Katy says: Christmas is upon us once again. Most people in Venezuela have left politics behind for a few weeks and have thrown themselves i...

Katy says: Santiago on a Sunday is an unusually subdued place, boring even. One of my first shocks upon moving here was hopping over to the ...

Quico says: Just to pick up on Alek's lucid postmortem, I'll add some thoughts of my own. I think the best way to go about dissect...

Quico says: Well, Manuel Rosales kicked a huge amount of ass at his press conference yesterday (download part of the audio here.) The guy ...

Quico says: This one's too good not to post. Sorry to say it's not really translatable.

Quico says: Don't miss Alek Boyd's brief day-after statement.

Quico says: Ojo Electoral, a Venezuelan elections monitoring NGO, posted observers at 337 randomly chosen voting tables (mesas de votación)...

Quico says: One refreshing thing about last night's election is that, for the first time in years, the National Electoral Council itsel...

Katy says: First off, the CNE website is already publishing detailed results by voting center. This is a welcome change, and we are finally ...

Quico says: Last night, the Recall Referendum season was finally closed. Rosales' concession marked the end of the long, barren, surrea...

Katy says: Manuel Rosales has just given the weirdest speech. It started out being very non-comittal one way or another, then he said he is...

Katy says: In light of today's events, where people linked to the campaign were echo to rumours giving victory to Rosales and declaring...

Quico says: With 78.3% of actas tallied... Chavez: 61.4% (5,936,000 votes) Rosales: 38.4% (3,716,000 votes) A fucking debacle...

Quico says: That's with well over half the actas tallied. Expect a first CNE bulletin soon.

Quico says: Sources with access to CNE's tallying room say Chávez is ahead by at least 20 points, perhaps 24 points. This is not an exi...

Quico says: Or that's what Reuter's has, anyway.

Quico says: After months of government threats to shut down TV stations that publish elections results before http://www.blogger.com/img/gl...

Quico says: Teodoro Petkoff, speaking for Rosales, says the day's voting went well, but there have been some problems after the end of ...

Quico says: Is it still gossip if Reuters is carrying it ? Consultores 30.11 coordinated an exit poll with Evans/McDonough Co., a U.S. pol...

Quico says: Rosales campaign representatives are on TV right now saying that Plan Republica (military) officers have forced poll workers to...

Quico says: Yes, it's hair-pulling time. CNE's ban on publishing exit poll results has stuck better than anyone could've expect...

Quico says: The "blank votes" problem is coming about because people are using the voting machines wrong. You have to press the o...

Quico says: Manuel Rosales has just told the press that they've noted cases where people who vote for him get blank paper receipts. He ...

Quico says: Well, the big day is here. The tense wait, the hours and hours of increasingly nervy wondering...it's an election day tradi...

Katy says: Inside sources confirm that the latest private DATOS poll puts Chavez's margin at 11 percentage points, down from 22 or so. S...

Quico says: For reasons I can't understand, the formatting goes all out of whack when I post a web poll. Please scroll down to register...

JayDee says: I've seen Chavez speak in person twice in the last few weeks. Both times, he had his audiences eating out of his hand, wea...

Quico says: Check out the the audio of parts of Leopoldo Lopez's press conference in Caracas yesterday. It's heartening to see th...

Quico says: Check out the opposition's fascist destabilization plan's instruction manual...damn coup-mongers.

Quico says: Clearly, a large part of the opposition is still seriously concerned that the government will commit numerical fraud. Unlike in ...

Quico says: Well, here's the seriously disturbing audio of part of that Rosales town hall meeting. Rosales is, um, not a natural spea...

Quico says: To understand the next few days, you need to understand one key fact: it's in the government's interest to bait the op...

Quico says: Well, as usual, my hit-count is going berserk as Sunday's election draws near. Hello new people! Caracas Chronicles has be...

Quico says: Well, here's the final survey slide, with the latest Evans McDonough poll added: Click to enlarge As you can see, I've ...

Katy says: Last night, Globovisión held a town-hall meeting with opposition candidate Manuel Rosales. It was an interesting broadcast since...

Quico says: Check out this impressive overview of the Poll Wars by Phil Gunson in the Miami Herald. Polls offer vastly different predictio...

Quico says: Actually, there are eight logical possibilities: Care to hazard a guess how this will go? Which scenario do you think is most l...

Quico says: The way I see it, the history of the next few years depends on what happens on Dec. 4th. Basically, there are 4 ways this could...

Katy says: I'm going to follow up on Quico's post and work through the second of the four scenarios: the possibility that opposition...

Quico says: Yesterday I posted on the underlying issue at stake in this election: a tricolor Venezuela, or a monochrome red one? Two differ...

Quico says: If you ask me, the best part of Rosales' campaign was the way he set up the contrast between his "Tricolor Avalanche...