Multilateral Military and Security Forces Conducting Exercises and Training in Panama

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Panama and US Southern Command complete New Horizons exercise

Tue, 06/19/2018 - 17:45

Members of the engineers and doctors corp of the US armed forces will complete the humanitarian exercise "New Horizons" carried out in Panama coordinated by the Southern Command, reported the US embassy in the Panamanian capital.

The closing ceremony will be held next Thursday at the Marcos Alarcón school in the Metetí district of the province of Darién, on the border of Panama with Colombia.

The ceremony will have the participation of Panamanian Minister of Public Security, Alexis Betancourt; the Chargé d'Affaires of the United States embassy, Roxanne Cabral; and the representative of the Southern Command (USSOUTHCOM), Brigadier General Bryan Radliff.

The ceremony will also be attended by Deputy Ministers of Education and Health Ricardo Pinzón and Eric Ulloa, respectively.

In the framework of New Horizons 2018, US doctors and military engineers, with their Panamanian counterparts, performed surgeries, medical commitments and construction projects in the provinces of Darién, Coclé and Veraguas, from April to June.

In this new edition, 5 engineering projects were developed that included the construction of classrooms, bathrooms, a maternal center and a community center.

Moreover, medical tours were carried out in the three Panamanian regions, including ophthalmologic surgery and otorhinolaryngology.

New Horizons is an exercise conducted annually in different Latin American countries and the Caribbean, and took place for the first time in Panama in 1984.

Since 2000, Panama has received a total of seven New Horizons programs: Chiriquí and the Ngäbe-Buglé region (2003); Los Santos (2005); Bocas Del Toro (2007); Darién (2010); Colón (2013); Veraguas and the Ngäbe-Buglé region (2015); Darién, Coclé and Veraguas (2018).

 

http://www.panamatoday.com/panama/panama-and-us-southern-command-complete-new-horizons-exercise-7121

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Special forces from 17 countries participate in Panama's military exercises

Tue, 07/17/2018 - 17:37

Special forces from 17 countries of the American continent participate since today in Panama’s 14th  edition of the military exercises of the 2018 Command Forces, informed the Ministry of Public Security.

The countries participating in the competition are Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Paraguay, Peru, Trinidad and Tobago, USA and Panama, totaling 119 uniformed military personnel, according to official information.

This activity, which is sponsored by the Southern Command of the United States, will run until July 26, the Ministry of Public Security said in a statement, whose owner, Alexis Bethancourt, lit the cauldron.

Bethancourt said during the event the uniformed personnel will perform a series of exercises that will test "not only their physical capacity but their psychological resistance".

The delegations of the 17 participating countries will meet in a friendly way in the forced march, the stress shooting, the stalking, the combined assault, the obstacle course and the aquatic event, among other exercises.

The first edition of these exercises took place in El Salvador in 2004, Bethancourt said.

The competition started today with physical tests such as abdominals, push-ups, marathon and pull-ups, which are part of the strategies to support and project public safety, said the official information available.

 

http://www.panamatoday.com/panama/special-forces-17-countries-participate-panamas-military-exercises-7339

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Security forces from 21 American countries will meet in Panama

Sun, 07/22/2018 - 18:43

At least 21 American countries will meet as of Monday in Panama as part of the Security Symposium on the American Continent, an official source told Efe today.

The three-day activity will be inaugurated by the Minister of Public Security of Panama, Alexis Bethancourt, accompanied by his deputy minister Jonattan del Rosario and directors of police forces, as well as ministers and deputy defense ministers of the continent, according to the informant.

The countries that have confirmed their participation so far are: Argentina, Barbados, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, United States, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Dominican Republic, Suriname and Trinidad and Tobago.

According to the source, the meeting will be held in a hotel in the Panamanian capital, with an agenda that is not yet public, within the framework of the cooperation policy between the security forces of the continent.

 

http://www.panamatoday.com/panama/security-forces-21-american-countries-will-meet-panama-7381