US Drone to Honduras AA.FF.

[Judi Lynn]

Tuesday 28 December 2010
US Drone to Honduras AA.FF.

TEGUCIGALPA - Honduras Air Force will fly drones similar to those the US has used at the war in Afghanistan which are fitted with cameras and landscape censors.

Soto Cano base (Palmerola), also home to 600 US soldiers, will fly the unmanned plane which The Herald claims will be used in anti-drug and natural disaster operations.

Last april, US Ambassador Hugo Llorens and President Profirio Lobo signed the "Merida Carcy" drug enforcement accord for which Washington transfered some four million USD to fund military training, border patrol and special AA.FF. special units, among other.

The program included two million USD for the new naval base in Gracias a Dios Department, on the border with Nicaragua..

http://www.insidecostarica.com/dailynews/2010/december/28/centralamerica10122802.htm