This map shows sites in Honduras and Guatemala of U.S. military construction and presence between 2009-2012. The Pentagon has made Honduras into a regional hub for its activities.
0: Puerto Castilla, Honduras Ver detalle |
1: La Venta, Honduras Ver detalle |
2: Puerto Castilla, Honduras Ver detalle |
3: Barra de Caratasca, Honduras Ver detalle |
4: Soto Cano Air Base, Honduras Ver detalle |
5: Guanaja, Honduras Ver detalle |
6: Mocorón, Honduras Ver detalle |
7: Naco, Honduras Ver detalle |
8: Aguacate Ver detalle |
9: San José, Guatemala Ver detalle |
10: Champerico, Guatemala Ver detalle |
11: Poptún, Guatemala Ver detalle |
12: Cobán, Guatemala Ver detalle |
13: Tecun Uman, Guatemala Ver detalle |
US Army Tropic Regions Test Center maintains test site on base of Honduran Army's Fifth Infantry Battalion.
Site of Honduran Army 103rd Infantry Battalion and of U.S.-funded "Exercise Related Construction" in March-July 2012.
Site of a Honduran base that was used by Nicaraguan contras in the 1980s. In 1983, U.S. exercises upgraded the base airfield. In 2012, Defense Logistics Agency is requesting bids to supply fuel to U.S. Air Force at Aguacate.
"CNT [Counter Narco-Terrorism] Maintenance Facility", unknown amount, funded by SouthCom, scheduled for October-December 2010; and "200 Meter Range", $250,000 funded by Special Operations Command South, scheduled for July-September 2011.
Site of the Guatemalan Special Forces "Kaibiles" training center. In August 2009, $1.15 million in contracts funded by SouthCom and by Special Operations Command South for "SOCSO Relocatables" and "Air Base Ops Center". Renovation of Kaibiles barracks, $75,000, contracted by the Army Corps of Engineers in 2010. .
Site of Guatemalan army base and U.S. military-funded design and construction of "training and force protection facilities" in 2012.