I did want to talk about Honduras. In Honduras we were fighting to create a commission that we called the CICIH commission. The government and the politicians were not participating so they came up with a new one that they called the MACCIH.
What is the problem with the MACCIH? Well, as an indigenous organization called MILPAH, which is the name of the movement that I represent, we went to file a suit in the anti-corruption office, because in Honduras there is a law called the state contracting law.
This law prohibits family members up to a fourth degree of relatedness to members of congress from becoming part of the commission, whereas the husband of the vice-president of the national congress and current president of the national party owns a number of concessions. His name is Arnold Castro, and he built a dam in the Municipal District of San José that has affected the Chinacla River, where we are having this problem.
We filed a suit with the anti-corruption prosecutor, but the prosecution is afraid of him. They don't dare touch him. If this MACCIH commission really had teeth, and if is going to change the legal situation of our country and the corruption there, well, I haven't seen them do it.
There are people there who may be respected internationally, but the Government of Honduras does not pay enough attention to the commission. It doesn't allow it to function. It gets in its way. The commission is there on paper, but it has no budget. I know it is just for show. We are not very hopeful.