Mr. Trumka asserted that the Colombian government had fallen short on its commitment to prosecute and reduce impunity for those who have murdered union supporters.
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".
However, the intent of legislators is clear: they are looking to reduce the apparent impunity by which companies act in evading tax.
"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".
It should therefore come as no surprise that your agenda here – promoting the rights of women, ending impunity in war, fighting AIDS, reducing poverty, and ensuring the spread of human dignity and freedom – are also central to UNICEF's agenda.
The first is reducing the ability of the US fleet to operate with impunity throughout the region.
But he might at least manage to reduce the degree of impunity with which it operates.
"By some carefully-targeted assistance, intelligence sharing and joint case work, we can have an impact which reduces that feeling of impunity and makes the trafficking organisations realise that they can't act without the feeling that they're going to be targeted by law enforcement," he said.
It could help decongest the courts and reduce the levels of impunity," he told me.
Modest as that sounds, activists believe it would make a difference, reducing the power of sheriff's deputies and crimping, however slightly, the culture of impunity that has flourished under Arpaio.
