UN Special Investigator on Torture, Manfred Nowak,says secret places of detention, enforced disappearances and torture are closely interconnected.

VOA: standard.2009.03.21

He said that given how interconnected the region is, Honduras can isolate, and hurt itself,in as he put it, some pretty dramatic ways.

VOA: standard.2009.07.01

"It creates a societal change, an economic growth, it creates jobs.As the world has become so interconnected, it's provided an opportunity for entrepreneurs no matter where they are to access any market that exists,"

VOA: standard.2009.12.04

It was the center of their universe. And it was called the 'hydraulic city' because it had really remarkably massive arrays of barays, which are these giant water tanks and a series of canals and interconnected waterways that was really unparalleled in the ancient world in that part of the world."

VOA: standard.2010.04.05