One hopes the judiciary and prosecution step up.
In March 2007, General Musharraf made the colossal miscalculation of insisting that Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry, whose activism on the bench had threatened the military's invulnerability to legal prosecution, step down.
Earlier on Tuesday, Alison Levitt, a legal adviser for Britain's Crown Prosecution Service, stepped before the cameras to read a description of the three charges.
Since taking office in December, Mr. Calderón has sent tens of thousands of troops into towns once controlled by drug cartels to restore order; extradited several well-known drug kingpins to the United States for prosecution; and stepped up seizures of cocaine, guns and illicit cash.
Back in Venezuela no government spokesman and nobody notable from the judicial system or the prosecution service stepped forward to make a comment on the arrest of Franqui Francisco Flores de Freitas and Efraín Antonio Campos Flores.
The object was to do something to curb it, by pursuing prosecutions and stepping up training, particularly of national contingents in peacekeeping forces, so that civilians would be protected against predatory soldiers.
As president, he is immune to prosecution unless he steps down or is formally impeached by parliament.
One of the prosecution's first steps has been to challenge Mr. Taylor's testimony under oath that he had never funneled government funds into private accounts.
"He should be given 72 hours to leave," he told Al Arabiya, an Arabic satellite-television channel; his friends have suggested that the colonel be given immunity from prosecution if he steps down.
The prosecution has side-stepped damaging evidence that Mr McVeigh was accompanied by a co-conspirator, the elusive John Doe II.
