# Gregory Wilpert

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{{Short description|German sociologist and activist (born 1965)}}
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'''Gregory Wilpert''' is a German activist and founder of [Venezuelanalysis.com](/source/Venezuelanalysis.com), a website supportive of [Hugo Chávez](/source/Hugo_Ch%C3%A1vez)'s [Bolivarian Revolution](/source/Bolivarian_Revolution) in [Venezuela](/source/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](/source/Chavismo)".<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](/source/Global_Post) |access-date= 13 May 2015}}</ref> He is currently an editor at the [Institute for New Economic Thinking](/source/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](/source/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](/source/UC-San_Diego) with a [Bachelor of Arts](/source/Bachelor_of_Arts) in [sociology](/source/sociology). He later graduated with a doctorate in sociology from [Brandeis University](/source/Brandeis_University) in 1994.<ref name=WILPven>{{cite web|title=About venezuelanalysis.com|url=https://venezuelanalysis.com/about|website=[Venezuelanalysis.com](/source/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](/source/Venezuelanalysis) with one of the founders of [Aporrea](/source/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](/source/The_New_York_Times) |date=25 June 2010}}</ref> In 2008, ''[Green Left Weekly](/source/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](/source/Verso_Books).<ref name="gl090808"/>

In 2008, Wilpert and Delgado moved to New York, as Delgado began to serve as [Consul General](/source/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](/source/death_of_Hugo_Ch%C3%A1vez) in March 2013, Wilpert and [Eva Golinger](/source/Eva_Golinger) appeared in a ''[Democracy Now!](/source/Democracy_Now!)'' segment, in which Wilpert praised Chávez's achievements in reducing poverty and increasing [participatory democracy](/source/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](/source/YouTube)|publisher=[Democracy Now](/source/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](/source/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](/source/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](/source/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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