BDF Removed Illegal Bridges In Colombia Forest Reserve
Mon, April 22, 2024
And though these soldiers might not be heading to Haiti anytime soon - without first getting a green light from the government - they are very much needed in the south where Guatemalan incursions persist - especially in the Columbia Forest reserve where loggers even built bridges to haul timber back into Guatemala. A recent trek by the territorial volunteers into the Forest reserve shows that logging persist but Marin says the two bridges have been destroyed:
Florencio Marin, Minister of National Defense "If you remember, we already destroyed two of the bridges already for these things of course you know that as we destroy new ones are built. so it is something that we are always chasing after, always ensuring that we stay on top of it. One of the unique challenges to this though is that remember when it comes to the adjacency zone we are binded by the confidence building measures. So certain things we have to have verified before we just act upon it. But in the meantime, just because you don't see the military act on it it does not mean that the military is not aware of it. They are not collecting their evidence, not putting all the information together so that when we act on it they do so expeditiously just as you saw With the two bridges that were destroyed the other day."
And though these soldiers might not be heading to Haiti anytime soon - without first getting a green light from the government - they are very much needed in the south where Guatemalan incursions persist - especially in the Columbia Forest reserve where loggers even built bridges to haul timber back into Guatemala. A recent trek by the territorial volunteers into the Forest reserve shows that logging persist but Marin says the two bridges have been destroyed:
"If you remember, we already destroyed two of the bridges already for these things of course you know that as we destroy new ones are built. so it is something that we are always chasing after, always ensuring that we stay on top of it. One of the unique challenges to this though is that remember when it comes to the adjacency zone we are binded by the confidence building measures. So certain things we have to have verified before we just act upon it. But in the meantime, just because you don't see the military act on it it does not mean that the military is not aware of it. They are not collecting their evidence, not putting all the information together so that when we act on it they do so expeditiously just as you saw With the two bridges that were destroyed the other day."