17 U.S. military and civilian personnel from Joint Task Force-Bravo, the U.S. Agency for International Development, the Honduran Armed Forces, Permanent Contingency Committee (COPECO) and Ministry of Infrastructure and Public Services (INSEP), conducted a joint training to enhance disaster response readiness, July 12 – 14.
Day one covered lessons learned from last year´s responses to Eta and Iota, from both COPECO and the Task Force, and also an academic portion on Crisis Communication. The following two days of training involved a disaster response scenario based on hurricane Mitch, a historical event that occurred in 1998 which devastated Honduras and critically affected Central America, much like the recent hurricanes.
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2020-12-29 01:36:13 GMT2020-12-29 09:36:13(Beijing Time) Xinhua English
TEGUCIGALPA, Dec. 28 (Xinhua) The Honduran Armed Forces so far this year have destroyed 35 clandestine landing strips used for drug trafficking, a military spokesman said on Monday.
Since 2014, when the National Inter-Institutional Security Force was created, a total of 308 clandestine airstrips have been destroyed, Lt. Jose Coello, a spokesman for the Armed Forces, told local radio.
The most recent landing strip was destroyed with explosives in Brus Laguna, in the northeast department of Gracias a Dios, said the spokesman.
As of August this year, Honduran authorities had seized 2,241 kg of cocaine, more than the 2,218 kg seized in the whole year of 2019. Enditem