Katy & Quico say: Funny how there always seems to be "just one more poll". Consultores 21 carried out 1500 in-home interviews...

Quico says: It's an election tradition at Caracas Chronicles by now. How do you think this vote will go? Put it in writing below. Your...

Quico says: ...it's a screenshot from the next dimension, this:

Quico says: It's a scenario that scares us slightly. We haven't really dared to consider it, even. Maybe we think we'll jinx it...

Katy says: The government’s campaign to approve the Constitutional reforms is over, and what an ugly spectacle it has been. Today’s rally w...

***CORRECTED VERSION*** Quico says: Did I say Consultores 21 was the last poll of the season? I lied. Hinterlaces has just put out one last ...

Quico says: First, the bare fact, which is now verging on cliché: Sunday's referendum will hinge on turnout. Both the detailed polls tha...

Quico says: Though it's arguably not so timely (serious policy analysis feels slightly out of place in the heady pre-election atmosphere...

Quico says: The final poll of the season is out, and it's a doosy. Consultores 21 polled 2000 voters, nationwide, in their homes, betwee...

Quico says: Well, despite my best intentions, the "fraud or no fraud" debate seems to have burst through with renewed vigor on th...

Quico says: Here's a sphincter-clenching question for you: what's the worst thing that could happen after Sunday's Constitution...

Katy says: After a fourteen hour debate (!!), the radical opposition umbrella group Comando Nacional de la Resistencia has just abandoned i...

Lucia says: Reporters Without Borders give their take on Venezuela's deepening media crisis . They review review Iris Varela's melt...

Quico says: It's not surprising that the Datanalisis poll from Nov 14-20th is getting the most play in the international media. With a b...

Quico says: By popular request, here's the Constitutional Reform Referendum poll chart. (It's a bit hard to read like this, but you...

Katy says: Over the next few days, Caracas Chronicles is going to try to put the upcoming referendum in context. Ideally, this would be a ...

Quico says: Just a week ago, Chávez's victory on the constitutional reform referendum was being portrayed as inevitable by foreign jou...

Quico says: Political scientists have a dirty little secret. It's not really polite to say it in mixed company, but it's a fact: ca...

Quico says: A couple of months ago, my feeling was that if there was any way for the oppo old guard to blow their survey lead ahead of th...

Lucia says: Two quotes in recent wire stories neatly encapsulate the Chávez strategy for December 2nd. The first comes from a 32-year old m...

Katy says: My apologies for not posting much recently. Quico has a deadline, Lucia is MIA, and I'm tied up with child-care issues and w...

Quico says: Reporters Without Borders' letter to President Sarkozy on the eve of his meeting with Chávez is here. The Economist's q...

[Quico says: About a year ago, we had a funny little incident in the comments section. Readers accused me of using a Sockpuppet by the name...

Katy says: There was an interesting development yesterday in the CNE, one that plays a not-so-minor role in the abstention vs. voting debat...

Quico says: Habermas understands the public sphere as that realm of social life where private individuals come together to discuss public ...

Katy says: We maracuchas have our own little brands that we like to buy and promote. All else things equal, a true zuliano will always choo...

Quico says: ...sanity isn't. I've been trying to think of stuff to post recently (no, really, I have) but drawing a string of blank...