Overview
- Migration officers separated the team on arrival at Caracas’ Simón Bolívar airport, questioned them for about two hours, photographed and filmed them, and then declared them inadmissible.
- They were escorted onto a flight to Bolivia and remained in transit in Santa Cruz de la Sierra awaiting their return to Argentina.
- C5N identified the crew as reporters Adrián Salonia and Nicolás Munafó plus a cameraman, and said Venezuelan authorities retained the group’s Argentine passports.
- Venezuelan officials offered no formal justification for the expulsion, according to the journalists and press-union statements.
- The incident occurred the same day outlets reported U.S. F-18 jets briefly entered Venezuelan airspace, a backdrop cited as heightening official sensitivity to foreign media.