So finally, after hiding it for years, until the information published on this blog was picked up by the New York Times, Gregory Wilpert from Venezuelanalysis signs his indefinite opinion pieces with the following disclosure:
Full disclosure: Gregory Wilpert has been married to Carol Delgado since 1998, who has been the Consul General of Venezuela in New York since 2008.
I must commend Greg. Although I don’t recall ever reading such a sincere admission from him regarding his marital ties to the Chávez regime, which only became public after he revealed it following a friend’s advice in New York, it’s a welcome departure from his previous dishonest stance of being just a scholar who was “studying” the Chávez revolution and then went on to write articles about it.
Now we know that Wilpert married his Chávez-supporting wife in 1998, the year Chávez won his first presidential election. So, why did Wilpert take 14 years to disclose his connections? Will it take him another 14 years to admit he’s nothing more than a propagandist on Chávez’s payroll? Will it take him another 14 years to recognize that his opinions—as the husband of a Chávez diplomat benefiting from Chávez’s generosity—are entirely biased and anything but objective?