- According to reports from the SNTP, the social communicator was approached by alleged Sebin officials when she left her house in the El Rincón urbanization, in Maiquetía
The National Union of Press Workers (SNTP) reported that journalist Ana Carolina Guaita, who works in La Patilla, was arrested on Tuesday, August 20, in Maiquetía, La Guaira state.
The agency reported that the journalist was arrested by alleged SEBIN officers outside the El Rincón residential area – where she lives – at approximately 6:00 p.m.
For its part, the Vente Venezuela Human Rights Committee stated in X that Guaita was taken away in a white car when she left her house and that her whereabouts are still unknown.
The journalist is the daughter of Carlos Guaita, general secretary of Copei in La Guaira, and Xiomara Barreto, regional leader of the same political party.
There is no crime in being a journalist, there is no crime in being the daughter of opposition leaders, there is no crime in thinking differently,” wrote the SNTP on its X account.
Guaita is the sixth journalist to be detained following the July 28 presidential elections, in which the National Electoral Council (CNE) declared victory to Nicolás Maduro without showing the results of the elections.
Attacks on the press intensify
For example, on August 4, the Ecuadorian media LaDataEc denounced that its correspondent, Venezuelan Dayana Krays, was detained and then released after covering a rally called by leader María Corina Machado in Las Mercedes, Caracas.
And on August 8, the SNTP reported that four journalists detained in the post-election context were charged with the crime of terrorism. They are photojournalists Yousner Alvarado, from Barinas; Daisy Peñafrom Miranda; the cameraman Paul Leon, from Trujillo; and the journalist Jose Gregorio Carnero, from Guarico.
According to the union, these press workers were prevented from swearing in a private defense attorney.
On August 13, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) counted “at least 70 attacks on press freedom” committed by the government of Nicolás Maduro in the post-election context, in addition to the banning of the social network X and the messaging app Signal.
RSF said that journalists, both national and foreign, covering current events in Venezuela face “a climate of hostility and repression, marked by arbitrary arrests, threats, physical attacks, censorship and restrictions on access to information.”
The director of its Latin American office, Artur Romeu, said that in a climate marked by “allegations of electoral fraud,” these attacks “have further intensified censorship at this critical political moment, which creates an absolute absence of democratic transparency and accountability.”
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2024-08-21 12:11:02
