About Us

Venezuelanalysis is an independent website dedicated to producing news and analysis about the current political situation in Venezuela.

Our main objective is to counter the corporate media propaganda against the Bolivarian Revolution by giving a voice to leftist and popular movements in Venezuela. We aim to cover daily news about the Caribbean nation, as well as to contextualize these developments with in-depth analysis and historical background. The site is targeted towards activists, academics, journalists, policymakers, and the general public.

In addition to publishing interviews and opinion articles from a diversity of anti-imperialist perspectives, we aim to produce the most accurate and fact-based news available on Venezuela. Our goal is to be the primary resource for information and analysis on the country in English. Over the years we have also developed collaborations with Venezuelan grassroots collectives, including Tatuy TV and Utopix.

Venezuelanalysis is a project of Venezuela Analysis, Inc., which is registered as a non-profit organization in Delaware State and of the Fundación para la Justicia Económica Global, a foundation registered in Caracas, Venezuela. It was founded in mid-2003.

Since our resources are limited, we need and welcome any and all donations so that we can continue to provide high-quality news, analysis and multimedia content about Venezuela. We depend 100% on reader support and receive no funding from any governments.

For questions, suggestions and submissions, use the ‘Contact Us’ option below or write to us at [email protected].

Ricardo Vaz (Lead Editor)

Ricardo Vaz grew up in Mozambique. With very strong political leanings from an early age and a clear anti-imperialist outlook, he always felt a very strong affinity towards the Bolivarian Revolution and Chavismo, and has closely followed political developments in Venezuela. After living in different countries and continents, he moved to Venezuela in early 2019.

Although his background is in theoretical physics, he gradually moved towards journalism and political analysis and joined the VA staff as a writer and editor in 2018. Some of his main interests are sanctions, popular power organizations and the corporate media coverage of Venezuela. He is also a member of grassroots collectives Tatuy Tv and Utopix.

Lucas Koerner (Associate Editor)

Lucas Koerner is from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He joined the Venezuelanalysis team after moving to Caracas in January 2015. Lucas got his political start as an anti-war and Palestine solidarity activist in high school before going on to help found a chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine at Tufts University. Shortly after graduating college, he traveled to Venezuela to learn about the Bolivarian Revolution firsthand, only to end up making the South American country his home for seven years.

Lucas is currently a doctoral candidate in Latin American and Caribbean History at Harvard University. He is completing a dissertation on the sociohistorical representations of Hugo Chávez in 1990s Venezuela.

Jessica Dos Santos (Writer and columnist)

Jessica Dos Santos Jardim is a Venezuelan writer, journalist, and university professor. A journalism graduate from the Central University of Venezuela (UCV), she’s currently pursuing a master’s degree in women’s studies and teaches interpretative journalism in the Santa Rosa Catholic University.

Jessica is the author of Caracas en alpargatas (2018), Nada es tan personal como parece (2023), and Mujeres de las Ciencias en Venezuela (Mincyt, 2025). She has worked as a journalist in outlets including Russia Today, La Radio del Sur, Últimas Noticias and the Épalce CCS magazine. She authored the columns El Último Round and En esta esquina at the 15 y Último and Desafíos digital outlets. She won the Aníbal Nazoa Journalism Prize in 2014 and received honorable mentions in the Simón Bolívar National Journalism prize in 2016 and 2018.

Silvana Solano Rodríguez (Writer)

Silvana Solano Rodríguez is a Venezuelan political scientist and researcher based in Mérida. Her work is centered on the analysis of political processes, grassroots organizing, and geopolitics from a Venezuelan perspective.

She authors news and opinion pieces documenting the impact of economic and social politices in Latin America, with special emphasis on popular power. Silvana’s approach combines academic research with journalistic coverage, providing data and analysis on the political context in Venezuela and the hemisphere. She has contributed to media outlers including TatuyTv and Telesur.

