Thank you.
To begin with, I would reiterate that under the government of Porfirio Lobo Sosa, in 2011 there was a ministerial level office established for human rights and Ana Pineda was appointed to that office. That ministerial level cabinet position is no longer a cabinet level position under the Hernández government. But even when it existed, it was an ineffective governmental institution.
Ms. Pineda did attempt to bring attention to human rights violations, many of which are carried out by the Honduran police and military. In fact, the President of Honduras, Porfirio Lobo Sosa, went on record publicly with an argument that safety was more important than guarding the rights of people to such things as free assembly, and that's been echoed by Juan Orlando Hernández.
So, essentially, the claim of a threat to public order represented by drug cartels is used to intervene against the Honduran population. The presence of drug cartels in parts of Honduras is undeniable and is obviously responsible for a certain amount of lawlessness, including corruption of government and police. However, human rights abuses that were—