LVL: Three-Handed Economist
Is Venezuela headed for gridlock, cohabitation or violence? In DC this week, Luis Vicente León of Datanalisis laid out his scenarios.
Politics
Smartmatic's Null Vote Shame
How Smartmatic is trying to turn an election where its crap user interface disenfranchised more than 686,000 people into a PR win.
Parallel A.N. in 5...4...3...yup, here it is. (UPDATED)
In one of those news events that is both deeply shocking and entirely expected, Diosdado Cabello has just set up a parallel, unelected National Assembly, to be known as the Parlamento Comunal Nacional.
Election Forecast Accountability Roundup
So how did all those pre-election forecasts pan out? We walk you through the good, the bad, the ugly, the cringeworthy, the catastrophic, the too-right-for-its-own-good, and the winner: Professor Francisco Monaldi.
A Time for Salidistas to Learn from Moderates, and for Moderates to Learn from Salidistas.
The conventional wisdom is that 6D proves the moderates right and the #Salidistas wrong. That's a dangerously simplistic interpretation that could cripple a New Majority that will need the streets in the weeks ahead.
Joy
In today's sobremesa, Juan calls for a truce.
Henry's Week
Love him or loathe him - and, deep down, we know you loathe him - Henry Ramos Allup gave a master-class in politics this week. Imagine what he could do as AN Chair.
How a grassroots movement defeated chavista dirty tricks
On 6D, the government lost because the economy collapsed. But the New Majority won because it empowered thousands of people nationwide to keep the vote clean and peaceful in the communities where they live.
Saving chavismo
Diosdado and Nicolás are doing their darndest to make sure chavismo disappears. That ... is not necessarily a good thing.
El tiro por la culata
The defeat suffered by chavismo is a monster of its own creation. Rules of the game they designed to favor the majority they had in the past helped the New Majority.
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