These journalists took on Venezuela’s corruption—and paid the price

These journalists took on Venezuela’s corruption—and paid the price

A Dangerous assignment is the film Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro does not want you to watch. It tells the story of now-exiled journalists who uncovered one of the country’s most infamous corruption cases. Last May, Venezuelan attorney general Tarek William Saab Halabi announced that journalists Roberto Deniz and Ewald Scharfenberg are complicit in the “PDVSA Crypto” scandal, during which former vice president and oil minister of Venezuela,…