Will Chávez Lose his Luster? Hugo Chávez has led a political revolution in Venezuela, purging the state of its entrenched, corrupt political class, but he has done nothing to solve the old regime´s problems: crime, unemployment, and economic stagnation. Chávez´s social policies have been ineffective, and his economic rhetoric has scared away investors. Venezuelan´s patience may not las much longer; Chávez´s political clock is ticking

The attack on Human Rights The excessive individualism on Western human rights doctrine has been criticized by the Islamic world, East Asia, and some within the West itself. Bur human rights advocates need not apologize; human rights are popular and necessary worldwide precisely because they protect individuals against group authority

The minister and the terrorist Germans always knew that their foreign minister, Joschka Fischer, had been a leftist activist in the 1960´s and 1970´s. More controversial Vere recent disclosures that he had once assaulted a police officer and may have had links to terrorists. Fischer’s evolution is the tale of a generation that changed Germany- and then itself