{{Short description|German sociologist and activist (born 1965)}} {{BLP primary sources|date=July 2021}} {{Infobox person | honorific_prefix = | name = Gregory Wilpert | honorific_suffix = | image = Gregory Wilpert 2.jpg | alt = | caption = | native_name = | native_name_lang = | pronunciation = | birth_name = <!-- only use if different from name above --> | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1965|06|05}} | birth_place = Berlin, Germany | baptised = <!-- will not display if birth_date is entered --> | disappeared_date = <!-- {{disappeared date and age|YYYY|MM|DD|YYYY|MM|DD}} (disappeared date then birth date) --> | disappeared_place = | disappeared_status = | death_date = <!-- {{Death date and age|YYYY|MM|DD|YYYY|MM|DD}} (death date then birth date) --> | death_place = | death_cause = | body_discovered = | resting_place = | resting_place_coordinates = <!-- {{coord|LAT|LONG|type:landmark|display=inline}} --> | burial_place = <!-- may be used instead of resting_place and resting_place_coordinates (displays "Burial place" as label) --> | burial_coordinates = <!-- {{coord|LAT|LONG|type:landmark|display=inline}} --> | monuments = | other_names = | citizenship = | education = | alma_mater = {{nowrap|University of California, San Diego}} <br /> Brandeis University | occupation = Sociologist • journalist | years_active = 2003–present | era = | employer = | organization = Venezuela Analysis | agent = <!-- Discouraged in most cases, specifically when promotional, and requiring a reliable source --> | known_for = | notable_works = <!-- produces label "Notable work"; may be overridden by |credits=, which produces label "Notable credit(s)"; or by |works=, which produces label "Works" --> | style = | height = <!-- "X cm", "X m" or "X ft Y in" plus optional reference (conversions are automatic) --> | television = | title = | term = | predecessor = | party = | movement = | opponents = | boards = | spouse = Carol Delgado Arria | partner = <!-- (unmarried long-term partner) --> | children = | parents = <!-- overrides mother and father parameters --> | mother = <!-- may be used (optionally with father parameter) in place of parents parameter (displays "Parent(s)" as label) --> | father = <!-- may be used (optionally with mother parameter) in place of parents parameter (displays "Parent(s)" as label) --> | relatives = | family = | website = {{URL|https://gregwilpert.net}} <br /> {{URL|https://venezuelanalysis.com}} | footnotes = }}
'''Gregory Wilpert''' is a German activist and founder of Venezuelanalysis.com, a website supportive of Hugo Chávez's Bolivarian Revolution in Venezuela.<ref name=GWrealnews>{{cite news|url=http://nocache.therealnews.com/t2/component/content/article/161-more-blog-posts-from-gregory-wilpert/1684-tackling-institutions-one-by-one-an-interview-with-gregory-wilpert|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171210071947/http://nocache.therealnews.com/t2/component/content/article/161-more-blog-posts-from-gregory-wilpert/1684-tackling-institutions-one-by-one-an-interview-with-gregory-wilpert|title= Tackling Institutions One By One: An Interview With Gregory Wilpert |quote=Gregory Wilpert said that Martin Sanchez worked on the "technical side" of setting up Venezuelanalysis.|archive-date=10 December 2017|access-date=8 September 2021}} Also available at [http://zcomm.org/znetarticle/tackling-institutions-one-by-one-by-gregory-wilpert/ Znet.]</ref> He has been described as "perhaps the most prominent Chavista".<ref name=ChavezDefender>{{cite web |url= http://www.globalpost.com/passport/newsmaker-interview/091124/gregory-wilpert-chavez-defender |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101113160421/http://www.globalpost.com/passport/newsmaker-interview/091124/gregory-wilpert-chavez-defender |archive-date=13 November 2010 |title= Gregory Wilpert: Chavez defender |author= Devereux, Charlie |date= 2 December 2009 |publisher= Global Post |access-date= 13 May 2015}}</ref> He is currently an editor at the Institute for New Economic Thinking.<ref name="INETwilp">{{cite web|title=INET Staff|url=https://www.ineteconomics.org/research/experts/GregWilpert|website=Institute for New Economic Thinking|access-date=5 December 2022|language=en-gb|date=5 December 2022}}</ref>
