“Press freedom throughout Latin America is under threat, though the Committee to Protect Journalists ranks Venezuela as a better place for reporters than Colombia or Mexico in terms of the number of journalists killed.But deaths are not the only way to measure attacks on the news media. Venezuela has few newspapers that are not aligned with the government of President Nicolás Maduro.My predecessor, William Neuman, wrote about the sale of a pro-opposition paper called El Universal to mysterious owners. Today the paper tows a largely pro-government line. Not long ago I had coffee with a reporter who left his job there because he said he couldn’t write freely anymore.”
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