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.
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Is La Patilla left-leaning, right-leaning or centrist?
La Patilla is generally regarded as right-leaning in its editorial orientation, according to widely cited media-bias assessments — a stance that shapes which stories this digital-native outlet chooses to pursue. 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.
Read La Patilla beside another title from Venezuela and the differences show up fastest in what leads the page. Digital-native outlets reorder their front pages continuously in response to reader behaviour, so La Patilla may look different an hour from now — reload it alongside a print-cycle title and you can see which stories have staying power and which are traffic spikes. Because La Patilla is listed as right-leaning, the sharpest contrast is usually a left-leaning title from Venezuela on the same morning: the facts rarely differ, but which consequence is treated as the story often does.
This is an approximate orientation, not a definitive judgement — and not a rating of quality or accuracy. Read how Crosswire classifies editorial leanings, including the sources behind each label. Directory last reviewed . Think this label is wrong? Suggest a correction.
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