A good day for the opposition
Most opposition insiders were viewing today’s primaries to select opposition candidates for Parliament with a mix of fear and dread. Many voters were not informed of the election,...
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They should have drafted Felipe González
The opposition will be holding a primary this Sunday. In 35 electoral circuits around the country, anyone able to vote will be allowed to select the person he or...
Aragua conflict enters new phase (Updated)
The current battle in Aragua State between the authorities and criminal gangs took a sudden shift for the worse after a massive police and military operation was held...
"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...
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...
Newsprint wars, memetic wars
Barquisimeto’s main newspaper El Impulso has announced that starting May 12th the paper will reduce its daily edition to only 8 pages. In an editorial, the paper explains...
The line, the milk, the flour, the bachaque-ating, and incentives
On Friday afternoon, my dad sent me a cryptic text: “Anabella. Sábado A Las Ocho. Leche En Polvo. Nuestro Gama. Cédula Tuya y Mami”. (Anabella – Saturday at...
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...
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