As the voting unfolds, we’ve been seeing something new. We’ve been receiving videos, left and right, of high profile chavistas being bullied and heckled as they go to their local voting centers...
So, this happened minutes after the guy, 20 year old Adrián Jesús Márquez, had been threatening people waiting in line to vote at El Observatorio, in the iconic 23 de Enero neighborhood.
It flew a little bit under the radar, but under international pressure Nicolás Maduro already started backtracking on his "whatever it takes."
In Macaracuay, voting is a moment of togetherness, of civic spirit in and engagement in a country usually badly short of both.
Turns out Guachimán Electoral is using Kenyan software to track Venezuelan election day incidents.
Amid widespread anecdotal reports that the "Toque de Diana" just didn't happen this morning, this three week old post is looking better and better.
The setup pieces ahead of 6D are coming thick and fast now. Here's a sampler platter.
Dorothy Kronick's brilliant primer on just why a government that should be at least competitive ahead of tomorrow's election is 20 points behind instead.
Our final wrap-up of the Legislative Election campaign in TV-Spot form.
Chavismo really is committed to peace. It's just that when they say peace, they mean the state that results when we shut up and let them do what they want.
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