‘Maduro did not close our bureau – Trump did’: Voice of America journalists speak out

Workers at the esteemed news service say they're being silenced by the president - but they're vowing to fight back

Carolina Valladares Perez, 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 Perez says she has been silenced - not by a faraway regime, but by the government of the United States.