Jorge Ramos gave details of the interview censored by Nicolás Maduro: "They took my cellphone and it is totally empty"

(Ramos tells Univision what happened)

The journalist Univision Jorge Ramos He was detained for several hours in Caracas after his meeting with Nicolás Maduro on Monday. The head of state, annoyed by the questions of the communicator, decided to expel him with his team.

In an interview for the channel you're working on, Ramos recounted his odyssey after the relationship with Maduro. "The interview lasted 17 minutes. It was a tense and complicated interview. I asked him questions about the lack of democracy in Venezuela, about human rights violations, about political prisoners, about the humanitarian crisis … He tried to cover the ipad where I showed him the picture, he stopped, he said that the interview was over and that's where I tell Maduro that, do not answer the questions and leave the place , that's what dictators do, not democrats", began his story Ramos.

And he continued: "After a few seconds, he came Jorge Rodríguez, the Venezuelan Minister of Communication, told us that he did not allow this interview and I hear voices saying:Take it out of the palace immediately& # 39; Two security guards escort me to the entrance of the Miraflores Palace and put us in a surveillance room where they tear off the ipad, the cell phones and turn off the lights so that no one can see from outside or record. "

"He (Maduro) wanted to debate but in the end he could not stay, it's not his interview, this material belongs to us. They steal our work. It corresponds to us. We demand that they give us the cameras, the interview material and we will broadcast it to see who is telling the truth.", expressed, indignant, Ramos.

Then he said that they had taken his phone and made it blank: "They took my cell phone and they handed it to me at 1am. It's totally empty, probably hacked. I will never use it again. "

"I'm sure they still have this interview. They recorded simultaneously with three of their cameras in a private study in the press room. This interview has not disappeared. "They do not want to deliver it, it's because they're afraid to see what happened during the interview," he concluded.

For its part, one of the producers of Ramos, Pedro UltrerasHe emphasized the help they received from the Embbadies of Mexico and the United States: "They arrived at the hotel and were with us, but we also realized that the place was besieged, the building of the hotel, by the Venezuelan authorities, they stayed all night long we could see that they had taken pictures and videos in the building because we did not know what was going to happen. "

He added: "They told us that at 8 o'clock in the morning, they were going to deliver the confiscated material to the Miraflores airport.We are now here and they told us that they did not know nothing. We are waiting for the return of the team"

Finally, he tells his odyssey to go from the border to Caracas. "During my trip, we had the experience of wanting to badault us with firearms, they even put me in the head, they chased us for several kilometers, l & rsquo; Insecurity is very great, the authorities made us understand that they were collective. I was going to arrive alive in Caracas. "