“If The US Deports Hondurans, We Will Remove Its Bases From The Country,” Says Xiomara Castro

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President Xiomara Castro warned on Wednesday that she would remove US military bases in Honduras if President-elect Donald Trump follows through on his threat to order mass deportations of Hondurans when he takes office on January 20.

“Faced with a hostile attitude of mass expulsion” of Hondurans, “we would have to consider a change in our policies of cooperation with the United States, especially in the military field, where they have maintained military bases in our territory for decades without paying a cent,” Castro said on national radio and television.

“In this case, the military bases would lose all reason to exist in Honduras,” added the leftist president.

The United States has the Palmerola base in Comayagua, central Honduras, built in the 1980s to combat communist movements.

“We hope that the new US administration, under the democratically elected president Donald Trump, will be open to constructive and friendly dialogue and will not take unnecessary reprisals against our migrants, who make a great contribution to the US economy,” she said.

She also announced that as president of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States, she would convene a meeting of foreign ministers in January with the president of Mexico, Claudia Sheinbaum, to address the issue of migration.

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