The Venezuelan justice began, Friday, May 14, the seizure of the headquarters of the newspaper El Nacional, critical of the Maduro government, to cover the 13 million dollars in compensation that a court ordered it to pay to a senior Chavist official, to the following a libel lawsuit.
"The dictatorship of Nicolas Maduro seizes the headquarters of the Venezuelan newspaper El Nacional," tweeted newspaper director Miguel Henrique Otero, citing the Argentinian news portal Infobae.
Nicolás Maduro's dictadura embargó la sede del periódico venezolano El Nacional - Infobae https://t.co/36L9f82IUl
- Miguel H Otero (@miguelhotero) May 15, 2021
In April, the Venezuelan justice ordered the daily to pay 13.4 million dollars for causing "serious moral damage" to Diosdado Cabello, one of the main figures of Chavist power, deputy and
Complaint from number two of Maduro's party
This conviction is the judicial follow-up to a complaint filed in 2015 by Diosdado Cabello against El Nacional following the reproduction of an article in the Spanish newspaper ABC which linked him to drug trafficking.
At the same time, he lodged a complaint against ABC in Spain and the Wall Street Journal in the United States.
Both of these complaints were dismissed.
"The process of paying compensation has started," said Diosdado Cabello, number two of the ruling United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) on Twitter.
Informo that in hours of delay, los tribunales competentes, dentro de los trámites de mi asked El Nacional, han ejecutado las medidas de fijación de carteles y notificación de embargo ejecutivo y se ha iniciado el proceso de pago de la indemnización.
Nosotros Venceremos !!
pic.twitter.com/e558vzWkdP
- Diosdado Cabello R (@dcabellor) May 14, 2021
El Nacional, an iconic newspaper founded in 1943 by Venezuelan writer Miguel Otero Silva, ceased to circulate in print in December 2018, after 75 years of history, including two decades of opposition to the governments of Hugo Chavez (1999- 2013) and his successor Nicolas Maduro.
According to the Venezuelan NGO Espacio Publico, more than a hundred media have closed since the coming to power of Nicolas Maduro.
The latter accuses certain media of serving the plots of the opposition to overthrow him.
With AFP
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