STOP SHOUTING!
(Note: The following guest post, by longtime reader and fellow blogger Roberto Silvers, is an open letter offering some free political advice for Venezuela’s parliamentary opposition) by Roberto...
View ArticleInstant runoff, approval voting, and the status quo
(A guest post by Roberto Silvers) After much squabbling, the Venezuelan opposition coalition has decided to hold its presidential primary elections on February 12, 2012. While this date is three months...
View ArticleJuan sets out to join me
Over in Spanish, Juan sets out to join me in Duodenal Ulcer Chronicles with a dyspeptic rant on the oppo primary date. Ommmmmmmmmm… Caracas Chronicles is 100% reader-supported. Support independent...
View ArticleTheir words, not mine
The weekly roundup from a well-regarded intel firm: “Disagreement among opposition leaders regarding the primary date resulted in the MUD choosing a date closer to the end of its November-March...
View ArticleCheck (Updated)
The Carabobo newspaper Notitarde is citing unnamed sources as saying Venezuela’s Electoral Council is considering holding the Presidential elections in July or August of next year. In the case of July,...
View ArticleThe non-event of the day
The other day we were being accused – perhaps rightly so – of being too partial to Primero Justicia. So … I’m doing my darnedest to ignore what Henrique Capriles has been doing or saying… or posting on...
View ArticleI just want to be a good fascist and the Government won't let me…
Emi’s Office So it’s Wednesday morning in the International Office of the MUD and I’m walking in, bleary eyed, heading straight to the coffee pot for my requisite 8:00 a.m. fix. Before I can put my bag...
View ArticleDialogue, actually.
Happy Dialogue Day, everyone! Time to put aside all your petty personal opinions and curb your oft-misguided emotions – today is a day for serious, rational discussion on the objective topic of the...
View ArticleFirst I’ll take your lunch money, then we’ll chat.
Schoolyard politics dictate that when a bully beats up on the nerd, the nerd has to fight back. The nerd might be smarter, or have the moral high ground, hell, he’ll probably go on to invent the next...
View ArticlePlaying Hardball on the CNE appointments
The MUD has been getting a lot of flack lately for not getting things done. But the opposition alliance continues to use what little institutional maneuvering room it has to fight the good fight. Much...
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