Honduran President Xiomara Castro expresses hope for positive dialogue with incoming U.S. President Donald Trump on immigration but warns against mass deportations, stating that such actions would necessitate a review of U.S. military presence in Honduras.
Honduran President Xiomara Castro expressed hope for positive dialogue with incoming President Donald Trump on immigration matters but also warned that if mass deportations materialize, the issue of U.S. military presence in the Central American country would have to be revisited. During a Spanish language broadcast to Honduran citizens welcoming the New Year, Castro warned Trump to “not take unnecessary reprisals against our migrants.
” Castro began her remarks regarding the upcoming Trump administration in a hopeful manner: “I want to express that we hope the new democratically elected North American administration of President-Elect Donald Trump will be open to dialogue, constructive, and friendly.” However, her tone concerning future relations with the United States quickly turned ominous. Castro went on to warn the Trump administration against the mass deportation of Honduran migrants that, as a rule, “offer great support to the North American economy.” Castro emphasized the potential consequences of mass deportations by the Trump administration, saying, “Faced with a hostile attitude of massive expulsions of our brothers, we will have to consider a change in our politics of cooperation with the United States, especially in the military camp where without paying a cent for decades they maintain military bases in our territory, that in this case, would lose all reason for existing in Honduras.” The most significant presence of United States military forces is at Soto Cano Air Base just outside Tegucigalpa in central Honduras. According to the United States Military Joint Task Force-Bravo, more than 500 U.S. military members are stationed at the base. Once known as “Palmerola,” Soto Cano Air Base has operated since 1983. According to the Joint Task Force-Bravo, the base conducts a variety of security missions in Central and South America and the Caribbean, supporting U.S
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