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Caribbean & Central America - November 2013 (ISSN 1741-4458)
EL SALVADOR-HONDURAS: War of words risks getting out of hand
El Salvador bought 10 light ground-attack aircraft from Chile on 31 October for US$8.57m. The Cessna A-37 Dragonfly aircraft will arrive in the first quarter of 2014. El Salvador’s President Mauricio Funes said his government had decided to buy the planes to restore “military balance” in the region. He insisted that “nobody is talking about the drums of war, or starting a new conflict” but his announcement heightened tension with neighbouring Honduras just as a sovereignty dispute over Conejo Island, a small unpopulated rocky outcrop in the Gulf of Fonseca, has been escalating. Honduran President Porfirio Lobo gave an emphatic response, insisting that Conejo Island belonged to Honduras and that the issue was “non-negotiable”.
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