As soon as they entered the Caracas airport, the three members of the journalist team that the news station is broadcasting C5N to Venezuela were separated in the passenger line and subjected to interrogation by the migration police, who also filmed and photographed them and then banned them from entering the country under the Nicolás Maduro regime and sent them to Bolivia.
The journalists Adrián Salonia, Nicolás Munafó and cameraman Sebastián Solís In addition, their Argentine passports were revoked and they were “expelled without any explanation,” as they themselves revealed on social networks.
In fact, the TV channel published the message entitled “Maduro deported the channel’s journalists” and condemned it “C5N was censored in Venezuela.”
“They never gave us our passports back” Salonia lamented while narrating the incident, revealing that it was a moment of great tension that lasted a little over two hours.
Salonia said on the channel and on her social networks that the police at Simón Bolívar International Airport “recognized that we are journalists, we are with Nicolás Munafó, “They sent us into the ranks of foreigners who were not journalists”and then the question and answer session began, in which various officials intervened.
“We explained that to them We wanted to show the daily life of Venezuelans“We never talk about what is happening to the United States,” the chronicler added. And he revealed that, among other things, they even had to specify which hotel they would be staying in and even the documentation of the driver they had hired to get around Caracas.
️⭕️“They haven’t given us our passports yet.” Adrián Salonia’s statement after his deportation in Venezuela
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After two hours of interrogation, Salonia reported that they had been arrested.to another completely empty place, with lots of police officersthe calmness with which they expelled us from the country, they let us go through a corridor, through a scanner.
“We still haven’t managed to get our passports back,” complained the journalist. And he noted: “We were expelled without any explanation.” The destination: Bolivia” to begin the return journey to Buenos Aires.
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