I was at the OAS meeting at Medellin last year. I remember that in Medellin ten years ago you couldn't walk on the street, because you were terrified for your life, especially with all the drug activity that was taking place with Pablo Escobar. You can walk today in Medellin's downtown, and it is full of people downtown, which wasn't the case ten years ago.
Now Uribe has 80% approval rating, and he was one of the first presidents I think in a long time who was elected in the first round. How is it possible that you can say that the situation's actually worse when his popularity's so high and when the people I spoke to on the ground said that they can actually feel some level of security walking down the street, which they didn't feel ten years ago?