Ecuador Risks Losing American Aid if Snowden is Granted Asylum There

Retaliation could cost Ecuador millions

For its own good, Ecuador might want to reconsider rolling out the red carpet for NSA leaker Edward Snowden as he crisscrosses his way through anti-American countries while seeking asylum, some say. 

If Ecuador's President Rafael Correa does give Snowden the green light to call the Latin American country home—in defiance of the U.S.—analysts warn that Correa would be biting the hand that helps feed his country. The U.S. government has been sending Ecuador money for the past seven decades.