Posted on 12/14/2018 10:54:19 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
CARACAS - 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.
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Ted Lieu must be so happy.
One day if the democrats this will be the headline:
United States last anti-democrat party newspaper publishes final print edition
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