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April 11, 2014 Nate Silver, who became famous for his use of polling data to accurately project U.S. elections, launched a new blog – FiveThirtyEight.com last month.  It’s been off to a rough start, Paul Krugman wrote soon after its launch, “[S]loppy and casual opining with a bit of data used, as the old saying goes, the way a drunkard uses a lamppost — for support, not illumination.” I leave it to the reader to decide whether the FiveThirtyEight article on March 17 by Dorothy Kronick on Venezuela fits this description.

April 14, 2014 ... unprecedented event, the coup was overturned within 48 hours by a mass uprising of the people and soldiers loyal to ... Assembly, the courts, and the new constitution. Within hours the Bush administration announced Washington’s ... The coup plot began to unravel and within forty-seven hours Chavez had returned to power. The defeat of the coup by ...

April 4, 2014 ... of social event. Neighbors wait together from the early hours of the morning to buy large quantities of food at ...

April 17, 2014 ... the street to “drain your rage”, and in the following hours they killed a dozen Bolivarians, injured eight, and ...

April 10, 2014 After over a month of violence explicitly aimed at ousting the Maduro government, major media outlets and governments in the North Atlantic are blind to the bad faith of the opposition.

April 21, 2014 ... dining halls and free buses including outside of school hours (just to name a few benefits). How does that fit into ...

April 10, 2014 ... get a legal visa in 2008. I had to travel to Caracas (16 hours in a bus). Then, literally dozens of people were ...

April 5, 2014 ... and pro-government activist Gisela Rubilar Figueroa (47) was shot by assailants while she tried to clear a ...