the situation, Human Rights Watch reported for 2018 that Judges face interference from the executive branch and others, including private actors with connections in government. . It concludes: Efforts to reform the institutions responsible for providing public security have made little progress. Married by corruption and abuse, the judiciary and police remain largely ineffective. . (18) The March 2, 2016, assassination of prominent Lenca Indigenous and environmental activist Berta Cáceres, world-renowned recipient of the 2015 Goldman Environmental Prize for her work defending Indigenous land rights against a hydroelectric dam project, illustrates the human rights crisis in Honduras, and the deep complicity of the Honduran government. Cáceres, the leader of COPINH, the Council of Indigenous and Popular Organizations of Honduras, had reported to authorities 33 threats previous to her killing, but none had been investigated, and the government had failed to provide adequate protection measures as mandated by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, with protection by Honduran security being withdrawn the day of her death. (19) As of November 2018, seven men have been convicted in the killing of Cáceres. One of them was an active duty officer in the military at the time of his arrest and two others are former military. A third former officer and the president of the DESA Corporation, the dam construction company, has been charged and is awaiting trial. The convictions raise serious questions about the role of the Honduran military in her assassination, including the higher chain of command within the military as well as the identity of the intellectual authors of the assassination. Evidence in the documents in the case file indicate that members of the Honduran elite were responsible for ordering Cáceres’s assassination, and remain in impunity. Evidence also indicates possible involvement of individuals of higher rank in the military, but there is no indication that prosecutors are investigating these