According to the balance released by the organization IPYS Venezuela, there were seven cases of violations against freedom of expression due to abuses of power, threats and physical aggressions that obstructed free transit and information coverage in Caracas, Lara, Monagas, Amazonas and Zulia, adding that the majority of these incidents were arbitrary arrests by officials of state agencies.

The case of the journalist and director of the news portal runrun.es, Nelson Bocaranda, who reported on Thursday, September 6 through his Twitter account that the Administrative Service of Identification, Migration and Aliens (Saime) canceled his passport, to Although it was approved an extension of the same recently.

Also, the first week of the month began with a fire at the headquarters of Radio Fe y Alegría in Paraguaipoa, Zulia state, due to an electrical overload.

Two days later, on September 3, the Monagas Visión regional channel, in the Monagas state, ceased broadcasting its newscast and liquidated its workers after not having the economic resources necessary to assume the new salary scale imposed by the National Government.

In the state of Lara, a journalist and a photojournalist of the newspaper El Informador, were physically and verbally assaulted by three individuals during an informative coverage in the Wholesale Market of Barquisimeto (Mercabar), while in Monagas journalists from the newspaper El Periódico were detained when They made news coverage in the municipal market of Maturín, and journalist Carlos Julio Rojas was also arrested by officials of the Caracas Police.
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In the Amazonas state, the Bolivarian National Guard detained the El Nacional Web reporter team for more than 4 hours, when on Saturday, September 8, it went to Puerto Ayacucho, the state capital, to record the situation that the city is going through due to the flooding of the city. Orinoco river.

This demonstrates the state of defenselessness in which the workers of the press find themselves, when it comes to fulfilling their responsibility to exercise their profession, to keep the population informed.

Personal opinion

Nicolas Maduro and his entourage seeks to have the international community as isolated as possible from the Venezuelan national scene and the best way is to silence the media, or otherwise put a dose of terror in them to make the information fence. In his last appearances the Venezuelan president has focused on the problem of Venezuelan migrants and the supesta xenophobia in neighboring countries and international economic blockades, all this while frontally attacking the country's media. What a coincidence all this we take into account people like me who are dedicated to criticize the mismanagement of this government we live in a risk of being persecuted politicians overnight.

@chanchuy