At war with the people (Updated)
The Pérez de León hospital in Petare is, by law, managed by the Sucre municipality. The mayor is Primero Justicia’s Carlos Ocaríz. Yesterday, Hugo Chávez said he would not...
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Another ad - The Electoral Brothers!
The opening sequence to this latest Chigüire Bipolar video is sheer genius… Tienes que agarrar las fresitas, y echarle la lluviecita de chocolate… ROFLcity… Plus Juan thinks the...
Oliver Stone Watch #4
Why just today, they might say, we learn of the CNE’s Tibisay Lucena (aka Rojisbeth) threatening the State-run (Read: Chávez-run) Broadcaster with a fine (read: slap on the wrist...
New Legislative Election Forecasting Tool Now Available
The new and much improved Caracas Chronicles Forecasting Tool for the 26S Elections is now available. You can download it here. (Users of older versions of Excel should...
National Assembly 2010: It's on...
With an increasingly unpopular government, and the country mired in stagflation, the opposition heads into this campaign stronger than ever: united, setting the debate, and mobilized around a...
Meet Nancy Wexler
The Columbia University professor has been coming to this impoverished village on the western shores of Lake Maracaibo for many years. The reason? Barranquitas has the world’s highest concentration of...
Taking it out on seriously ill kids...
A group of PSUV candidates just went to the Prosecutor General’s office demanding they take the nineteen thousand one hundred and thirty three murder files from last year...
The Opposition's Rural Problem
OK, it’s back to electoral number crunching, this time on the Monte-y-Culebra Problem. First, some context. From our high point in the Constitutional Reform Referendum of 2007, when...
"The world's murder capital"
The New York Times’ Simón Romero gets it all right: the scale of the problem; the government’s efforts at censorship; and chavistas’ continued reluctance to blame the President....
Tienen Razón
Spain’s La Razón publishes the kind of detail-oriented, intensely observed report on Caracas’s Bello Monte morgue that Venezuelan newspapers – for reasons that continue to baffle me –...
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