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

HONDURAS: Getting the means to enforce shoot-down

Central America & Caribbean by LatinNews 01 April 2014 4447 views

This month Honduras was scheduled to take delivery of three radars purchased from Israel, which will become the basic source of intelligence on unauthorised flights liable to be intercepted by the air force under the ‘shoot-down’ law that came into effect on 3 February. President Juan Orlando Hernández, who took office in late January and was the main promoter of that law, has said that he fully intends to apply it.

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