Jorge Ramos showed Nicolás Maduro video of Venezuelans eating garbage. The Univision journalist was briefly detained.
Journalist Jorge Ramos and his Univision team were detained at Nicolás Maduro’s presidential palace in the Venezuelan capital Monday, reportedly because Maduro didn’t like the questions the reporters were asking him during an interview., Univision’s president for news in the United States. Coronell said Venezuelan government officials confiscated the journalists’ equipment.with Univision after he was released, said the interview with Maduro lasted about 17 minutes.
“He didn’t like the things we were asking him about the lack of democracy in Venezuela, about torture, political prisoners, the humanitarian crisis that they were living,” he said. But the breaking point came, Ramos said, after he showed Maduro a video of people eating from a garbage truck. “Immediately after, one of his ministers, Jorge Rodríguez, came to tell us that the interview was not authorized,” Ramos said.
All their equipment was confiscated, including their cameras and cellphones, Ramos added. He said he was then using a phone that was not his. He and his team were questioned for more than two hours, he said.Another Univision reporter, Enrique Acevedo, later“These are the images that Jorge Ramos showed to Nicolas Maduro and provoked him to get up from the interview,” Acevedo wrote in Spanish. “This is what Maduro doesn’t want the world to see.
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