Is Orinoco Tribune biased?
Media Bias/Fact Check places Orinoco Tribune on the far left. We have seen it on 2 published stories of ours.
The short answers
Is Orinoco Tribune biased?
Media Bias/Fact Check places Orinoco Tribune on the far left. An outlet rating describes a broad pattern in its output, not every article it publishes.
Is Orinoco Tribune left or right?
Media Bias/Fact Check places Orinoco Tribune on the far left. In the three-way grouping used on story pages, that puts it under Left.
Is Orinoco Tribune reliable?
The factual-reliability assessments we hold for Orinoco Tribune are Media Bias/Fact Check: Low factuality. These are outlet-level assessments, not a guarantee that every report is correct.
What Orinoco Tribune has been covering
Our account of each story, written from every outlet that ran it, with Orinoco Tribune’s own report linked underneath.
The US Treasury lifted sanctions on Fly Baghdad airline and two of its aircraft on 4 August 2026, after the company demonstrated major operational changes. Sanctions remain in place against its previously identified owner, Basheer Abdulkadhim Alwan al-Shabbani, over alleged links to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
Orinoco Tribune reported it asUS Lifts Sanctions on Iraqi Airline Blacklisted Over IRGC Ties (opens Orinoco Tribune in a new tab)
The US Treasury lifted sanctions on Fly Baghdad airline and two of its aircraft on 3 August 2026, citing operational changes, but maintained restrictions on its owner, Basheer Abdulkadhim Alwan al-Shabbani. The airline had been sanctioned in January 2024 over alleged ties to Iran's IRGC-Quds Force.
Orinoco Tribune reported it asUS Lifts Sanctions on Iraqi Airline Blacklisted Over IRGC Ties (opens Orinoco Tribune in a new tab)
Who says so
One organisation has published a rating for this outlet. Where they disagree, the disagreement is the useful part and it is left standing.
- Media Bias/Fact CheckfarLeftCheck it
How reliably it reports fact
A rating of the newsroom in general, by others, and a different thing from the Trust score we publish on each story, which judges one piece of reporting.
Low factuality
- Media Bias/Fact ChecklowCheck it
Who owns it
We hold no ownership record for Orinoco Tribune.
Where it publishes from
- Publishes from
- Spain
- Official site
- orinocotribune.com
- Seen publishing on
- orinocotribune.com
- Access
- Free to read
What we have seen ourselves
Counted across the stories this site has published, which is the only denominator a reader can check: every one of them has a page, and every page lists the reports it was written from.
- Stories
- 2
- Reports listed
- 2
- We could read
- 0
- First seen
- 4 August 2026
2 of those reports were paywalled or blocked to us. Our reading of this outlet is built on the 0 we could open, not on everything it published.
On 1 of those stories, outlets rated left were largely absent from the coverage and Orinoco Tribune ran the story anyway.
Across the 2 stories of ours where at least three of the reports we listed carried a time, another outlet was always ahead of Orinoco Tribune: its report arrived a median of 28 hours after the earliest one we logged.
Measured 8 August 2026. Last seen in a coverage list 8 August 2026. Ratings pulled 8 August 2026.
Other outlets rated the same way
Publishers carrying the same published leaning as Orinoco Tribune, also publishing from Spain, ordered by how often we have seen them on a story. Sharing a rating is not the same as being alike.
Every rating on this page is a named third party’s published work, republished with its author and, where one exists, a link to it. Our own coverage record is the section we measure ourselves. Neither is a judgement of any individual report: those are scored story by story, and the reasoning is on our methodology page.