==Education== In 1988, Wilpert 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.<ref name=WILPven>{{cite web|title=About venezuelanalysis.com|url=https://venezuelanalysis.com/about|website=Venezuelanalysis.com|access-date=27 June 2017|language=en}}</ref>
==Career==
===Venezuelanalysis.com=== {{further|Venezuelanalysis.com}}
In 2000, Wilpert moved to Caracas, Venezuela, with his Venezuelan wife, Carol Delgado.<ref name=WILPven/> 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.<ref name=GWrealnews/> The set up of Venezuelanalysis was aided by Chávez's government.<ref name=NYTlr>{{cite news|last1=Rohter |first1=Larry |author-link=Larry Rohter |title=Oliver Stone's Latin America|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/26/movies/26stone.html?_r=3|access-date=22 September 2015|newspaper=The New York Times |date=25 June 2010}}</ref> In 2008, ''Green Left Weekly'' described Venezuelanalysis as the "leading English language source of information on the [Bolivarian] revolution".<ref name="gl090808">{{cite web |last1=Butler |first1=Simon |title=Venezuela: a revolution in motion |url=https://www.greenleft.org.au/content/venezuela-revolution-motion |website=Green Left |access-date=27 August 2021 |language=en |date=9 September 2008}}</ref>
In 2007, Wilpert's book ''Changing Venezuela by Taking Power: The History and Politics of the Chavez Government'' was published by Verso Books.<ref name="gl090808"/>
In 2008, Wilpert and Delgado moved to New York, as Delgado began to serve as Consul General of Venezuela in New York.<ref name=RNNwilp>{{cite web|title=Ecuador Elections Appear Headed Towards Run-off|url=http://therealnews.com/t2/story:18440:Ecuador-Elections-Appear-Headed-Towards-Run-off|website=The Real News Network|access-date=27 June 2017|language=en-gb|date=21 February 2017|archive-date=27 June 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170627082832/http://therealnews.com/t2/story:18440:Ecuador-Elections-Appear-Headed-Towards-Run-off|url-status=dead}}</ref> Wilpert continued to work as the main editor of the website until 2009, though he still serves on its board of directors.<ref name=WILPven/>
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.<ref>{{cite web|title=Chávez transformó Venezuela, sobrevivió a un golpe apoyado por EEUU, pero deja incertidumbre 2/3|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDLyVHHX7eQ|website=YouTube|publisher=Democracy Now|access-date=27 June 2017|date=11 March 2013}}</ref>{{Primary source inline|date=July 2021}}
===TeleSUR=== In 2014, his wife moved to Quito, Ecuador to serve as the Venezuelan Ambassador to Ecuador.<ref name=WILPven/> 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.<ref name="RNNwilp"/>
===The Real News Network=== From February 2016 until March 2018, Wilpert worked as a producer for The Real News Network first in Quito, Ecuador and later in Baltimore, MD.<ref name="RNNwilp"/><ref>{{cite web|title=Gregory Wilpert|url=http://www.therealnews.com/t2/component/content/category/161-more-blog-posts-from-gregory-wilpert|publisher=The Real News Network|access-date=27 June 2017|language=en-gb|archive-date=20 July 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170720002545/http://therealnews.com/t2/component/content/category/161-more-blog-posts-from-gregory-wilpert|url-status=dead}}</ref>
==Personal life== In 1997, Wilpert married Carol Delgado Arria, a government official who served various roles in Hugo Chávez's administration.<ref name="RNNwilp"/><ref name=NYTtoStone>{{cite web |url= http://www.zcommunications.org/new-york-times-to-oliver-stone-by-gregory-wilpert |title= New York Times to Oliver Stone |author= Wilpert, Gregory | date= 1 July 2010 |access-date= 9 May 2012 |publisher= Zcommunications.org}}</ref>
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