I think the commission's major contribution probably was to stimulate a dialogue amongst Hondurans, to look back on what happened in the lead-up to the coup that took place in 2009 and try to examine where there might be improvements in terms of their governance to do that.
The society was incredibly split between left and right, and the coup put a stake almost through this society. We would go to these small pueblos, these small villages and so forth, and you could see how much there'd be the pro-Zelaya group and the pro-right wing, if you will, or National Party group. The nice thing about these things, though, in these small towns is that people recognized they had to live together. The thing about Honduras is it's a very mountainous region. These towns are quite isolated, and they're kind of caught in the valleys. You can't really escape, so you have to have a fairly amiable relationship with your neighbour. You can't allow politics to drive too much of a conflict in that small context.
My sense was that I don't think we made great progress in actually changing the institutions of government, but as I say, I haven't been back since that time. We gave an awful lot of press conferences, and from what I could gather in talking a bit to our colleagues in Foreign Affairs, it did stimulate a fairly good discussion on how we can improve our governance mechanisms. Whether in fact they will be improved is another story.