Venezuela’s embattled government arrested an American journalist who has written about dissent in the military and ordered the German ambassador to leave the country, moves that threaten to escalate a political conflict. Cody Weddle, a freelance journalist who has reported in Venezuela for the Miami Herald, ABC News and the Telegraph, was detained and had his equipment seized by officials from the military’s counterintelligence unit during a raid on his home in Caracas, said Venezuela’s national union of journalists, SNTP....

Source: Wall Street Journal March 06, 2019 22:31 UTC