Venezuela newspaper that opposed Chavez ends daily

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. More…