Internationally? I watch and read a lot of news and I'd never heard of this before. I agree Vice is phenomenal. It's what the NYT, CNN, etc... should be doing instead of screwing around with more artful ways of presenting puff pieces ie: "snow fall".

It's interesting to compare the New Yorker coverage from January (paywall, but there's a summary): http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2013/01/28/130128fa_fact_...

The linked movie was released 1st of August 2013, so if nothing else it's a recent view into what's going on.

Here is the NYTimes coverage from 2011: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/01/world/americas/01venezuela...