Pollster / advisor
Alejandro Tarre, echoing Tal Cual and Reporte Confidencial, has posted a great find: slides that suggest Hinterlaces’s Oscar Schemel is working for the government. If so, then more power...
Juan Cristobal Nagel
Teaches Economics at Universidad de los Andes in Santiago, Chile. Former editor of Caracas Chronicles.
My take on the comments ruckus
I was off skiing on the face of a volcano in Chile’s Patagonia for the weekend (yes, you can envy me now), so I’m a little late to...
Another poll shows the gap is closing
Until today, I had never heard of Encuestadora 6to Poder Datos. I had heard of Datos, alright, easily the most secretive but one of the best regarded pollsters...
Live-blogging the Facebook forum
Henrique Capriles is having a Facebook online forum tonight. Details here. We’re live-blogging the thing… 8:23 – Wrapping up, it felt oddly like one of those Primary season debates,...
Rafael Ramírez = nepotist ... y pichirre (Updated)
The story of the tragic shooting of Francisco Javier Ramírez, nephew of PDVSA President Rafael Ramírez, is noteworthy on several fronts. For example, I was not aware that...
Not all GDP numbers are made alike
My latest over at Foreign Policy’s Transitions blog.
The cost of Venezuela's oil discounts
$100 billion. That’s how much oil discounts have cost Venezuela since 1999, according to estimations by a group of oil researchers who go by the name of Subaeshi....
Precariousness without prevarication
“The thing about life in Venezuela,” Katy said to me one evening, “is that everything is so … precarious.” It took me a while to digest what she...
A new member of the Venezuelan English-language (severely dysfunctional) blogosphere family
Welcome, Venezuelan Politics and Human Rights. Kinda lefty for my taste, but worth reading. Your analysis of the Datanálisis / C21 polls was pretty interesting. Your discussion of...
Why Capriles is not yet on top
He is running a smooth campaign. Unity among the opposition’s factions is rock solid. He is constantly on message. His opponent is sick, and has been around for...
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