Order, please. We are the Subcommittee on International Human Rights of the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Development. Today is March 26, 2013, and we are holding our 74th meeting.
We welcome our witness, in person, Michael Kergin. We may or may not be able to get our other witness, Rolando Sierra, who is also scheduled to attend. He is in Tegucigalpa and we are trying to reach him by teleconference, not video conference.
Unfortunately, there's a technical issue right now, colleagues. We may have to disrupt our process and reconfigure, for which I apologize to everybody. That may cause me to have to make some changes on the fly with regard to the length of questions and all of that stuff. I know you're all very consensual about this. Please bear with me and with each other. If it looks like I'm getting it wrong, don't be shy about mentioning it.
Without further ado, let's go to the witness we do have here in person.
Mr. Kergin, we're very glad to have you here, and we invite you to begin your testimony.