Meet Nancy Wexler
The Columbia University professor has been coming to this impoverished village on the western shores of Lake Maracaibo for many years. The reason? Barranquitas has the world’s highest concentration of...
Taking it out on seriously ill kids...
A group of PSUV candidates just went to the Prosecutor General’s office demanding they take the nineteen thousand one hundred and thirty three murder files from last year...
The Opposition's Rural Problem
OK, it’s back to electoral number crunching, this time on the Monte-y-Culebra Problem. First, some context. From our high point in the Constitutional Reform Referendum of 2007, when...
"The world's murder capital"
The New York Times’ Simón Romero gets it all right: the scale of the problem; the government’s efforts at censorship; and chavistas’ continued reluctance to blame the President....
Tienen Razón
Spain’s La Razón publishes the kind of detail-oriented, intensely observed report on Caracas’s Bello Monte morgue that Venezuelan newspapers – for reasons that continue to baffle me –...
And all that without the suicide bombings...
I’d always figured the claims you hear about Venezuela being more violent than Iraq or Afghanistan were just a bit of criollo hyperbole. You know, nothing to be...
Onechot
If there was ever a video that deserved to go viral, it’s this topical one by Venezuelan artist Onechot. http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=14210701&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=1&color=&fullscreen=1&autoplay=0&loop=0 Rotten Town from El Flying Monkey on...
Another ad, a better way - veer right!
Here’s another ad I found on the web. This one is from Primero Justicia. http://www.youtube.com/v/5bAfEFzfuDs When the car reached the fork on the road I kept hoping –...
Maybe You Really Can Forecast The Election Without Circuit Polls
For an analyst, the big frustration this election cycle is that we don’t have available the type of circuit-by-circuit polling widely seen as the gold standard in an...
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