La Patilla
La Patilla is a Venezuelan news aggregator and digital outlet founded in 2010 by former Globovisión executive Alberto Federico Ravell. Widely described as pro-opposition, it is blocked by state ISPs inside Venezuela but loads externally.
La Patilla at a glance
- Country
- Venezuela
- Region
- South America · Americas
- Kind of outlet
- Digital-native outlet
- Editorial leaning
- Right-leaning
- Website
- lapatilla.com ↗
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How Crosswire groups La Patilla
Crosswire groups La Patilla as Right-leaning for comparisons within Venezuela's directory. This is an approximate Crosswire label, not a verified rating of its individual articles or a claim that every journalist shares one position. In Venezuela, El Nacional and Últimas Noticias are listed as Centrist — so you can open La Patilla beside a title of a different orientation and compare the same day's front pages directly.
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Where La Patilla sits in Venezuela's press
La Patilla is one of 5 outlets tracked in Venezuela, and one of 3 digital-native outlets among them — the others being El Nacional and Tal Cual. By outlets tracked, Venezuela ranks 18th of the 35 countries on Crosswire's Americas hub, which lists 165 outlets in all.
Across the Americas, Crosswire tracks 35 of the 191 digital-native outlets in the directory. The nearest counterparts to La Patilla outside Venezuela, starting with South America, are News Room (Guyana), Starnieuws (Suriname), Politico (United States) and Soy502 (Guatemala). Opening one of them beside La Patilla is the quickest way to see what is a house style and what is a national one.
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