Report That Journalist Jorge Ramos Was Detained In Venezuela

2024 Author: Steven Freeman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 08:15

LAST UPDATES: 9:30 p.m. In conversation with Patricia Janiot, Jorge Ramos confirmed that he and his team were held for more than two hours and that he feared for their safety. The Univision journalist also revealed that all journalistic equipment was confiscated from them after the interview with Nicolás Maduro, including their cell phones. Now they are in a hotel in Caracas and they hope to leave Venezuela tomorrow. "Our work has been stolen from us," he said.

9:50 pm “I just spoke to my dad. You are safe. She told me that after a 15 minute interview, Maduro stopped and they were forced to enter a dark room for 2.5 hours. Then he was released without his belongings,”said Paola Ramos, daughter of Jorge Ramos, through Twitter.

As indicated by the Univision network through its social networks, the renowned journalist Jorge Ramos and his team were detained in Venezuela after conducting an interview with Nicolás Maduro.

Through a message shared on the Univision News Twitter account, the network alerted the communicator to the situation. “A Univision team, led by Jorge Ramos, has been arbitrarily detained at the Miraflores Palace in Caracas. They were interviewing Nicolás Maduro and he did not like the questions. Their technical team was confiscated”, read the shared message.

Colombian journalist Daniel Coronell has shared details of what happened with his colleague through his Twitter account. "Univision team members arbitrarily detained at the Miraflores Palace by Nicolás Maduro: Jorge Ramos, María Martínez, Claudia Rendón, Juan Carlos Guzmán, Martín Guzmán and Francisco Urreiztieta, " Coronell shared in one of his messages, after reporting the arrest.

The renowned Colombian communicator was the first to confirm that, after the arrest, Ramos had been released and was free. “Nicolás Maduro's communications minister assures me that Jorge Ramos and the other members of the Univision team were released and are heading to their hotel. I haven't been able to talk to them,”he shared in a tweet.

“Confirmed: I am talking to Jorge Ramos. He and the other team members were released. The equipment and the interview material that Nicolás Maduro did not like were confiscated,”added Coronell in his networks.

The chain also confirmed the release of its star journalist via Twitter. Happy to report that Jorge Ramos and the Univision team were released. Here he is on the hotel phone after being released tonight,”reads the message accompanying the photo.