"The world's murder capital"
The New York Times’ Simón Romero gets it all right: the scale of the problem; the government’s efforts at censorship; and chavistas’ continued reluctance to blame the President....
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Tienen Razón
Spain’s La Razón publishes the kind of detail-oriented, intensely observed report on Caracas’s Bello Monte morgue that Venezuelan newspapers – for reasons that continue to baffle me –...
And all that without the suicide bombings...
I’d always figured the claims you hear about Venezuela being more violent than Iraq or Afghanistan were just a bit of criollo hyperbole. You know, nothing to be...
19,133
This is the first time in months the public has gotten access to any kind of official-looking number. 19,133 people. Most of them – 81% – were men. Most...
Onechot
If there was ever a video that deserved to go viral, it’s this topical one by Venezuelan artist Onechot. http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=14210701&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=1&color=&fullscreen=1&autoplay=0&loop=0 Rotten Town from El Flying Monkey on...
Another ad, a better way - veer right!
Here’s another ad I found on the web. This one is from Primero Justicia. http://www.youtube.com/v/5bAfEFzfuDs When the car reached the fork on the road I kept hoping –...
Maybe You Really Can Forecast The Election Without Circuit Polls
For an analyst, the big frustration this election cycle is that we don’t have available the type of circuit-by-circuit polling widely seen as the gold standard in an...
That Screwy Seat Distribution
So the improved Swing-o-meter is nearly done. The more I fiddle with it, the more convinced I am that 26S is an incredibly volatile election: relatively minor changes...
Shame on you, Panorama
Today, Venezuelans woke up to a violent, macabre image in their newspaper: the word "Censurado" splashed across the front page of El Nacional. This is the product of...
The pharaoh has his pyramid
Yesterday, Hugo Chávez went shoplifting again. This time, the axe fell on the neck of Seguros La Previsora, a large insurance company, owner of an iconic, pyramid-like building...
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