What happened this weekend
Say you’re challenged to a boxing match. As you approach the ring, you notice your opponent is not wearing any boxing gloves. He’s just bare-knuckle. And you’re gloved....
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Things that are not Tibisay Lucena's fault
Did the votes actually cast on April 14th represent the will of the Venezuelan electorate, or didn’t they? It’s a simple question, a basic question, and one that...
Last Days of Venezuela's Cold Civil War
One way to interpret what’s happening now is that the inherently unstable balance of the last 14 years is breaking. For almost a decade and a half, Venezuela’s...
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....
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...
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...
The Worst Case Scenario: We've Become Florida
This is the single worst thing that could’ve happened: CNE has announced Maduro won the election by 7.51 million votes to 7.27 million for Capriles, but the opposition...
Light reading from the archive to pass the Baranda Hours
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