REPORTS

The Venezuelan Economy in the Chavez Years
A CEPR report by Mark Weisbrot and Luis Sandoval, July, 2007. A new paper from the Center for Economic and Policy Research looks at the Venezuelan economy during the last eight years and finds that it does not fit the mold of an "oil boom headed for a bust," as is commonly believed.

Poverty Rates in Venezuela: Getting the Numbers Right
A CEPR report by Mark Weisbrot, Luis Sandoval, and David Rosnick, May, 2006. This report examines data on poverty in Venezuela, and corrects misreporting which claimed that poverty increased during the seven years of the Chavez administration.

Venezuela After the Re-election of Hugo Chavez
A WOLA Conference Report, July, 2007. This WOLA conference brought together a dozen distinguished speakers from North America, Britain and Venezuela to analyze the political dynamics and policy challenges in that country. Panels focused on Political Conflict and Democracy, Institutions and Public Policies, and Energy and Foreign Policy.

BOOKS

Changing Venezuela By Taking Power: The History and Policies of the Chavez Government by Greg Wilpert	Venezuela's Bolivarian Process Edited by Gregory Wilpert
Build It Now: Socialism for the Twenty-First Century by Michael A. Lebowitz	Pirates of the Caribbean: Axis of Hope by Tariq Ali
Hugo Chavez: Oil, Politics, and the Challenge to the U.S. by Nikolas Kozloff	The Chavez Code: Cracking U.S. Intervention in Venezuela by Eva Golinger
The Venezuela Reader: The Building of a People's Democracy Edited by Olivia Burlingame Goumbri	The Venezuelan Revolution: 100 Questions-100 Answers by Chesa Boudin, Gabriel Gonzalez, and Wilmer Rumbos
Barrio Adentro & Other Social Missions in the Bolivarian Revolution by German Sanchez	Chavez, Venezuela and the New Latin America: An Interview with Hugo Chavez by Aleida Guevara
The Battle of Venezuela by Michael McCaughan	Venezuelan Politics in the Chavez Era: Class, Polarization and Conflict edited by Steve Ellner and Daniel Hellinger
Hugo Chavez and the Bolivarian Revolution by Richard Gott	Understanding the Venezuelan Revolution: Hugo Chavez Talks to Marta Harnecker
¡HUGO! From Mud Hut to Perpetual Revolution. By Bart Jones	Venezuela; The decline of an "exceptional democracy" Edited by Steve Ellner

VIDEOS

Llaguno Bridge Keys to a Massacre	The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
Venezuela Bolivariana: People and Struggle of the Fourth World War	Talking of Power: Sex, Race and Class in Revolutionary Venezuela
The Bolivarian Revolution: Enter the Oil Workers	The Old Man and Jesus: Prophets of Rebellion
Venezuela from Below: The Voice of the Rank and File of the Bolivarian Revolution

TV AND RADIO

Streaming audio of 1 hr. show, and written interview on African-Venezuelan music

President Bush v. Hugo Chavez: A Discussion on the State of Politics in Latin America

Amy Goodman interviews Hugo Chavez on "Democracy Now!"

Inside Latin America Chavez's Venezuela: Bush Over A Barrel: "Chavez," by Greg Palast

Vive TV

TeleSur

GOVERNMENT DOCUMENTS

The Special Law on Communal Councils