US to spend $46 million on Colombian military base

The budget handed down by U.S. President Barack Obama’s administration
allocated US$46 million to the expansion of Colombia’s Palanquero Air Base north of Bogota.

does not explicitly state if the Palanquero base will replace the U.S base in Manta, Ecuador.  The Ecuadorean Government requested the base be closed by November and the U.S. looked to Colombia to maintain its military presence in the region.

According to El Tiempo, the Colombian

The replacement of the Manta base the

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