Univision's Jorge Ramos and crew detained at Venezuelan presidential palace


Univision anchorman Jorge Ramos and five crew members were briefly detained on Monday at the presidential palace in Caracas, Venezuela.
The network tweeted on Monday evening that the team was at the Miraflores Palace "interviewing [Venezuelan President] Nicolás Maduro, but he didn't like the questions." They were "arbitrarily detained," and their "technical equipment was also confiscated." About 90 minutes later, Univision tweeted that the journalists had been released, and were back in their hotel.
Univision spokesman Jose Zamora told CNN Ramos was able to call the network and let them know what was happening, but "in the middle of the call, they took his phone away." The journalists were held for nearly three hours.
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With his country descending into chaos due to hyperinflation and a lack of food and medicine, Maduro is facing calls to resign. The United States and dozens of other countries recognize opposition leader Juan Guaidó as interim president, and the U.S. announced new sanctions against Maduro and his allies on Monday.
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Catherine Garcia has worked as a senior writer at The Week since 2014. Her writing and reporting have appeared in Entertainment Weekly, The New York Times, Wirecutter, NBC News and "The Book of Jezebel," among others. She's a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.
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