Univision Anchor Jorge Ramos and Team Detained in Venezuela During Maduro Interview

Univision News has said that one of their anchors, Jorge Ramos, and his team had been detained in Caracas, Venezuela, after the troubled nation’s illegitimate socialist dictator, Nicolás Maduro, voiced his displeasure at an interview, the U.S. network tweeted on Monday night, Feb. 25. Although the team of six has supposedly since been released, the network said that the team’s technical equipment had all been confiscated by Maduro’s people.

According to Daniel Coronell, chief news and digital officer, the press team were detained after Maduro “didn’t like the questions” in their interview. The team was detained in Miraflores Palace by Maduro’s loyalists after the interview was cut short. In another tweet, the U.S. Department of State confirmed the news, saying that the journalist and his team were “being held against their will” by Maduro. It urged the regime to immediately release the members of the press.

“StateDept has received word the journalist Jorge Ramos and his team are being held against their will at Miraflores Palace by Nicolas Maduro,” Kimberly Breier, assistant secretary in the Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs, wrote. “We insist on their immediate release; the world is watching.” An hour and a half later, Coronell tweeted that Venezuela’s minister of communications had now assured him that Ramos and the rest of his team had been released and were “headed for their hotel,” although he added that he had not been able to get in contact with the team to verify this. Another 15 minutes later, Univision News posted a photo confirming that Ramos and his team were back at the hotel.

Vice President Mike Pence joined regional leaders from the Lima Group of nations across Latin America and Canada earlier in the day in Bogotá, Columbia, to denounce the blocking of aid into Venezuela and announce new sanctions against Venezuelan regime leader Nicolas Maduro. Pence reaffirmed the full support of the United States towards interim Venezuelan President Juan Guaidó and his government. The event was the first meeting for the Lima Group since a failed push to get U.S.-donated aid into Venezuela. Aid trucks were being pushed back and set on fire—widely reported to be done at the hands of pro-Maduro criminal groups.

Nearly 300 were injured over the weekend as individuals, who were attempting to deliver the aid, clashed with Venezuela’s National Guard and groups loyal to Maduro. Five people, including two who were indigenous to Venezuela’s southern limit with Brazil, were killed. After Juan Guaidó called for a minute’s silence for the five people who lost their lives in the aid initiative, Pence told the international press and presidents from across Latin America that it was “unconscionable that Maduro blocked hundreds of tonnes of aid from getting to his impoverished people,” and repeatedly denounced that the dictator “danced while trucks full of aid and medicine burned.”

https://www.theepochtimes.com/univision-anchor-jorge-ramos-and-team-detained-in-venezuela-during-maduro-interview_2815635.html

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>Omar Awan

Thinking it's likely this ..person.

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Scratch this out…Didn't see town location of original post.

This Small Texas Town Has 1,000 Registered Aircraft But No Airport

WFAA, an ABC-affiliated television station licensed to Dallas, Texas, has revealed a secret in a small East Texas town called Onalaska, has more than 1,000 registered aircraft - and no airport. The investigation found planes were registered to two standard post office boxes in Onalaska.

According to the most recent government data, the town had a population of 2,755, indicating that there were enough registered aircraft for nearly 37% of its residents. Considering the median income for a household in the area was $28,750, it is kind of difficult to fathom that a considerable number of residents owned a plane. WFAA said '''Onalaska had more registered planes than New York, San Antonio, Seattle, and San Diego. The report said most of the aircraft owners were not based in Texas nor the US but were foreigners.

WFAA learned Onalaska is the epicenter for a practice that allows foreigners to register their planes anonymously; a former FAA official warns this practice allows drug dealers, terrorists, and other criminals to register aircraft in the US quickly.''' Industry leaders told WFAA that foreign multinational corporations often use trusts to register a plane because the FAA demands registrations have a US citizen on file. To register an aircraft, owners are required to be a US citizen. However, there is a loophole. The FAA allows foreigners to register their planes by transferring a title to a US Trustee. It only costs $5 for an owner to register a plane with the FAA. Once the clearing process is complete, the FAA will assign the aircraft a tail code that starts with an "N." If that insignia was not present, the plane would have difficulty transversing across the US border and could be intercepted by US Air Force fighter jets.

WFAA said it examined “trust companies” that handled registrations for foreign owners, and some of the trusts told the television station there was a vigorous vetting process that each foreign owner went through.

A 2013 audit by the Office of Inspector General for the Department of Transportation said there were about 5,600 aircraft across the US that "lacked key information" about ownership. n another audit of the five major trust companies, federal investigators found the companies "could not or would not provide" the identities of 75% of the foreign owners requested. One trustee told federal agents that they would need to subpoena the information. Lynch said trustees are now required to handle over critical information to the FAA relating to foreign owners within 48-hours.

According to the WFAA report, there have been several incidents involving aircraft registered by trusts that raised significant red flags: In 2006, A U.S. bank became a trustee on an aircraft for a Lebanese politician who turned out to be "backed by a well-known U.S. Government-designated terrorist organization." "It wasn't until the bank found out that they were affiliated with Hezbollah that the relationship ended," Lynch told WFAA. In 2010, an airplane registered to a trust approached the Tripoli International Airport with no landing permit just hours before the U.N. Security Council met to approve a "no-fly zone" over Libya. The owner of a foreign oil corporation had registered the plane through a trust but sold a "large percentage" of his company to a Chinese company. In 2012, an FAA inspector was unable to find out who was flying a Boeing 737 registered on behalf of a foreign owner. When the FAA contacted the foreign owner, officials were told the airplane had been leased to a United Arab Emirates-based rental company. The foreign owner couldn't "provide the inspector" with information about who was flying the plane.

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-02-18/small-texas-town-has-1000-registered-aircraft-no-airport