The newspaper is one of the main means of communication of the Venezuelan opposition
The revolutionary judge Lisbeth Loving has completed the expropriation of the opposition newspaper ‘El Nacional’, after officially handing over its headquarters to God given hair‘number two’ of chavismo. “In an irregular and clandestine judicial auction, carried out in contravention of all the procedural rules that Venezuelan law requires, it directly awarded the ownership of the ‘El Nacional’ headquarters and the plots of land on which it is built to Diosdado Cabello. “, ‘El Nacional’ reported yesterday on its website, which continues to be published despite the persecution of the Bolivarian regime.
The head of the Third Civil Court of First Instance of Caracas is the sister of the comptroller general of the Republic, Loving Elvisa Chavista leader very close to Nicholas Maduro. Amoroso’s son, a rapper named the dukeis one of the regulars on the luxury circuit for leaders and plugged-ins of the revolution.
The Civil Cassation Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice (TSJ) confirmed in 2021 the payment of 13 million dollars to compensate Cabello for “moral damage”. The TSJ is the main tool of Chavismo against the opposition and the democratic Parliament.
Among the last minute irregularities carried out by the judge, they highlight that the auction posters with the date, time and amount were not published so that the interested parties could make their offers. Always behind the back of its owner and his lawyerswho have not been able to participate in the process.
With the “judicial robbery” and the delivery of the headquarters of ‘El Nacional’, the expropriation launched by Cabello against one of the main opposition media. The vice president of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) took advantage of a news article published in the newspaper, which in turn included information from the Spanish newspaper ABC, about the investigation being carried out in the United States against Cabello for drug trafficking. “Based on this investigation, the DEA (US drug enforcement agency) established a reward of 10 million dollars for those who collaborate with the capture of Cabello,” the newspaper recalled.
‘El Nacional’ currently works remotely and keeps Venezuelans informed through its website. “We have censorships, we have blockades, we have all the constant attacks from the regimebut we are still resilient, we adapt and we get the news out truthfully, quickly and in a timely manner,” its general manager in Venezuela assured EL MUNDO, George Makrinyotis.
This emblematic newspaper in Latin America, cradle of several generations of intellectuals, ceased publication in print four years agosuffocated by the economic collapse of the country and by the lack of paper imposed by the Government.
“We did ‘El Nacional’ a favor. That was broken a long time ago, it was just a shell,” Cabello boasted last year.
One of the great unknowns of the process that is supposed to be finished against ‘El Nacional’ is the situation of its president-publisher, Miguel Henrique Otero, currently exiled in Madrid. “Will he be able to return to Venezuela? Will it be a constant persecution? A case that comes to an end has no reason for the person being sued to live in exile. It’s about time he can return to Venezuela and this lawsuit comes to an end,” Makriniotis protested. .
Another of those pushed into exile by the persecution against ‘El Nacional’ is Leopoldo Lopez Gilfather of the former political prisoner, member of the newspaper’s board of directors and currently a member of the Popular Party in the European Parliament.
“Made in tyranny. Since they couldn’t bend their publisher…”, he denounced Antonio Ledezmaformer metropolitan mayor of Caracas, also from exile in Spain.
Safe from Bolivarian predation is the graphic archive of ‘El Nacional’, which includes a large part of the contemporary history of the oil country. The photographs were kept outside the newspaper’s facilities before they were taken by the military last year.
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