Having cut short his visit to Spain due to the events in Dallas last week, President Barack Obama left out a planned trip to Seville and instead travelled to the Rota naval base in Cádiz on Sunday.
He also called on Spain to remain “strong and united,» themes that he had outlined in an interview with EL PAÍS ahead of his Spain visit.
“We could not ask for a better ally than Spain,” he said, adding that the United States remains committed to NATO.
Obama was joined on the trip to Rota by US ambassador James Costos and his partner, Michael S. Smith, and was met by Pedro Morenés, Spain’s minister of defense.
The president highlighted the importance of Rota, which was created as part of a deal between military dictator General Francisco Franco and US President Eisenhower in 1953.
Fuente: http://elpais.com/elpais/2016/07/11/inenglish/1468222250_190550.html
