After website Aporrea [es] went briefly offline on May 10, 2014, a number of comments appeared on Twitter. Apparently the portal domain was withdrawn for a while, thus revealing that the page is hosted somewhere in the United States. To many people, that the most important portal for Venezuelan pro-government opinions depends on services based in the US opens up criticism and discussion about the problem foreign currency blockade and its inevitable consequences.

Aquí la muestra http://t.co/4EudBwSG3F RT @victoramaya: la escasez de dólares llegó a Aporrea… se les venció el dominio y no lo han pagado

— Lisseth Boon (@boonbar) May 10, 2014

This is the evidence. RT @victoramaya: dollar shortage finally affected Aporrea… their domain expired and they haven't paid for it.

Anthonny Arias outilnes the irony in the situation:

En serio, cómo me he podido reír porque aporrea no tiene dolaritos para pagar el dominio… ¡Jajaja!

— Anthonny Arias (@AnthonnyAG) May 10, 2014

Really, I've been laughing as Aporrea doesn't have the big bucks to pay for the domain. LOL!

Lastly, Publio Escipión expresses doubts from the critical texts published on the portal in the last months:

Aporrearon a http://t.co/HiEyeLhdSa. El dominio caducó ayer.¿No hay dólares o lo dejaron cerrar por las críticas? http://t.co/QU07I4ZEK2

— Publio C. Escipión (@PublioCEscipion) May 10, 2014

Aporrea got pounded. The domain expired yesterday. There are no dollars or they were closed due to the criticism?