Venezuela detains Telemundo's Caracas correspondent

Reporter is detained while covering Jorge Ramos' detention

Telemundo released this photograph of Caracas Correspondent Daniel Garrido after his Tuesday kidnapping.

MIAMI – Caracas Correspondent Daniel Garrido was kidnapped on Tuesday for about six hours while working in Caracas, Noticias Telemundo said in a statement released Tuesday afternoon. 

Garrido was kidnapped about 6 a.m. near the Hotel Cayena. He was covering the detention of Jorge Ramos and his Univision team after embattled President Nicolas Maduro interrupted an interview at the presidential palace. 

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According to Telemundo, a group of armed men forced him into a vehicle and covered his head. After interrogating him for six hours and taking his equipment, the kidnappers released him without explanation without returning his equipment. 


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The Emmy Award-winning journalist joined the Local 10 News team in 2013. She wrote for the Miami Herald for more than 9 years and won a Green Eyeshade Award.

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