Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  I hate to disappoint you, but I just haven't followed Honduras since I left, so I can't say whether they have made progress. I do understand, however, that some of our recommendations require legislation, and legislation, like any parliamentary process, takes time. Some of the re

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  It's possible. I don't know if he specifically stated it, but our sense was he felt that the commission had been created by the Lobo government and that the Lobo government, in the party Resistencia’s view, was an illegitimate government because it had been created out of the per

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  I think there is a cautionary tale in the sense that—and it's not just in Honduras, but many of our mining companies would be well advised to have a more open and more respectful dialogue with some of the aboriginal groups or people who are in the area where they're doing the wor

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  To be candid with you, I wasn't aware that there were groups asking that more be done. The commission that Scott was involved with was going on at about the same time. So I can't really answer your question, because I wasn't really aware that there were groups that were seriously

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  I would have to ask him. I don't think I've ever seen any results of that commission, so I'm not in a position.... I think if they reported that, it was much later, and I'm afraid I was not dealing with Honduras at that time.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Interestingly enough, I can't answer would they have, but we, in our report, were rather critical. We had a section on international. Time prevented me from getting into it in any detail, but we were very critical that the OAS moved as quickly as they did in expelling Honduras. T

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Yes, it came very much from Venezuela, Argentina, and Brazil. These were countries who were very supportive of Mr. Zelaya and tried, in fact, to bring him back into the country at one point, sometime in August 2009. I think that, being a small country, the Hondurans felt they wer

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  No, we did not.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Yes, they did. The only person we asked who didn't appear before the commission was the former president, Mr. Zelaya. We talked to the senior financial groups, and some of Mr. Zelaya’s ministers appeared before us, certainly. But Mr. Zelaya himself did not. We had pretty good acc

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Let me take each one of those very quickly, and in order. Very much so we recommended that there should be a committee on impunity. We felt that what was going on in Guatemala was actually quite an effective help by the international community. Mr. Stein, who was our chair, of

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Sorry. Do you want me to answer?

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Did we study the constitution of other commissions? As I mentioned, the key about a commission is that it is established by a government, and you're pretty well locked in to what the government says the commission can do. We, in our case, as I mentioned, added the human rights

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  That's definitely a problem area. I didn't get into it in great length, but the report gets into quite a few suggestions for at least trying to bring to the attention of the authorities that the media, like everything in Honduras, I guess.... You have five or six, if not families

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Yes, correct.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  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