Once again
Quico says: The best English language account of what’s been happening in Venezuela is in The Economist.
Der Untergang
Katy says: Try as I might, it’s impossible to look away. President Chávez’s reaction to his dramatic loss in Sunday’s referendum keeps getting weirder and weirder. I’ve been...
Curiouser and curiouser...
Quico says: The struggle to get to the real results from Sunday’s constitutional reform referendum took a turn for the weird last night, after reader amieres struck again....
The shit hits the F.A.N.
Quico says: It’s now an established talking point in the government’s response to Sunday’s referendum defeat: by “graciously” accepting he’d lost, Chávez put the lie to the opposition...
The database underlying CNE's First Bulletin, anyone?
Quico says: As soon as CNE published this website breaking down the Referendum Results by location, my more computer savvy readers realized it would be possible to harvest...
A Fat Man in a Palace
Lucia says: With all respect to the brave and energetic students, the moderate political opposition, and the tea-leaves-reading Baduel, the story of this referendum is Chávez. The conventional...
Heinz Dieterich blows a gasket
Quico says: For those of you who haven’t had the pleasure, Heinz Dietrich is Chávez’s favorite theorist. Or, maybe I should write “used to be”, because I have...
It's not that we're questioning the result - it's that we want to know what the result is!
Quico says: First the good news: Sunday night’s referendum proved that, when the chips are down, the Smartmatic voting system (electronic voting with an audited paper trail) makes...
Did Chavez turn a defeat into a victory?
Quico and Katy say: A few days ago we posted our No victory scenario. We thought Chavez would work to turn defeat into some sort of publicity victory,...
Stand tall & be proud!
Katy says: I didn’t like Quico’s idea for an opposition message. I had a particular problem with this interpretation: “The point is to remind chavistas inside the institutions...
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