William R. Brownfield: “He is trying to bring to conclusion a 50-year armed conflict that has killed tens of thousands of Colombian citizens.”

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.

The overwhelming majority of the heroin that is now entering the United States is coming from Mexico.

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.

I did not intend to be the first INL Assistant Secretary to deemphasize Latin America programs. I meant it then. I mean it now.