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what countries out outside the reach of interpol / US extradition for this type of crime? Guessing he's still in South America someplace.

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Taiwan and North Korea are the only two countries I've found that seem to have no extradition and no (formal) interface to law enforcement abroad through Interpol.

Palau, Tuvalu and Micronesia in the Pacific are not members of Interpol, but they do have extradition treaties with the US, and then there are a host of countries in Interpol that have no US extradition.

farther. us has extradition with all south america, and is widely believed to have a large cia presence as well. (lots of historical evidence for that). https://www.voanews.com/archive/explainer-extradition-and-us interpol has 194 member countries. https://www.interpol.int/en/Who-we-are/Member-countries google says there are currently 195 countries.

somehow, though, I don't believe they're in North Korea? Nor that the documentary filmmaker could get there...

Pretty sure Venezuela is not an extradition country?

Also wasn’t Assange holed up in the Ecuadorean embassy?

Cuba probably would hold on to someone, as well.

Ecuador are happy to extradite criminals to the US. They felt Snowden would not get a fair trial.

Yeah - my money would be in Venezuela or Cuba.

Venezuela makes the most sense since he could simply walk over the border from Brazil. Guyana might be another possibility as well which would have the added advantage of English being the national language. John McAfee famously lived in Guyana.

I am pretty sure McAfee lived in Belize, another English speaking country.

I wonder if Snowden could have been OK in Cuba, Guyana or Venezuela.

Probably way higher chance of just getting abducted.

McAfee lived in Belize, and he was not hiding from the US there.

He is actually hiding in the US from Belize.

After watching the doc - I wouldn’t want to spoil it, so I’d just say these guesses were not correct. I was thinking Cuba or Venezuela too at first though.

Thanks for this - watching the documentary is the correct answer! I’ll get right on it.

He's in France and france doesn't extradide french citizens. They will extradite other nationalities though.

The documentary says he is in France.

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