I have this dark vision that after the elections we’ll be making great efforts to explain —on repeat mode— to a non-believing mass that a simple majority doesn’t really suck. Or at least, that it sucks in the same way as a supermajority would.
Burundi, Afghanistan, Honduras and Myanmar are a-ok for Members of the European Parliament to go and witness elections. Venezuela? Why, that could be dangerous!
In Guayana these days you can't get anti-retrovirals, or toilet paper, or rice. You can, on the other hand, get a free bolivarian/android tablet, if you're willing to sit through some really tedious speeches.
A quite competitive race is under way in one of the safest opposition seats in the country. In one corner, the MUD coalition and Lara’s State Governor Henri...
Think the opposition can't overplay its hand, alienate its potential allies and waste yet one more chance to rally popular support against the government? Think again.
What if we wake up on 7D to a dystopian nightmare where Diosdado Cabello has all the money and all the power?
As the campaign winds down, PSUV is using its ads to try to scare the hell out of voters, while MUD leans on its greatest ally: the long cola.
Letting the opposition win a simple majority of seats may be just what the doctor ordered in terms of stabilizing the regime, co-opting the opposition's leadership and entrenching chavismo in power.
Even today, a plurality of Venezuelans identifies neither as chavistas, nor as maduristas, nor as opposition supporters. They hold the keys to the kingdom.
What would happen if a week before the World Cup Final FIFA decided to change the location of the match? Not only that, but what if they do...
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