The Guardian goes right wing
<p> Ugh. Just look at the type of people they are letting in the door. Honestly.
Winning ugly
Not necessarily. The opposition’s only plausible path to victory on September 26th is simple: turn out your base and hope the other side’s soft-supporters stay home. And, within...
Fact-checkers of Caracas Chronicles: unite!
Is Tibisay Lucena correct in saying the opposition has 75% of all campaign TV ads? Or is she pulling these numbers out of her ass? We need those...
Chabuki watch #7
You know how playwrights talk about "the arc" of a character? They’ll go on and on about a character’s "inflexion point", the moment when they come to an...
Chavismo's Crap-o-rrific Swing-o-meter
It simply makes my blood boil to think the hacks who made this probably got paid thousands upon thousands of petrodollars while I burn the midnight oil just...
At war with the people (Updated)
The Pérez de León hospital in Petare is, by law, managed by the Sucre municipality. The mayor is Primero Justicia’s Carlos Ocaríz. Yesterday, Hugo Chávez said he would not...
Another ad - The Electoral Brothers!
The opening sequence to this latest Chigüire Bipolar video is sheer genius… Tienes que agarrar las fresitas, y echarle la lluviecita de chocolate… ROFLcity… Plus Juan thinks the...
Oliver Stone Watch #4
Why just today, they might say, we learn of the CNE’s Tibisay Lucena (aka Rojisbeth) threatening the State-run (Read: Chávez-run) Broadcaster with a fine (read: slap on the wrist...
New Legislative Election Forecasting Tool Now Available
The new and much improved Caracas Chronicles Forecasting Tool for the 26S Elections is now available. You can download it here. (Users of older versions of Excel should...
National Assembly 2010: It's on...
With an increasingly unpopular government, and the country mired in stagflation, the opposition heads into this campaign stronger than ever: united, setting the debate, and mobilized around a...
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