[4] Her website, venezuelafoia.info, aimed to shed light on what she called links between US government agencies and Venezuelan organizations by publishing documents obtained using the US Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).

[5] She previously edited the Correo del Orinoco International, a newspaper financed by the Venezuelan government,[6] and wrote for the pro-Bolivarian Revolution website Venezuelanalysis.com.

Chávez was still in jail for the 1992 Venezuelan coup d'état attempts and students were protesting against government austerity; she taught English, sang in a band, and described Venezuela as "an adventure", saying she "fell in love with the country".

[12][non-primary source needed] She then began to develop an interest in what she said was the role of the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in regime change around the world.

[11] For a time, Golinger edited the Correo del Orinoco International, a web- and print-based newspaper which was financed by the Venezuelan government.

Instead, the documents show that American officials issued 'repeated warnings that the United States will not support any extraconstitutional moves to oust Chávez.

[9] In the film Revolution in Ruins: The Hugo Chavez Story, Golinger described a private interview with Chávez in which she asked a question which "set him off".

[15][16][17] Rory Carroll wrote in The Guardian that Golinger said there was "circumstantial evidence" of US involvement in the death of Chávez from cancer—a claim the US State Department said was "absurd".

[26] A Veneconomy review stated that they found dozens of instances of what they considered sloppy work, manipulation of sources, false and chronologically inaccurate claims, and amateur historiography.