So you wanna be a STATA monkey?
Ever dream of becoming a hardcore statahead, effortlessly crunching any amount of data that happens to come your way? Well, you’re in luck. Longtime friend of the blog...
Politics
How to track a zombie (Updated)
I wasn’t aware of the details leading up to the extraordinary admission by Socorro Hernández that, yes, indeed dead people voted in Venezuela. But thanks to leading Venezuelan...
The walking dead (Updated)
Ah, if it weren’t for revolutionary slips of the tongue. On the heels of Mario Silva-gate, CNE Board member Socorro Hernández lets us in on a little secret:...
Annals of Revolutionary Innovation: The E-Ration Book
Folks, it was inevitable, which is why it’s happened: the ration book is here, soon to be piloted in Maracaibo. The twist? It’s a database in the cloud...
Değil bir adım geri
The chavista model of the modern autocracy – dismantle democratic checks and balances while simultaneously keeping a democratic façade by winning elections – is possibly our only remaining...
The hegemons now go for the newspapers (Updated)
After the airwaves, it’s only natural that the people leading the communicational hegemony would set their sights on newspapers, looking to curb dissident voices and control the flow...
Let's-Flog-This-Dead-Horse-S'more Chronicles
Listen, I remember the criticisms from 2004 because I made a lot of them. When fraud claims came following the Recall Referendum then, they all seemed to be...
Priorities, Priorities
A version of this chart has been making the rounds on Facebook. I did the inflation adjustment.
When Model UN finally comes in handy
Just so we’re clear, I’m now working for the International Relations Dept. of Comando Simón Bolívar. I’m a grunt, not a spokesperson, but still, I’m pretty proud of...
Bayly and Capriles
Part 2 is here. Part 3 is here. Part 4 is here. What did you think?
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