exploration in Peru's Amazon was disputed by the oil company Perenco. A series he wrote in 2010 on Mexico's drug war was longlisted for the Orwell prize. He wrote an article about aid tourists in Haiti. Carroll's reporting from Venezuela was criticised by Red Pepper in 2008 for what it considered his pro-US, anti-Chávez bias. Carroll said that he is "not a champion of impartiality". Carroll said "I see a government that is doing some good things and some bad things". "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. On the one hand that's a serious story, but there is bombast too ... mobilisation on that scale never happened." On 3 July 2011, The Observer published an article by Carroll featuring an interview with Noam Chomsky concerning the detention of Maria Lourdes Afiuni, an arrested Venezuelan judge, in which Chomsky criticised the government of Hugo Chávez. Chomsky commented in an email exchange with the Znet blogger Joe Emersberger that the report was "deceptive" because of the omission of his comparison of the case of Chelsea Manning (then known as Bradley Manning) with the arrested Venezuelan judge, among other points, and rejected the assertion that Venezuela was less democratic than before Chávez took office: "I don’t think so, and never suggested it." Carroll's article did mention that Chomsky had criticised the US over the Manning case, without providing a quote. The newspaper reproduced the entire transcript of Carroll's exchange with Chomsky the following day on its website. Chomsky had said "[T]he United States is in no position to complain about this. Bradley Manning has been imprisoned without charge, under torture, which is what solitary confinement is". 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". "Whither his '21st-century socialist revolution', a unique experiment in power fuelled by charisma and bountiful oil revenues?" US West Coast correspondent Carroll's interview with Rodney King was published at the beginning of May 2012, on the 20th anniversary of the LA riots. Ireland correspondent , Carroll is The Guardian's Ireland correspondent. Book on Hugo ChávezComandante was published on 7 March 2013—two days after the announcement of Chávez's death—by Penguin Press