 The complaint cited a series of stories the paper published in 1999 reporting that a drug trafficker had donated to one of Sossa's political campaigns.In 2004, Sossa also filed a complaint against Eisenmann, who had questioned his work as a public servant.Former vice president Ricardo Arias Calderón pressed criminal defamation charges against "Prensa" cartoonist Julio Briceño in 2001 for a cartoon of Arias standing besides the Grim Reaper, representing his new alliance with the PRD; Arias additionally asked for a million dollars in damages.