'Better Off against the Soviets'

"The worst thing about the Iraq war is that it sets the precedent for unilateral action by Washington and makes clear that there is nothing to stand in its way," says Venezuelan commentator Ignacio Avalos Gutiérrez. To avoid this sort of unilateral action in the future it is essential to rebuild the United Nations, he adds.

In Search of a New Ethical Ideal

Advances in genetics have caught us unprepared, we suffer a ''normative deficit,'' says Venezuela's former minister of Science and Technology.