Interview with abrupt end in Venezuela | Jorge R …

Jorge Ramos, a journalist at Univisión, said last night that he had been detained for two hours at the Miraflores Palace, Venezuela, after President Nicolás Maduro withdrew from an interview that he granted him. In addition, he stated that his material had been diverted with the material that he had recorded. "We do not lend to cheap shows," they responded from the Venezuelan government and accused Ramos of "registering with security zones with hidden cameras" from Government House.

"After 17 minutes of interview, he did not like what we were asking him about Venezuela's lack of democracy, torture, political prisoners, the humanitarian crisis that he was living and it's lifted after the interview.I'll show you the video of a few young people eating in a trash truck, "Ramos said during a phone interview with Univisión, a news channel. information in the American language in Spanish.

He added that after the end of the report, the Minister of Communication, Jorge Rodríguez, had informed them that "the interview was not allowed". "And they confiscated all our equipment," he added. The Univisón team was heading this morning to Maiquetía airport to leave Venezuela.

Rodriguez questioned the Mexican journalist's version and badured that Ramos "did not come for an interview". "He came to insult and record with hidden cameras the safe areas of the palace.We ended the interview and they left for the hotel," said the official at the newspaper El País in Spain .

"Thanks to Miraflores, hundreds of journalists have benefited from the decent treatment we usually accord to those who come to do their journalistic work and published the results, we do not pay for cheap shows," Rodríguez concluded via Twitter.

"At the same time that @ABC publishes an interview with the president @NicolasMaduro, the US State Department invents a new false positive with a show and a montage," added the Venezuelan official.