Juan Orlando Hernández

We have a pressure from the United States saying that we cannot do that.

And I said, why?

And they said that some time ago in Peru, there was an accident.

They took down a civilian plane.

There were some passengers from missionary people, nuns.

And I said, now we have to create a law to be sure of that.

Our Air Force, although it is small, but it is the most professional in the region.

But when we create that, I'm going to say something else, too, that I haven't said it before.

And if you dig into the classified cables from the State Department and also from the Defense Department, you are going to find out.

I met with the former South commander before I became president.

It was in January of 2014.

It was a private meeting.

But then he made it public because he went to have a meeting in the Senate.

And we talked about it with him, with General Kelly.

And I told him, listen, General Kelly, you know what's going on in Honduras.

We're going to extradite people.

It's going to be dangerous.

We need the backup of the United States because we are not as big as Colombia to support the terrorist attack that we are expecting.

We are going to transform the police.

I need to use the military force because as in the United States, the military in Honduras is very well regarded by the people.