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Indeed, we were successful there because we were able to forge a coalition of partners among a number of countries in our hemisphere who were willing to go a long, long way to deal harshly and directly with the cartels and eventually broke their back.

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Lewis discusses the success of coalition efforts against drug cartels in Colombia.

03/02/2011

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