"We don't trust voting machines"
(Now, to keep the conversation on our electoral system going, a guest post from friend-of-the-blog Sasha Ojeda and IT Specialist Sander Plas. Both of them are based in...
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Grenades galore (Updated)
The last few days have been quite tense in Aragua State, as an undeclared conflict between criminal gangs and the authorities heats up. It all began last Thursday when...
Hate CNE? Love a Witness
No one will be surprised that Juan and I don’t really agree on how the opposition should respond to what is, by all accounts, a hideously one-sided, partisan...
Fighting the windmills of abstentionism
The MUD will be holding primaries in 33 electoral circuits this Sunday. The primaries will be used to elect opposition candidates for the Parliamentary Elections that will supposedly...
Sobremesa Chronicles
Bitching about our country is sort of our national sport. We all partake, more or less. But you know where I draw the line? When people say that “oil is a...
Trigger Warning: Accountability in Progress
If you are a Venezuelan politician, the first order of business is a trigger warning: you may find what follows confusing and upsetting. In the last few hours,...
Inside the hegemony: Huge but hollow
For all the coverage that Caracas Chronicles has given to the State’s communicational hegemony all these years, two things are certain: First, it has grown so large that...
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From: Caracas Chronicles <[email protected]> To: Feijoo Colomine <[email protected]> Sent: Wed, May 6, 2015 at 9:10 PM Subject: Su interesante artículo en Aporrea Estimado Sr. Colomine Leí con interés...
You can't have a coup without coupsters
The Venezuelan government loves to talk about “coups.” Business people are engaged in an “economic coup.” Opposition politicians are planning an “electoral coup.” Journalists are continuous agents of...
Leamsy vs. Puzkas ...
… (and some of our questions) Here is the bodyguard, Leamsy Salazar, and his claims on what happened during Nicolás Maduro’s election in 2013, courtesy of Emili Blasco’s book:...
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