Thanks to the government López Obrador, we were able to leave Venezuela: Jorge Ramos

The journalist Jorge Ramos thanked the Mexican consular authorities for their support for the exit of Venezuela, after the regime of that country expelled him with his team after an interview with Nicolás Maduro.

In interview with the program The evening from NTN24 of Colombia, Ramos added that the Mexican government has behaved in an extraordinary way because there was always staff from the Mexican Embbady in this country.

"Thanks to them, we were able to leave this morning from Caracas, Venezuela, and I am extremely grateful."said Ramos already on US territory.

On your Twitter account The journalist also expressed gratitude to the Mexican authorities.

"I want to thank the Mexican Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Mexican Embbady in Caracas. They were there for hours, tireless, until we took the plane today. (after being illegally detained by the Maduro regime) ", he wrote.

In a first interview for the program In point Televisa, Ramos said that He was transferred to Mexican government vehicles at the airport of the Venezuelan capital.because the authorities of this country informed them of their expulsion.

Ramos said that President Maduro was annoyed by questions about lack of democracy, political prisoners and electoral fraud, whom he mentioned during the interview and after I showed him a video in which a group of miners gathered food in a garbage truck, dropped the conversation.

He explained that a minister named Jorge Rodríguez told them that they had not allowed the interview and removed them cameras, video cards and phones cellular

The reporter described that they entered a surveillance room and demanded his cell phone, which he refused. They turned off the lights in the room and seized it. and they looked at it from head to toe.

He claimed that He was detained for more than two hours with his collaborators. and already in his hotel, they informed him that he would be deported.

The communicator of the channel Univisión also reported on Twitter that the Venezuelan regime has not made anything yet, with reference to telephones and equipment that they flew.

Since the events occurred on Monday, Chancellor Marcelo Ebrard He expressed his concern and his protest about what happenedAnd the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (SRE) has asked that the confiscated material be returned to the communicators.

In turn, the President Andrés Manuel López Obrador expressed his support for the journalist, although he insisted that his government not intervene in the internal affairs from Venezuela.

"From here I express my solidarity, but notor I want to express myself in such a polarized subject "says López Obrador.