the report fails to offer a balanced, objective assessment that helps to find solutions, or to show the strength of mind and pragmatic courage that the protection of human rights in Colombia involve. this time, more than at any other time in the past, the report reveals an attitude of public denunciation, instead of a more creative one that expresses itself in proposals aimed at finding solutions. Furthermore, certain aspects of the report exceed the termes of the Officeïs mandate and do no contribute to a complete or illuminating presentation of the Colombian situation. Clear examples of this are an assertion regarding "persistent corruption in the awarding of State contracts", and a reference to the relations between Colombia and Venezuela, one of its neghbors, in which a dubious interpretation is made of a special form of relation between the States that exclusively belongs to the two countries conduct of their foreign affairs