In the New York Times article, the word socialism is never once mentioned.
Its like Venezuela went from rich and prosperous to a Third World cesspool due to economic mismanagement. Not to say the obvious about the corruption and theft of its Marxist elite that is never brought up by the writer.
A sorry excuse for journalism - but this is what we have come to expect from the New York Times.
No, the New York Slimes have been a Commie Propaganda organ for a VERY long Time
Walter Duranty (May 25, 1884 – October 3, 1957) was a Liverpool-born, Anglo-American journalist who served as the Moscow Bureau Chief of The New York Times for fourteen years (1922-1936) following the Bolshevik victory in the Russian Civil War (1918-1921).
In 1932 Duranty received a Pulitzer Prize for Correspondence for a series of reports about the Soviet Union, 11 of them published in June 1931 (see below, "Works"). He was criticized as being a pro Stalinist then by Gareth Jones and other writers and again later for his denial of widespread deaths by the man made famine (1932–33) in the USSR, most particularly the Holodomor, the mass death by starvation of Ukrainians, Tartars, Kazakhs, and other non-Russian ethnic groups in the Ukraine, the south, and Siberia. Years later, there were calls to revoke his Pulitzer; The New York Times, which submitted his work for the prize in 1932, wrote in 1990 that his articles constituted "some of the worst reporting to appear in this newspaper