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Published on: 05/01/2025 | 00:00:00
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Honduras threatens to expel United States troops, retaliating against incoming President Donald Trump’s plans to carry out mass deportations of refugees and asylum seekers entering the US from Central America. In her New Year’s message, Hondour’s President Xiomara Castro threatened to reconsider the country’s military cooperation with the US if President-elect Donald Trump follows through on mass deported undocumented immigrants. Soto Cano is one of the few locations capable of landing large planes between the US and Colombia, apart from Guantanamo. The base serves as a key launching point for the rapid deployment of US forces in the region. It provides proximity to drug trafficking corridors in Central and South America. Some experts have criticised the US justification for its military presence. Honduras has 27 percent of its gross domestic product came from remittances in 2022. And its biggest diaspora is in the US, where 5 percent of the population live. In the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse in Baltimore in March 2024, one of the six construction workers killed was a Honduran national. The Honduran government, he said, is “playing with fire” he predicts bilateral relations may be “about to take a turn for the worse” for the US. To be sure, Soto Cano played a key role in the 1980s in the US-backed Contra War against Nicaragua.
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