I hear Iceland is really nice, but - it’s not called Ice Land for no reason. I can see Ecuador, especially up in the mountains.
S! can see Russia!
It is not about the climate, it is about his security.
Snowden is a pawn in the new cold war.
Warm climes may be desirable for cold war warriors in exile but it did not work all that well for Trotsky.
He simply safer on some island in the North Atlantic than anywhere in the Southern Hemisphere.