Miguel Henrique Otero

Miguel Henrique Otero (born 1947) is a Venezuelan journalist who is the President and CEO of El Nacional, one of few media voices critical of the current regime. He has also been vice president of the Bloque de Prensa, the main press association in Venezuela. In Venezuela he's recognized as the pioneer of the professional use of new technologies both in the journalism profession and in the management of media companies. He is former President of Grupo de Diarios America, member of the Board of the Inter American Press Association and of the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers, WAN-IFRA.

Henrique Otero holds a Mathematics degree from the Central University of Venezuela. After doing a postgraduate degree in Business Administration he traveled to England where he studied Economics at Churchill College, Cambridge University. On his return to the country, he began an extensive activity, both in the private and public sectors, which has continued until today.

In late 2007 Otero founded the Movimiento 2D opposition movement, which supported the opposition electoral coalition Mesa de la Unidad Democrática in the September 2010 parliamentary election.

On July 27, 2013, the Venezuelan General Attorney, Luisa Ortega Díaz, informed that the Public Prosecutor's Office requested the freezing of all accounts belonging to El Nacional, as well as the prohibition of transferring and encumbering assets. furniture and real estate to Henrique Otero, because of a lawsuit filled against them by an ex-mayor of Caracas, Alfredo Peña.

Judge María Eugenia Núñez imposed, on April 2015, a ban to leave Venezuela on 22 directors of El Nacional, La Patilla and Tal Cual, Henrique Otero among them, all accused of aggravated defamation to the President of the National Assembly, Diosdado Cabello. A few months later he left Venezuela and runs his newspaper from Madrid. Venezuela's government is pursuing him for several politically motivated lawsuits and has publicly threatened to jail him in case he returns to his country.

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