Absolutely. We participated in a hearing before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights on October 25 of this year. We raised our concern, for example, as it relates to the language. Environmental human rights defenders are being persecuted all over Meso-America, from Mexico to Panama, because of their activism against mining companies, which happen to be mostly Canadian companies. They have, in some cases, been denounced for resorting to violence against communities that are defending their interests, their rights, and their livelihoods, supported by national governments.
On the other hand, as you mentioned, if a national government from this region—for example, in this case, Panama—tries to enforce new environmental regulations to look after the well-being of our own communities, and those regulations are in collision with this investment agreement, we can be absolutely sure that, unfortunately, environmental provisions will not be applied for the sake of foreign direct investment, regardless of whether it is environmentally and socially responsible or not.
Thank you very much.