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Edward Snowden has formerly requested<\/a> temporary asylum in Russia and promised, under President Putin’s stipulations, that he will not leak anything further.<\/p>\n Still, his ultimate destination is thought to be somewhere in Latin America. From Just the Facts<\/a>, here are some reasons Snowden may have considerable appeal in those countries:<\/p>\n Brazilian newspaper O Globo\u00a0released<\/a>\u00a0three\u00a0reports<\/a>\u00a0this week detailing documents released by Snowden asserting that the United States has been collecting data on telephone calls and e-mails from several countries in Latin America, such as Brazil and Mexico.<\/p>\n The reports\u00a0indicate<\/a>\u00a0that the United States has not only been amassing military and security data, but also collecting inside commercial information on the oil industry in Venezuela and the energy sector in Mexico, which are state-run and essentially closed to foreign investment.<\/p>\n The reports also\u00a0showed<\/a>\u00a0that Colombia, the strongest U.S. military ally in South America, along with Mexico and Brazil, were the countries where the U.S. program intercepted the biggest chunks of information on emails and telephone calls during the last five years. Similar activities took place in Argentina and Ecuador, among others.<\/p>\n Brazil\u2019s President Dilma Rousseff is\u00a0demanding<\/a>\u00a0an explanation for the United States\u2019s spying and plans to involve the United Nations in an investigation of the NSA\u2019s actions. Brazil also said that it might contact Snowden as it investigates the matter. “Mr. Snowden’s participation in an investigation is absolutely relevant and pertinent,”\u00a0said<\/a>\u00a0Brazilian Foreign Minister Antonio Patriota.\u00a0Mexico<\/a>,\u00a0Chile<\/a>,\u00a0Colombia<\/a>\u00a0and Argentina are also\u00a0demanding\u00a0<\/a>official explanations and the\u00a0MercoSur<\/a>\u00a0trading bloc held a special session on Friday to discuss the U.S.\u2019 espionage programs.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n For a region that has suffered under abusive U.S. militarism and economic exploitation for hundreds of years, one can see why they would consider asylum for an American whistleblower. Note that it’s not without some bluster from Washington: the State Department has said that helping Snowden\u00a0“would put relations in a very bad place for a long time to come.”<\/p>\n Either way, it’s worth remembering that Snowden’s leaks revealed that many people, not only Americans, are being snooped on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Edward Snowden has formerly requested temporary asylum in Russia and promised, under President Putin’s stipulations, that he will not leak anything further. Still, his ultimate destination is thought to be somewhere in Latin America. From Just the Facts, here are some reasons Snowden may have considerable appeal in those countries: Brazilian newspaper O Globo\u00a0released\u00a0three\u00a0reports\u00a0this week […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":86,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-20707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/86"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20707"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20709,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20707\/revisions\/20709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20707"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=20707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}