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– Venezuelan court fines news website U.S.$500,000 for 'moral damage' to politician (Demo)

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By HRNJ-Uganda International Media News June 7, 2017

A Venezuelan court fined the independent news website La Patilla the equivalent of U.S.$500,000 for republishing a 2015 story from a Spanish newspaper alleging that a top Venezuelan official had ties to drug trafficking.
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