Venezuela's last anti-Maduro paper clings on as media intimidation grows

Journalists work at the newsroom of Ultimas Noticias newspaper in Caracas, Venezuela June 19, 2018. Picture taken June 19, 2018. REUTERS/Marco Bello

CARACAS (Reuters) - Three hours before Venezuela's El Nacional newspaper goes to print, a bare-bones staff of 20 journalists toils in its vast newsroom, surrounded by empty desks.

A poster on a wall warns employees not to steal toilet paper while another asks for medicine for a reporter's mother, as the scarcity of basic goods that has forced over a million people to leave Venezuela also takes its toll on the country's last independent national newspaper.