"Journalist's Day was not a day of celebration in Venezuela. Press workers, censored, persecuted, underpaid and almost exterminated, now have the duty to demand the freedom of some 20 of their colleagues detained by the regime.
On July 4, they staged an eloquent scene by displaying on the façade of the National College of Journalists a banner with the faces of all those behind bars. But the banner did not even last 48 hours. In the early morning of Sunday [July 6], a horde of motorcyclists, dressed in civilian clothes, subdued with guns the only two unarmed guards of the building and proceeded to tear down the billboard".
