{"id":48230,"date":"2013-07-06T09:55:25","date_gmt":"2013-07-06T08:55:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/venezuela-offers-asylum-to-u-s-fugitive-snowden\/48230\/"},"modified":"2013-07-06T09:55:25","modified_gmt":"2013-07-06T08:55:25","slug":"venezuela-offers-asylum-to-u-s-fugitive-snowden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/venezuela-offers-asylum-to-u-s-fugitive-snowden\/","title":{"rendered":"Venezuela offers asylum to U.S. fugitive Snowden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- START CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p><strong>Daniel Wallis and Deisy Buitrago<br \/><\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2013\/07\/06\/us-usa-security-venezuela-idUSBRE96500420130706?irpc=932\">Reuters<\/a><br \/>July 6, 2013<\/p>\n<p>Venezuela\u2019s President Nicolas Maduro offered asylum to former U.S. intelligence contractor Edward Snowden on Friday in defiance of Washington, which is demanding his arrest for divulging details of secret U.S. spy programs.<\/p>\n<p>Snowden, 30, is believed to be holed up in the transit area of Moscow\u2019s Sheremetyevo international airport and has been trying to find a country that would take him since he landed from Hong Kong on June 23.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the name of America\u2019s dignity \u2026 I have decided to offer humanitarian asylum to Edward Snowden,\u201d Maduro told a military parade marking Venezuela\u2019s independence day.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe is a young man who has told the truth, in the spirit of rebellion, about the United States spying on the whole world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2013\/07\/06\/us-usa-security-venezuela-idUSBRE96500420130706?irpc=932\"><strong>Full article here<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>      &lt;!&#8211; <\/p>\n<div class=\"nextpage\">\n              <\/div>\n<p> &#8211;&gt;<\/p>\n<p>This article was posted: Saturday, July 6, 2013  at  3:55 am<\/p>\n<p>Tags: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.infowars.com\/tag\/domestic-spying\/\" rel=\"tag\">domestic spying<\/a><\/p>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\" \/>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\" \/><!-- share and follow --><br \/>\n      <!-- end of share and follow --><\/p>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\" \/>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\" \/>&lt;!&#8211; this is where we need to show the related articles  <\/p>\n<div class=\"related_articles_container\">\n<h3 class=\"sub_titles\">Related Articles<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&#8211;&gt;<br \/>\n        <!--\n       \n    (function() {\n        var params =\n        {\n            id: \"a3dc814a-f2d1-4910-a7b2-ef525a4928a7\",\n            d:  \"aW5mb3dhcnMuY29t\",\n            wid: \"7496\"\n        };\n\n        var qs=\"\";for(var key in params){qs+=key+\"=\"+params[key]+\"&amp;\"}qs=qs.substring(0,qs.length-1);\n        document.write('');\n    })();\n\n\t\t--> <\/p>\n<p>Republished with permission from: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.infowars.com\/venezuela-offers-asylum-to-u-s-fugitive-snowden\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Venezuela offers asylum to U.S. fugitive Snowden\">Infowars<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daniel Wallis and Deisy BuitragoReutersJuly 6, 2013 Venezuela\u2019s President Nicolas Maduro offered asylum to former U.S. intelligence contractor Edward Snowden on Friday in defiance of Washington, which is demanding his arrest for divulging details of secret U.S. spy programs. Snowden, 30, is believed to be holed up in the transit area of Moscow\u2019s Sheremetyevo international [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-48230","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-breaking-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48230\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}