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Journalist blocked from travelling for work despite press exemption

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Officials of the Bolivarian National Guard (GNB) prohibited Mariana De Barros, a journalist working for VivoPlay and TV Venezuela media, from travelling via car to report from Caracas despite the fact that she showed her card and a video in which Vladimir Padrino López exempts the press from lockdown measures.

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