May 11, 2021
Minister of National Defence and Border Security Meets with Guatemala’s Defence Attaché
Guatemalan Military official were in Belize on Tuesday to meet with their Belizean counterparts. Guatemala’s Defence, Military, Naval and Air Attaché Brigadier General Rember Yonivan Menendez Gasparico held meetings with Belize’s Ministry of National Defence and Border Security officials at the Curl Thompson Building in Belmopan. According to a statement from the Ministry of National Defence, both parties pledged to promote the spirit of goodwill and to strengthen the existing relationship of cooperation between Belize and Guatemala. Minister Florencio Marin Junior, Minister of State Oscar Mira, and C.E.O. Retired Brigadier General Dario Tapia from the Ministry of National Defence and Border Security were present for the courtesy visit.
Ever since the PUP were voted into office on November 11, 2020, it appears like the drug cartels have been landing drug planes in Belize more regularly. It is as if though the drug plane landings and the PUP are coexisting. One would have thought with the military and security background of the persons at the very top of Belize’s Ministry of National Defence and Border Security, drug plane landings in Belize would be a thing of the past. After all the Minister is a highly trained Military Officer, his deputy is a highly trained Military Intelligence Officer, and the CEO is a former Commandant of the Belize Defense Force. With that type of expertise and experience at the very top of our National Security Apparatus, the drug cartels should have been staying away from Belize, but the opposite is happening; they are gravitating towards Belize.