William R. Brownfield: “I, in fact, do believe the United States of America is confronting a nationwide heroin crisis.”

To solve the problem, we must cut off international supply.

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.

We have got to get our head around that problem set, and we will have to address it or we will pay very long term consequences.

Implementation of an effective counternarcotics plan for Colombia is more important now than ever.