Chavez's dream is dead; his fans just resist leaving the stage.

When we say that putting George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, and other top officials in their administration in prison for war crimes would be justice, we endorse a criminal justice system that is more criminal than just, and where torture is a daily occurrence.

Under Operation Condor, dictators in Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, Paraguay, Brazil and Bolivia coordinated to hunt down opponents in the 1970s and 80s.

The miraculous finding of the kidnapped-at-birth grandson of the head of a leading Argentine human-rights organization is worthy of noting not just for the closing it brings to this human drama but because it sheds light on the crimes that governments commit in the name of security.