The great public security swindle
Some unusual posters appeared in the streets of Caracas last Monday. Generic obituaries that remind us that violence is still out of control. The number of casualties in...
Politics
And the Gold Medal in the Mindless Politization of Olympic Victory Dash goes to...
…Bolívar State governor Francisco Rangel. In fact, the play-on-words is borderline clever – Limardo really is from Bolívar State, so you could call his epée “la espada de...
Indecision 2012: Little Venice Edition
Juan looks into the crazy number of undecideds in some recent polls over on FP’s Transitions blog…and can’t decide what that’s about!
Data-Jockeying the Polls
Now, I realize that many of you think public opinion polling is a silly thing to do in an increasingly authoritarian country like ours. And I grant that...
We also have compulsory government advertising on TV here...
…it’s just ever so slightly different in tone from what you get in Venezuela: Just to be clear: governments do of course have a legitimate need to communicate...
When Ventajismo goes Meta
How meta is it that these five Ciudadanía Activa spots denouncing the blatantly illegal use of State resources for campaign purposes just got ordered off the air, for...
Doing Rather Well
Remember this? Yup…two months ago Dan Rather told us president Chávez would be dead by now. Ermmmmm…is it maybe time put in another call to that highly respected...
Foro en Facebook en FP
As you might have noticed, Juan and I keep fighting recently, so it was nice to be able to partner with him to write a column, a cuatro manos,...
Another poll shows the gap is closing
Until today, I had never heard of Encuestadora 6to Poder Datos. I had heard of Datos, alright, easily the most secretive but one of the best regarded pollsters...
Live-blogging the Facebook forum
Henrique Capriles is having a Facebook online forum tonight. Details here. We’re live-blogging the thing… 8:23 – Wrapping up, it felt oddly like one of those Primary season debates,...
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