Snowden has flown to Moscow.

[MADem]

19. The government is none too stable. Maduro barely eked out his win, even while the nation still

mourned El Commandante and Maduro did everything he could--up to and including parading around waving a giant picture of Hugo--to make the point that they were joined at the ideological hip.

There's no flour for arepas, there's no chickens, there's no toilet paper....the whole country is being run on a "just-in-time" inventory system, only they're days late and dollars short.

This tells it like it is: http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/05/16/the-crappiest-economy.html

Even if they let him join "the Boligarchs" (the Revolutionary top one percent, with their stashes of dollars and summer homes on offshore islands) that gravy train is going to grind to a halt--and then where will he be?

Also, the crime rate is horrific. He needs to have a rich sponsor who will pay his bills, because he'll want to live in a gated community with plenty of security. Even at that, he's a good kidnapping prospect (this is a not-uncommon moneymaking activity down that way)--some criminals might snatch him up and then try to shake down Assange or Greenwald for his safe return...!