Light posting today and tomorrow...discuss among yourselves...

by Diego Bautista Urbaneja translated by me It's as though a fragile equilibrium was broken. Until last Friday, the arguments for and ag...

With Primero Justicia's decision to pull out of Sunday's vote, four out of the six main Opposition parties are out of the race. MAS ...

One last one for today: The idea of postponing the election has been ruled out. Who announced this transcendent decision, you ask? Vicepresi...

According to the latest Hinterlaces poll, carried out before this week's pullout by AD, Copei and Proyecto Venezuela, 71% of voters were...

The fidelista playbook in action: Alí Rodríguez blames the US for the opposition parties' withdrawal. See? Everything bad that happens...

For those who doubt that it's viable to cheat by manipulating the Electoral Registry, it turns out that Giovanni/Geovanny/Jovany José Vá...

Over at Devil's Excrement, Miguel writes a very lucid post explaining the Opposition parties' decision to withdraw from the Decem...

Ten days ago, the Opposition parties had no problem going to a vote despite all the well-known CNE irregularities. Last week, Opposition tec...

Iran and Venezuela are to sign a contract to produce two Iranian passenger car models - the "Samand" and the "Pride" -...

More and more, I have the sense CNE is playing the opposition like a fiddle. Today's concession, agreeing not to use finger-print scann...

With less than a week to go to the December 4th Parliamentary elections, I thought it was time for a nice FAQ... Does Venezuela's Nation...

For months, Sumate has been saying that the combination of the finger-print scanning machines CNE has decided to use and electronic voting...

From the Constitution of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela Artículo 63. El sufragio es un derecho. Se ejercerá mediante votaciones libres...

From the comments forum: Is it really correct to say they haven't saved? They have $30 billion in foriegn reserves. A few years ago it w...

People don't like to hear it. It's technical, impersonal, dull. It doesn't serve up an identifiable bad guy you can blame. But e...

From the Framework Law on Suffrage and Political Participation: Articulo 172 - Una vez finalizado el proceso de escrutinio, se elaborará un ...

Here's a train of thought I've been mulling since I started studying Innovation Economics (sometimes called Neoschumpeterian Economi...

From the Constitution of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela: Artículo 186. La Asamblea Nacional estará integrada por diputados y diputadas...

If you understand Spanish, don't miss this one (MP3 format - large file.) Rocío San Miguel, a professor of Human Rights Law, legal ad...

From the Framework Law on Suffrage and Political Participation (LOSPP): Artículo 120 - Con sesenta (60) días de anticipación por lo menos a ...

What the hell is wrong with Agencia Bolivariana de Noticias these days?! Normally, if Chavez calls a march and nobody shows up, you expect ...

CNE's decision to grant itself an amazing five weeks to conduct its "hot" audit, has rekindled my interest in electoral nuts-a...

Ana Julia Jatar's speech to the US House of Representatives' Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere (PDF file) last Thursday was as...

Juan Forero finally tosses us a bone in today's New York Times... SHE'S the Venezuelan government's most detested adversary, a ...

This afternoon, CNE backtracked on the use of Electronic Voter Rolls, and gave assurances that voting machines will not be connected to pho...

It's almost certain that the Opposition parties will get taken to the cleaners in the Dec. 4th parliamentary elections. The question is,...

Lets be clear. The basic reason the Opposition will lose the Dec. 4th parliamentary elections is that more people want to vote for the gover...

The major innovation in the upcoming Dec. 4th parliamentary elections is the presence of an EU monitoring mission in Venezuela. How tough wi...

Last year, Venezuela had a big debate over the importance of the "hot audit" (auditoria en caliente) for the credibility of electr...

In the very first post to this blog, all the way back in September 2002, I wrote that, "these days, what I find it hardest to convey to...

It's with a heavy heart that I've decided to turn on the Moderation option on the Haloscan comments forum. This will unnecessarily s...

Ibsen Martínez has a lovely - if typically pedantic - article in yesterday's El Nacional. The gist? Venezuela has become the "mo...

One thing the Anderson Case has made clear is how the Chavez government intends to put its anti-gringo rhetoric to work. See, from now on, e...

Venezuela may be up in arms about the Danilo Anderson case, but the English language media has met the story with a collective yawn. Out of ...

Seldom has the ethical rot at the heart of chavismo found a more pungent manifestation than in the Prosecutor General's bizarre cover-up...

It all started on the evening of November 18th, 2004 when this prosecutor, Danilo Anderson, got blown up. Guy gets into his SUV, the thing e...

Chavez was happy like a pig in shit last week, basking in worldwide media attention and lefty adoration for his "principled stand"...

Closing out his roundup of the four main non-chavista "presidenciables" (the others being Julio Borges, Teodoro Petkoff, and one o...

Thanks to TrackBack, I discovered Global Voices Online, a unique, very cool roundup of news-oriented blogs from all over the world.

As longtime readers know, Ibéyise Pacheco is no saint of my devotion. That said, her article in today's El Nacional really struck me ...

I'm still working to make the Blog more newbie-friendly. I thought an annotated reading list would be helpful to beginners, so I put tog...

I've decided to add a few pages to the site specifically geared at people who don't know much about Venezuela and want a quick expla...

At first, it seemed like just another of Chavez's folkloric eccentricities. On Sunday, he valiantly faced down the latest imperialist th...

Thanks to GP (writing in Daniel's Blog ) for pointing me to two outstanding pieces by Alma Guillermoprieto published recently in The Ne...