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Today’s issue of the Inter-American Dialogue’s daily Latin American Advisor has a symposium on the Venezuelan elections with Jason Marczak, Julia Buxton, Sadio Garavini di Turno and myself. In it we discuss what the election...
Read MorePosted by David Smilde | Dec 9, 2013 | Analysis
12:40 Final reflection: the biggest winner tonight was the Venezuela’s election day machinery as neither side brought forward significant complaints. Of course the CNE’s inability to ensure a fair campaign casts a shadow over...
Read MorePosted by David Smilde | Dec 8, 2013 | Analysis
Today’s municipal elections are quite different from recent electoral processes in one important sense. For the first time since 2005 there are serious questions regarding the integrity of Venezuela’s electoral institutions....
Read MorePosted by David Smilde | Dec 8, 2013 | Analysis
Today’s elections will be decisive in determining the political future of Henrique Capriles and the opposition coalition Mesa de la Unidad Democrática. For months they have pointed to these elections as a sort of plebiscite on...
Read MorePosted by David Smilde | Dec 8, 2013 | Analysis
Venezuela’s municipal elections today are mainly interesting for what they will indicate about the strength of the relevant political coalitions and what this will mean for their strategies and directions over the coming year....
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