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Efter lukningen af amerikanske baser i Panama i 1999, og USAs satsning på Plan Columbia
har USA oprettet en række mindre baser i Mellem- og
Sydamerika, under U.S. Southern Command (SouthCom). Omfatter bl.a.
amerikanske Forward Operating Locations i Aruba/Curaçao,
Ecuador: Manta og El Salvador, radar anlæg og baser i Cuba:
Guantánamo Bay Naval Station (oprettet i 1903), Honduras:
Soto Cano, Peru: The Joint Peruvian Riverine Training Center i
Iquitos og Puerto Rico: Fort Buchanan og Roosevelt
Roads-Vieques.
Following the closure of U.S. bases in Panama in 1999 and the U.S. commitment to Plan Colombia, the U.S. has created a number of smaller bases in Central and South America, under the U.S. Southern Command (SOUTHCOM). Includes U.S. Forward Operating Locations in Aruba / Curaçao, Ecuador: Manta and El Salvador, radar installations and bases in Cuba: Guantanamo Bay Naval Station (established 1903), Honduras: Soto Cano, Peru: The Joint Peruvian Riverine Training Center in Iquitos and Puerto Rico: Fort Buchanan and Roosevelt Roads, Vieques.
Se også: US base realignment and closure ; US
Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability
Act ; US Defense Environmental Restoration Program ; munitions and
explosives of concern ; UXO ;
Thulebasen.
