Surprise, surprise: Chávez wants a mulligan on indefinite re-election
Quico says: Bring. It. On! Update: The more I think about it, the more I think Chávez is caught in a trap of his own making here. Again,...
The Leader of the Opposition
Quico says: You thought Chávez was a handful running the government? Just wait till you see him running the opposition.
The Urban-Rural Split in Numbers
Quico says: So I wanted to take a more systematic look at the Urban-Rural split in Sunday’s elections. Here’s what I did: Using data from the 2000 Census...
The Battle for City Hall
Quico says: A while ago, I identified 13 urban municipios the opposition should target in this year’s election. I picked out big urban municipios that fulfilled two conditions:...
The Truth About Petare
Quico says: Petare parish, (in Sucre Municipality of Miranda State) has more registered voters than any other parroquia in Venezuela: 310,430. The barrio it hosts is the biggest...
The Cartogram
Quico says: Lets face it: the standard results map is depressing to look at. Just too much red. Of course, most of those red states have more cows...
A massive data-trove from Sunday's election
Quico says: Longtime reader Abelardo Mieres has done it again! Over the last few days, Mieres has grabbed CNE’s website by the lapels and shaken it virulently until...
Julio Cesar: Show me the actas!
Quico says: It wouldn’t be a Venezuelan election if nobody was crying fraud. This time it’s chavista dissident extraordinaire and scourge of the Chávez clan in Barinas Julio...
Boy, that took work!
Quico says: It took some doing, but in the end a four-way opposition split handed Valencia’s City Hall to chavismo’s Edgardo Parra – and even then, by less...
Carajo, No Escrutan!
Quico says: Friggin’ CNE! I shouldn’t be surprised by now, but after making such a big to-do about how the voting system is 100% electronic this time around,...
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