I think the situation of the media and media freedom is very alarming. I have given a conservative estimate of the number of journalists who have been killed, but beyond that, the journalists who are in opposition to the federal government, and not just them but some of the people who have criticized local government as well, or spoken about drug trafficking, have been killed or threatened. It's a very terrifying situation to be a journalist. All major newspapers are controlled by the Honduran elites and it's a very scary situation for radio as well for print and online journalists. This includes people of many different political persuasions.
There was a recent law passed that makes it a crime to criticize a corporation or unjustly criticize parts of the government. There's a new media law that has been hotly debated as we speak that would control licensing and further restrict media freedom. This is a very alarming situation, not just in terms of the assassination and the death threats that go on all the time—the death threats are continuing, and there's the example of the man who was just attacked who was with the association of the independent radio and television stations—but also in terms of the concerted acts by the congress very recently to pass laws that very explicitly repress freedom of speech in Honduras. There has been a lot of attention paid to this, including a hearing last summer by the United States Congress and the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission of the House of Representatives.