The Inter-American Defense Board (IADB) has supported humanitarian demining in Latin America since 1993, with soldiers from Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Peru, Trinidad-Tobago, Venezuela and Uruguay.
Such support, always in conjunction with the programs of the Organization of American States (OAS), has begun with the Assistance Mission for Mine Clearance in Central America, which operated from 1993 to 2010 in Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua. , in addition to having provided technical advice to Suriname. From 2002 to 2013, the South American Mine Clearance Assistance Mission was in operation in Ecuador and Peru. In Colombia, the IADB has been acting since 2006, with the Group of Inter-American Monitors (GMI-CO), and since 2015, with the Group of Inter-American Technical Advisors.
In order to celebrate 30 years of its support for humanitarian demining activity in Latin America, the IADB decided to hold a series of commemorative events in Colombia, where it currently operates in this activity. An article was published on the Brazilian website Defesa Aerial & Naval that summarizes the speech given by Captain (Brazilian Marine) Leonel Mariano da Silva Júnior, Head of the GMI-CO, in May of this year, in a International Seminar, one of these commemorative events.
In the link below you can read the article:
