Thank you, Mr. Chair, and thank you to my colleague. Thanks to both of our witnesses here today.
Some of us on the committee have had the opportunity to travel to Bogota to see first-hand, on the ground, some of the challenges that Colombians are facing and some of the great opportunities. We've also had the pleasure of having the President come to testify and hear some of the issues from our committee members.
I appreciate your presentation here. The fact that there's no statistical evidence supporting the claim that a greater intensity of union activity leads to more violence against union members or union leaders is very important.
We've heard concerns about human rights, and we all share those concerns and see that President Uribe and the government have been identifying strategies. On cleaning up his own government of corruption, when we were there, several members of his own government were being charged. I don't know if the convictions went through, but house cleaning was definitely going on.
Is that integrity and his own leading by example still being followed today?