Hugo Chávez had Oswaldo Álvarez Paz, a leading opposition figure in Venezuela, hauled to jail Monday night for making statements acknowledging that Venezuela is a haven for drug trafficking and that it supports Basque and Colombian terrorists.

Un figura prominente en la oposición venezolana, Oswaldo Álvarez Paz, fue encarcelado este lunes por Hugo Chávez por hacer declaraciones reconociendo que Venezuela es un refugio para el narcotráfico y que apoya a los terroristas colombianos y vascos.

The debate over the status of customary international law is dominated by two positions: the modern position view and the revisionist view. This working paper demonstrates that Sosa endorsed the revisionist perspective.

Here today, a diverse group of individuals involved with the struggle for democracy throughout the world, have gathered in the spirit of Solidarity. We salute the work of Pedro Pablo Alvarez, secretary general of the United Council of Cuban Workers (CUTC) and demand his release.

Bernard Álvarez, the mouthpiece for Hugo Chávez, attacks the new Republican leadership of the House Foreign Affairs Committee while offering no defense of his government's troubling record.

In Sosa v. Alvarez-Machain, the Supreme Court of the United States addressed the scope of the Alien Tort Statute.

Doctors treating Venezuelan leader Hugo Chávez for cancer told him weeks ago that he has only a 50 percent chance of living another 18 months. Members of Chávez's inner circle are scrambling now to ensure a succession of power to the leader's older brother, Adán.

Policy fantasies are dangerous because they cause direct harm, replacing plans that might actually work, and because they spread economic illiteracy that can negatively influence future policies.