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Re:Edward Snowden asylum: Bolivian president's plane diverte... by lmgftp on Tuesday July 02, 2013 @08:16PM (#5981574)
An interesting choice if he were seeking to flee (/defect, perhaps) to Bolivia, as they have an extradition treaty with the United States [1].

It's bilateral, but I wonder if the Bolivians would keep him after the US refused to send them their former coca-growing president [2].

[1] http://www.oas.org/juridico/mla/en/traites/en_traites-ext-us... [PDF]

[2] http://shadow.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2012/09/12/why_did_the...

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Re:Edward Snowden asylum: Bolivian president's plane diverte... by zalew on Tuesday July 02, 2013 @08:24PM (#5981612)
Having an extradition treaty doesn't automatically mean that the process will be successful or quick. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extradition So don't hold your breath.

> US refused to send them their former coca-growing president

Not a shocker to me. They refused Poland sending a guy involved in contracting mob hitmen on our national police chief http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Mazur

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Re:Edward Snowden asylum: Bolivian president's plane diverte... by sparky on Tuesday July 02, 2013 @08:31PM (#5981638)
As stated in [2], it's the current President who is coca-growing, not the former one they want the US to extradite.
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