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Venezuela: Jorge Ramos & Univision crew freed after Maduro detained for 3 hours inside presidential palace
Tuesday February 26, 2019. 02:02 AM , from BoingBoing
[UPDATE: The Univision TV news crew in Caracas, Venezuela has been released after President Nicolas Maduro's forces detained them inside the presidential palace for nearly 3 hours. At this time, Univision is airing special report with Jorge Ramos live by phone. He says government officials are still withholding the tapes of his interview with Maduro. -XJ]
Univision reports that Jorge Ramos and his team have been detained in Caracas, inside the Presidential palace of embattled Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro. Jorge Ramos is a dual citizen of Mexico and the United States. Lo que pasó durante las más de dos horas en las que @jorgeramosnews y su equipo fueron retenidos en #Venezuela por Maduro. https://t.co/oxuJene13k — Univision Noticias (@UniNoticias) February 26, 2019 PREVIOUSLY: Tweeted Univision on Monday evening, “A @Univision team, headed by @jorgeramosnews, is being arbitrarily detained at the Miraflores Palace in Caracas. They were interviewing @NicolasMaduro but he didn't like the questions. Their technical equipment was also confiscated.” Attention: A @Univision team, headed by @jorgeramosnews, is being arbitrarily detained at the Miraflores Palace in Caracas. They were interviewing @NicolasMaduro but he didn't like the questions. Their technical equipment was also confiscated. https://t.co/c45tB0E4er — Univision News (@UnivisionNews) February 26, 2019 In Maduro's first interview with with an American television network in years, he accuses the U.S. government of trying to fabricate a crisis to start a war in South America. Some details here: Apparently Jorge Ramos asked Maduro about his legitimacy, the past election that was deemed fraudulent, and asked him to watch a video of children eating from trash. His team stopped the interview and confiscated their equipment+tapehttps://t.co/4TQiW77NpJ — nestor guillen (@birdsnfrogs) February 26, 2019 Atención: Un grupo periodístico de @Univision, encabezado por @jorgeramosnews, está arbitrariamente retenido en el Palacio de Miraflores en Caracas porque a @NicolasMaduro no le gustaron sus preguntas. También están confiscados los equipos técnicos. — Daniel Coronell (@DCoronell) February 26, 2019 El periodista @jorgeramosnews y su equipo han sido retenidos en el Palacio de Miraflores, al parecer después de una entrevista con @NicolasMaduro. Este sería el más reciente atentado en contra de la libertad de expresión, lo que es el día a día de periodistas independientes
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