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Security & Strategic Review - June 2014 (ISSN 1741-4202)

Honduras accuses the US of blocking the repair of its military aircraft

For a short spell in early June it seemed that relations between Honduras and the US were on the mend. Congratulations and honours were exchanged when General John Kelly, chief of the US Southern Command (Southcom), visited Tegucigalpa. Within days, though, President Juan Orlando Hernández was publicly castigating unnamed US officials for blocking his plans to upgrade his military aircraft, and the US ambassador was riposting in kind over the impunity enjoyed by drug traffickers in Honduras.

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