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Venezuela's last anti-Maduro newspaper publishes final print edition
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| Last Edited | IndyGeorgia Dec 14, 2018 07:31pm |
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| Author | Vivian Sequera |
| News Date | Friday, December 14, 2018 06:30:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuela’s El Nacional newspaper, which has been heavily critical of the ruling Socialist Party, on Friday published its last print edition after struggling for years under government pressure and a collapsing economy.
The paper, which is transitioning to a web format, has found it increasingly difficult to obtain newsprint due to exchange controls that make imports nearly impossible, and has potentially massive payments in a defamation lawsuit brought by Socialist Party No. 2 Diosdado Cabello.
“I want to think that this is a pause,” said the editor-in-chief of the newspaper, Patricia Spadaro, at a press conference in the paper’s empty offices.
El Nacional said it will resume its print edition “when the country returns to democracy,” a reference to growing global criticism that President Nicolas Maduro has created a dictatorship. |
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