Venezuela stops Post journalist, other correspondents from entering country

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/venezuela-stops-post-journalist-other-correspondents-from-entering-country/2016/11/01/267362f6-a043-11e6-8864-6f892cad0865_story.html


Venezuelan authorities stopped a Washington Post reporter at the Caracas airport late Monday night and denied him entry, in the latest case of blocking a foreign correspondent from covering the mounting political and economic turmoil in the South American country.

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Venezuela is mired in its worst recession in decades, and opposition groups have organized protests in recent weeks that have drawn hundreds of thousands of people. Another demonstration had been called for Thursday, although it was postponed late Tuesday.

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He said journalists from Spain, Peru and other countries have also been turned back at the Caracas airport in the past few weeks because they lacked authorization. The committee’s own representative was also denied entry to the country in late August, with officials saying he lacked press credentials from Venezuela.

American journalists have also been prevented from working in Venezuela. In August, the Miami Herald reported that its correspondent, Jim Wyss, was detained by Venezuelan immigration authorities on arrival at the Caracas airport even though he had a valid journalist visa. An ABC News correspondent, Matt Gutman, was picked up by security forces last week while reporting on poor conditions at a hospital and ordered to leave the country, according to news reports.

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1. And yet we allow our pseudo-reporters to run the news here.

Our reporters by giving Trump unfair publicity have already undermined the true repudiation of the Congressional cunctators.

I'll await someone like Greg Palast and his story long before Mr. Murdoch's paper... before drawing conclusions.