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BDF & GAF Linked Up Over 200 Times In 2015
posted (January 13, 2016)

But the greater enforcement of borderline is also facilitated by something you might not expect: the cooperation of the Guatemalan Army. That's right, they do joint border patrols along the western border with the BDF – and in 2015, they did over 200 of them. Jones says this has made a difference

Brig. Gen. David Jones - Commander, BDF

"A total of 210 linkup patrols occurred along our border so that is from the area of Aguas Turbias down to Cadenas. These are patrols that we did jointly with the Guatemalan armed forces. Of those 210 patrols, 9 of them that were unsuccessful depicted on the graph there. Out of all those 210 patrols only 9, so 201 times we met along the border from Aguas Turbias all the way down to Cadenas and that is something we hope to emulate later on also along the Sarstoon where we plan to have joint patrols with them."

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