That Screwy Seat Distribution
So the improved Swing-o-meter is nearly done. The more I fiddle with it, the more convinced I am that 26S is an incredibly volatile election: relatively minor changes...
Shame on you, Panorama
Today, Venezuelans woke up to a violent, macabre image in their newspaper: the word "Censurado" splashed across the front page of El Nacional. This is the product of...
The pharaoh has his pyramid
Yesterday, Hugo Chávez went shoplifting again. This time, the axe fell on the neck of Seguros La Previsora, a large insurance company, owner of an iconic, pyramid-like building...
Thinking the Unthinkable: Punishment by Out-carceration
Venezuela’s debate on crime and punishment is as impoverished as our most miserable barrio. Sucked into the fiendish dynamics of polarization, it leaves out just one thing: serious,...
New Normal Chronicles: Kamikaze Monetary Policy Edition
So remember how barely two weeks ago we were speculating that the Central Bank might be secretly financing State Owned Enterprises directly? Well, a few days later, BCV...
You say Doctor, I say activist
In a country where nobody takes responsibility for their actions, where everyone is a political actor, and where the only thing that matters is obtaining and holding power,...
The Rivetting Reactionary Rant of the White Man
So I’ve been reading Pascal Bruckner’s classic 1983 cantankerous screed, "The Tears of the White Man." In English, the book is subtitled "Compassion as Contempt" but, from a...
Caradura Chronicles
For governing party spokesman Héctor Navarro, the fact that the murder rate has tripled in Venezuela since 1998 is the fault of…the last government!
Coming Soon: Swing-o-Meter 2.0
Lets be clear: to really forecast September’s parliamentary election results with any degree of accuracy, you would need detailed, circuit-by-circuit polling in key marginal seats, the so-called "swing...
When he's good, he's really good...
Teodoro Petkoff is on fire in his TalCual Editorial today, dealing with the El Nacional morgue photo controversy. Long story short, after Telesur chief Andrés Izarra got a...
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