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FiveThirtyEight Gets it Wrong on Venezuela
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. -
Mercal Shooting Highlights Class Polarization, Psychologists Fear “Fractured Coexistence”
April 4, 2014 ... of social event. Neighbors wait together from the early hours of the morning to buy large quantities of food at ... -
Interview with Luis Britto Garcia, “The Blockades have Reduced and the Opposition is Divided”
April 17, 2014 ... the street to “drain your rage”, and in the following hours they killed a dozen Bolivarians, injured eight, and ... -
Venezuela: The Revolution Will Not Be Tweeted
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. -
Where is Venezuela’s Political Violence Coming From? A Complete List of Fatalities from the Disturbances
April 5, 2014 ... and pro-government activist Gisela Rubilar Figueroa (47) was shot by assailants while she tried to clear a ...