Yes, but ...
I wanted to believe in straight lines, and I see now that there are none. I was with the hopeful impression that post Uribe days would bring something better and time would continue to create a more and more stable, mature and transparent country / democracy in Colombia. I hoped that there would be an exponential improvement on all sides. (there are underlying reasons for such hope). But ... it remains an optimistic guess that flies in the face of current facts and long established patterns.