Safety in numbers
My latest piece over at Americas Quarterly. I’m actually … kind of pleased with how it came out.
Politics
Final Consultores 21 Projections
Let’s just take a deep breath and realize that a final projection from a single polling shop – even a good one – is just a data point....
Faces and Voices of an Election
I loved Portuguese photographer Eduardo Leal’s project, “Faces and Voices of an Election”: a strongly visual approximation to the story of Sunday’s vote. I had fun trying to...
Muse on the Loose, Cont'd.
Over on The Guardian, Rory Carroll is back to his old Caracas stomping grounds with a long piece that’s a strong contender for the title of The One...
¿Con qué se come la paz planetaria?
Over on the International Herald Tribune, I explain how this year the chavistas sound like opositores and the opositores sound like chavistas: Chavismo has completely given up on...
Peaking at the right time
Capriles’s 90 minute interview on the crucial, mass-market Venevision network tonight showed a candidate who’s grown fully into his role just at the right time. Relaxed, confident, direct and...
Cancer as a weapon
Boris Muñoz wrote what I consider the best piece of this election campaign. But … he is also writing in English, over at Newsweek. It figures. His story...
Ad War Update: The Final Stretch
We’re now in the last days of the presidential campaign and both campaigns keep releasing ads to persuade voters. First, the latest from the Capriles’ camp: This one...
The healthiest breakup in the world
This second clip from Capriles’ appearance yesterday with Luis Chataing impressed me even more than the previous one. Here, he talks about being grounded, about his grandmother, about...
Keeping it simple
I woke up to read my friend Setty’s account of his few hours in Caracas. So far, he senses a lot of enthusiasm for Chávez on the street,...
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