Trump again putting journalists in danger.
Via Daily Mail:
Univision said on Monday that a news team led by its anchor Jorge Ramos was detained at the presidential palace in Caracas, Venezuela, while interviewing President Nicolas Maduro.
‘They were interviewing @NicolasMaduro but he didn’t like the questions. Their technical equipment was also confiscated,’ the Spanish-language US television network tweeted.
Univision and the US Department of State had called on Maduro to release the journalists.
According to CNN, executives at Univision were able to find out what happened because ‘Jorge managed to call us’.
But in the middle of their conversation, ‘they took his phone away’.
Univision immediately contacted the US State Department.
‘We insist on their immediate release; the world is watching,’ tweeted Kimberly Breier, assistant secretary of state for western hemisphere affairs.
In response to Univision’s claims, Venezuela’s information minister Jorge Rodriguez tweeted that the government had in the past welcomed hundreds of journalists to the Miraflores presidential palace, but it did not support ‘cheap shows’.
Univision later said their team had been released, but the Venezuelan government kept their camera equipment. The crew also lost the recording from the interview.