Carolina Valladares Pérez, a Washington-based correspondent for the government-funded international news service Voice of America, has reported from places where press freedom is severely restricted — war zones and autocratic states — in the Middle East and across Latin America. Intimidation and threats from state officials were not unusual — but she always managed to get the story out.
Now for the first time in her career, Valladares Pérez says she has been silenced — not by a faraway regime, but by the government of the United States.
“Nicolás Maduro did not close our bureau,” she said, of Venezuela’s authoritarian leader. “Donald Trump closed it. I find this astonishing.”
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