In the last few years diplomatic relations between Belize and Guatemala have been growing more and more tense. So, one would expect that military relations would match the political ones, but according to the BDF's Commander, that is not the case. As we showed you last week, joint border patrols continue - this picture was on the Guatemalan military's twitter page. BDF commander General David Jones confirmed as much today, when he told that the relationship between the BDF and the Guatemalan Armed Forces could not be more amiable...
Alex Courtenay, 7News
"We recently saw a tweet from the actual Guatemalan armed forces about linking up with the BDF. is that something that we should look to as a positive tweet that even though diplomatic relations may not be very high or very friendly that though militaries from both countries seem to be good with each other."
Brig. Gen. David Jones - Commander, BDF
"We welcome things like that when the military does things like that because it shows that the problems on the ground is not between the 2 militaries. It's a political issue that we have between both countries. Those link up patrols that they have tweeting about is something that we have been doing for years, over 10 years now. The Belize defense force and the Guatemalan armed forces have been meeting on a quarterly bases and we plan patrols for the next 3 months and they meet at designated points along the border and they exchange ideas, they exchange intelligence information, they talk to the villagers on the ground within the adjacency zone and at the end they take photographs of each other with their flags showing before they go back to their respective countries."
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