Chris Dodd: “The erosion of democracy in Venezuela is now accompanied by rising crime and economic stagnation.”

Maybe we ought to be spending a little more time looking at the relationships at that level.

In places where things really work, it's because there's intense coordination going on between schools, church programs, after-school programs, local business.

I'll tell you, one of the things I feel very good about is that there are people like Bob Menendez, who care about these issues.

I would just make one observation: 75 percent of the population of Latin America are living in urban settings; 50 percent of the population living is under the age of 18.