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Venezuelan journalists became the latest group Tuesday to get caught in the crosshairs of the government ahead of July presidential elections from which the favorite and other rivals have been sidelined.
Attorney General Tarek William Saab, a loyalist of President Nicolas Maduro, claimed at a press conference that journalists had been part of a criminal “structure” financed by an ex-petroleum minister arrested in April in a corruption investigation.
The minister, Tareck El Aissami, “had at his service a media extortion structure,” said Saab, alleging it was used to “attack state authorities.”
The journalists named, including some from investigative site ArmandoInfo, have rejected…
