On February 11, civil and military authorities from the OAS and the countries participating in the MECODEX exercise attended the “Casa del Soldado” and witnessed the final phase of the exercise; which allowed the planning, conduction, synchronization and evaluation of the individual and collective response capacity of the nations that make up the hemisphere, to respond to disaster events.
On the same date and with the active participation of 16 countries, the simulation successfully concluded; which ratified the importance and efficiency of the Disaster Cooperation Mechanism (MECODE), an initiative of the Conference of Defense Ministers of the Americas (CMDA), to improve the international response to an event of this magnitude.
The exercise demonstrated the IADB's capacity to facilitate hemispheric participation, strengthening interactions and links between existing cooperation systems and nations of the hemisphere, to make international humanitarian assistance in response to disasters more efficient.
