The chavista club does not stop. God given hairthe vice president of the ruling United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), threatened to take over the website of El Nacional shortly after confiscating its headquarters building in Caracas after a long trial for alleged defamation.
“Now it provokes me to go to the (web) page of El Nacional, because you owe me,” said the number two of the Nicolás Maduro regime in his television program “With the mallet giving”symbolized by a club from the time of the cavemen.
In its new report, Amnesty International put the case of Diosdado Cabello against El Nacional as an example of repression against opponents who could configure crimes against humanity of persecution.
Two days ago, Judge Lisbeth del Carmen Amoroso Hidrobo, sister of the Comptroller General of the Republic, Elvis Amoroso, awarded the plaintiff Cabello the headquarters of the newspaper El Nacional in a secret judicial auction, without prior notice on public billboards.
Miguel Henrique Otero, editor-in-chief of El Nacional, described “judicial robbery, a blow and confiscation” the ruling of the judge who gave Cabello the construction of the newspaper for 10 million dollars, equal to the amount of compensation demanded, when its real value is 20 million, he told ABC.
The old newsroom of the newspaper El Nacional de Caracas. AFP Photo
“With the value of El Nacional you didn’t pay me, I think now I’m going to go through the page”Hair stressed. “You are provoking me to go one step further,” she warned.
The attacks
Their attacks against El Nacional began in 2015 when the newspaper published information they gave ABC Y The Wall Street Journal about the complaint made by the former head of security Leamsy Salazar de Cabello and before Hugo Chávez to the US justice of his alleged links to drug trafficking.
In his program “Con el mazo dando”, edition number 374, Cabello complained that the newspaper was supposedly criticizing Judge Lisbeth Amoroso for not having complied with the proper procedure, turning her back on El Nacional and her defense for having handed over the headquarters and its land.
Miguel Henrique Otero, editor-in-chief of El Nacional, described the ruling as “judicial robbery, a blow of the paw and confiscation.” AFP Photo
“Being the sister of Elvis Amoroso, (the comptroller general) prevents you from working?”asked Cabello to try to justify the relationship and its Chavista influence.
“The bottom line is that you still owe me, I get, that you like to use the media to discredit people, but you don’t like to take on your responsibilities”, expressed Cabello referring to Otero.
The number two of the regime said that he would convert the headquarters of El Nacional at the University of Communications. “Today, with the document in hand, it is being installed there.”
He recalled that six months ago the military took over the newspaper’s headquarters. “You have every right to kick and I have every right to defend myself,” he said when advancing that he also will go for the digital portal La Patilla “which is also entangled.”
El Nacional stopped releasing its print edition in December 2018 due to a lack of newsprint. The chavista regime had decided to cut off the importation of paper to shut down the independent media.
Currently, El Nacional publishes in its digital format and It has no headquarters or office. The 50 journalists on the staff work remotely from their homes to carry out their website, which is very difficult for Cabello to take over, although in fact their internet signal is blocked by orders from ‘Conatel’ along with other independent media in Caracas.
Crime against humanity
Using Cabello’s lawsuit against El Nacional as an example, Amnesty International’s new report shows how the Maduro government’s calculated repression could configure the crime against humanity of persecution.
“The world has known for years about the policy of repression established by the Maduro government. This coordination is a new indicator of the systematic policy of repression and it points to the crime against humanity of persecution, which must be investigated by international justice,” said Erika Guevara-Rosas, Americas director at Amnesty International.
The report highlights the high correlation, of 94%, which was observed from January 2019 to June 2021, between the stigmatizations carried out by the television program “Con El Mazo Dando”, and the arbitrary arrests for political reasons carried out by a military security body and prosecuted by the military jurisdiction.
Marianna Romero, general director of the Center for Defenders and Justice (CDJ), stated that “they documented how the stigmatization campaigns have been the basis of the repressive policy and criminalization in Venezuela.
From the highest levels of the State, a system has been structured to discredit, accuse, threaten and single out those who defend, promote and demand respect for human rights, through public statements, the media and social, personal and institutional networks. .
This research shows how stigmatization is applied under the logic of the internal enemy and derives in the materialization of violent actions and persecution by the State.”
The organizations call on the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court to consider including in its investigation into crimes against humanity in Venezuela the facts revealed in this investigation, with a view to determining key actors, specific cases and possible participants in crimes. against humanity of arbitrary deprivation of liberty and persecution.
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