U.S. presence at Soto Cano makes America complicit in Honduran human rights abuses

Evidence

The same remains true today. There is simply no reason for Soto Cano to exist. As long as it continues to exist and as U.S. forces become ever more entrenched at Soto Cano and elsewhere in Honduras, the United States becomes increasingly complicit with the military that carried out the 2009 coup and with military and police forces implicated in murders and other serious human rights violations. The only question now is what bloodshed and blowback will occur in the future thanks to the U.S. military’s growing involvement in Honduras today. — David Vine, Base Nation_ How U.S. Military Bases…, 317

Categorization

• SEED: The 2009 coup complicity angle could anchor a follow-up article on base complicity in coups, given the reader’s interest in harms of bases.