With regard to human rights and the situation in general, you seem rather optimistic and believe that there will be significant improvements. However, we know that President Uribe—who has been in power for nearly six years—could have caused this situation to change much more rapidly. I have here a report on the situation of lawyers and justice in Colombia published by Lawyers Without Borders. The report reads, and I quote:
Furthermore, the role of human rights lawyers is frequently stigmatized by government authorities. Persecution and the deliberate disregard for the right of defence are typical of a vast majority of justice system administrators and the police, who use administrative and legal actions to criminalize the exercise of the legal profession, particularly in the case of criminal lawyers, labour lawyers and human rights lawyers.
Government authorities are directly implicated. Reference is made to a number of actions, but if things are being done by legal and government authorities, how can you hope that the simple fact of doing business with Colombia will improve human rights, social and even labour conditions?