Nicolás Maduro's security personnel assaulted journalists at the South American summit in Brasilia

As Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro was leaving the South American summit venue in Brasilia, members of the president's security assaulted several press workers waiting with cameras and microphones.

The incidents, in which a journalist from the Globo television channel and other professionals were beaten, began when Maduro was giving statements to a large number of reporters.

The crowding spiraled out of control when Venezuelan and Brazilian guards pushed some of the journalists. It was then that the situation escalated in temperature and the blows came.

Alberto Fernández and Nicolás Maduro in the Brazilian Foreign Ministry. Photo: Argentine Presidency.

Maduro was the last of the presidents to leave the headquarters of the Brazilian Foreign Ministry, where a summit of South American countries convened by Brazilian Lula da Silva was held on Tuesday.

The summit was also attended by the presidents of Argentina, Alberto Fernández; Bolivia, Luis Arce; Chile, Gabriel Boric; Colombia, Gustavo Petro; Ecuador, Guillermo Lasso; Guyana, Irfaan Ali; Paraguay: Mario Abdo Benítez; Suriname, Chan Santokhi; Uruguay, Luis Lacalle Pou.

The only absentee was Peruvian President Dina Boluarte, who was represented by the president of the Council of Ministers, Alberto Otárola.

News in development.

With information from EFE.

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