After 25 hours in Caracas, journalist Luis Carlos Díaz was released

After spending 25 hours in a cell of the Chavez regime in Caracas, the Venezuelan-Spanish journalist Luis Carlos Díaz has been released.

"After 6 o'clock in the afternoon (22:00 GMT), the reporter and Union Radio Luis Carlos Diaz "said Tuesday the station on its website without providing more details.

Díaz, Venezuelan and Spanish, works at the train station Union Radio News of Caracas and advocates for the respect of human rights.

The Inter-American Press Association (IAPA) on Tuesday condemned the arrest of Diaz by officials of the intelligence services of the government of Nicolás Maduro. She described the intervention as "a new attack on press freedom" in Venezuela.

The reporter was arrested Monday at 5:00 pm Venezuela time by agents of Bolivian intelligence services (Sebin). They seized four mobile phones, three laptops and a hard drive.

The radio reporter was named by the official leader Diosdado Cabello – considered the "number two" of Chaviso. to be behind the so-called sabotage of the electrical system, who has been in the dark since last Thursday, an accusation that Soto called "madness".

SIP President María Elvira Domínguez and the chairman of the Committee for Press and Information Freedom Roberto Rock demanded the "immediate release of the journalist".

Dominguez called on the Venezuelan government to comply with international obligations regarding the treatment and protection of journalists and the media.

The Maduro regime has temporarily arrested many Venezuelan journalists, foreign correspondents and special envoys, including the flagship journalist of the Hispanic network Univision Jorge Ramos.

Diaz has long been the target of the regime's threats. From his Twitter account and his radio show, he constantly denounced the constant abuse of the government of Nicolás Maduro and the plight of the daily newspaper in Venezuela.

Through the various platforms that reflect what is happening in the country, He did a thorough follow – up of the power outage that has been affecting a large part of the country since last Thursday.. From that, he tweeted hours before being kidnapped on Monday.

Previously, he had denounced the privileges of the circles of power, including the possibility of receiving priority attention for the arrangements and the restoration of the service. "The fact that the authorities prefer the areas where they live is a travesty of all the cities that were slaughtered without electricity for 94 hours Yes, there are places that will be used for 4 full days without supplying electricity. He wrote Monday on his Twitter account.

He is also encouraged to contradict the dubious official versions of the events. "What we know so far is that the service has not been restored, there have not been several power outages (or several cyber attacks, like the said Chavismo), random and very poorly rationed.

Diaz also revealed the humanitarian disasters at the origin of the lack of electricity, which prevent hospitals from taking care of serious patients. "There have already been dozens of deaths in hospitals as a result of power outages in recent months, with billions of investments in the electricity sector stolen", did he declare.

Last year, Díaz published an article about the persecution suffered by those who tell what is happening in Venezuela through social networks, the only platform on which the regime can not intervene. "Imprisoned for tweeting" was the title of the play, published in Derechos Digitales.

"Without specialized software, Venezuelan intelligence agencies alone need to detain people for months, sometimes at random, and sometimes against critics who bother government officials." More than two dozen tweeters have known dungeons during the government by Nicolás Maduro, "he writes.

The human rights NGO Provea expressed concern over the possibility of Díaz being tortured in order to incriminate herself. It would not be the first time that SEBIN has started this practice.