UN General Assembly
2011

and private officials, destroy our social fabric and leave behind them a daily wake of chaos and death. How therefore can countries such as El Salvador with a gross domestic product of about $22 billion, or a country such as Honduras with roughly $15 billion, or Guatemala which barely reaches $40 billion, deal with this enemy? Not even a large country such as Mexico can successfully wage this battle on its own in dealing with this terrorist strength. It is not scepticism that leads me to speak this way but rather a sense of realism in keeping with the reality experienced by Central American peoples on a daily basis. I wish to draw attention to this. The international community must understand that it is also affected by this problem. No nation on this planet is spared this problem. There are drug users in every nation in the world, who get their drugs from the criminal drug- trafficking networks. That means that the fight against organized crime is a common struggle and, in that