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Univision reporter Jorge Ramos and his crew were detained and subsequently released by Venezuela President Nicholas Maduro at the Miraflores Palace in Caracas, Venezuela on Monday. This image shows Ramos at a Democratic Forum at Drake University, Des Moines, Iowa, Jan. 11, 2016. Fernando Leon/Getty Images for Fusion

UPDATE: 10:50 p.m. EST- The Univision team was informed by the Venezuelan government that they will be deported Tuesday after their interview with President Nicholas Maduro. Venezuelan Information Minister Jorge Rodriguez accused the channel of staging a “cheap show.”

Original story:

Univision anchor Jorge Ramos and other crew members were released after being detained for nearly three hours at the presidential palace in Caracas, Venezuela, on Monday.

The Spanish-language U.S. television network said the crew was detained while interviewing President Nicolas Maduro, who reportedly did not like the questions being asked. The team's equipment and recording from the interview were also taken away.

According to a tweet by the network’s U.S. president Daniel Coronell, the team was detained and their equipment confiscated after Ramos asked combative questions to Maduro. Later, Coronell spoke to Ramos and confirmed the team was released from custody. Ramos said what offended Maduro were the pictures he showed him on his phone of Venezuelans eating out of trash. He showed them to prove that Venezuela was facing a humanitarian crisis.

Before the crew's release, the U.S. state department were alerted and it insisted on their immediate release. The detainment was also heavily critisised by the Human Rights Watch and its Americas division director Jose Miguel Vivanco demanded the release of Ramos and his crew.

Ramos, one of the best-known journalists in the Spanish-speaking world, is known for regularly being at odds with President Donald Trump. He was thrown out of one of Trump's press conferences while on a campaign trail in 2015. He also criticized Trump’s proposed border wall among other issues.

Meanwhile, this isn’t the first time Maduro was accused of detaining journalists. In January, two French journalists were held for filming outside Miraflores presidential palace. Other than this, several local journalists have also been detained, arrested or harassed in the past few years.

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