JIATF-S and SOUTHCOM Facilitate Regional CTOC Workshop in El Salvador

April 26, 2013

From February 12 to 14, a team from U.S. Joint Interagency Task Force South (JIATF-S) and U.S. Southern Command (SOUTHCOM) facilitated a Counter-Illicit Trafficking Operation Center Interoperability (CITOCI) Regional Workshop in El Salvador.

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