A photographer has disappeared from a news agency in Venezuela

A Colombian photographer from the news agency EFE faded away this Wednesday in Caracas, while covering the mobilizations for the crisis that crosses Venezuela. This is Leonardo Muñoz, who has not been known since 15. There is no information on the whereabouts of José Salas. the driver of the motorcycle in which they moved.

The National Union of Venezuelan Press Workers (SNTP) has posted on its Twitter account which is "alert for possible arrest"from Muñoz, since they badure that" colleagues said that they would have taken him from Plaza Altamira "to Chacao, east of Caracas.

Muñoz arrived in the Venezuelan capital on January 24 with two other companions from Bogotá and pbaded the migration filters to do his work in the country. The equipment was registered by the authorities at Simón Bolívar International Airport in Maiquetía, in the suburbs of Caracas, where they declared the journalistic coverage that they would carry out in Venezuela.

Salas and Muñoz left early Wednesday morning to take part in the protests and the last time that they had a contact with his comrades it was nearly 3 pm Local authorities are informed without giving any response in this regard.

According to SNTP, the Directorate of Military Counterintelligence (DGCIM) "would be responsible for the arrest of other journalists", including Muñoz. For this reason, they asked public prosecutors "to vouch for the rights and to prevent the disappearances and arbitrary detentions from continuing".

The lawyer of the EFE agency appeared before the premises of the DGCIM without receiving a reply as to whether Muñoz and Salas were among the detainees.

This Tuesday, four journalists, including two Chileans, they were arrested in the presidential palace of Miraflores. The two Chilean communicators were later deported.

While two French journalists moved to Venezuela to cover the political crisis were Stopped on Tuesday, denounced the television program for which they work, Daily. "Two journalists from our team were arrested in Venezuela, they were on the ground to cover the political crisis, it is better not to say anything that aggravates their situation, we think of them," said the broadcast, broadcast on Twitter, in the channel TMC.