Reporters from an american television network Monday been released after having been detained at the presidential palace in Venezuela’s capital, Caracas.
It enlightens the Spanish-language television network Univision.
the Tv crew with host Jorge Ramos in the head was detained at the presidential palace, when Ramos interviewed president Nicolas Maduro.
According to the network could Maduro did not like the questions he got, and therefore confiscated he the team’s equipment and recordings from the interview.
I have spoken with Jorge Ramos. He and the others have been released, writes the director for Univision, Daniel Coronell on Twitter.
the Tv host Jorge Ramos. Photo: Reuters
in response to the charges from Univision inform the Venezuelan minister of information republic of on Twitter, to the venezuelan government in the past has featured hundreds of journalists, welcomed to the presidential palace, Palacio de Miraflores.
However, stresses the minister of information, the government does not support the ‘bad programs’.
Univision had together with the u.s. state department called on Maduro to release the journalists.
– We require that they be released immediately. The world is watching, wrote Kimberly Breier from the ministry of foreign affairs on Twitter Monday.
After their release has Venezuela stated that six journalists, including Jorge Ramos, will be expelled from the country on Tuesday.
Jorge Ramos tells news agency Reuters that he was detained at the presidential palace for over two hours, because the Maduro didn’t care for his questions.