by Gustavo Soto-Rosa I want to warn you, first off, that I'm a die hard comeflor, but at the same time I am very distrustful. Wh...

Whether or not there was fraud is one question. The political dynamics of the Fraud-claim are something else altogether. Who gains from ...

One week ago, I pulled the plug on the simple "comments" feature due to the turn the discussions had taken...straight into the gut...

Readers of this blog know I've had a very hard time trying to piece together what happened during and after the August 15th referendum. ...

Teodoro Petkoff does. This is the Aug. 25th editorial in TalCual Sumate's statement, published yesterday, gives rise to an urgent...

"When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." I show this sentence to Kan...

Because, to cite Sumate's Aug. 23rd statement... Sumate has received hundreds of reports of fraud from citizens, civil associations ...

From my inbox... You know, when I first saw the CNE results, I assumed fraud. The weird hour, the huge spread, and the strange look on ...

The Carter Center has maintained an office and a director in Venezuela since September 2002, at the invitation of the Government of Venez...

With a heavy heart and an annoyed head, I decided to shut down the comments section. It's sad but true that in a time of such widerangin...

In Venezula, during the mid eighties, in the middle of the damned "IV Republic", robbing restaurants became sort of a fashion. Onc...

There's people who cannot be fooled by the tricks of oil-rich authocrats like Hugo Chávez. The authors of these two cartoons hail fr...

...whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." -Sherlock Holmes 1-Impossible: The Carter Center and the OAS conspirin...

From today's Financial Times piece on the cold-audit. As the audit was under way on Thursday night observers appear to have found on...

Just got this in my email, more grist for the mill... A word of caution: I come from the former Yugoslavia, specifically Serbia. Ove...

Guys: I studied literature, not statistics, so the scientific rant is BORING (at least for me!). My main trouble, for all you guys is: ...

Rhyme and reason have left the building and, as Quico is not here to control the disorder, I beg you not to post nor debase yourselves with ...

1-It would take a miracle of public relations management for the opposition to win the international public opinion battle around the refe...

Folks, If the after-the-fact audit shows that the CNE results were genuine, this would demonstrate that there was a massive conspiracy ...

The last post has been erased to clean up the comments section, which had descended into an unacceptable string of ad hominem attacks. Sin...

From the comments... I only have time for one post tonight. So I have this to say. If the second audit reveals that the vote tally wa...

As is obvious to all the "parroquianos", I'm against Chávez. That means that, ballot counting, we can still lose. But not by t...

"CABALLERO NO SE ACUESTE USTÉ A DORMÍ SIN COMESE UN CUCURUCHO DE MANÍ" (Just to start a new thread, so no one gets fired. Be c...

This is the Penn, Schoen and Berland exit poll press release. New York, August 15, 2004, 7:30pm EST - With Venezuela's voting set t...

Carter said the Carter Center had been present at the tallying. Gaviria said they hadn´t...

Or, an avalanche of whys The last three days have been a terrible emotional rollercoaster, and the time may not be right for cool-headed...

But it looks very much to me like the government won fair and square. If it didn't, it'll come out in the paper-trail audit, which...

It's the very worst thing that could've happened. CNE head Francisco Carrasquero, by himself, announces a set of partial results tha...

Past midnight, and the mood in the opposition is exhultant. The real question now is how the government will deal with the staggering defeat...

President Carter announces that CNE says it is willing to keep voting centers open for as long as it takes so everyone gets to vote. Lines r...

I woke up before 5:00 am and got to my voting center by 5:10. Everything went smoothly and even that way, I got to vote by 8:30 am. Guess wh...

(The following is the Homeric Hymn to Ares, Greek god of war. The ancients had a form of ritual, called "apothropaic", in which yo...

Today, there's nothing left to write. If political speculation was an export commodity, Venezuela would be Kuwait. Every possible spin h...

Yesterday's closing "Si" march seems to have breathed some badly needed hope and dynamism into the opposition's campaign. ...

1-Who do you think will win next Sunday and by how much? 2-Why do you think so? 3-What will happen on August 16th? 17th? Please try to ...

What gives the many the right to impose decisions on the few? How can the few be constrained by the many, and yet remain free? These are dee...

Alea jacta est. Caius Julius Caesar La suerte está echada. The die is cast. However you may wish to interpret it, the fact is there...

(Sure that I ´m going to be censored and earn a "color de hormiga" card, I can´t resist the temptation to post this joke here). ...

The last couple of days have been quite agitated both in Venezuela and CC. Andres has always tried to make things lighter by posting some P...

SOLO LA TIERRA Por todos los astros lleva el sueño pero sólo en la tierra despertamos. Dormidos flotamos en el éter, nos arrastran l...

Tips for Effective Online Communication Online etiquette is often referred to as "netiquette". Remember: You are communicat...

Yesterday, I was in the mood for hot-dogs, so I went to a street vendor very near my house. There was a girl there, waiting for a "pepi...

sorry guys... needed to cheer things a little.

The comments section has had some not-very-enlightening debate on how the opposition may react in case Chavez wins. With my last post, I wan...

From Union Radio Leaders from the pro-chavez oil workers' union, Sentraset, threatened to cut off oil supplies to the US and start a...

The real threat to the integrity of the referendum is not the possibility of fraud. It's not ballot stuffing or triple voting or voting ...

(For Quico and Coral, in the middle of my insomnia). Coral wrote: "I agree with Quico. In the USA, the finest, most enduring, h...