Edward Snowden asylum request has no acceptance

Edward Snowden has less asylum options

After a day of withdrawing his request for asylum in Russia and 20 countries directly denied the former CIA analyst, Edward Snowden to find refuge outside the United States, this is substantially reducing his alternatives.

Until yesterday, fourteen of the 20 countries that received the request for asylum from Snowden indicated that they will not consider his request or expressed their outright rejection, as did Brazil, Finland, India and Poland.

While the president of Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro defended Snowden and reiterated that his government is willing to grant the asylum requested. According to the government of Bolivia, Portugal and France prevented the plane of President Evo Morales to use its airspace on a return trip from Moscow to La Paz, because it was believed that Snowden was aboard. Shortly after Italy denied the request for asylum of the former analyst.

The Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa said in an interview published yesterday by the British newspaper The Guardian, that Ecuador is not considering Snowden’s asylum because  he’s not in Ecuadorian soil and it was not his intention provide a document that allowed him to leave Hong Kong.

The Ecuadorian president made it clear that they did not provide any documents to Snowden for him to leave Moscow and admitted that the delivery of travel documents issued by their consulate in London on June 22 “was a mistake on our part.”

However, Correa said the British newspaper took out of context his statements and reiterated that his government would discuss the order, but only when Snowden is in Ecuadorian soil.