According to Univision’s Enrique Acevado, his colleague Jorge Ramos was detained in Venezuela after he asked President Nicolás Maduro about this video of starving Venezuelans searching for food inside this garbage truck:
“These are the images that @jorgeramosnews showed to Nicolás Maduro which caused Maduro to get up from the interview, to detain the @UnivisionNews team, and to confiscate their work. This is what Maduro does not want the world to see.”
— @Enrique_Acevedo pic.twitter.com/iblloO4JIc— Jerry Dunleavy (@JerryDunleavy) February 26, 2019
Socialism at work, everyone:
Impossible. I was told that Venezuela’s socialist revolution lifted up the poor.
They can’t possibly be eating out of a garbage truck. https://t.co/AA5T18LPC2
— RBe (@RBPundit) February 26, 2019
Ramos said he took the video himself on Sunday. Ramos had all of his equipment confiscated after showing Maduro the video on his iPad:
#ATTENTION. Part 1. @jorgeramosnews shares what happened when the @Univision team and he were detained after his interview with @NicolasMaduro. pic.twitter.com/BNGARYnZFz
— The Real America (@ThisIsAmerica) February 26, 2019
After Ramos refused to give up the equipment, agents forced him to, along with passwords for the devices:
Part 2. @jorgeramosnews shares what happened when the @Univision team and he were detained after his interview with @NicolasMaduro. pic.twitter.com/tV2IsGd7TW
— The Real America (@ThisIsAmerica) February 26, 2019
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