Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro confirmed the decision of that country to grant political asylum to former CIA agent Edward Snowden. "We decided to give political asylum to young American Snowden on behalf of independent Venezuela," Maduro said on Tuesday, SIA reports citing "ITAR-TASS".
"We, children of Bolivar, are not afraid of the empire," Maduro, who calls the United States this way following the example of late President Hugo Chavez, said. The decision was taken "despite the fact that Snowden was declared as the enemy number one of the U.S. society." "What does Snowden know to make the U.S. elite crazy?" the president contemplated.
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