 It was also stated that SEBIN occasionally intimidated reporters by following them in unmarked vehicles where SEBIN personnel would "watch their homes and offices, the public places like bakeries and restaurants, and would send them text messages to their cell phones".According to "The Washington Post", the Venezuelan protests in 2014 were overlooked by the United States media by the crisis in Ukraine.The Post performed LexisNexis searches of the topics in Venezuela and Ukraine within news stories from "The Washington Post" and "The New York Times" and found that the Ukrainian topics were nearly doubled compared to the Venezuelan topics.