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(CNN Spanish) -
In Venezuela, the general manager of the newspaper
El Nacional
, Jorge Makriniotis, denounced this Friday that members of the Bolivarian National Guard seized the publication's headquarters in the afternoon.
The embargo comes weeks after the Supreme Court of Justice of Venezuela ordered in a ruling that the newspaper
El Nacional
, critical of the government of the questioned President Nicolás Maduro, pay an approximate amount of US $ 13.6 million to Deputy Diosdado Cabello as compensation in a lawsuit for "non-pecuniary damage."
Figure that the media considered as "priceless."
For his part, Deputy Diosdado Cabello confirmed the fact on Twitter.
"In the afternoon, 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 process of payment of compensation has begun," he wrote. .
Makriniotis, who runs the media with 77 years of history in the country, described such action as an "illegal and unfair process", as "another attack" and "an attack on freedom of expression and democracy."
The media manager assured CNN that the officials arrived at the scene carrying long weapons and carried out an embargo on the company's assets.
The ruling issued last April by the Civil Cassation Chamber favored Cabello, one of the most powerful figures of Chavismo, by stating that “it was about public contempt that was generated against the defamed person, which affected him in his sphere personal and family, as well as in front of his social environment in general, being subjected to public derision without any justification ”.
In August 2015, Cabello sued the newspaper after it replicated information originally published by the Spanish newspaper ABC, in which it was reported that the parliamentarian was being investigated in the United States for alleged links with drug trafficking.
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The amount was set at 237,000 petros, the Venezuelan cryptocurrency, which is trading at 56.40 per dollar.
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