Chavismo’s number two, Diosdado Cabello, affirmed this Wednesday that El Nacional still owes him the compensation for “non-pecuniary damage” ordered by the Supreme Court of Justice (TSJ) after a lawsuit by the politician, despite the delivery of the headquarters of the medium as part of the compensation.
“I am not asking for goods, the Court sentenced an amount, what do they do, auction the property (…) the property is awarded at the price they say, the conclusion is that you still owe me (Miguel Henrique Otero, director of El Nacional) ”, expressed the leader in his television program “Con el Mazo Dando”, which is broadcast by the state channel Venezolana de Televisión (VTV).
He also said that now “it causes him to go” through the media’s website. “Because you owe me, with the value of (the headquarters) El Nacional you did not pay me, I think now I am going to go through the page,” she added.
Venezuelan justice hands over the headquarters of the newspaper El Nacional to the Chavista leader Diosdado Cabello
Cabello denounced El Nacional for replicating information from the Spanish newspaper ABC, which indicated that the Chavista leader was being investigated by the US for alleged links to drug trafficking.
The TSJ issued a ruling stating that the Venezuelan newspaper had to pay Cabello 237,000 petros (cryptocurrency promoted by the Venezuelan government) at the exchange rate of the day, which meant 13,369,170 dollars.
The Supreme notified of the seizure of the newspaper’s headquarters last May as part of the compensation.
The politician added that now a communications university will be opened in the building, located in Caracas.
On Monday, the Venezuelan Justice handed over the headquarters to Cabello, which the media described as an “irregular and clandestine judicial auction.”
“In an irregular and clandestine judicial auction, carried out in contravention of all the procedural rules that Venezuelan law requires to be complied with in order to carry out this type of act (…), he was directly awarded the property of the headquarters of El Nacional and the lots of land on which it is built to Diosdado Cabello”, published El Nacional.
The general manager of El Nacional, Jorge Makrionitis, explained to Efe that it was an irregular procedure that violates freedom of expression and that implies the total “loss” of the property.
“In the auction of the building there was never a public tender, which is what is normally done, and here what was done was an award. That is yet another irregularity in the case, but already, at this time, in concrete terms, the property has been completely lost and is delivered to the plaintiff, ”he said.
Makrionitis explained at that time that they did not know “exactly” if the delivery included “cash as a form of payment” or the official delivery of the property to the plaintiff, but that it is a fact “that it was executed and adjudicated.”
Likewise, the Inter-American Press Association (IAPA) condemned the act and described it as a “consummation of the robbery” of the newspaper El Nacional.
This measure, the hemispheric body indicated in a statement, “was executed irregularly, by not publicly informing the day, time and minimum amount for the interested parties to make their offers, in violation of the procedural rules required by law.”
It was “the consummation of the ‘theft of the century’ to independent journalism, something that can only happen in a dictatorship,” said Jorge Canahuati, president of the IAPA. (I)
Source: Eluniverso
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