The Venezuelan justice controlled by the chavismo handed over the headquarters of the newspaper El Nacional, critical of the government, to the Chavista leader God given hairafter being seized in May 2021 after a lawsuit for “moral damage”, the outlet reported on its website.
“In an irregular and clandestine judicial auction,” says a press release from the newspaper, “ownership of the headquarters of El Nacional and the lots of land on which it is built was directly awarded to Diosdado Cabello Rondón,” number two of the ruling United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) after the illegitimate president Nicholas Maduro.
The decision was made “by Judge Lisbeth del Carmen Amoroso Hidrobo, sister of the comptroller general, Elvis Amoroso Hidrobo, on January 27 of this year, without having regularly published the auction posters in which the auction must be publicly reported. day, time and minimum amount for those interested to make their offers”, adds the text.
The decision comes after the embargo announced in May 2021 to cover the US$13 million that the ruling Supreme Court of Justice (TSJ) ordered the newspaper to pay Cabello in a defamation lawsuit filed in 2015. .
“With this illegal adjudication, which due to the irregular manner in which it was executed, could well be described as ‘judicial robbery’, part of the sentence imposed on this newspaper is completed, for the alleged moral damages caused, in the legitimate exercise of its journalism. investigation”, indicates El Nacional.
Cabello took legal action against the outlet after the publication of a report by the Spanish newspaper ABC that linked him to drug trafficking.
After presenting the complaint, the powerful leader launched several threats to the media outlet founded eight decades ago and promised to turn it into a university or use its land for the construction of popular housing. “I don’t want money for myself,” said Cabello in one of his statements about the case.
The “Venezuelan justice” considered that the vice president of the PSUV was a “victim” of “very serious moral damage.” Similar lawsuits were dismissed at the same time in Spain and the United States against media outlets from those countries.
More than a hundred media outlets have closed since Maduro came to power, denounces the NGO Espacio Público.
Source: Gestion
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