The thing at the moment is that since March the borders have been closed. There's basically no way to enter the country in any kind of regularized way, such as going through migration. In the area that we work in, Norte de Santander, and along the routes of the caminantes, there were big crossings. There were thousands of people every day crossing in a regularized fashion. That's not happening anymore. The borders are closed.
We are not sure; there was some expectation that in November it might open again, but yesterday the president announced that the sanitary emergency was extended until the end of February next year. We don't really expect any kind of border to reopen now. But the border is porous, as I mentioned. There are the trochas, the illegal crossings—it's estimated there are a little more than one hundred—that people are using. There's a huge presence of non-state armed actors, so it raises incredibly the risks of crossing. People are being asked to pay.
There's another pandemic of disappearances in the border region. There's forced recruitment into those groups. We talk about guerrilla groups, but there are also narco-trafficker and paramilitary groups. There are all kinds of groups, because it's also the second-highest region for coca plantations. The large presence of coca plantations of course attracts a lot of these groups. The migrants, not aware of the situation, are being drafted into the groups in human trafficking.