Monday, 25 February 2019

Venezuela: Jorge Ramos and Univision crew detained in Maduro's Presidential Palace

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.

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.”

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.