The Recount as Red Herring
Listen, I understand how “count every vote” is an appealing slogan: bumperstickable and easy to understand and hard to resist. It’s also a red herring: the evidence of...
Politics
Protests around the country
Protests throughout the day in different parts of the country. Some of them are still unfolding. Barinas: After the finding of two ballot boxes in the Troncal 5...
Slow and Steady Wins the Race
The Capriles Camp is wise to measure its words, collect its evidence, and work to build a decisive case on yesterday’s irregularities with a careful, measured tone. If...
My immediate reaction
Here’s my take, posted on Foreign Policy’s Transitions blog. An excerpt: The inherent tension in Venezuela’s economic situation is that a government that believes in socialism uses promises...
The tweets are God-given
What was Diosdado Cabello saying with these tweets? Was he interpreting the unease with which the military received these “results”? Was he undermining the weak Maduro? The floor...
Double dose of crazy
As many of you, I watched Nicolás Maduro’s speech last night in awe. Not only was it a rambling, incoherent mess; it also made clear what everyone seems...
The Worst Case Scenario: We've Become Florida
This is the single worst thing that could’ve happened: CNE has announced Maduro won the election by 7.51 million votes to 7.27 million for Capriles, but the opposition...
Light reading from the archive to pass the Baranda Hours
The post below the jump was originally published in July 2012:
What we know at this time
The Capriles Campaign is certain that Henrique Capriles Radonski has won today’s election. Various opposition quick counts now point clearly in that direction. There has been a high...
Opposition Quick Count Suggests a Late, Crazy Night Ahead
Here’s the low-down: it’s close. Very close. Close enough to make the next few hours especially volatile. The opposition’s quick count suggests a very narrow Capriles win. (With the...
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