I'll answer the latter point. I'm aware of the charter cities concept. It hasn't proceeded through the Honduran parliamentary and approval process, so that's an open question, but certainly it's not part of the free trade agreement. If you wish to pursue that, we could pursue that in the future when we get to the committee hearings on the free trade agreement. But that is not something we would have put in an FTA.
The situation with the human rights defenders is very complex. We believe President Lobo has the best of intentions. He's making the best efforts he can, but he is working in a very difficult, sensitive, dangerous environment, and he may not have the unity of all the forces in the country behind him. This was a country that was fractured during the coup d'état period with the de facto government. He's made progress. He's tried to do the right things. He's set up the right structure. All those things I have identified are part of an important structure—Jeff has mentioned some of the challenges on capacity building and such—but has he been able to bring all the institutions and personnel and support with him in this endeavour? I'm not so sure.
Honduras remains a country of great inequality. There are some significant landed interests in the country that perhaps don't welcome change as much as others. And there are others we've seen as part of the resistencia that supported President Zelaya after his ouster, who see the country very differently. So you have deep cleavages, politically and socially and economically in the country, and that makes it even harder for the president to move forward.
We support what he's doing. We're doing what we can to support him. The donor community, which, by the way, provides about 60%-plus of the base budget of Honduras through international assistance—this is a significant donor recipient—feels these efforts are being made, but they're also being undermined and there are interests, including in the security forces, that perhaps don't want to see things change.
I wish I could be more positive, sir, but that's the reality.