The comments were in the context of Mr. Brison's question about the larger debate about free trade and the Colombian agreement. I was referring to discussions in the United States. The author's obvious point of reference, the point from which you would start, would be the larger discussions, the longer discussions that Colombia has had with the United States.
Obviously he's talking about the disinformation in the United States about Colombia, and about the progress that it's made. You have people saying that murder rates for unionists are at an all-time high, that there's no country in the world where union leaders are under such sort of attack, and that murders of people affiliated with the unionists are occurring every day in Colombia. These are the statements we hear. This is what I believe Professor Mejía is referring to.
Again, my comments were following up on Mr. Brison's question about the debates in the United States and how dangerous those debates have gotten. They're spinning out of control, losing sight of what's important, and losing sight of the facts. Also, for a change, we actually have hard empirical data not just from the government, but from the largest union research organization in the country, and we have some good, solid, econometric analysis by a professor, an economist of impeccable credentials, who is looking at the information.
So again, not demagoguery but, I think, the data and analysis speak for themselves.