 In a "History News Network" article, Larry Rohter, the former South American bureau chief of "The New York Times" stated that Weisbrot along with his colleague Tariq Ali "have sent to a number of news organizations and websites" claims that were "full of indisputably false assertions".Rohter also says that Weisbrot manipulated data to give a positive image of Hugo Chávez in the film "South of the Border".Weisbrot defended his work saying that Rohter didn't find any inaccuracies and that Rohter "tried rather desperately" to find inaccuracies that no one would notice.