An overview of useful resources on Venezuela as it becomes more socialist.
Venezuela is in the process of implementing what President Hugo Chavez calls "21st century socialism."
With the announcement yesterday of plans for nationalizing the telecom and electricity sectors and pulling the central bank's autonomy, he has started what appears to be the first in a new wave of radical economic policies aimed at creating a fully socialist economy.
Latin Business Chronicle has compiled this guide to useful resources on the Venezuelan crisis.
We have divided the resources into categories Commentary & Analysis, News, Special Reports and Other Resources.
SPECIAL REPORTS
- Venezuela: Chavez Forever?
Latin Business Chronicle, June 19, 2007 - Venezuela Outlook: Q&A
Latin Business Chronicle, June 19, 2007 - Venezuela: What Should US Do?
Latin Business Chronicle, June 19, 2007 - GDP Outlook 2008: Venezuela Worst, Panama Best
Latin Business Chronicle, April 16, 2007 - Inflation: Venezuela Worst, Peru Best
Latin Business Chronicle, April 16, 2007 - Chavez International: An Overview
Latin Business Chronicle, April 2, 2007 - Venezuela-US Trade Boom
Latin Business Chronicle, Feb. 20, 2007 - Venezuela: High Real Estate Demand
Latin Business Chronicle, Feb. 20, 2007 - Venezuela: State Grows, But At Huge Cost
Latin Business Chronicle, Feb. 12, 2007 - Venezuela: Boom or Bust?
Latin Business Chronicle, Jan. 29, 2007 - Venezuela Outlook: More Chaveznomics
Latin Business Chronicle, Dec.4, 2007 - Inflation Forecast: Venezuela Worse
Latin Business Chronicle, Nov.7, 2006 - Chaveznomics: Venezuela's Private Sector Under Siege
Latin Business Chronicle, Sept. 12, 2005 - Venezuela Oil Impact on US
Latin Business Chronicle, Aug. 17, 2005
COMMENTARY & ANALYSIS
- Beware Chavez' 21st Century Socialism
Latin Business Chronicle, April 2, 2007 - Chavez vs Bush: The Real Story
Latin Business Chronicle, March 19, 2007 - Venezuela 2017: Chavez Creates Mega-Company
Latin Business Chronicle, March 19, 2007 - What's is the Problem with Chavez?
Latin Business Chronicle, March 12, 2007 - Hugo Chavez: A Test for U.S. Policy (PDF)
Inter-American Dialogue, March 8, 2007 - Hugo Chavez's March to Dictatorship
NewsMax.com, March 8, 2007 - Venezuela: Ignoring Chavez's Plan
Latin Business Chronicle, March 5, 2007 - Venezuela: Misunderstood Revolution
Latin Business Chronicle, March 5, 2007 - Venezuela's Uncertain Future
Latin Business Chronicle, Feb. 20, 2007 - Price Controls and Inflation
Latin Business Chronicle, Feb. 12, 2007 - Venezuela: Wiped Out!
VenEconomy editorial republished in Latin Business Chronicle, February 5, 2007. - Venezuela: More Corruption & Inefficiency
Latin Business Chronicle, Jan. 15, 2007 - Venezuela: Instability & Isolation
Latin Business Chronicle, Jan. 15, 2007 - Venezuela: Laying Waste to Everything
Latin Business Chronicle, Jan. 15, 2007 - 21st Century Socialism or Venezuela 1957?
Latin Business Chronicle, Jan. 8, 2007 - Way Back Socialism Caracas Chronicles, Jan. 9, 2007
- Latin America's Nationalist Mistakes
Latin Business Chronicle, Jan. 8, 2007 - Chavez accelerates Venezuela's socialist revolution
Reuters, Jan. 8, 2007 - It's Official: Venezuela becomes a dictatorship
Venezuela Today, Jan.8,2007 - XXI Century Socialism According to Hugo Chavez Vcrisis, Jan.8, 2007
- Corruption, Mismanagement and Abuse of Power in Hugo Chavez's Venezuela Gustavo Coronel, Cato Institute, November 27, 2006 (PDF)
- Ratliff: Chavez and the Fascist left in Latin America
Latin Business Chronicle, Nov.19, 2006 - Purcell: Bad Representative Latin Business Chronicle, Nov.6, 2006
- Sabino: Venezuelan Expansionism
Latin Business Chronicle, Aug. 14, 2006 - Palma: Venezuela Problems Ahead
Latin Business Chronicle, Aug. 9, 2006 - Chavez Unmasked Latin Business Chronicle, Aug. 9, 2006
NEWS
- Venezuela May Control Food Distribution
Washington Post (AP), February 11, 2007
Cuba and Venezuela Most Repressed
Latin Business Chronicle, January 22, 2007 - Chavez's Nationalization Plans Rocks Venezuela Markets
Bloomberg, Jan.9, 2007Chavez Moves to Nationalize Two Industries
The New York Times, Jan. 9, 2007 - Chavez Moves Venezuela toward socialism
BusinessWeek, Jan. 9, 2007 - Venezuelan Bonds Decline on Chavez's Plans for Nationalization
Bloomberg, Jan. 9, 2007 - Chávez to nationalise telecoms, power Financial Times, Jan. 8, 2007
MORE RESOURCES
Venezuela Country Brief Latin Business Chronicle
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