They denounce the arrest of Venezuelan journalist Luis Carlos Díaz by the Maduro regime

The Venezuelan journalist and cyber-activist Luis Carlos Díaz was arrested after disappearing Monday for several hours, denounced the National Union of Venezuelan Press Workers (SNTP). Bolivian national intelligence agents also raided their homes on Tuesday morning.

The SNTP reported that Díaz had disappeared Monday afternoon. "He left the radio at 5:30 pm on his way home, and never came in. In recent days, he had received threats through social networks." reported the union.

Naky SotoDiaz's wife, also a journalist, was the first to report the disappearance and said that her husband was not on the radio where he worked, nor at home and that he did not react to attempts to communication with him.

"Luis Carlos did not arrive and I did not care because I thought he preferred to take advantage of the electricity and the Unión Radio connection, but there is a half an hour, they called me to let me know that they were looking for him because he was not at the train station "he added on Twitter.

Already at dawn on Tuesday, the SNTP reported that the Sebin had arrested the journalist and searched his home. Chavez intelligence also reported that Diaz, present at the raid, had been arrested. He was seized "computers, USB sticks, cell phones, money," reported the union.

"The persecution of journalists continues "Juan Guaidó, acting president, tweeted after the news of the disappearance.

The Maduro regime recently accused Diaz of being the intellectual author of the mbadive power outage that strikes Venezuela for over 100 hours, the longest in the country's history. Caribbean. However, the dictatorship has presented no evidence of these accusations.

Juan Carlos Díaz, expert in the Internet and cybersecurity, had been harbaded in the networks by accounts close to the regime reveal the phishing practices of the country's leading Internet provider, state CANTV, to its users who wanted to register on the platform of volunteers promoted by Juan Guaidó for the entry and the distribution of the humanitarian aid.

The Americas Program of the Committee to Protect Journalists He said he was "concerned" about the disappearance and said that he was investigating the episode.

The NGO Amnesty, for its part, has triggered an "international monitoring" of the journalist's situation.