The union indicated that the journalistic team was “expelled” and sent to Bolivia to return to Buenos Aires, after denying them entry.
The Press Workers Union (SNTP) denounced that the journalistic team of the Argentine news channel C5N was prevented from entering Venezuela this December 10.
The organization, which groups and defends press workers in Venezuela, He noted that the group “was expelled” from Venezuela early this Wednesday. “They were sent to Bolivia, where this morning they were still waiting for a flight to return to Buenos Aires.”
The Argentine channel’s team is made up of journalists Adrián Salonia and Nicolás Munafó and cameraman Fabián Solís.
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The SNTP explained that upon arriving at the Maiquetía international airport, their passports were detained and they were informed that they were not allowed to enter the country. They spent around two hours at Immigration where they took photographs and asked questions.
This Wednesday, the Provea organization also denounced the retention of Cardinal Baltazar Porras’ passport at the Maiquetía airport when he was preparing to travel to Colombia to go to Spain. The prelate could not leave Venezuela to fulfill his ecclesiastical commitments.
The measure was questioned by the NGO, whose coordinator, Óscar Murillo, recalled that the retention or invalidation of passports and other identity documents is part of the “violations of fundamental rights in the midst of the repressive scheme that was consolidated after 28J.”
*Journalism in Venezuela is carried out in a hostile environment for the press with dozens of legal instruments in place to punish the word, especially the laws “against hate”, “against fascism” and “against the blockade.” This content was written taking into consideration the threats and limits that, consequently, have been imposed on the dissemination of information from within the country.
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