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Doris Mayell Mendoza, a former vice minister, says she shot a man in Olancho in self-defense after months of threats and attacks that she reported to authorities without receiving protection, and a judge has allowed her to face trial in freedom.

Esly Michell García Pacheco, 35, a woman using crutches, was shot ten times in a Comayagüela alley on June 8; her death underscores the persistence of femicide and near-total impunity in Honduras, where rights groups report a 95 percent rate of unresolved killings of women.