Honduran President Wants Upgrades to Military Airport
Honduran President Wants Upgrades to Military Airport
Published 21 September 2014
Juan Orlando Hernandez will travel to Spain in coming days to ask Madrid to reinvest his country's debt into the Palmerola Airbase.
Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez announced that he will ask the Spanish government to reinvest Honduras' debt into the country's infrastructure, specifically discuss the construction of an airport at the former U.S. military airbase at Soto Cano, also known as Palmerola.
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Before the 2009 coup d'état against democratically elected Manuel Zelaya, his administration worked to turn the former U.S. military base at Soto Cano into a civilian airport. The plans were strongly opposed by the former U.S. ambassador in the country, especially as Zelaya intended develop the project with funding from the Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas (ALBA) and Venezuela's Petrocaribe.
The airbase was revitalized in the 1980s by the U.S. military and *used to supply counter-insurgency forces throughout Central America.
http://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Honduran-President-Wants-Upgrades-to-Military-Airport-20140921-0018.html
*(Contras, Nicaragua)
