Chris Dodd: “I hope your assessment is correct.”

It's far more complicated than a common language.

I had hoped we'd get in the lame duck session to the ratification of the Colombian Free Trade Agreement and the Panamanian Free Trade Agreement.

The truth is that the catastrophe was years in the making caused by regulatory negligence and Wall Street gambling.

I frankly don't see the sovereignty issue as playing a role as an impediment as much as the sheer ability of the cartels to corrupt.