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Venezuela Blocks Argentine C5N News Crew at Caracas Airport, Deports Them to Bolivia

The expulsion has been reported solely through the journalists’ accounts, with no public statement from Venezuelan authorities.

Overview

  • The three-member team—reporters Adrián Salonia and Nicolás Munafó and cameraman Fabián Solís—was stopped at Simón Bolívar International Airport in Caracas.
  • Immigration officials held them for about two hours for photographs and extensive questioning after identifying them as journalists.
  • Despite presenting passports, lodging plans and transport details, officers informed them their entry was “not admitted.”
  • Authorities sent the group to Bolivia, where they remain in transit awaiting return to Buenos Aires.
  • The journalists say their passports were retained until their re-entry to Argentina and that no reason for the denial was provided.