Disjointed Morning-After Thoughts
Quico says: I detest more-than-one-topic-per-post posts, but I’m too frazzled and sleep deprived to do better: 1. Los tres cochinitosMeet the new leaders of the opposition. These three....
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First Official Bulletín: Caracas es Caracas y el resto es monte, culebra y chavistas (with noted exceptions)
Quico says: The first official results are in. The opposition lost all the toss-ups except the one that mattered: the Metropolitan Mayor’s Office in Caracas. When all is...
First Results
Quico says: We can now confirm three opposition wins: Pablo Perez has been elected Governor of Zulia Henrique Salas Feo has been elected Governor of Carabobo Morel Rodriguez...
Chigüire Forever!
Chigüire says: Any minute now we could get a bulletin with the final results from the December 2, 2007 referendum.
Chutzpah Chronicles
Quico says: Muller Rojas denounces that the opposition is offering cash to people waiting in line to vote to go home! Update: Teodoro says Muller Rojas sounded like...
The Nerviest Hour
Quico says: Every election cycle, it’s the same thing. The polls close. But results don’t come out for another 3 or 4 hours. In the interim, we collectively...
What's at stake in Barinas
Quico says: El País of Spain is the only paper to have done some in depth reporting on the race for governor in Barinas. If you can read...
Yet More Gossip: Street Money Edition
Quico says: PSUV offered its activists payments ranging from BsF. 2,000 to BsF. 4,000 ($900-1800 at the official exchange rate) to work on the campaign. The deal is...
Resignifying the Porkchop
Quico says: A tiny observation: isn’t it funny how the word “chuleta” (meaning cheat-sheet – but literally, porkchop) has been resignified over the last few days? When I...
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