There have been warnings from the so-called alternative opposition in Venezuela, groups outside of the established politics, alleging that the voter rolls are inflated with zombie voters, or “votantes fantasmas” as they are called in Spanish. Millions of them. Now after the election it has been proven, as this video shows. I’ve tried it out …
Imorgon söndag hålls ödesvalet i Venezuela. Antingen vinner den sittande president Chávez, eller så vinner utmanaren Henrique Capriles. Han har bedrivit en maratonkampanj och besökt 300 orter för att komma runt det faktum att “spelplanen” lutar som en alpsluttning till den sittandes fördel; i princip är allt tillåtet för Chávez och inget för Capriles. Trots …
A recent opinion poll in Venezuela shows that the opposition candidate Henrique Capriles is winning by a significant margin. The result is 52% against 48%, with 1.5% margin of error. This has apparently scared regime supporters, because the link to the poll has been blocked on Facebook after being repeatedly reported as “spam”. This happened …
A recently published book is focusing on an important subject. In ”The Dictator’s Learning Curve – inside the global battle for democracy,” William Dobson writes about the Arab Spring, but also about Venezuela, Russia, Iran and others. We have got used to dictatorships being totalitarian, controlling the inhabitants through brutality. The standard image of a …
In spite of a complicated cancer, Venezuela’s controversial president Hugo Chávez is running for reelection October 7. The opposition celebrated primaries earlier this year, electing Henrique Capriles. He is governor of Miranda, the second most populous state of Venezuela, 40 years old and bachelor. Since 2004 electronic voting is used in the country, but this …
A last-minute illegal rule change has removed the last shred of transparency from the October 7 presidential elections, effectively turning the country into an “electoral dictatorship.” With opposition candidate Henrique Capriles appearing the likely winner in the October 7 presidential elections in Venezuela, and incumbent president Hugo Chávez repeatedly having asserted that he will never …
The elected dictator of Ecuador, Rafael Correa, is using Julian Assange as a political pawn. Correa is of course a close ally of Chávez, Castro, and Ahmadinejad. In fact, Ecuador, Venezuela, Cuba, and Iran are more than political allies; they are de facto military allies. Argentina under Kirchner is also a member, by virtue of …
When following the ongoing presidential election in Venezuela, one comes across so many layers of propaganda that I feel obligated to start structuring it a bit. The traditional division is between white, grey, and black propaganda, but there seems to be some confusion in Wikipedia about how to define them: Sometimes the source is referred …
Many attempts have been made to “fix the problems” with electronic voting, but rather than trying to go through issue after issue, I’ll try to address it from the other end: Is it logically possible to make it work? To answer that question one has to boil down the essential requirements first, and then see …
The forum on election fraud held today in Caracas shed light on a taboo subject. There are many aspects of the fraud, including intimidation, bribery of pollsters, and surely also bribery of the opposition, but the core aspect is shown in the image below, from Operación Libertad Venezuela. As the presentations ended and the floor …
