http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/venezuela-says-it-will-shelter-snowden/2013/07/06/58ef6b44-e62e-11e2-80eb-3145e2994a55_story.html

Pushkov also argued that asylum would not cost Venezuela, because the country is already in an acute conflict with the United States. “It can’t get worse,” he wrote.