On Wednesday 29 November 2017, the Supreme Court of Justice continued the hearing between former President Hipólito Mejía, who is accusing the senator from Peravia, and senator Wilton Guerrero (PLD-Peravia). Mejía accused Guerrero of defamation.
The case goes back to 2012, when, a week before the presidential elections, Senator Guerrero stated that Mejia had travelled to Sinaloa, Mexico in a plane belonging to the drug dealer Joaquín Guzmán Loera “El Chapo Guzmán. This was stated in the El Caribe newspaper, and the director of the paper, Osvaldo Santana was also named in the writ.
In April 2013, the case was dismissed by the court. Mejia tried again on 16 December 2014, to have the case reopened. The hearing on that request took place on 16 December 2014, but was set aside by the court.
The case is now continuing, but journalist Osvaldo Santana, editor of El Caribe, has been taken off the writ, although the process against Guerrero is still ongoing.
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Listin Diario
30 November 2017
