So Chapo Guzmán is just one person, legalization is just one potential solution, but it sounds like you think this is an economic problem and a corruption problem and a rule of law problem.
"The USTR told us that the murders of trade unionists or violence against trade unionists was not a violation of the labor chapter because it was a rule of law problem.
This has dramatically exposed Washington's isolation in the Middle East because its strong commitment to Israel apparently overrides any other issue there, including applying the international rule of law on problems like the expansion of Israeli settlements.
The lack of a real rule of law is problem No. 4. As Wong notes in his article, the government is now investigating foreign companies selling infant formula in China for price-fixing.
In engaging with Asian partners, a commitment to free trade, liberal democratic values and a rule-of-law approach to regional security problems remains a shared strength of our two nations.
If we show that we can treat these problems with humanity then that sends a message that we represent the values of a rule-of-law, democratic society".
According to Mr Carothers, the problem was, as William Goldman said of Hollywood, that nobody knows anything.Mr Carothers argued that the intrinsic difficulty of defining the rule of law, combined with the problems of knowing how specific laws work in practice, meant that "the rapidly growing field of rule-of-law assistance is operating from a disturbingly thin base of knowledge at every level".
Video: Russia's Rule-Of-Law Debate.
Thomas Carothers of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, a think-tank in Washington, DC, wrote a paper politely entitled "Promoting the Rule of Law Abroad: The Problem of Knowledge".
Russia's rule of law today has many problems, but Soviet courts were a sham.Mr Zakaria tends to blame new democracies for failures inherited from the previous regime ("since it embraced democracy, Indonesia's GDP has contracted by almost 50%").
