Ex-Venezuela parliament head loses bid to sue Dow Jones for libel


  • World
  • Friday, 18 Aug 2017

National Constituent Assembly member Diosdado Cabello attends Tarek William Saab's (not pictured) appointment ceremony as new chief prosecutor in Caracas, Venezuela, August 5, 2017. REUTERS/Ueslei Marcelino

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A U.S. judge has dismissed a lawsuit by the former head of Venezuela's National Assembly accusing The Wall Street Journal of libelling him in an article that identified him as the target of a U.S. drug trafficking investigation.

U.S. District Judge Katherine Forrest in Manhattan ruled on Wednesday that Diosdado Cabello had failed to explain exactly how the article was false.

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