The Honduras

The Republic of Honduras is a small country, only slightly larger than Tennessee, and one of the poorest nations in the Western Hemisphere. Despite these factors, Honduras is an incredibly important country to the United States. Its contributions to the U.S. are innumerable, but the two most prominent roles Honduras plays are in the worlds of international trade and U.S. military strategy.
Trade between Honduras and the United States is important to the economies of both nations involved. According to the U.S. State Department, the U.S. is Honduras principal trading partner, “supplying 46% of its imports and purchasing 49% of its exports in 2001”. The estimated total of exports to the U.S. in 2002 is approximately $782,200,000 (“Background Notes”, pg. 7). Honduras major exports include bananas, beef, coffee, citrus, seafood, sugar, timber, textiles, and many metals such as gold, silver, and copper (Metcalfe, pg. 1). Textiles seems to be the largest factor of all i...