On June 19, the Peruvian National Police Anti-narcotics Special Operations Division seized 1,466 kilograms of cocaine in La Convención province, in Cusco, and arrested 15 people who carried the drug in backpacks to the Urubamba River valley to be shipped via air, the Peruvian Ministry of the Interior reported. “Intelligence [ … ]
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US Strengthens Collaboration with Ecuador in COVID-19 Fight
On August 5, the United States delivered 200 state-of-the-art ventilators and support equipment to help Ecuador respond to the COVID-19 pandemic and save lives. During a ceremony at the Mariscal Sucre International Airport in Quito, U.S. Ambassador Michael J. Fitzpatrick presented the donation to Ecuadorean Vice President María Alejandra Muñoz, [ … ]
SOUTHCOM Donates Equipment to El Salvador Fire Department
Through U.S. Southern Command’s Humanitarian Assistance Program, the United States donated 96 AirHawk II self-contained breathing apparatus valued at $717,868.80, to re-equip El Salvador Fire Department (CBES, in Spanish), the U.S. Embassy told the press on June 25. The equipment will be distributed to 18 fire stations that do not [ … ]
US Donates Medical Equipment, Furniture to Choluteca, Honduras
The Office of Security Cooperation at the U.S. Embassy in Honduras, through U.S. Southern Command’s (SOUTHCOM) Humanitarian Assistance Program made an important donation of medical equipment and office furniture to strengthen the health care system in Choluteca. The initiative was originally coordinated as part of humanitarian exercise New Horizons 2020, [ … ]
USS Kidd and El Salvadoran Forces Unite for PASSEX
The Arleigh Burke class guided-missile destroyer USS Kidd (DDG 100), partnered with El Salvador Maritime Patrol Vessel (PM-13) to conduct a passing exercise (PASSEX), July 29. PASSEXs are unit exercises requiring cooperation, communication, and interoperability between two or more navies, testing advanced ship maneuvering and tactics. It affords the opportunity [ … ]
El Salvador Receives Speedboat to Strengthen Narcotrafficking Fight
The U.S. government donated a Boston Whaler speedboat to the Salvadoran Navy’s Trident Naval Task Force (FTNT, in Spanish) to strengthen border security and drug interception operations in the Pacific Ocean, the U.S. Embassy in El Salvador said in a statement on June 18. The donation is worth $1.5 million [ … ]
Ecuador Deals Blow to Narcotrafficking with Colombian, US Support
The Ecuadorean Navy (AE, in Spanish) and the National Police (PNE, in Spanish) work relentlessly to counter narcotrafficking and related crimes. This is reflected in the seizures of nearly 3 metric tons of cocaine June 23-27, with the cooperation of Colombia and the United States. “It is true that the [ … ]
US Provides 200 More Ventilators to Brazil to Respond to COVID-19
The U.S. government, through the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), donated on July 29, a second shipment of 200 brand new, state-of-the-art ventilators to Brazil to assist its fight against COVID-19. The ventilators, produced in the United States, reflect leading-edge and in-demand technology. They are compact, deployable, and provide [ … ]
Bolivia Scores Great Success Against Illicit Drug Trafficking in the Last 7 Months
The Bolivian Special Force to Fight Drug Trafficking (FELCN, in Spanish) seized, eradicated, and destroyed more than 374 metric tons of drugs in the last seven months. From November 13, 2019, to June 22, 2020, agents carried out operations that resulted in the seizure of 8,043 kilograms of cocaine and [ … ]
USS Halsey Completes PASSEX with Guatemalan Navy
The Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Halsey (DDG 97) participated in a passing exercise (PASSEX) with Guatemalan Navy Quetzal Landing Craft Utility (LCU) BL-1601, July 28. PASSEXs are unit exercises requiring cooperation, communication, and interoperability between two or more navies, testing advanced ship maneuvering and tactics. It affords the opportunity [ … ]
Chilean Police Disrupts Gang Smuggling Drugs from Peru
Chile’s Investigations Police (PDI, in Spanish) dismantled a criminal organization that smuggled cocaine from Tacna, Peru, using specially modified vehicles. The ring disassembled the vehicles and removed the drugs at a car repair shop in the Chilean city of Arica. Then, they would hide the drugs in countainers from a Peruvian [ … ]
Paraguay: Narcotics Agents Destroy More than 9 Tons of Marijuana Bound for Brazil
The Paraguayan National Anti-Drug Secretariat (SENAD, in Spanish) has strengthened operations against narcotraffickers who send drugs to Brazil. On June 19, agents raided a rural property in Yby Yaú, Concepción department, and destroyed more than 9 metric tons of marijuana bound for the neighboring country. [caption id="attachment_38529" align="alignright" width="355"] In [ … ]