it to President Morales' jet will say who warned them to close it.