Venezuela on Tuesday deported a team from U.S. television network Univision after anchor Jorge Ramos said authorities detained them at the presidential palace because President Nicolas Maduro was upset by their interview questions.
Reuters reports the six-person team was held for more than two hours and had their equipment confiscated, Ramos told reporters on Monday evening after arriving back at his Caracas hotel which was surrounded by intelligence agents.
Ramos and his team left the hotel on Tuesday morning guarded by personnel from the U.S. and Mexican embassies while intelligence agents escorted them to Caracas’ Maiquetia airport. They left on a midday flight to Miami, according to Reuters witnesses.
“They didn’t give us a reason” for the deportation, Ramos told reporters as he arrived at the terminal. “They just said to us last night that we had been expelled from the country.”
IN ENGLISH: Univision's @JorgeRamosnews with his takeaway from the Maduro interview. "One of my best interviews, no-one will ever see." https://t.co/yp12J9fMj8— Univision News (@UnivisionNews) February 26, 2019
In a further twist, U.S. Spanish-language channel Telemundo said on Tuesday one of its journalists, Daniel Garrido, was “abducted” by a group of armed and unidentified individuals early in the day while covering the deportation of Ramos.
He was interrogated for more than six hours before being released, it said.
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