C130s airlifted troops. ammunition. and helicopters to the border during those exercises. Reflecting on this inordinate attention being lavished on the second poorest nation in the hemisphere. it is not difficult to conceive of the possibility that Honduras is being coaxed into playing a strategic role in the administrations designs on Central America. It was under pressure from the United States that the Honduran Government and the United Nations High Commission On Refugees (UNHCR) decided to relocate thousands of Salvadoran refugees in camps along the border to a new camp at Mesa Grande. some 50 kilometers away. That 50 kilometer perimeter along the Salvadoran border is now completely militarized. At the admission of Honduran military officers to Raymond Bonner of the New York Times. military contingents from the 3.000 Honduran troops stationed along the border participated in encirclement operations with the Salvadorean Army within El Salvador during the last 2 months.
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