Assessing Venezuela’s Electoral Playing Field—Part II
Main office of Venezuelan tax authority SENIAT. Sign over entrance says “Seniat Patrols...
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Tag: Electoral mobilization
Maduro’s Dilemma
On April 1 the party hierarchy of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) quickly pushed back against a “critical open letter to President Maduro” from Chavista intellectual and media figure Nicmer Evans. Evans’s letter...
Read MoreMobilization Efforts for Venezuela’s April Election
As Iñaki Sagarzazu argued yesterday, the only path to victory for opposition candidate Henrique Capriles runs through issues of turnout. Put differently, since opinion polls put ruling socialist party candidate Nicolas Maduro...
Read MoreVenezuelan Presidential Election: Notes on Mobilization
With one week remaining until the Venezuelan presidential election, most polls show either a close contest or one in which the gap between Capriles and Chávez is smaller than the number of undecided voters. For example, last...
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Geoff Ramsey
Director for Venezuela @GRamsey_LatAm
David Smilde
WOLA Senior Fellow and the Charles A. and Leo M. Favrot Professor of Human Relations at Tulane University
@dsmilde