CNE will discuss and approve the rules governing voting center members and vote counting methods on Friday. The date for signing the service...

These are the faces of absolutely impartial "referees": Carrasquero with the Maisantas, and Carrasquero & Rodriguez ...

[Well, I'm in Perugia now - easily the most beautiful city you've probably never heard of - but more to the point, a place where I c...

Bloomberg reports on the last poll by Datanalisis ... Venezuela Chavez Would Lose Recall Vote, Poll Finds (Update1) June 23 (Bloomberg) -...

A few hours after the Constitutional Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice (TSJ) approved his dismissal in a ruling that ratified a decisi...

I was looking for the original version of this on the internet, and came across of only this abridged version. The original was published, ...

According to informal sources within the TSJ, Franklin Arrieche's "Amparo Constitucional" from the 'administrative' ac...

In another perverse twist of the chavista cultural policy machine, the National Literature Prize was 're-assigned' to Carlos Noguera...

Some Excerpts from: President Carter's Trip Report on Venezuela, May 29-June 1, 2004 By Jimmy Carter 4 Jun 2004 The Car...

Sobre desmadres y desgarramientos by Federico Vegas I miss Pablo Antillano?s articles on Todo en Domingo. I read one on water leaks th...

FindLaw columnist and human rights attorney Joanne Mariner notes an interesting parallel between American history and Venezuelan current eve...

[ Sorry guys, I've been busy killig tigers (that is how we call odd jobs here, to be clear with non Venezuelans: I'll never harm any...

(From el-nacional.com) The Moral Council unanimously decided to declare admissible the request of qualification of serious offense inter...

http://www.panodi.com/verde/portadaL.html View from an extraction tower, thanks to Juanchon, for the pics. a thought for our Zulianos...

http://www.hrw.org/ Human Right Watch said Thursday that the new Law of the Supreme Tribunal of Justice of Venezuela is a clear evidence t...

The total number of registered voters is roughly 12 million. Due to its importance we can assume the RR will motivate a high voter turnout ...

(By Human Rights Watch) I Summary When Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez Frías faced a coup d'état in April 2002, advocates of democra...

From Union Radio Mujica: We should make definite the political project we have and work for the 'Yes' The president of the Mov...

The CNE aproved the question for the Recall. Globovision ¿Está usted de acuerdo con dejar sin efecto el mandato popular otorgado mediante ...

In youth my wings were strong and tireless, But I did not know the mountains. In age I knew the mountains But my weary wings could not fo...

[OK, I'd pledged to lay off the blog during my trip, but this one I can't resist.] Dear Al, I guess the effort it would have ...

A city is made of fragments. It is made of the memories we share as a community. Although individuals use, perceive and understand the city ...

Penultimate vision of Maria Lionza by Federico Vegas That custom of leaving to chance and the Bible the solution to our problems, I ex...

The remake of the Comando Ayacucho is facing one dilemma after other in deciding a strategy for avoiding a considerable defeat in August. 1...

por Al Giordano... "When it comes to ex-New York Timesman Francisco Toro (remember his exit as a Times correspondent because of h...

...before heading to the train station. Chavistas find it hard to understand the opposition's accusations of authoritarianism as anyt...

The story starts when Dr. Toro goes on a camping trip and lets some of his readers take his blog over... How will it end? Will he ever regai...

The New York Times (registration required) ran an in depth article about evoting in the recall referendum today. Lots of questions, very f...

This was prepared for the regional elections. I've translated it from Spanish. I can't help but notice that the auditoria-en-calient...

Gentle reader, Well, having just finished my dissertation proposal, I am preparing to leave town on a camping trip to Slovenia and Italy....

Who would you pick as Transition President? Enrique Mendoza Teodoro Petkoff Current Results Free Web Polls

So, clearly, Enrique Mendoza is the most popular of the opposition leaders among my blog readers - he had four times as much support as the ...

Since March, Alberto Quirós Corradi has been one of the two lead negotiators for the opposition before CNE. Along with MAS leader Felipe Muj...

Henrique Capriles Radonski, mayor of Baruta municipality in Eastern Caracas, will spend another 2 weeks in jail pending an extension granted...

The announcement was made by CNE chairman Francisco Carrasquero. The good: The recall referendum date has finally been set. According ...

...God willed it so. ¡Y chito! ...Maria Lionza, like most Venezuelans, simply could not stand one more cadena nacional. ...the Godde...

AP: Venezuelans see broken statue as an omen As one of Venezuela's most venerated religious figures, Maria Lionza has inspired hope...

Ja! Primero tendrán que alinearse los planetas...

When chavistas pick up a propaganda line, you can tell. They're disciplined. Single-minded. Repetitive. Brutally effective. As expect...

Bizta, one of the Venezuelan companies hired by CNE to automate the vote-counting process, put its position across today. Though I'm no...

Pedro sends in this chart that shows the same info as the previous ones, but more synthetically. If, in the referendum, the turnout/votes to...

Time for some recall scenario-making fun. The key thing to keep in mind is that to recall President Chavez the opposition needs to meet two ...

AP: Electronic voting: Can computers ever be trusted? A growing number of federal and state legislators are expressing doubts about the ...

3:45 a.m...can't sleep, might as well blog The more I think about it, the more I think the standard opposition line on CNE makes no ...