Putting the treaty against counterfeit medicines under the auspices of the UN Office of Drugs and Crime is on balance with a poor idea. WHO is, for now, still the best institution under which to negotiate and achieve a treaty for improving the quality of medicines.

The counterfeiting of medicines is so prevalent yet totally unaddressed and therefore legal in international criminal law. A counterfeit medicine treaty should be drafted under the auspices of the World Health Organization.

The following is an English translation of El Nacional's interview with AEI fellow Roger Noriega, who told the Venezuelan newpaper that its government is deeply involved in the drug trade but he has "never heard of a witness who is in a better position to bear witness to the criminal activities of dozens of officials in the highest levels of that government."

The United States must confront the grave threat Hugo Chávez poses.

In his new book, “Phake: The Deadly World of Falsified and Substandard Medicines,” Roger Bate explores the underground trade in illegal medicines that kills over 100,000 people per year and supplants billions of dollars of real products.

Venezuela's impeached supreme court justice, Judge Eladio Aponte-Aponte describes a judicial system that is systematically corrupted by Chávista cronies and military leaders who have made billions of dollars trafficking in cocaine and laundering the proceeds of an international criminal syndicate.

The International Criminal Court lacks effective oversight, and there is a risk it will take actions that have unforeseen effects in difficult crisis situations.

Offered a choice between mitigating opposition to the International Criminal Court or keeping debate free, the U.S. decision should be clear.