A tender is being prepared to acquire stone crushers, bulldozers, tire compactors, sweepers and materials for an asphalt reproduction plant.
The Ministry of Defense has allocated $7.2 million to the Army for the purchase of heavy machinery, which will be used in renovation work to be carried out this year in different parts of the country.
The Ministry of Defence has announced that it will allocate $7 million to tender asphalt machines and other equipment for the renovation of 1,500 kilometers of roads.
Williams Mansilla, head of the Ministry of Defense, told Diario de Centroamerica that"...
The Army is evaluating the acquisition of helicopters for strengthening surveillance of aircraft entering the territory illegally.
At a public meeting, the chief of defense, Manuel Lopez, confirmed that the Army is looking at buying helicopters as part of an "aerial platform" that would improve its monitoring of illicit aircraft entering the country. It has also initiated the process in Congress of borrowing the money which will be used to purchase two vessels.
In the search for alternatives to the failed traditional fight against drug trafficking, the Government of Guatemala studies the possibility of producing poppy in a legal and controlled manner.
President Otto Perez Molina's was the only voice raised in the Western Hemisphere in support of the Government of Uruguay's sedition in authorizing the production and controlled use of marijuana.
The Guatemalan government has established that the SAT and the Ministries of Defense and Government should work together in order to achieve compliance with the Customs Act.
A Government Agreement states that both ministries should coordinate operations with the Superintendency of Tax Administration (SAT) in order to reach this goal for a period of three months.
The measures to strengthening customs controls to increase revenue and curb customs fraud are almost ready.
Prensalibre.com reports that "the government has refined the plan to strengthen controls at customs offices, in the event that the intervention by the Superintendency of Tax Administration (SAT) does not proceed along legal channels, but also it is progressing in "coordination" between institutions, in case the measure is deemed legally correct. "
The suspension has been ordered of a $133 million disbursement for the purchase of six Super Tucano airplanes which were to be used to control of the country's airspace.
From a press release published in Diario de Centro América:
"We have doubts about whether the six Super Tucanos are overvalued. There were negotiated by the last government," indicated President Otto Perez Molina, referring to the suspension of the disbursement for $133 million for the acquisition of these light attack aircraft, to be used for airspace control.
The Guatemalan Congress has approved borrowing from banks in Brazil and Argentina for the purchase of six Super Tucano aircraft and a tactical air control center.
Elperiodico.com.gt reports that the preamble refers to the need to monitor areas like Alta Verapaz, Baja Verapaz and Petén, to weaken the activities of organized criminals and drug traffickers in these regions under project entitled ‘Construction of a System for Monitoring and Protection of the Mayan Biosphere.
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