The first episode of a new travel documentary on Venezuela, filmed by former Monty Python member Michael Palin, has revealed details of a tense encounter between the film crew and armed forces loyal to President Nicolás Maduro.
Palin and his team were detained for seven hours by military intelligence services while preparing to film a statue of the late President Hugo Chávez, a monument gifted by Russian President Vladimir Putin, as The New Statestman explains. Nine or ten armed men confronted the group, confiscating their passports, cameras, and equipment, before interrogating and photographing them. "It wasn't very funny then," Palin said during a Q&A reported by the news site.
