The refugee club

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Julian Assange was first. The founder of Wikileaks attracted Ecuador's attention when he hid in their embassy in London last year. Now Ecuador again got in the focus with another potential candidate for political asylum, although the latest developments suggest that the plan of smuggling him to Latin America could be more complicated than initially thought. In any case, this time former CIA and NSA employee Edward Snowden, the most looked-after traitor to dear America, became the new holy martyr of whistleblowing who got linked to the small country at the Equator.

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