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WATCH: Ramos Describes Frightening Situation After His Tense Interview With Socialist Dictator Maduro

John Bickley

Amid the increasingly dire situation in Venezuela, Univision’s left-leaning anchor Jorge Ramos traveled into the rapidly imploding socialist country for an interview Monday with dictator Nicolas Maduro. But after Ramos said he took the conversation in a direction Maduro didn’t appreciate, things quickly devolved, resulting in Ramos and his team having all their equipment confiscated and a frightening two-hour encounter with agents.

“So it is Monday night,” Ramos said in a video he posted to Facebook (below). “We are already in the hotel in Caracas, Venezuela. And what happened is that I conducted an interview with Nicolas Maduro. I asked him if I can call him either a ‘president’ or a ‘dictator’ because, as you know, millions of Venezuelans don’t consider him a president.

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