Just yesterday, Human Rights Watch issued a damning human rights report on Colombia and echoed Senator Obama's view that the U.S. Congress should "continue to delay ratification of the U.S.-Colombia Free Trade Agreement until Colombia shows concrete and sustained results in reducing impunity for trade unionist killings and dismantling the paramilitary mafias responsible for many of the killings".
Law 701 also permits a judicial system "for the prevention and resolution of conflicts" and "to reduce crime, eradicate impunity, and rehabilitate and reintegrate social transgressors".
"It's difficult to know what [policies] will remain in place," Fussey said, "but I think it will increase impunity, reduce accountability and foster an acceptability of an exceptional level of security".
But he might at least manage to reduce the degree of impunity with which it operates.
It could help decongest the courts and reduce the levels of impunity," he told me.
We must root out corruption and impunity, demand more accountability and drastically reduce the poverty rate of around 45percentt by correcting the grotesque income inequality that keeps nearly half the population living precariously and in need.
The report calls for a series of measures to reduce this "appalling toll", including legal reform and an end to impunity for perpetrators.
José Miguel Insulza, the secretary general of the O.A.S., said in an interview that it will likely take years to reduce the crime problem because courts are so weak.. "The main problem is impunity," he said.
Though the subsequent splintering of their gangs does not necessarily reduce crime, violence or the flow of drugs, analysts say the arrests send a strong message against impunity.Mr Gómez's arrest is particularly significant.
The UN-sponsored anti-impunity commission, CICIG, is likely to be invited to stay after its mandate expires in 2013.Mr Pérez has promised to reduce the share of children who are malnourished to 40%.
