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This is the Caracas that doesn't sleep. That decided to confront the police force with rocks
and that exposes itself to the repression of the regimen.
The battle starts and the reaction is inevitable. The sirens starts to ring. The tanks shoot tear gas bombs and gain
strategic position in the streets. You can hear the gunshots.
The protesters run. We stayed and now we are next to the National Guard.
We are in Caracas in the middle of a heated battle between the police and the protesters
of the opposition.In this moment the National Guard performs their mission, throwing tear
gas bombs and obviously there is caos in this part of the the city of Caracas.
We identified ourselves as international press. We shout it several times.
Where do we go? Where do we go? We are journalists.
Where do you want us to go? Journalists. Journalists.
The National Guard starts approaching and attacks us.
Go! Go! Go! Go! Give us a chance.
Take it easy.Take it easy. Take it easy. Go! Go! Go! Go!
We are reporters. We are reporters.
We are reporters. We are reporters.
We are reporters. I'm covering a story of this, please look.
We were retained for an hour and a half in this tank forced to look to the ground all
the time. The National Guard physically abused us.
After an hour of being retained in the tank that you see there. Well, for the moment they
gave us our luggage and the video cameras but our cellphones disappeared and until now
we don't have any clue of where they are.
Twelve hours later, this team of Red Plus News had to leave Venezuela for security reasons.
They immediatly took away our gear, our video cameras, the two cameras
The suitcases were were carrying information and notes
And, of course, all we had on us. The mobile phones that as you know,
In Venezuela at that time, the weapon to communicate with the rest of the world
Is trough Twitter. But Twitter from mobile devices, not the offices or home computers
It is from mobiles that people communicate with the rest of the world,
and tell what's happening in Venezuela.
We spent an hour and a half detained in the a the armored vehicle
Obliged to look always to the ground and hold our heads with our hands
Always under a very agressive and hostile language, also extremely foul
We were continuosly catalogued as 'Colombians' paramilitaries, rioters
And if we said something or look someone to their face, we would exposed ourselves to being slapped in the face
The first time the back door opens is when a guard enters and throws what he says is an explosive
He put in under the seat and said "I'm leaving this explosive here so if you get up you blow up"
"It's the only way you'll get out of here" he said. So we remained locked in the armored vehicle
I was there with 13 more neighbors. From which 12 were men and one was a woman, so we were only two women.
All men were brutally beaten many times in front of me. They never assaulted me physically but they did it verbally during the whole detention from the National Guard.
They threatened to kill and *** me, and also said they were going to cut several parts of my body and promised us we were never going to get out of there.