Snowden to Bolivia?

Edward Snowden, the former National Security Agency contractor who has been on the run from American authorities for whistleblowing “evidence of a global surveillance regime conducted by US and UK intelligence agencies” is the source of much speculation on where he will head to next as he sits in “limbo inside the international airport transit lounge at Sheremetyevo airport in Moscow, where he has been ensconced out of public view for nine days.”

The B0livian embassy reported that President Evo Morales traveled to Russia to “participate in the Forum of Gas Exporting Countries,” and Bolivia is on the list of countries where Wikileaks has applied for asylum for Snowden. The New York Times reports that “President Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela, visiting Russia, said that while he had not yet received an application from Mr. Snowden and would not use his plane to ferry Mr. Snowden home with him, he held out the possibility that Venezuela might ultimately agree to shelter Mr. Snowden.”

Morales has said he would consider sheltering Snowden and that” Bolivia was there to shield the denounced” leaving open the possibility that Snowden could travel to Bolivia on Morales’ plane.