Shutting the stable door after the horse has already been wounded, dragged out of an irrigation ditch, beaten, sodomized, shot and embalmed...
Muralista del 23 de enero…¡nunca cambies!
Francisco Toro
Quico Toro is the founder of Caracas Chronicles.
Bolívar Pogrom
It’s good to see the Supreme Tribunal wrestling with the truly consequential challenges of our time: A las bóvedas de los museos deben ir a parar las obras...
Cara e' Tabla Fraud
A reader points out a gap in my Stealth Fraud/Open Fraud framework. Call it the Cara e’ Tabla Fraud. Just picture it: After a night of wild speculation,...
Our prisons, somehow, are getting more violent
I don’t like to let too much time pass on this blog between reminders of the premiere human rights issue in Venezuela today. Fourteen months after the creation...
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...
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...
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