Maduro suddenly canceled the plans of the event in which he would inaugurate renovated apartments in the sector live on national television and the incident was reviewed by international news.
Authorities said Jatar had US$25,000 in cash and accused him of planning to use them to finance an attack during the summit of the Non-Aligned Movement, held on Margarita Island on 13 September of that year.
[1] On 26 September, Jatar was transferred to a prison in Cumaná, in Sucre state, where another "adaptation period" began again, preventing him from contacting his family and denying him access to cell phones and the Internet.
His sister told the Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas that the authorities had kept Jatar in solitary confinement and denied him access to sunlight, withstanding temperatures greater than 40 degrees Celsius.
The announcement came days after the publication of a United Nations report on human rights violations in Venezuela, which included details of the arrests and imprisonment of political dissidents.