...99ideas, for this stunning layout: Click to enlarge. It still has to be coded, so it won't be up right away. Still. I'm really ex...

Quico says: We're so used to hearing the word "coup-monger" tossed around indiscriminately as an all-purpose slur against gov...

Quico says: I am loving this 99designs thing . Two new designers have joined the fray. Check them out here and here .

Quico says: Designer #1 - he of the eye-busting yellow- pollito theme - has recanted his chromatic folly and resubmitted. Have a look:

Quico says: A hearty congratulation goes out to Alex Dalmady, only guy I ever met who's blown the top off a multibillion dollar fraud. ...

Quico says: We now have four proposals for the blog redesign. Designer #1: 99ideas Designer #2: JoeComins Designer #3: DeUitvreter Desi...

Quico says: The first redesign proposal has been submitted on 99designs. Click here to have a look. Click here to give the designer feedb...

Quico and Juan Cristobal say: Yesterday we had an interesting but somewhat circular discussion about the ills of the opposition. Though mu...

Quico says: Agree the opposition needs to shed its dead wood? Join the Facebook Group!

Juan Cristobal says: You know the old saying, "elections have consequences"? Well, I think we need to put it in practice. What...

Are you a web-designer? Know any good ones? JC and I have decided Caracas Chronicles needs a professional makeover. We've launched a co...

Quico says: Imagine you were a ni-ni, or a government employee, weighing whether or not to go out and vote yesterday. The phone rings. Wh...

Quico says: Interestingly, last night was, in a way, the opposition's best result ever: 5 million votes is well more than had ever vote...

Quico says: So I've been thinking of new ways to visualize the data from last night's massive bummer. I thought comparing them to t...

Juan Cristobal says: - If I were in charge of the opposition (hear hear!!), I would demand my concession speech was carried on cadena nacio...

At 9:30 pm, the National Elections Council says: Sí - 6,003,594 No - 5,040,082 With 94.2% of tally sheets accounted for. It's really not...

Quico says: With 80% of the votes tallied, very reliable sources are confident. At 7:50 pm Caracas time, we're calling it: Sí will win ...

Our Man in Catia says: My mesa: 229 Sí (56.2%), 172 No (42.2%), 16 nulos for atotal of 417 which matches the cuaderno. In 2007, that center...

Our Man in Catia says: 6:45 pm: Just spent talking 10 mins with the other witness for the SI, and talked politics. Freddy is a 35 year old f...

Gewurztraminer 2007, from Alsace. It's nice and spicy, cinnamon-scented. I suggest you do the same...this is going to take some time.

Quico says: We can confirm that IVAD's (Seijas) exit poll, commissioned by interests close to the government (but not by the government...

Quico says: I'm posting this on behalf of Juan Cristobal, who's been talking to his contacts in the opposition. Word is, chill. The...

Our Man in Catia says: 5:50 pm: No one came today dressed in red with the Si slogan to vote. Only one guy, came with a Psuv cap and a red s...

Quico says: On UnionRadio, the No-campaign headquarters sounded like a massive party, Foreign Minister Nicolás Maduro sounds like he just ...

Quico says: Under National Elections Council rules, neither side is allowed to say anything about results until the council itself unveils ...

Quico says: One longtime Caracas Chronicles reader is working as a No-camp witness at the Escuela Nacional 24 de Julio in Catia (by Plaza ...

Quico says: The folks at Twelección certainly think so.

Quico says: I didn't want to post my prediction earlier than necessary, but here goes. The only place where 12 year olds knock out Evan...

Quico says: Typically, I waste election days obsessively following news sites and radio feeds that tell me nothing beyond that "the wi...

Quico says: So, what's gonna happen tomorrow?

Quico says: I'm back for more abuse on The Guardian's Comment is Free site.

Quico says: Everyone loves 90s disaster movies, but before we get to that, a little Thought Experiment. (Stop me if you've heard this o...

Juan Cristobal says: - I've been in a funk lately. The inspiration to post about the upcoming referendum has been harder to come by tha...

Quico says: Readers may be shocked to learn I don't really keep up with the ins-and-outs of the weird and wonderful world of gun-toting...

Quico says: This Noticiero Digital thread is a keeper. Most of them document the way Sí propaganda's been plastered all over all kinds...

Quico says: In their latest set of slides, Hinterlaces (Oscar Schemel's outfit) break down the results of their polling in the second h...

Playing now on Huffo... It's a campaign ad, entitled "Hall of Fame". It opens in a computer-generated museum. As the camera p...