Underperforming in London
I really wish we didn’t have to do this, but once more Chávez’s rank politization of what ought to be a non-political story forces our hand. The reality...
Is Venezuela a sport powerhouse now? Not really...
The games of the XXX Olympiad are now over. The United States won in the end, Great Britain had their best Olympics in more than a century and...
The Paranoid Style in Venezuelan Politics
So I understand that not everyone agrees with my assesment that numerical fraud-can’t-be-hidden, and I agree that voting centers without witnesses present particular vulnerabilities. I also realize that our efforts...
About fraud
It’s not a topic I find very productive, but sooner or later I have to address it in every election cycle. Not a week goes by that somebody...
Conceptual Arroz con Mango: Ethnic Self-Recognition Edition
Picking through the conceptual rubble that is INE’s Census presentation, we find this fascinating slide: No fair! How is it that black people get to decide whether they’re...
Dissent of the Day
A reader, This bachaqueros article annoyed me. It is kind of harsh to say a policy is ripping away a community and to use a language in which you put...
Paraguaipoa está que arde
Maracaibo’s oppo daily, La Verdad, has the scoop on the fast rising tensions between the military and the Bachaqueros – the indigenous fuel-smuggling gangs of Zulia State. Sienten...
Annals of Dismal Clip Art
And yes, this is from an official presentation from our official National Statistical Institute… Oh INE…
Put a hat on it
Quico’s take on Gorra-gate was a home-run. But there is a side to this we need to consider. The more we talk about Capriles’s headgear, the more we...
INExcusably off-message
So INE has started presenting its 2011 Census results and, lo-and-behold, seven years after the government declared us an Illiteracy-Free Territory (and two years after the government went...
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