Maduro: We will reopen the Miami consulate next month! Miami: You're being evicted, chamo!

Maduro announced reopening, but the Venezuelan Consulate in Miami is evicted from the building for lack of payment
Feb 22, 2018 11:52 pm

translated from Spanish

The Consulate of Venezuela in Miami, which was scheduled to open soon after being closed in 2012 for being immersed in an espionage scandal, is being evicted from the building in which it is located for months without paying the rent, publishes El Nuevo Herald .

The expulsion order was introduced in court by the new owners of building TWJ 1 101, LLC, in a lawsuit in Miami Dade County Circuit Court against the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Venezuelan Consulate in Miami



"The amount in arrears and in debt for the collection of rent corresponding to the lease is $ 142,118.70," highlights the document presented to the court on February 15. "The defendants have failed to pay the rent, which owes, and has not paid since September 1, 2017."

The document, initially discovered by the Latin American Herald Tribune, noted that the owner of the building had granted the Republic of Venezuela the option to pay the rent owed within three days to address the claims or deliver the property for the date stipulated on February 7.

"But the defendant refused to comply" with either option, said the plaintiff. The consulate has been occupying an entire floor of a building located in the central Brickell Avenue even though it had stopped attending to the public in January 2012.

With the introduction of the application, it is very unlikely that the Consulate can open its doors in the coming days, as Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro had recently promised, at least inside the building where he had been staying for years.

https://www.lapatilla.com/site/2018/02/22/consulado-de-venezuela-en-miami-puede-ser-desalojado-por-no-pagar-el-alquiler-de-sus-oficinas/

You can't make this shit up.