Writer and journalist César Miguel Rondón was prevented from
leaving Venezuela, after authorities confiscated his and his family's passports
at Maiquetía's International Airport Simón Bolívar and declared them invalid. Venezuelan
authorities said the passports had been reported as ‘stolen‘ to the government
department Administrative Service of Identification, Migration and Foreigners.
According to the news site Runrun.es this is not the first time Venezuela's
government has used this strategy “as a way to prohibit leaving the country”. Days
before Rondón was prevented from leaving the country, President Nicolás Maduro
threatened Rondón with prison on Twitter for his comments on escrache, a
protest tactic recently adopted by Venezuelans in which demonstrators confront
and publicly shame government officials and their children living outside
Venezuela. More…
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