Eva Golinger

Eva Golinger (born 19 February 1973) is an American lawyer, writer and journalist. She practices law in New York and specializes in immigration and international law. She is the author of several books about Hugo Chávez, of whom she was an outspoken supporter, and his relationship with the US. Chávez called her La novia de Venezuela ("The Bride of Venezuela"), and she served as a foreign policy advisor to his government. The National Catholic Reporter wrote that Golinger headed the "pro-Chávez" Venezuela Solidarity Committee in 2004. Her website, venezuelafoia.info, aimed to shed light on what she called links between US government agencies and Venezuelan organizations by publishing documents obtained using the US Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).

She previously edited the Correo del Orinoco International, a newspaper financed by the Venezuelan government, in Langley Airforce Base, Virginia to Ronald Golinger, a US Air Force psychiatrist, and Elizabeth Calderon, an American born attorney. At a young age, Golinger was introduced to progressive causes, with her mother Elizabeth bringing her to marches for women's rights. She then began to develop an interest in what she said was the role of the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in regime change around the world.

Golinger has been described as pro-Chávez.

Chávez and Venezuela activism Following the 2002 Venezuelan coup d'état attempt, Golinger grew concerned about the United States' knowledge that a coup was possible and gave information to pro-Chávez organizations with research taking much of her time. She was also a writer for Venezuelanalysis.com. A 2011 profile in The New York Times described her as "one of the most prominent fixtures of Venezuela's expanding state propaganda complex", and Correo del Orinoco was described as "Venezuela's equivalent of the Cuban newspaper Granma".

Post-Chávez

Rory Carroll wrote in The Guardian that Golinger said there was "circumstantial evidence" of US involvement in the death of Chávez from cancer—a claim the US State Department said was "absurd".

Following the 2017 Venezuelan constitutional crisis, where the Supreme Court of Venezuela took over the democratically elected National Assembly, BBC Monitoring Americas wrote that Golinger, "one of the staunchest defenders internationally of left-wing Chavist rule in Venezuela", agreed that the takeover was "a rupture of the constitutional order".

Books Golinger is the author of several books on Chavez's relationship with the United States such as The Chavez Code and/or Confidete Of Tyrants, based on research using the U.S. Freedom of Information Act on what she describes as links between US government agencies and Venezuelan organizations, particularly in relation to the 2002 Venezuelan coup d'état attempt. Her books are published in multiple languages by different publishers in over eight countries and were both celebrated and launched at events that often included the participation of high level Venezuelan government officials.

The Chávez Code Her first book, The Chávez Code (2006), was initially presented in Havana at the Havana International Book Fair in Santiago de Cuba; its preface was co-authored by Rogelio Polanco, Cuban Ambassador to Venezuela. It has been published in eight languages, and was optioned for a feature film.

A Veneconomy review stated that it found dozens of instances of what they considered sloppy work, manipulation of sources, false and chronologically inaccurate claims, and amateur historiography.

La Agresión Permanente In 2009 Golinger co-authored with Jean-Guy Allard the book La Agresión Permanente ("The Permanent Aggression"), published by the Venezuelan-based publisher Perro y La Rana and the Venezuelan Ministry of Information.

Publications Confidante of 'tyrants': The Story of the American Woman Trusted by the Us's Biggest Enemies, New Internationalist (16 Oct. 2018) The Chavez Code: Cracking US Intervention in Venezuela, Pluto Press, 2006 Bush Versus Chávez: Washington's War on Venezuela, Monthly Review Press, 2008 Bush Vs. Chavez: Washington's War on Venezuela, Aakar Books, 2008, La Telaraña Imperial: Enciclopedia de Injerencia y Subversión (Empire's Web: Encyclopedia of Interventionism and Subversion), Caracas: Monte Ávila Editores, 2008 La Mirada del Imperio sobre el 4F: Los Documentos Desclasificados de Washington sobre la rebelión militar del 4 de febrero de 1992, Caracas: IDEA Fondo Editorial, 2009