Venezuelanalysis.com: Venezuela News, Views and Analysis is a news website, which describes its aim as being "to provide on-going news about developments in Venezuela

Venezuela

Venezuela , officially called the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela , is a tropical country on the northern coast of South America. It borders Colombia to the west, Guyana to the east, and Brazil to the south...

, as well as to contextualize this news with in-depth analysis and background information. The site is targeted towards academics, journalists, intellectuals, policy makers from different countries, and the general public."

Lonely Planet

Lonely Planet

Lonely Planet is the largest travel guide book and digital media publisher in the world. The company is owned by BBC Worldwide, which bought a 75% share from the founders Maureen and Tony Wheeler in 2007 and the final 25% in February 2011...

: Venezuela (a 2007 travel guide book) deems it "the best English language news site" to "keep track of the country's political and economic affairs". A 2009 article in Venezuelanalysis.com does not endorse the Lonely Planet travel guide, saying it is "politically tainted and even today isn't as up to date as it should be".

Analyzing alternative Venezuelan media, Darrell Moen in a Hitotsubashi University

Hitotsubashi University

is a national university specialised in the social sciences in Tokyo, Japan. The University has campuses in Kunitachi, Kodaira, and Kanda.Hitotsubashi is considered as one of the most prestigious universities in Japan. It is ranked 25th in the world in 2011 by École des Mines de Paris.Hitotsubashi...

 publication calls it "A major source of non-corporate controlled information regarding the process of social transformation that is occurring in Venezuela ... This website offers critical analyses by dissident scholars and grassroots-based accounts by social activists involved in the various social movements in Venezuela as well as links to a number of alternative media sites and access to documentary videos that depict recent events in Venezuela". Writing in New Political Science in an article "The Bush Administration Record in Latin America: Sins of Omission and Commission", Walt Vanderbush footnotes a book by Gregory Wilpert, one of the writers for Venezuelanalysis, and says "Wilpert’s website ... is a valuable resource for Venezuelan news and analysis."
Two newspapers have said that Venezuelanalysis.com is "pro-Chávez

Hugo Chávez

Hugo Rafael Chávez Frías is the 56th and current President of Venezuela, having held that position since 1999. He was formerly the leader of the Fifth Republic Movement political party from its foundation in 1997 until 2007, when he became the leader of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela...

"; other sources say it is "left-leaning".