A Venezuelan court on May 31, 2017 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, according to
news reports. A civil court judge in Caracas declared that La Patilla had inflicted "moral damage" on Diosdado Cabello, a former vice president and a close ally of President Nicolás Maduro, according to news reports
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