For the second time in 15 months, Venezuelans head to the polls on Sunday to vote on ending presidential term limits, potentially allowing H...

Creatively stolen from The Independent Venezuelans throng streets to protest against election 'fix' By Askold Krushelnycky in ...

Couldn't resist coming back to post just this one bit, which strikes me as bizarrely reminiscent. Feel the burn, baby, feel the burn......

It's a historic day. Of sorts. Blogger informs me that this is post number 500 on Caracas Chronicles - a tidy number, in just 25 month...

Last night, I listened to the BBC World Service's report on Jimmy Carter's concerns on voting in Florida. Lyse Doucet, the legendary...

I suppose Jimmy Carter didn't stop to consider how his opinion piece in today's Washinton Post might strike an opposition-minded Ve...

This photo shows a crime being committed. It may seem minor, but it's an issue of serious symbolic imporance in Venezuela. Retire...

This appears to be Hausmann and Rigobon's reply to Dan's Really Obvious Objection. Personally, I find it hard to follow. How doe...

or...Who exactly is Jorge Rodríguez? I. Suspending disbelief I want to address, first, my many readers who are sure there was fraud in...

The striking thing about the Carter Center's "reply" to Hausmann and Rigobon's original and much ballyhooed claims is that...

Carter Center Report on an Analysis of the Representativeness of the Second Audit Sample, and the Correlation between Petition Signers and t...

From today's Por Mi Madre, the daily political gossip page in TalCual, Final poll The final tracking poll for Consultores 21, car...

In Spanish the phrase "Carta Magna" is just a synonym for "constitution," so most Venezuelans probably don't know th...

Reposted from El Informador de Barquisimeto A Militarist Vision by Pompeyo Marquez, Sept. 3, 2004 Translated by FT I have argued ...

Hausmann and Rigobon's argument about the non-randomness of the CNE cold-audit sample is based on something they've called the ...

Thanks to Miguel Octavio for linking to this astonishing New York Times article on Benford's law. Dr. Theodore P. Hill asks his ma...

I've been reading and re-reading Hausmann and Rigobon's piece to try to find holes in it. I'm finding it hard. The most obvi...

Hausmann and Rigobon's paper on the evidence of fraud in the Recall Referendum makes three basic arguments. Instant reaction. 1.T...

Ricardo Hausmann and Roberto Rigobon must be the two most respected and accomplished Venezuelan academics out there. You don't get te...

One of the most interesting articles I got to write when I lived in Venezuela grew from a meeting I had with five privileged white men who h...

I'm not about to tell the CD to give up its fraud claims until they're satisfied they know what happened on August 15th. But as they...

Say you witness an electoral event...your side loses, you're mad, you think there was fraud. What does it take to demonstrate that there...