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...
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 –...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Venezuela’s debate on crime and punishment is as impoverished as our most miserable barrio. Sucked into the fiendish dynamics of polarization, it leaves out just one thing: serious,...
So remember how barely two weeks ago we were speculating that the Central Bank might be secretly financing State Owned Enterprises directly? Well, a few days later, BCV...
In a country where nobody takes responsibility for their actions, where everyone is a political actor, and where the only thing that matters is obtaining and holding power,...
So I’ve been reading Pascal Bruckner’s classic 1983 cantankerous screed, "The Tears of the White Man." In English, the book is subtitled "Compassion as Contempt" but, from a...
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