Venezuela’s last independent newspaper is on the verge of extinction after the Supreme court orders it to pay $13 million to top socialist party official

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The Party leader sued the El Nacional newspaper in 2015 after it published an article detailing allegations that US officials had opened an investigation into Cabello for suspected drug trafficking.

One of these was El Nacional, the country's largest independent newspaper.

"By running stories of official brutality and corruption, this nation's largest independent newspaper threatened Venezuela's mighty and defended its meek," the Washington Post reported in 2018.

The Caracas chapter of Venezuela's National College of Journalists said the action against the newspaper is 'a further step toward the liquidation of freedom of expression in Venezuela.

Juan Garanton, an attorney for El Nacional, told Reuters that the newspaper will seek to get the court to explain how they arrived at that particular figure.

As the Caracas chapter of Venezuela's National College of Journalists correctly noted, the action against the newspaper is "a further step toward the liquidation of freedom of expression in Venezuela." In other words, it's about power and control.

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