Jorge Ramos Revealed Details Of His Detention In Venezuela

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

After the difficult experience lived by the journalist Jorge Ramos in Venezuela, after being detained at the Miraflores Palace when he was conducting an interview with Nicolás Maduro, the communicator returned to the United States and is already in the city of Miami.

Upon arrival at Miami International Airport, the Univision star revealed details about the bitter experience he lived with his team, with whom he traveled to the city of Caracas after the Venezuelan government granted them an interview with Maduro..

"They were extremely difficult moments. I never thought that Maduro would stop an interview, stop us for more than two hours and worse, steal our interview," Ramos said in the first words he gave to the multiple media outlets waiting for him. her return.

"If they did this to us, (imagine) what Venezuelan citizens and Venezuelan reporters are experiencing every day … what he did mature reflects the dictatorial nature of that regime. He feels strengthened by what happened in order to Last week, however, he does not realize that outside the Miraflores bubble things are very different, "added the renowned 60-year-old journalist, who is one of the most influential figures on television in the United States. õîo × ¹Ý¾Ñ®ž} þ ›áí} mïvÙÞ <ó-üóG

Despite the fact that during the interview Ramos questioned Maduro about sharp issues such as the lack of democracy in the country, the electoral frauds of 2013 and 2018, the hundreds of political prisoners, the torture and abuse that have been denounced, there was a moment that ended the patience of the Venezuelan leader.

"After approximately 17 minutes … the moment I present these images to him, of the children eating garbage, he can't take it anymore, he breaks, he foolishly tries to cover the image and leaves," the journalist assured in his comments, also ensuring that cameras, video cards and their personal belongings were confiscated by security agents.

As detailed, after their arrest, they wanted to force the entire Univision news team to get on a truck, which they did not know where it was going to take them. Fortunately, one of the people who made up the working group managed to notify Univision Noticias president Daniel Coronell of his situation, who immediately alerted other media through his social networks. "When they wanted to get us on the truck, they began to realize that the news was already on social media and they couldn't do anything," added Jorge.

"Our job as journalists is to continue asking awkward questions to those in power," said the Mexican-American journalist, who angrily demanded that the Venezuelan government return all their journalistic material. "If Maduro is not so cowardly, if he has the pants to show his face, show the full interview."