Weeks Provides Analysis on Chavez Death

With the March 5, 2013 death of Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez after over a decade in power, the country and its people will face decisions about its future that observers say could lead to unrest and political struggles.

UNC Charlotte’s Gregory Weeks has been providing expert analysis in his blog, “Two Weeks Notice: A Latin American Politics Blog” about Chavez and Venezuela, as events have unfolded in the country. He also has been a source for news media domestically and internationally on this and other poltiical and public policy issues. Weeks’ comments most recently can be found in articles published by Bloomberg.com, on FOX NEWS.com, by the Associated Press, by The Seattle Times, and in WorldNews on NBCNews.com.

Weeks is professor and chair of the Department of Political Science and Public Administration in the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. He is also the editor of the academic journal The Latin Americanist. His research interests include Latin American politics, U.S.-Latin American relations, and Latin American immigration to the United States. He is past president of the Southeastern Council of Latin American Studies (SECOLAS).