16 Facts About Eva Golinger

Eva Golinger was born on 19 February 1973 and is an American lawyer, writer and journalist.

Eva Golinger is the author of several books about the late Hugo Chavez, of whom she was an outspoken supporter, and his relationship with the US.

The National Catholic Reporter wrote that Golinger headed the "pro-Chavez" Venezuela Solidarity Committee in 2004.

Eva Golinger previously edited the Correo del Orinoco International, a newspaper financed by the Venezuelan government, and wrote for the pro-Bolivarian Revolution website Venezuelanalysis.

Eva Golinger was born on 19 February 1973 in Langley Airforce Base, Virginia to Ronald Eva Golinger, a US Air Force psychiatrist, and Elizabeth Calderon, an American born attorney.

Eva Golinger graduated in 1994 from Sarah Lawrence College with a liberal arts degree.

In 1998, Eva Golinger returned to New York with the band's guitarist as her husband and completed her Juris Doctor in international human rights law in 2003 at City University of New York School of Law.

Eva Golinger then began to develop an interest in what she said was the role of the US Central Intelligence Agency in regime change around the world.

In early 2004, going into the 2004 Venezuela recall elections, Eva Golinger found what she said was evidence that the US was funding opposition groups.

Eva Golinger traveled to Venezuela to show Chavez her work and became a naturalized Venezuelan citizen shortly thereafter.

Eva Golinger wrote that the US was opposed to Chavez because it wanted oil and because he was "an ideological challenger".

Eva Golinger was close to the Chavez administration, and accompanied Chavez on diplomatic missions to Iran, Libya, and Syria.

Eva Golinger traveled extensively with President Chavez on foreign trips, including a seven-country tour in 2010.

Eva Golinger dined with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and gave him a copy of her book describing him as "gentle" at their meeting.

Eva Golinger's 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.

In 2009 Eva Golinger co-authored with Jean-Guy Allard the book La Agresion Permanente, published by the Venezuelan-based publisher Perro y La Rana and the Venezuelan Ministry of Information.