A Venezuelan court sentenced the publisher of a prominent provincial newspaper to four years in prison for defamation in the coverage of corruption at a state mining company, sparking concern about intimidation of the press in the troubled South American country. David Natera, the 74-year-old founder of Correo de Caroni, which covers the mineral-rich but increasingly lawless southeastern Venezuelan savanna, was sentenced Friday for defamation of a businessman connected to government-owned iron miner Ferrominera…