Gregory Wilpert
Gregory Wilpert is a German activist and founder of Venezuelanalysis.com, a website supportive of Hugo Chávez's Bolivarian Revolution in Venezuela. He has been described as "perhaps the most prominent Chavista". He is currently a producer for The Real News Network in Quito, Ecuador. Education. In 1988, Wilbert graduated from UC-San Diego with a Bachelor of Arts in sociology. He later graduated with a doctorate in sociology from Brandeis University in 1994. Career. Venezuelanalysis.com. In 2000, Wilpert moved to Caracas, Venezuela, with his Venezuelan wife, Carol Delgado. In 2003, Wilpert founded Venezuelanalysis with one of the founders  of Aporrea, Martin Sanchez, who set up the "technical side" of the English-language site. The set up of Venezuelanalysis was aided by Chávez's government. In 2008, "Green Left Weekly" described Venezuelanalysis as the "leading English language source of information on the [Bolivarian] revolution". In 2007, Wilpert's book "Changing Venezuela by Taking Power: The History and Politics of the Chavez Government" was published by Verso Books. "Green Left Weekly" wrote that Wilpert "explores the ways in which Venezuelans are trying to reshape their society and looks at the efforts of the Chávez government to fast-track this process . In 2008, Wilpert and his Delgado moved to New York, as Delgado began to serve as Consul General of Venezuela in New York. Wilpert continued to work as the main editor of the website until 2009, though he still serves on its board of directors. Following the death of Hugo Chávez in March 2013, Wilpert and Eva Golinger appeared in a Democracy Now!" segment, in which Wilpert praised Chávez's achievements in reducing poverty and increasing participatory democracy, criticised his response to crime and said "people keep mentioning the inflation. It's lower than it was in the pre-Chávez  years. It reached 50% per year in the two presidents before Chávez and Chávez brought it down to around 20% in the last couple of years. ... as long as incomes rise faster than inflation, it's not really that big a deal. I mean, it's a hassle, it's a problem, but it's not unsustainable." TeleSUR. In 2014, his wife moved to Quito, Ecuador to serve as the Venezuelan Ambassador to Ecuador. From March 2014 to September 2015, Wilpert then served as the director of English-language programming for TeleSUR, a state-run media company primarily funded by  the Venezuelan government. The Real News Network. Since February 2016, Wilpert has worked as a producer for The Real News Network in Quito, Ecuador. Personal life. In 1997, Wilpert married Carol Delgado Arria, a government official who served various roles in Hugo Chávez's administration.