"Under this level of impunity, logically the killings will continue if the government does not show resolve a criminal investigation, an investigation that has so many shortcomings that you know it will not determine and will not find the people who committed these killings nor the masterminds behind it, " said Wilfredo Mendez, coordinator for the Center for Investigation and Promotion of Human Rights in Honduras.

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But not all the dead, even among the intended targets, appear to be terrorist masterminds.

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