Rosanna Álvarez (Columnist)

Rosanna Álvarez holds an MSc in History of Republican Venezuela from the Central University of Venezuela (UCV). She is a researcher at the Centro de Estudios Simón Bolívar and Fundación Hugo Chávez, as well as a writer at the Libertador 8 Estrellas magazine. She is the author of Venezuela vista e imaginada. Un recorrido visual por nuestra historia and host of the Bolívar Nuestro show on Radio del Sur.

Fabiola José (Columnist)

Fabiola José is a Venezuelan singer. She has performed in countries across South America, Africa, Europe, and Asia. Her singles and albums are available on all digital platforms. She hosted and produced Cantante y Sonante for Radio Nacional de Venezuela. In 2018–2019, she created a series of videos for social media, published on her YouTube channel #HechoEnCasa. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Music from IUDEM, Caracas (2005); specialized under Maestro Tom Krause in Spain (2007); and an M.A. in Arts and Cultures of the South from UNEARTE, Venezuela (2020).

Fidel Barbarito (Columnist)

Fidel Barbarito is a Venezuelan musician and researcher, with a bachelor’s and master’s degrees in music and history, respectively. He teaches in the undergraduate and graduate programs at the National Experimental University of the Arts (UNEARTE). Together with Fabiola José, he promotes several musical projects aimed at disseminating traditional folk repertoires, integrating them with contemporary compositions inspired by these sounds. Joropo llanero. Parranda de reexistencia is one of his published essays.

Greg Wilpert (Contributing Editor)

Gregory Wilpert co-founded venezuelanalysis together with Martin Sánchez in September 2003. Greg is a German-American activist, sociologist, and journalist. He earned a Ph.D. in sociology from Brandeis University in 1994 and moved to Venezuela in 2000 on a Fulbright Scholar grant. In 2007 he published the book, Changing Venezuela by Taking Power: The History and Policies of the Chávez Government (Verso Books).

From 2008 to 2014 Greg lived in New York City, where he taught political science as an adjunct professor at Brooklyn College’s Graduate Center for Worker Education and also worked for the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation as Venezuela Project Coordinator. Then, in 2014, he moved to Quito, Ecuador, to direct the teleSUR English website. From 2016 until 2020 he worked for The Real News Network as a researcher, producer, and host. Currently, he is Deputy Editor at the Institute for New Economic Thinking.

Jeanette Charles (Contributing Editor)

Jeanette Charles is a daughter of the Haitian Diaspora and was raised in working-class Black and Brown Los Angeles, California. Charles served as the International Solidarity Liaison for VA while also working as a writer and editor contributing to issues on Afro-Venezuelans, sex and gender diversity movements, land recuperation processes and the current political climate.

Jeanette has worked in solidarity spaces with African and Indigenous peoples across Latin America and the Caribbean as a popular educator, human rights advocate and organizing solidarity brigades. She’s lived, worked and studied in Venezuela for extended periods of time since 2010.

Katrina Kozarek (Contributing Editor)

Katrina Kozarek is a documentary maker from the United States, currently located in Lara, Venezuela. She began solidarity work with Venezuela during her involvement in the production of the documentaries “Venezuela Bolivariana: People and Struggle of the Fourth World War” and “The Old Man and Jesus: Prophets of Rebellion” with the Venezuelan-based Cooperative “Calle y Media.” Residing in Venezuela since 2004, she has been heavily involved in community media, creating content, as well as building media participation through skill-sharing and popular education in video production.

Katrina has been an active participant in the National Association of Free and Community Media (ANMCLA), the communal television station of the Comuna Socialista Ataroa “LaraTVeC, canal 60 UHF” as well as the audiovisual collective “Voces Urgentes.” She is also a member of the popular feminist movement “Mujeres Por La Vida.”

Rachael Boothroyd (Contributing Editor)

Rachael Boothroyd is a journalist and trade union organiser from Liverpool, UK. She lived in Caracas for several years as a Venezuelanalysis staff member while also working with an array of leftwing media outlets, including presenting documentaries for Redfish and as international correspondent for TeleSUR English.

Rachael is currently a contributing editor at Alborada and has a degree in Modern Foreign Languages and a Masters in Latin American Studies, both from the University of Liverpool.