William R. Brownfield: “If you take ivory completely out of any commercial value whatsoever, you have the impact of discouraging the criminal…”

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.

Implementation of an effective counternarcotics plan for Colombia is more important now than ever.

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

We must not forget that one of the parties to the accord has been designated for years as a foreign terrorist organization.