The journalist from the United States was detained during an interview with the President of Venezuela

Jorge Ramos, the most famous hispanic journalist of the United States, was detained on Monday in Caracas at the presidential palace of Miraflores during an interview with President Nicolas Maduro. In less than three hours, Ramos and his television group were released.

Photo: screenshot from official Twitter

Ramos, a TV host for the most popular Hispanic TV channel, Univision, arrived in Caracas to conduct an interview with Nicolas Maduro at the invitation of the Venezuelan authorities, writes Voice of America with reference to the media with reference to the TV channel Univision and the Venezuelan National Union of Press Workers.

As Ramos told by telephone, “about 17 minutes after the start of the interview, Maduro did not like the questions we asked about the lack of democracy in Venezuela, the torture of political prisoners, the humanitarian crisis, and he left after I showed him an image of young people digging into garbage can in search of food. "

Following Jorge Ramos and his film crew was detained, and their equipment and footage confiscated.

Maduro arbitrarily detains @Univision team headed by @jorgeramosnews
Six journalists from Univision News were detained while interviewing Nicolás #Maduro at the Miraflores Palace and their equipment confiscated. https://t.co/NqbGquTUYp pic.twitter.com/HiOBEOo1sc

- Univision News (@UnivisionNews) February 26, 2019

Venezuela’s communications minister, Jorge Rodriguez, dismissed the charges of detaining the film crew of Univison and stated that the journalist had offended Nicolas Maduro, calling him a “murderer” and a “dictator”, which was the reason for the interview being terminated.

The TV channel Univision clarifies the reasons for the detention: according to representatives of the channel, Maduro "did not like the question in the interview, he stopped recording, confiscated the equipment and detained six journalists."

“A team of six Univision Noticias journalists led by Jorge Ramos were released after spending almost three hours in the Miraflores Palace on the orders of Nicolás Maduro,” the network added.

Ramos said the whole team was back at the hotel. According to him, during the interview, he showed Maduro a video of how the children sift the garbage to find at least some food. After that, Maduro stopped the interview and left, writes The Telegraph.

“I asked him whether he is a president or a dictator because millions of Venezuelans do not consider him a legitimate president,” the journalist said. He added that he voiced the accusations of opposition leader and interim President Juan Guaido that Maduro had actually usurped power: according to Guaido, Maduro won the elections through fraud.

According to Ramos, the team hopes to return their equipment and fly to Miami before the end of February 26 day.

Jorge Ramos gained fame outside the Hispanic audience in the United States as one of the most prominent defenders of the rights of illegal migrants. During one of the press conferences in 2015, he entered into a long verbal squabble with presidential candidate Donald Trump, which was held in a raised voice. As an analyst on cable TV, he sharply criticizes the Trump administration’s immigration policy.

Juan Guaydo tweeted the Ramos incident, saying that “Maduro’s despair is increasing every day. He could not even answer the questions. ”

Photo: screenshot from official Twitter

Earlier, the US State Department announced that it had been notified of the detention of Ramos and his team against their will.

“We insist on their immediate release; The world is watching,” State Department officials tweeted.

Recall that the Venezuelan economy is experiencing the sixth consecutive year of economic recession - with inflation above 1 million percent, Venezuela took place last year in history alongside the Weimar Republic 1920 and Zimbabwe 2000. Millions of Venezuelans have already left the country.

January 23 Speaker of the National Assembly of Venezuela Juan Guaydo declared himself interim president country. His decision supported a number of countries, including the USA, Canada, Brazil, Paraguay, Peru, Colombia and others. February 4 recognition of Sweden declared Sweden, Denmark, United Kingdom, Spain, Austria, the Netherlands, Germany and France. Russia, Turkey and China expressed support for Nicolas Maduro, who came to power after the elections in May 2018. The results of these elections did not recognize the Venezuelan opposition, a number of Western and Latin American countries.

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