Converge on THIS, buddy...
Venezuelan polling tends to diverge wildly until the last, say, month-or-so before an election, and then polls seem to converge. (Why this happens remains one of life’s little...
Politics
Dip it in ink
In yet another blow to conspiracy theorists everywhere, the indelible ink that is to be used in the October 7th election passed the sniff test, as reported by...
File Under "Signs of the Apocalypse"
What’s scarier? That chavistas think these images are going to make da kidz vote for Chávez, or that they’re right, possibly? And, pardon me while I pick up...
The Venezuela-Guyana Blood Diamond Trail
Girish Gupta’s dissection of the Santa Elena de Uairén-to-Georgetown diamond trafficking route in Time is well worth a read: Underground traffickers agree. “You’d have to be blind to...
Hay Un Camino hacia Grievance Asymmetry
Juan Cristobal and Capablanca are both right, of course. There is no one-to-one correlation from economic conditions to voting patterns – it’d be quite remarkable if there were....
We don't always vote with our pockets
Quico made a point last Friday about how Venezuelans, like other voters, vote with their pockets. In the midst of an oil boom, and with the economy growing...
¡Así, así, así es que se controla!
The current head of the Venezuelan Parliament’s Comisión de Contraloría (or Government Oversight Committee), Pedro “DirecTV is watching you” Carreño announced that his body had solved 438 of the...
Ad War Update
The latest from the Capriles’ camp uses a first-hand account of how negative the Chavernment’s policy of expropiations has been for the country. This ad from the Chavez’...
5.4...102.19...
When I talk about October’s election, people invariable ask me about “the numbers”. ¿Cómo van los números? That kind of thing. They mean the polls, of course. But...
Two weeks on: Your verdict on Comments-via-Email
Time to take the pulse on this Comments-via-Email experiment. With no Comments-Section time-sink, we posted much more often than usual to the main page. That meant that we...
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