Venezuela newspaper that opposed Chavez ends daily edition

[Zorro]

The Venezuela newspaper started by a former guerrilla as a forum to criticize the socialist revolution started by the late President Hugo Chavez is ending its daily print edition amid a shortage of newsprint and what it says is a pattern of government harassment.

Starting Sunday, Caracas-based Tal Cual will be available at newsstands only once a week.

Readers will still be able to get the paper's biting editorials and sarcastic headlines daily online, Tal Cual said in a statement Thursday.

Under the giant headline Hello Hugo, Tal Cual burst on Venezuela's media scene in 2000, when some in the country's mainstream media were still enamored with the charismatic Chavez.

http://news.yahoo.com/venezuela-newspaper-opposed-chavez-ends-daily-edition-040437449.html

[forest444]

1. Translation:

The Tony Montanas at the State Department's Latin America desk came to the conclusion that their money was just being wasted.

[COLGATE4]

2. Yep. Any opposition to the present regime in Venezuela comes

directly from the U.S. Certainly no Venezuelan would even think about having doubts about or criticisms of the glorious Bolivarian Revolution.

[Marksman_91]

3. Well, aren't you cynical

If Maduro was a right-winger, you'd be calling Venezuela a dictatorship that censors freedom of press at this point. But since he's not, obviously you and the rest of the I<3HUGO fan club aren't gonna say shit.