Soto Cano

Soto Cano Air Base (Palmerola), a Honduran military base hosting a U.S. presence whose continued operation has been questioned by studies and officials as serving no strategic purpose and contributing to U.S. complicity in Honduran human rights abuses.

Claims that use this term

• Even a Pentagon-backed study found Soto Cano serves no strategic purpose
• Bureaucratic inertia kept Soto Cano open despite vanishished rationale
• Even GAO and officials saw Soto Cano as no longer needed
• The military’s own defense university deemed Soto Cano counterproductive
• U.S. presence at Soto Cano makes America complicit in Honduran human rights abuses
• The Pentagon’s own university called Soto Cano base pointless and costly