REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov -Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro (front) attends the Gas Exporting Countries Forum (GECF) at the Kremlin in Moscow, July 1, 2013
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Consequences for Venezuela if Maduro Offers Asylum to Edward Snowden
July 2, 2013, Diana Villiers Negroponte
A delegation of Venezuelan business leaders, led by President Nicolas Maduro, are visiting Russia at a time when Edward Snowden is applying to asylum to 15 countries. Diana Negroponte evaluates what is at stake for Venezuela were President Maduro to offer Snowden asylum and how it would affect U.S.-Venezuelan relations.