Rory Carroll (born 1972) is an Irish journalist working for The Guardian who has reported from the Balkans, Afghanistan, Iraq, Latin America and Los Angeles.
He began his career at The Irish News in Belfast, working as a reporter and diarist from 1995 to 1997, when he was named young journalist of the year in Northern Ireland's media awards.
[3] His report from Qalaye Niazi,[4] where a wedding party was bombed by US planes, fuelled criticism of the Pentagon's air campaign.
[8] His article about rape in Congo[9] provided the introduction to an essay by Cherie Blair for a Human Rights Watch volume on torture.
He covered the US occupation,[13] suicide bombings, the formation of Iraqi military and police units, growing sectarian tension,[14] and the death of several friends, including Marla Ruzicka.
The kidnapping resulted in the Irish government deploying the Army Ranger Wing special forces unit and Arabic-speaking intelligence officers from G2.
"I try to give a sense of how bizarre and funny some things are,"..."like when Chávez, on his own [weekly] TV show, Aló Presidente, ordered the mobilisation of 9,000 soldiers and tanks to the Colombian border.
[29] In an article published in March 2013, shortly after Chávez died, Carroll said that the former Venezuelan President left an "ambiguous legacy of triumph, ruin and uncertainty".
[33] John Sweeney in The Literary Review called the book "a well-considered and painfully fair epitaph" but said it was encumbered with respect for chavistas' aspirations.