Cuban President Raul Castro stood with Latin American countries willing to take in NSA leaker Edward Snowden on Sunday, citing the case of an exiled terrorist as part of double standards in United States foreign policy.

The Cuban leader brought up the case of Luis Posada Carriles, an anti-Castro militant wanted in both Venezuela and Cuba for the 1976 bombing of a Cuban passenger plane that killed 73, the Associated Press reports.

Posada Carriles has been living in the United States since 2005. Multiple legal efforts to deport him have failed, the Associated Press also reports.

Castro's rhetoric reflected the view many left-leaning governments of Latin America have for double standards involved with United States foreign policy.

President Nicolas Maduro has offered Edward Snowden asylum in the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela and President Daniel Ortega of Nicaragua said asylum would be offered "if circumstances allow it."

"As head of state, the government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela decided to offer humanitarian asylum to the young American Edward Snowden so that he can live in the homeland" of independence leader Simon Bolivar and the late President Hugo Chavez without "persecution from the empire," President Nicolas Maduro said in a public statement.

"We support the sovereign right of .... Venezuela and all states in the region to grant asylum to those persecuted for their ideals or their struggles for democratic rights," President Raul Castro said in a speech to Cuba's national assembly, the Associated reports.