A U.S. court confirmed soldiers tortured Honduran civilians tied to U.S. intelligence

Evidence

Most of the “disappeared” were never heard from again. Oscar and Gloria Reyes are among the few Honduran victims who lived to tell their story. As a U.S. court found in 2006, soldiers working under the Honduran director of national intelligence took the couple from their home and subjected them to beatings, mock execution, forced nudity, electric shocks on their genitals, and confinement in rooms covered in feces, blood, vomit, and urine. In court testimony, Gloria Reyes said, “I am unable to explain how I was able to withstand it.” — David Vine, Base Nation_ How U.S. Military Bases…, 292

Categorization

• SHARE: The 2006 U.S. court finding plus the specific torture details is a concrete, citable case worth sharing with anyone writing about U.S. accountability for allied-intelligence abuses.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — David Vine, Base Nation_ How U.S. Military Bases…, 292