BBC radio podcast
I finally found the podcast from last Wednesday at the BBC. But it is only up for another 48 hours. I downloaded it but now I have to figure out a way to put it up for good somewhere. Meanwhile if you...
View ArticleA few points on the April 14 election
Before we start discussing the short lived campaign it may be good to establish a few facts that, from pollsters to journalists through blog readers of this or any other blog, all may want to keep at...
View ArticleChavez madcap wake
If you did not know better, you would think the country is drunk. It is not, alcohol sale of any type has been banned since Chavez died. You cannot even get a cold beer with your pizza. We do not know...
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First week campaign round up: Chavez to the museum
We are Friday night and it is fair to evaluate how the first week for our flash elections went.Needless to say that the marking moments have been the use of Chavez never ending funeral until today when...
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Three countries
The wake is suspended, Chavez rests for the time being in a military museum, an old barrack to ensure past presidential safety at Miraflores, now unable to ensure safety in an area that has been...
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An absolutely undemocratic campaign in Venezuela
I wrote in previous posts that this campaign would surpass easily all the treachery of Chavez campaigns. After all he had charisma and he only needed to pat his victory with some electoral cheating.We...
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Our daily fascist dose: fascismus turismus
Apparently Laureano, the Friday satire column of Tal Cual, was going to do a stand up in the Venetur hotel of Puerto Ordaz. Some local chavistas got wind of it, made a ruckus and had the show...
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The electoral umpire
Rayma, cartoonist of El Universal, has a deadly cartoon today that explains best than anything what a bunch of cheats the CNE is (Venezuela electoral board). For those who do not know anything about...
View ArticleYet another devaluation
One of the big problems of the devaluation of February was that the SITME, the lone system to obtain foreign currency for those shun by CADIVI, was eliminated. So, for example, non essential imports as...
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The stakes of April
Today I got two stories from real life. [UPDATED]Before leaving Caracas to return to San Felipe today a customer told me this vote buying scheme from a small, really small village in the boondocks...
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Chavez trek
They placed Chavez in the old barracks turned Military museum. The S.O. went. It is a trek you need to go through rather bad neighborhoods, or go up a steep staircase. And when you reach the place...
View ArticleChavismo paratroopers
So today about 300 hundred students tried to go to the CNE, Venezuelan electoral board, a.k.a Electoral Ministry, to present complaints and requests on the electoral abuse of the regime. Not that...
View ArticleTransfiguration in Naguanagua
I am watching for the first time a full speech of Capriles campaign-bis, tonight in Naguanagua. Well, it is a transformed man. No more mister nice guy against Chavez. Now it is a truth a minute. He...
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Electoral numbers for 14/04: December 2012 reality
In the post October funk, followed by the January 9 coup, I never got around to analyze the December 2012 governor result. Not that it mattered much but if we want seriously to evaluate any chances...
View ArticleSecond week campaign round up: singing the Cuban anthem
And thus we come to the end of the second week of campaign. I waited until today because Capriles was supposedly coming to San Felipe but if he came, he was drown in the rain today. And yesterday I...
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Electoral numbers for 14/04: trying to look at the rock bottom
Now that we have looked at the December result of state elections, we can try to evaluate the rock bottom total for the oncoming April 14 flash election.But first let me give you the caveat. This flash...
View ArticleWhistling over our graves
Two items today. oh so telling...Colombia was received by Venezuela for the world cup elimination rounds. We won, 1-0, which puts us closer than ever to make it to a world cup. But that is not all of...
View ArticleApril 15 2013
Whomever wins the April 14 vote in Venezuela will receive a desolate landscape, made it worse by a never ending campaign. The blame needs, of course, to fall on chavismo or whatever political ersatz...
View ArticleCan Capriles win?
Maybe that should be two entries: "Can Capriles win?" and "Should Capriles win?". Since tonight is Maundy Thursday let's assume that we have met some form of redemption and that indeed there is a...
View ArticleShould Capriles win?
As threatened in the previous post we should look at the worth for Capriles to win next April 14, whether he can win being a moot point.The situation today is an order of magnitude worse than what it...
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