Chabuki watch #7
You know how playwrights talk about "the arc" of a character? They’ll go on and on about a character’s "inflexion point", the moment when they come to an...
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Chavismo's Crap-o-rrific Swing-o-meter
It simply makes my blood boil to think the hacks who made this probably got paid thousands upon thousands of petrodollars while I burn the midnight oil just...
At war with the people (Updated)
The Pérez de León hospital in Petare is, by law, managed by the Sucre municipality. The mayor is Primero Justicia’s Carlos Ocaríz. Yesterday, Hugo Chávez said he would not...
Another ad - The Electoral Brothers!
The opening sequence to this latest Chigüire Bipolar video is sheer genius… Tienes que agarrar las fresitas, y echarle la lluviecita de chocolate… ROFLcity… Plus Juan thinks the...
Oliver Stone Watch #4
Why just today, they might say, we learn of the CNE’s Tibisay Lucena (aka Rojisbeth) threatening the State-run (Read: Chávez-run) Broadcaster with a fine (read: slap on the wrist...
New Legislative Election Forecasting Tool Now Available
The new and much improved Caracas Chronicles Forecasting Tool for the 26S Elections is now available. You can download it here. (Users of older versions of Excel should...
National Assembly 2010: It's on...
With an increasingly unpopular government, and the country mired in stagflation, the opposition heads into this campaign stronger than ever: united, setting the debate, and mobilized around a...
Meet Nancy Wexler
The Columbia University professor has been coming to this impoverished village on the western shores of Lake Maracaibo for many years. The reason? Barranquitas has the world’s highest concentration of...
Taking it out on seriously ill kids...
A group of PSUV candidates just went to the Prosecutor General’s office demanding they take the nineteen thousand one hundred and thirty three murder files from last year...
The Opposition's Rural Problem
OK, it’s back to electoral number crunching, this time on the Monte-y-Culebra Problem. First, some context. From our high point in the Constitutional Reform Referendum of 2007, when...
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