José Guerra (economist)

On 28 August 2019, José Guerra maintains the following regarding the economic sanctions of the United States government on Venezuela:

In November 2019, Guerra denounced a strategy to "bribe" opposition lawmakers in what he called "Maletín Verde" (English: Green Suitcase), with the aim of breaking the qualified majority that the opposition had in the National Assembly.

In January 2017, while Guerra is a deputy, a new president of the Central Bank of Venezuela (BCV) is appointed on what he said:

In the 2015 Venezuelan parliamentary election, he was elected Deputy for Circumscription 4 which includes the parishes: El Valle, Coche, Santa Rosalía.

He was an economic advisor to Henrique Capriles Radonski, a unitary candidate for the Bureau of the Democratic Unit, during the presidential campaigns of 2012 and 2013. He was National Coordinator for Economic Matters of the Bureau of the Democratic Unit, a position he left to be a Candidate Independent, with the support of the First Justice party, to the National Assembly by Circumscription 4 of Caracas.

In 1995 and 1996, respectively, he co-authored the works that won the Ernesto Peltzer National Economy Prize awarded by the BCV. He has published or edited, among others, the following books: Stuies on inflation in Venezuela (BCV 2000), Foreign exchange policy issues in Venezuela (BCV 2004) and Economic policy in Venezuela 1999–2003, (UCV 2004). He is a columnist at El Universal and the weekly Descifrado.

José Guerra (born 7 September 1956) is a Venezuelan economist, writer and politician who currently serves as a deputy to the National Assembly of Venezuela. He previously served as a professor of economics and politics and for his career at the Central Bank of Venezuela. Guerra also was an advisor to Henrique Capriles in his presidential campaigns of 2012 and 2013 and was Coordinator of the Economic Area of the Democratic Unity Roundtable (MUD).