William R. Brownfield: “Implementation of an effective counternarcotics plan for Colombia is more important now than ever.”

If we do not have an adequate and functioning road system, counter-narcotic strategy will not succeed.

I do believe that the federal Government of Mexico today has far better, more professional, better trained and equipped institutions than they did at the start of the Merida Initiative 7 or 8 years ago.

If you take ivory completely out of any commercial value whatsoever, you have the impact of discouraging the criminal networks from continuing to poach.

It is impossible not to celebrate the end of 50 years of armed conflict.