Press reporting Capriles and López could be jailed (Updated)
Leopoldo López says there is a warrant out for their arrest. Spanish daily ABC reports a similar thing. They are being accused of the seven deaths that took...
Conjugating Fraud in the Conditional Tense
It’s an emotional time. People are disoriented, hurt, and angry. Cooler heads generally don’t prevail at times like these. Still, this post is an exercise in encephalic cryogenics....
Fraudulent notions of fraud
I couldn’t disagree more with Quico’s basic premise in his lazy cat metaphor. Particularly, I dislike this phrase: “The evidence of fraud, if fraud did happen, is already...
BREAKING: Maduro bans HCR's rally (Updated)
In cadena nacional, Nicolas Maduro just announced that he won’t allow the rally called for Henrique Capriles to the CNE, supposed to take place tomorrow in Caracas. Earlier...
The Recount as Red Herring
Listen, I understand how “count every vote” is an appealing slogan: bumperstickable and easy to understand and hard to resist. It’s also a red herring: the evidence of...
Protests around the country
Protests throughout the day in different parts of the country. Some of them are still unfolding. Barinas: After the finding of two ballot boxes in the Troncal 5...
Slow and Steady Wins the Race
The Capriles Camp is wise to measure its words, collect its evidence, and work to build a decisive case on yesterday’s irregularities with a careful, measured tone. If...
My immediate reaction
Here’s my take, posted on Foreign Policy’s Transitions blog. An excerpt: The inherent tension in Venezuela’s economic situation is that a government that believes in socialism uses promises...
The tweets are God-given
What was Diosdado Cabello saying with these tweets? Was he interpreting the unease with which the military received these “results”? Was he undermining the weak Maduro? The floor...
Double dose of crazy
As many of you, I watched Nicolás Maduro’s speech last night in awe. Not only was it a rambling, incoherent mess; it also made clear what everyone seems...
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