Winning in Petare, shooting for Parapara
Katy says: “All politics is local” – Former US Speaker of the House Tip O’Neill. Many things changed in the last election: chavistas stayed home or otherwise voted...
Life
All I want for Christmas is a Fujitsu FI-5900C
Quico says: Granted, it costs $20,000, but what a nice toy. Scanning 120 pages per minute, and boasting “Triple Ultrasonic Double Feed Detection with Intelligent MultiFeed Function” (not...
Rumors of CNE's competence have been greatly exaggerated
Quico says: I hate to write this, but for transparency’s sake, I’m forced to. It took the eagle eyed maths monsters who read this blog all of twenty...
CNE 2nd Bulletin: Now it's really, really official
Quico says: With 94% of tallies reporting: Block A (Proposed by Chávez)No = 50.65% (4,521,494 votes)Sí = 49.34% (4,404,626 votes) Block B (Proposed by the National Assembly)No=51.01% (4,539,707...
Belarusian Tinned Stew, anyone?
Quico says: Hugo Chávez never met a dictator he didn’t love, so he’ll have been delighted to welcome Europe’s last to Caracas last night. Maybe Chávez wants some...
Once again
Quico says: The best English language account of what’s been happening in Venezuela is in The Economist.
Der Untergang
Katy says: Try as I might, it’s impossible to look away. President Chávez’s reaction to his dramatic loss in Sunday’s referendum keeps getting weirder and weirder. I’ve been...
Curiouser and curiouser...
Quico says: The struggle to get to the real results from Sunday’s constitutional reform referendum took a turn for the weird last night, after reader amieres struck again....
The shit hits the F.A.N.
Quico says: It’s now an established talking point in the government’s response to Sunday’s referendum defeat: by “graciously” accepting he’d lost, Chávez put the lie to the opposition...
The database underlying CNE's First Bulletin, anyone?
Quico says: As soon as CNE published this website breaking down the Referendum Results by location, my more computer savvy readers realized it would be possible to harvest...
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