Venezuela Chavismo accelerates the expropriation of the newspaper El Nacional
Members of the Bolivarian National Guard (GNB) have proceeded to seize the facilities in Caracas of the newspaper
El Nacional.
Less than a month ago, the Civil Cassation Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice (TSJ) ordered the payment of more than 13 million dollars as compensation for the
"moral damage"
committed by the newspaper against
Diosdado Cabello,
number 2 of the revolution. . An impossible and inaccessible debt for the media, the latest victim of the Chavista communication hegemony.
"We are experiencing an illegal, unfair process, another attack against
El Nacional. It
is 77 years, almost 78 years of history, bringing real information to the country. Democracy lives when there is freedom of expression," warned
Jorge Makriniotis,
general manager of the newspaper.
"Today they are seizing us, they are taking away our assets.
This is an attack on democracy,"
lamented the newspaper's director.
"Search and confiscation of property, booty in hand," complained the historian
Elías Pino Iturrieta,
who was head of the opinion pages of
El Nacional.
The newspaper is one of the most coveted pieces of the news world in Venezuela, which was seen or
forced to stop circulating on paper
asphyxiated by the maneuvers of the Chavista regime, but whose website and social networks have millions of followers.
"I report that in the afternoon (midnight in Spain), the competent courts, within the process of my claim to
El Nacional,
have executed the measures of posting posters and notification of executive embargo and the payment process has begun. compensation. We will win !! ", the Chavista hierarch congratulated himself through his social networks.
Cabello has a television platform on public channels, "With the mazo giving," from which he
threatens, persecutes and harasses opponents, journalists, and
human rights and civil society
activists
. In his latest statements, he has expressed his dissatisfaction with the possible opening of a negotiating process with the opposition and recalled that no new presidential elections will be held until 2024.
The process started in 2015 thus reached its final stage. The emblematic newspaper then echoed an information published by the
Madrid
ABC
in which a former bodyguard for Cabello,
Leamsy Salazar, who had
fled to the United States, accused him of being linked to drug trafficking. The news was also replicated in other media, such as the website
La Patilla
and the newspaper
Tal Cual,
also defendants and against whom the head of the radical wing of Chavismo undertook a witch hunt.
Miguel Henrique Otero,
editor of
El Nacional,
was forced into exile in Spain due to the Bolivarian persecution, as well as several of its directors, including the now MEP of the Popular Party,
Leopoldo López Gil,
father of the former political prisoner.
"It is arbitrary, it means taking over the company. It is a sentence to expropriate
El Nacional
and hand it over to Cabello," Otero denounced then. It is a rigged process from the first instance that culminated in compensation for moral damages, an unlikely amount that at the beginning was one billion bolivars and now it is set at 237,000 petros. A petro, the cryptocurrency invented by the revolution that has not been imposed on the market, is equivalent to $ 56.41, according to the Central Bank of Venezuela.
The legitimate National Assembly immediately showed its solidarity with the newspaper and its journalists.
"We express our absolute rejection of the dictatorship taking over the newspaper. Attacking the media does not cover the truth: in Venezuela the nation dies of hunger or in the hands of a criminal regime," said Deputy
Delsa Solórzano.
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