Informative links to organizations, resource centers, government websites, and a list of published books, videos, and reports to better understand the past and present situation of Venezuela.
Reports
Books
Videos
TV & Radio
Government Documents
News and Commentary on Venezuela and Latin America
Venezuelan Government website
Other Venezuelan sites
On Sale Now -- Venezuela DVDs and CDs [1]
Reports
Venezuela's ALBA: Alternatives to Corporate Globalization [2]
Global Exchange
U.S. Intervention in Venezuela: A Clear and Present Danger. Strategies and Tactics Used by the U.S. Government to Undermine Democracy, Sovereignty, and Social Progress in Venezuela During the Chávez Era – And What U.S. Citizens Can Do to Stop It [3]
A Global Exchange Report, January, 2006.
The Venezuelan Economy in the Chavez Years [4]
A CEPR [5] 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 [6]
A CEPR [5] 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 [7]
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.
Venezuela and Indigenous Rights [8]
Analysis by Marc Becker
Bank of the South information [9]
By Vince McElhinn
Books
Changing Venezuela By Taking Power: The History and Policies of the Chavez Government [11]
by Greg Wilpert
Build It Now: Socialism for the Twenty-First Century [12]
by Michael A. Lebowitz
Build It Now: Socialism for the Twenty-First Century [12]
by Michael A. Lebowitz
Hugo Chavez: Oil, Politics, and the Challenge to the U.S. [13]
by Nikolas Kozloff
The Venezuela Reader: The Building of a People’s Democracy [14]
Edited by Olivia Burlingame Goumbri
Barrio Adentro & Other Social Missions in the Bolivarian Revolution [15]
by German Sanchez
The Battle of Venezuela [16]
by Michael McCaughan
Hugo Chavez and the Bolivarian Revolution [17]
by Richard Gott
¡HUGO! From Mud Hut to Perpetual Revolution. [18]
By Bart Jones
Venezuela's Bolivarian Process [19]
Edited by Gregory Wilpert
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Videos
Llaguno Bridge Keys to a Massacre [20]
The Revolution Will Not Be Televised [21]
Venezuela Bolivariana: People and Struggle of the Fourth World War [22]
Talking of Power: Sex, Race and Class in Revolutionary Venezuela [23]
The Bolivarian Revolution: Enter the Oil Workers [23]
The Old Man and Jesus: Prophets of Rebellion [24]
Venezuela from Below: The Voice of the Rank and File of the Bolivarian Revolution [25]
TV and Radio
NPR's Talk of the Nation on Hugo Chavez [26]
Streaming audio of 1 hr. show, and written interview on African-Venezuelan music [27]
President Bush v. Hugo Chavez: A Discussion on the State of Politics in Latin America [28]
Amy Goodman interviews Hugo Chavez on "Democracy Now!" [29]
Inside Latin America Chavez's Venezuela: Bush Over A Barrel: "Chavez," by Greg Palast [30]
Vive TV [31]
TeleSur [32]
Government Documents
The Official Venezuelan Constitution [33] The Special Law on Communal Councils [34]
News and Commentary on Venezuela and Latin America
Venezuelanalysis.com [35]
Informative online news and analysis for Venezuela