Santiago Chronicles
Katy says: Santiago on a Sunday is an unusually subdued place, boring even. One of my first shocks upon moving here was hopping over to the Restaurant district...
Life
Why did more people vote for Chavez than for Rosales?
Quico says: Just to pick up on Alek’s lucid postmortem, I’ll add some thoughts of my own. I think the best way to go about dissecting Rosales’s loss...
Podcast: "This is a political triumph amidst an electoral setback"
Quico says: Well, Manuel Rosales kicked a huge amount of ass at his press conference yesterday (download part of the audio here.) The guy will never quite be...
Uruguayan Spoof
Quico says: This one’s too good not to post. Sorry to say it’s not really translatable.
Alek's reaction...
Quico says: Don’t miss Alek Boyd’s brief day-after statement.
Ojo Electoral's Preliminary Observations
Quico says: Ojo Electoral, a Venezuelan elections monitoring NGO, posted observers at 337 randomly chosen voting tables (mesas de votación) spread out over 22 out of Venezuela’s 24...
Tibisay Lucena's Election
Quico says: One refreshing thing about last night’s election is that, for the first time in years, the National Electoral Council itself was far from the center of...
Let the analyzing begin...
Katy says: First off, the CNE website is already publishing detailed results by voting center. This is a welcome change, and we are finally seeing the result of...
Bitter Medicine
Quico says: Last night, the Recall Referendum season was finally closed. Rosales’ concession marked the end of the long, barren, surreal period in the wake of the recall...
Rosales concedes, I think
Katy says: Manuel Rosales has just given the weirdest speech. It started out being very non-comittal one way or another, then he said he is going to hit...
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