Venezuela: Piñera calls for release of two Chilean journalists arrested for their conduct by Chavez

The Chilean President, Sebastián Piñera, asked release "Immediate" of the journalists from Chile's national television that were stopped last night near the Miraflores Palace, in Caracas, by the security forces intervening against Chavez.

Piñera posted on Twitter: "We demand the immediate release of journalists of @TVN stopped in # Venezuela"In addition, he indicated that" the Chancery conducts activities all the necessary steps"

"Freedom of the press is another victim in Venezuela", badured the Chilean president, who affirmed that" the peaceful solution is free and democratic elections, now ".

The National Union of Press Workers (SNTP) Venezuelan denounced that a team of TVN He was arrested in Caracas while covering the country's crisis. The union also communicated – also via Twitter – that the journalist Rodrigo Pérez and the cameraman Gonzalo Barahona They were apprehended by the police with two Venezuelan reporters already released

Marco RuizSecretary-General of the SNTP, said: "We denounce the arbitrary detention against four audiovisual communicators, including two colleagues from Televisión Nacional de Chile, who met two Venezuelan journalists, Maiker Yriarte and Ana Rodríguez. "

Chilean journalists covered a small concentration of followers of Nicolás Maduro in the vicinity of Miraflores Palace at the time of his arrest. Both remain deprived of liberty since 10 o'clock in the evening.