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When night comes, the temperatures of the protests arise. The shootings, the tear gas
bombs,the fires in the streets and the windows of the businesses broken is the scenery for
a battlefield. Red Plus News was a witnessed to how dangerous is to be on the wrong place
during this days in Venezuela.
When the night comes in Caracas, the protesters don't show their faces. They walk between
the anarchy of a city that is dark. Of a city that has in its corners trenchers
of war.
Rocks, bottles, tires that are burned to block streets and young people that gather
to attack everything that represents the government.
Complicated you know? But we are always going forward. Let's go. I think the people are
retracting. They are throwing us tear gas bombs. We have to keep going, we have to keep
going, we have to keep going, we can do this, lets go. Venezuela let's go.
This is the Caracas that doesn't sleep. The one that decided to confront with rocks against
the police and the one that exposed themselves 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 besides the National Guards.
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.