Nicolas Maduro and foreign ownership of Venezuelan media

So what to make of Maduro's statements? Sources have informed me that Maduro is actively seeking to "acquire" El Universal, the last-standing, independent national newspaper, owned by Andrés Mata (who lives in New York). Maduro, through his Minister of Information (Delcy Rodriguez), is putting out feelers to get to Mata. Maduro doesn't have a problem with Hanson Asset Management (not more than proxies of Victor Vargas, Miguel Angel Capriles Lopez and Tareck el Aissami) owning a newspaper conglomerate that prints perhaps three times the amount of El Universal. Rather, the issue is one of gaining control of the last independent newspaper in town. More...  For readers in Venezuela