Univision’s Jorge Ramos said he was detained in Venezuela after asking the nation’s leader Nicolas Maduro if he could be called a dictator.
Ramos’ remarks came in a video posted on Facebook. Mediaite detailed his comments on Tuesday.
“What happened is that I conducted an interview with Nicolas Maduro,” Ramos said. “I asked him if I could call him a either a president (or) a dictator because as you know millions of Venezuelans don’t consider him a president.”
In addition, Ramos said at the end of the interview he showed Maduro a video shot last Sunday of three children in Venezuela behind a trash truck looking for food.
“He didn’t want to continue the interview,” Ramos said. “He tried to close my iPad where I showed him the video and then he said the interview was over.”
Following the interview Ramos said all his equipment was confiscated. He was put into a room and his cell phone was taken away. Ramos said he was detained for two hours.
“They didn’t give us our equipment, nor our material,” he said.
Univision President Daniel Cornonell, in a tweet, said Maduro did not like the questions posed during the interview.