The 2009 Honduran coup conspirators stopped at the US base.

Evidence

During the 2009 coup against Zelaya, the Honduran military flew the president from Tegucigalpa to Soto Cano before sending him into exile in Costa Rica, fueling suspicion about a U.S. role in the overthrow. “The United States participated directly in the planning and management of the coup,” a leading human rights advocate, Bertha Oliva, told me. After coup leaders seized Zelaya, she noted, the next stop that they made was at the base. “That says everything. You don’t need documents to understand that there’s participation on behalf of the United States.” I would later meet a high-ranking Honduran Air Force officer who said he directed the pilot to stop at Soto Cano for fuel. — David Vine, Base Nation_ How U.S. Military Bases…, 270

Categorization

• QUESTION: Whether US personnel at Soto Cano actively participated in the coup planning versus merely hosting refueling remains contestable; the author only offers circumstantial and secondhand testimony.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — David Vine, Base Nation_ How U.S. Military Bases…, 270