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2016 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel
Introduction
verfasst von : Sebastian E. Bitar
Erschienen in: US Military Bases, Quasi-bases, and Domestic Politics in Latin America
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US
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The US military lost the Howard Air Force base, one of its most valuable operating locations in Latin America, when it returned to Panama its possessions in 1999. Soon after, the United States repeatedly used surveillance flights to monitor Venezuelan territory, and Venezuela’s new president, Hugo Chávez, denied the use of its airspace to US military planes. The loss of the US bases in Panama and Venezuela’s reluctance to allow US flights over its territory left a considerable gap in US surveillance capabilities in the area connecting Central America with South America, an area that was key to controlling drug trafficking and illegal migration.