William R. Brownfield: “It is impossible not to celebrate the end of 50 years of armed conflict.”

We must not forget that one of the parties to the accord has been designated for years as a foreign terrorist organization.

If you take ivory completely out of any commercial value whatsoever, you have the impact of discouraging the criminal networks from continuing to poach.

I do believe that the federal Government of Mexico today has far better, more professional, better trained and equipped institutions than they did at the start of the Merida Initiative 7 or 8 years ago.

If we are not working with those partners, we are at a minimum--at a minimum--failing to make use of a very effective means to multiply the impact of whatever we are doing.