Edward Snowdens' choice of 'safe' countries was always limited for him to avoid a very lenghty chunk of his life behind bars back in the USA. No doubt the irony will not be lost on him that in the countries he has used so far en route to Ecuador - a 'whistleblower' would almost certainly be a very dead one long before they even contemplated how to get to the airport and what they might want to say to a sympathetic hack.
