Head of Venezuela congress sues news outlets for defamation
The powerful head of Venezuela's congress announced Tuesday that he is suing several news outlets for publishing reports linking him to the drug trade.
National Assembly chief Diosdado Cabello said he will file a lawsuit against the outlets that published stories in January saying his bodyguard had defected to the United States to testify that his former boss heads a drug ring of political and military officials.
Cabello, who is the second most powerful figure in Venezuela's ruling socialist party after President Nicolas Maduro, has denied any ties to the drug trade.
The announcement on his Twitter account said he would sue the large Venezuelan newspaper El Nacional, the Venezuelan weekly Tal Cual and the popular online news site La Patilla as well as the Spanish newspaper ABC, which first published the report.
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