In Focus

Venezuela Devalues its Currency
Mark Weisbrot, The Americas Blog, February 8, 2013

Media Hate Fest for Venezuela Keeps on Keepin’ On
Mark Weisbrot
Al Jazeera English, January 29, 2013
En Español

Reports

A Statistical Note on the April 14 Venezuelan Presidential Election and Audit of Results

May 2013, David Rosnick and Mark Weisbrot

Adjusting for Polling Biases in Venezuela’s 2012 Presidential Election

October 2012, David Rosnick

Venezuela's Economic Recovery: Is It Sustainable?

September 2012, Mark Weisbrot and Jake Johnston

Decreasing Inequality Under Latin America’s “Social Democratic” and “Populist” Governments: Is the Difference Real?

October 2011, Juan A. Montecino

Obama’s Latin America Policy: Continuity Without Change
May 2011, Mark Weisbrot

The Americas Blog

A Timeline of Venezuelan Opposition Reactions to the Recent Elections

Venezuelan Election Audit Nears its Finish with 99.98% Clean Results So Far

U.S. Media Continues to Treat Capriles’ Complaints Seriously Despite Lack of Evidence

International Crisis Promotion from the “International Crisis Group”

ALBA Members Take the Lead in Crafting Alternatives in Arbitrating Investor-State Disputes

Latin America Data Bytes

Venezuela: GDP Rebounds on Strong Construction Growth
December 13, 2011 (Latin America Data Byte)
En Español

Venezuela: GDP Contracts after First-Quarter Surge
September 7, 2011 (Latin America Data Byte)
En Español

Venezuela: GDP Shows Strong Gains in Q1 2011
June 6, 2011 (Latin America Byte)
En Español

Op-Eds & Columns

What Probability and Statistics Have to Say About an Election in Venezuela

Mark Weisbrot
Al Jazeera English, May 10, 2013
En Español

Venezuela’s Post-Election Campaign: Pots and Pans and Uncle Sam Weren’t Enough This Time

Mark Weisbrot
The Guardian Unlimited, April 22, 2013
En Español

U.S. Seeks to Get Rid of Left Governments in Latin America

Mark Weisbrot
Folha de São Paulo (Brazil), April 20, 2013
Em Português | En Español

Maduro Wins Narrowly on Chávez Record; Close Election is a Wake-up Call for the Government

Mark Weisbrot
The Guardian Unlimited, April 15, 2013

Haters Gonna Hate: Rory Carroll's Venezuela on NPR

Mark Weisbrot
Al Jazeera English, April 11, 2013

Events

Obama in Latin America: The U.S. Response to the Region’s Leftward Shift

Venezuelan Elections and the Institutionalization of Participatory Democracy

Venezuela after Chávez

Brown Bag: Venezuela's Electoral System and the Results of The Presidential Elections

Post-Neoliberalism in Latin America: A New Vision for Development

The Andes Initiative Presents: Panel on "The Revolution in Venezuela"

Latin America in the Obama Years: U.S. Intervention, Policy and Progress

Venezuela and the Chavez Government: Advances and Shortcomings

Venezuela from the Neutral Ground

The Fletcher Symposium on Colombian and Venezuelan Affairs

Press Releases

Economists Call on Media to Report "Overwhelming Evidence" Regarding Venezuelan Election Results

June 7, 2013

Statistical Study Shows That First Audit of Venezuelan Election is Decisive

May 9, 2013

Venezuelan Audit Can’t Find Any Different Result in Presidential Election, Statistical Analysis Shows

April 26, 2013

Maduro’s Win, Though Narrow, Likely Results from People’s Improved Living Standards in Chávez Era, says CEPR Co-Director

April 15, 2013

Chávez Re-Election Continues Trend of Left Governments Re-elected in South America

October 7, 2012

Testimony

On the State of Democracy in Venezuela
June 24, 2004, Testimony of Mark Weisbrot before the Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere, Peace Corps, and Narcotics Affairs of the Committee on Foreign Relations (Senate)

Latest Press Hits

• Venezuela: Opposition Clings to Unreasonable Doubt Despite Audits
  Green Left Weekly, June 20, 2013


• Venezuela Inflation Soars to Record Monthly High 6.1 pct
  Reuters, June 06, 2013


• Venezuela in the Eye of the Storm
  Huffington Post World, June 03, 2013


• Después del Plan Siria preparan el Plan Venezuela
  Ria Novosti, May 17, 2013


• Venezuela ¿y ahora qué?
  La Vanguardia, May 16, 2013