But it sounds like in the case of DEA's challenge, enormous as it is, in some cases you have to work around these governmental entities where some of the highest levels of the government seem to be corrupted by the drug traffickers, and…

Hugo Chavez is using the national patrimony of Venezuela to buy both influence in the hemisphere and, of course, in his own election.

I was reading the comments of the candidate. And maybe he is not going to have any chance to win, but sometimes when you do not have a chance to win, you say things that either can be outrageous or can be very honest.

At the end of the day, it is along Central America. We squeeze there and now we see the Caribbean which is very porous.

I take it to say we do not quite have a hemispheric policy because it is a work in progress.

So if you think about it, both what he is doing throughout the hemisphere and what he is doing in this transaction, which is a very interesting one for you to note, is undermining the long-term national interest of the people of Venezuela.

There is no question that we have to cut our national debt. There is no question that we have to meet our challenges.

Are you familiar with the fact that we have canceled a series of visas of persons from the Dominican Republic, as well as officials from the Dominican Republic, because of issues of corruption and narcotrafficking?

Well, that sounds to me like a recipe where we are not going to get to where we need to be anytime soon.

If we do not have a policy that is final, we do not have a policy yet.

I appreciate, more importantly, however, the role in informing Congress of the underlying decisions for public policy.

I want to discuss specifics about what is happening in the Dominican Republic.