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The Pentagon confirmed today that a project planned for the naval base of Rota (Spain) is one of those that lose their funding to be able to allocate these funds to the construction of the border wall between the United States and Mexico.

The one in Rota integrates a package of 127 projects, inside and outside the US, that have been chosen from an even larger list to gather the 3.6 billion dollars in "military construction" that the president of the country, Donald Trump, ordered to divert to the Wall.

The affected projects had to be awarded after September 30, so they were not yet underway.

In the case of Rota, the Pentagon had planned to implement an electronic data exchange (EDI) project at the port's port facilities, with an expected investment of $ 21.59 million.

The list also includes projects that have run out of funds in Puerto Rico and Guantanamo (island of Cuba), as well as in other countries in Europe and Asia.

In Guantanamo, the US Department of Defense has chosen to suspend the construction of dog facilities, a project budgeted at 9.08 million dollars.

For Puerto Rico, the list includes ten projects in San Juan, Arroyo, Camp Santiago, Punta Borinquen and Gurabo with planned investments of $ 402.57 million.

Regarding the initial list with possible affected parties, distributed in March by the Pentagon, their funds are maintained in Guantanamo, Puerto Rico and one in Honduras.

In the case of Guantanamo, a $ 115 million project for the construction of barracks, another $ 85 million for wastewater management and another $ 24.5 million to "consolidate the fire station" remain firm.

In February 2018, a fire burned for two days at the Guantanamo Bay naval base and was stifled with the collaboration of Cuban and American firefighters.

In Puerto Rico there are three projects with a total investment of 154.4 million dollars and in Honduras another one of 21 million dollars for the construction of barracks at the Soto Cano air base.

The Pentagon made official on Tuesday the diversion of 3,600 million dollars to finance eleven sections of new construction or renovation of the wall on the border that together total about 280 kilometers (175 miles).

In February, the US Congress approved in its budgets 1,375 million dollars for the wall , a figure far from the 5,700 that Trump had asked for, which led the president to declare a national emergency with the aim of obtaining those funds without the approved by the Legislative.

With the national emergency, the Government reallocated some 6,600 million dollars from the Pentagon and the Treasury Department to the wall, which, together with the 1,375 that Congress approved, were to be used for the construction of some 376 kilometers of wall.

The Government already authorized a few months ago the diversion of the first of the items included in the national emergency, in this case 2.5 billion dollars also from the Pentagon initially planned for the fight against drug trafficking.

Although the decision led to legal litigation, the Supreme Court ultimately approved the Government in July to make use of those funds for the wall.

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