“The Dominican Republic shares borders with Europe,” Admiral Sigfrido Pared Pérez, Minister of the Caribbean country’s Armed Forces, says figuratively to explain the enormous security challenge that the coming and going of five million tourists visiting the island each year from the Old Continent and other corners of the globe entails. In an interview with Diálogo in Panamá, during the 2013 Central American Security Conference (CENTSEC), Admiral Pared Pérez referred to this challenge, as well as others confronting the armed forces today.
Meeting the Standards of Today’s Armed Forces
May 08, 2013
