American journalist briefly detained in Venezuela

[Bacchus39]

Source: AP

American journalist briefly detained in Venezuela

CARACAS, Venezuela – An American photographer working for The New York Times was briefly detained by agents from the security detail of a Venezuelan state governor, who seized his camera and erased his photos.

Times spokeswoman Catherine Mathis said Monday that the incident occurred while photographer Scott Dalton was shooting photos at a public event on Thursday where Barinas Gov. Adan Chavez — the eldest brother of President Hugo Chavez — was speaking.

She said the agents tried to push Dalton into a public bathroom, and that when he resisted, "they took his camera and erased all of the photos on it, before returning the camera."

Officials in the governor's office did not immediately respond to requests for comment


Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090713/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/lt_venezuela_media

[Billy Burnett]

1. Wow. Venezuelan cops/agents are getting almost as bad as American cops/agents.

When your country stoops as low as the US you're in trouble. :P

[bbinacan]

2. Venezuela

and Chavez? I'm shocked. :sarcasm:

[Arctic Dave]

3. Did they have their TSA shirts on?

Unfortanetly it seems every country is guilty of these type of things. Its all the rage.

[boppers]

4. Lovely.

*sigh*

When are the folks going to learn that messing with media always makes a story ten times worse than anything the media could have originally come up with?