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...though animosities have abated, a border dispute remains. Recently, Washington insisted that 1,200 Salvadorans be allowed to participate in the joint U.S.-Honduran miltary exercises, dubbed Granadero I, that aided last week. In addition, some 4,000 Salvadorans have been trained at a Honduran military base near Puerto Castilla. Honduran military officials are renegotiating with the U.S. the terms of operating the base. Though the Salvadorans will probably remain, the Honduran government would like to link a new agreement to a settlement of the border squabble...
Less than four weeks after the invasion of Grenada, U.S. soldiers once again had launched an amphibious assault in the hemisphere. But this time no one shot back. The landing at Puerto Castilla on Honduras' northern coast marked the beginning of a seven-day training mission with 700 Honduran troops. It was part of a series of joint military exercises involving the U.S. and its staunchly anti-Communist ally. Though billed as routine, Big Pine II, as the exercises are called, reflected a major buildup of U.S. military might aimed largely at intimidating Honduras' southern neighbor, Marxist...
...officials are equally reticent about a new deepwater port in the northern coastal town of Puerto Castilla. The official story is that the port in Puerto Castilla was developed by a private U.S.-Honduran joint venture that, at the point of failure, miraculously found new financial backing. Whatever the case, without the facility the U.S. would not have been able to land equipment for the Seabees, let alone mount Big Pine...
Temistocles Ramirez de Arellano, 53, a wealthy U.S. citizen, cattle rancher and landowner in Honduras, thought he was doing the patriotic thing. In return for "fair compensation," he agreed on June 4 to turn over up to 2,000 acres of his 14,000-acre ranch, near Puerto Castilla, Honduras, to Honduran military officials so that U.S. military advisers could set up a base for training Salvadoran troops. Later that day, the U.S. embassy informed him that the agreement was not valid. On June 6, bulldozers showed up anyway...
...first tested in Viet Nam. In addition to a more aggressive role for the Salvadoran army, the campaign depends on the training of regional defense forces to keep the guerrillas from returning after the army moves on to other objectives. At its newly opened regional training center in Puerto Castilla, Honduras, the U.S. will have trained by the end of this year four new Salvadoran provincial military units of 350 men each, called cazador (hunter) battalions, to fill that need. Two additional hunter battalions for each of the country's 14 departments are being trained by U.S. and Salvadoran...