A good source on Venezuela

I have always found it hard to get credible assessments (or even factual accounts) about Venezuela. Some of my favorite news sources - NY Times, The Economist - are completely useless, with strong anti-Chavez positions and little interest in the other side of the story. Much of the left wing press is so enamored with Chavez that their views are equally useless. So where to turn?
I was fortunate to be at a recent talk of Margarita Lopez-Maya, a Venezuelan historian. She's of course well know to anyone working on Venezuela, but, well, I'm not. Lopez Maya usually gets grouped with the Chavistas, but doesn't shy away from harsh criticism against Chavez, especially concerning his recent attempted constitutional reform.
Here's a great, somewhat dated article.
Here a link to an interview with NPR,
and here a lenghty and sophisticated recent interview in Spanish, which includes an interesting application of Laclau's recent use of the idea of "empty signifiers".

She also seems to get interviewed by BBC with some frequency, which once again makes them look very good, too bad their coverage of Latin America is so thin.

Edit: She is also involved in a very interesting project on the Latin American left that Steve Levitsky has put together at Harvard and which (I think) will lead to an edited volume. Thankfully, all the papers from their recent conference have been made available online