[1][2] Honduras had a history of several coups d'etat and military governments during the second half of the twentieth century.
The military unit Battalion 3-16, which received training and support from the United States Central Intelligence Agency both in Honduras and at U.S. military bases[3] and in Chile during the presidency of the dictator Augusto Pinochet.,[4] carried out political assassinations and torture of suspected political opponents of the government.
"[1] Amnesty International states that Bertha Oliva received "two death threats" on 27 January 2009 and an "act of surveillance" on 11 March 2009.
[7] On 22 September 2009, following the return of elected president Manuel Zelaya to Honduras during the 2009 Honduran constitutional crisis, 15 police under the responsibility of de facto president Roberto Micheletti fired tear gas canisters at the COFADEH office in Tegucigalpa, at a moment when about 100 people were in the COFADEH office.
[8] COFADEH was interviewed in June 2002 by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees regarding whether or not Battalion 3-16 still existed.