Paraguay: First TREP Results

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First TREP (electronic quick count) results from Paraguay’s TSJE shows Lugo with 39% and Blanca Ovelar with 32%, with some 18% of the precincts counted. Not much data is provided. Certainly nothing like the live data feed provided in Mexico in 2006.
The Colorados are calling the results of a number of exit polls, [...]

Rio: “Title Insurance Comes From the Barrel of a Gun”?

Bat macumba oba: The Batman shield marks militia-protected homes and businesses in Rio’s Western District — and appears on the campaign advertising of two local candidates. See Rio: “Armed Groups Interfere With Freedom of Association” for the paramilitary element in local politics … in regions where you either watch Rede Globo on GatoNet or somebody [...]

The Gray Lady on Weaponized Fake News

The plausibly deniable punditry corps: Major Bob Bevelacqua on Fox News
Stealth marketing harms, I argue, by degrading public discourse and undermining the public’s trust in mediated communication. Doubt that an editor has an authentic voice leads to an overgeneralization of distrust as audiences come to believe that mediated speech is inauthentic or untrue even when [...]

Softballs and 8-Balls: The WaPo Interviews Uribe

CSIS: “Colombia has successfully avoided the Apocalypse.” But see also Colombia: Uribe Warns of the Apocalypse.
A Conversation With Álvaro Uribe (Washington Post):
President Álvaro Uribe of Colombia is in a corner. A staunch U.S. ally in a region where anti-American sentiment is fashionable, Uribe has successfully fought the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), which the [...]

Paraguay: Election of the Living Dead?

Froilán Galeano Noguera, born 1868, will vote in the Guajayi district today, claims ABC.
ABC Digital (Asunción, Paraguay) complains that Paraguay is about to have an election that makes the skulduggery presided over by Katharine Harris of Florida and Ken Blackwell of Ohio look like the tenure of Judge Kennesaw Mountain Landis as commissioner of baseball [...]