FILE PHOTO: Venezuela's National Constituent Assembly President Diosdado Cabello holds a news conference in Caracas, Venezuela January 8, 2020. REUTERS/Manaure Quintero
CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuela's supreme court has awarded $13 million to top socialist party official Diosdado Cabello in a defamation case against a newspaper, but the paper's lawyer said on Saturday the outlet could not afford to pay.
Cabello, the second-highest ranking official in the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) after President Nicolas Maduro, sued the El Nacional newspaper in 2015 after it reprinted a Spanish newspaper article asserting U.S. officials were investigating Cabello for alleged ties to drug trafficking.
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