Venezuelan Politics and Journalism

This is lifted directly from that great reservoir of online news, cursor.org:

Narco News criticizes the New York Times for "one-sided and inaccurate Venezuela coverage," following the resignation of Francisco Toro, a Times' correspondent whose "anti-Chavez position in Venezuela was publicly known after last April's coup."

In a blog posting titled "A plausible defense of the lunatic's legacy...," Toro praises a Mother Jones article by Barry Lynn, calling it "probably the best defense of chavismo I've ever read...He avoids the pitfalls inherent in trying to lionize Hugo Chavez the man by focusing instead on the effects his government has had on how poor Venezuelans relate to politics."