The Guatemalan government seeks to provide security at different offices of the Ministry of Education, to be provided from June to December 2022.
Guatemalan Government Purchase 15875008:
"The Ministry of Education requires security and surveillance service for different central plant facilities, warehouses and offices during June to December 2022.
In El Salvador, the state budget allocated to security is $500 million a year, while the total amount invested by private enterprises for self-protection is $600 million.
"The combined budgets (National Civil Police, the Attorney General's Office and the Armed Forces of El Salvador) total about $500 million and the private sector invests over $600 million annually on security issues," said Jorge Daboub, president of the National Association of Private Enterprise (ANEP).
While other Central American countries are preparing taxes to combat insecurity, Nicaragua declares that it is not an appropriate option.
The president of Guatemala, Alvaro Colom, proposed to his peers in the isthmus region the creation of specific tax to combat organized crime and the violence it generates.
Although the proposal didn’t prosper at the meeting of the Council of Finance Ministers and Central Finance, both Costa Rica, El Salvador and Honduras are working on the implementation of a national tax for their own security plans.
Events like the Panamax military exercise show the commitment of the international community in assuring the operation of the Panama Canal; this is an implicit guarantee for investing in the country.
The Canal's strategic importance in global trade has grown to such levels that 21 countries engage in military exercises to defend it. The latest addition is Germany, which joins the countries that participate in the Panamax exercises, intended to prepare military forces to combat diverse threats against the Panama Canal.
“We know that social inclusion and prevention policies will provide results in the long run, but in the short term we must combat violence with repression”.
An article on BBC World noted that the country changed its crime policies to address a wave of criminal violence that is killing at least 10 people per day in El Salvador.
The new strategy includes guarding prisons with military forces, deploying thousands of soldiers in the streets and changing laws to “criminalize gangs”.
President Mauricio Funes will discuss this public security plan with the private sector.
The Government estimates that $24 million will be needed to execute this plan to combat crime.
At a meeting in the Presidential House, the president will discuss his plan with ANEP (National Private Enterprise Association) and FUSADES (Salvadoran Foundation for Economic and Social Development).
The recent Executive Decrees create the National Border Service, the National Sea and Air Service, and the National Intelligence Service.
The Executive Cabinet Council approved last night the last three Executive Decrees that reform decrees law that reform the elements of state security, amid protests by the members of the Citizen's Democracy Network who warn that the reforms open the door to a return to militarism.
The recent Executive Decrees create the National Border Service, the National Sea and Air Service, and the National Intelligence Service.
The Executive Cabinet Council approved last night the last three Executive Decrees that reform decrees law that reform the elements of state security, amid protests by the members of the Citizen's Democracy Network who warn that the reforms open the door to a return to militarism.