{"id":3002,"date":"2019-02-06T17:34:11","date_gmt":"2019-02-06T17:34:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/?p=3002"},"modified":"2019-02-06T17:34:11","modified_gmt":"2019-02-06T17:34:11","slug":"kidnapping-and-censorship-3-journalists-arrested-in-venezuela","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/2019\/02\/06\/kidnapping-and-censorship-3-journalists-arrested-in-venezuela\/","title":{"rendered":"Kidnapping and censorship: 3 journalists arrested in Venezuela"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The EFE agency reported the arrest of three journalists in Caracas by the Bolivarian National Intelligence Service<\/em><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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In the midst of the deep political and economic crisis that Venezuela is experiencing, the news agency EFE reported that yesterday (Wednesday, January 30) three members of its team and a driver were detained by the Bolivarian National Intelligence Service (Sebin, in Spanish).<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The journalists are a Spaniard, Gonzalo Dom\u00ednguez Loeda, and two Colombians, Maur\u00e9n Barriga Vargas and Leonardo Mu\u00f1oz. After learning of the arrest of the group of journalists, RSF Spain also announced that other journalists are hunched in the same situation. Rodrigo P\u00e9rez and Gonzalo Barahona (TVN, Chile) and French reporters Pierre Caill\u00e9 and Baptiste des Monstiers (TMC) were also detained by Sebin.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Initially, the news agency reported the “disappearance” of the team because they had not been able to locate them. Later, Venezuelan Foreign Minister, Jorge Arreaza, posted on his Twitter account that the “retained journalists” did not have the permits granted by the consulates to work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a statement issued by EFE, the Editorial Board asked the Spanish government to immediately release the detainees. “The EFE Editorial Board has demanded the immediate release of the comrades detained in Venezuela and has asked the Spanish Government to take all the necessary steps.”<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the time of writing, the journalists were in the process of being deported. EFE reported that “they were released today and are going through a process of deportation to Colombia.”<\/strong> However, “it is unknown if the motorist accompanying Mu\u00f1oz, Jos\u00e9 Salas, of Venezuelan nationality, was released.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We will extend this news …<\/p>\n\n\n\n

LatinAmerican Post | Marcela Pe\u00f1aloza
Translated from “Secuestro y censura: detienen 3 periodistas en Venezuela”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The EFE agency reported the arrest of three journalists in Caracas by the Bolivarian National Intelligence Service In the midst of the deep political and economic crisis that Venezuela is experiencing, the news agency EFE reported that yesterday (Wednesday, January 30) three members of its team and a driver were detained by the Bolivarian National Intelligence Service (Sebin, in Spanish). The… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":127,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/127"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3002"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3002\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3003,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3002\/revisions\/3003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}