[inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] Foreign Relations committee will come to order. This morning we will look at how we are moving beyond the war on drugs was in the broader challenges of transnational organized crime and what strategies can be effective in combating this threat. While Illegal Drugs and crime associate with them are still Devastating Community on both sides of our southern border, its not yet clear successful the huge investors made over the decades have made in eradicating supply and production. The bottom line is this. Where the rule of law is weak or nonexistent, Transnational Criminal Organizations will prosper in engage in corruption. In 2011 the Obama Administration issued a strategy to combat transnational organized crime. This was an ambitious aspiration strategy that sought an evolution in thinking. Now nearly five years later we need to ask what is working and what is not so we can get this right moving forward. I witnessed today is ambassador