On 5 April El Salvador's new president-elect, Salvador Sánchez Cerén, met President Juan Orlando Hernández in Tegucigalpa. The visit, part of a regional tour by Sánchez Cerén before taking office on 1 June, comes amid renewed bilateral tensions over Isla Conejo (Rabbit Island), a tiny unpopulated rocky outcrop some 500m away from the Honduran coast in the Gulf of Fonseca, a Pacific coast area jointly administered by Honduras, El Salvador and Nicaragua. Honduras has been occupying the outcrop unchallenged at least since 1992, but El Salvador claims it as its own. End of preview - This article contains approximately 378 words.
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