William R. Brownfield: “If we do not have an adequate and functioning road system, counter-narcotic strategy will not succeed.”

I predict that the criminal organizations will not retire to run surfing cabanas on the beach when they are driven out of Central America.

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.

It is impossible not to celebrate the end of 50 years of armed conflict.

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