Former Czech leader Vaclav Havel has died at the age of 75. The former playwright led the “Velvet Revolution” to topple Communist rule. In the 1970s and 1980s, he was jailed repeatedly after he launched Charter 77 asking the Czechoslovak government to abide by its international commitments to human rights. As Czech president, Havel embraced neoliberal economic policies and supported both U.S. wars in Iraq.