Honduras suggests ending US military cooperation over Trump mass deportation threat

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras — Honduras President Xiomara Castro ’s comments earlier this week threatening to stop her country’s cooperation with the U.S. military if President-elect Donald Trump follows through on promised mass deportations have generated political heat at home, even as the U.S. government has remained silent. In a New Year’s Day speech on a national television channel, Castro said that if Trump goes ahead with massive deportations, Honduras would reconsider military cooperation with the U.S. “Faced with a hostile attitude of mass expulsion of our brothers, we would have to consider a change of our cooperation policies with the United States, especially in the military realm,” Castro said. Jorge Cálix, a probable presidential aspirant for the Liberal Party in Honduras’ Nov. 30 elections, said Castro had put Honduras “in grave danger” for personal and ideological reasons. “She knows we don’t have the ability to threaten the United States in any way, that the damages it would cause Honduras would be terrible,” Valladares said.