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.

China's emergence in the world market is an instructive foil in highlighting opportunities and challenges for Latin America's economic future.

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No. 3, Mayo 2008

Las economías de América Latina y el Caribe, en general susceptibles a perturbaciones financieras internacionales,...

Latin American and Caribbean economies, usually susceptible to international financial turmoil, are especially vulnerable to even minor tremors in U.S. markets.

¿Cómo puede el gobierno reformar nuestros problemas de inmigración?

The thorny issue of immigration may yet prove to be a winner for President George W. Bush.