The government launches another military reinforcement on the northern border and will count 1500 soldiers before December

In the next days the Ministry of Defense will send a new uniformed army to strengthen the operation of the northern border and provide logistical support to security forces in the fight against drug trafficking and drug trafficking.

Thus, the biggest gamble of the government will be to have before the end of the year a total of 1 500 soldiers stationed along the 2500 kilometers of border.

"Gradually, the military reinforcement project of the northern border is underway to support the gendarmerie and the prefecture and dissuade the narcos from coming to Argentina," he said. Infobae a senior official of the Ministry of Defense.

In this way, the president's idea was ratified Mauricio Macri and Minister Oscar Aguad give shape to the operation of the northern border with a deterrent presence of the army. Currently there are 500 armies in uniform, before the end of the month sends 500 more and by the end of the year, the intention of the government is to have 1,500 soldiers posted at the border.

It's about establishing logistical support for the military with some sort of "operational funnel", explained in the army. That is to say that soldiers cover the area with porous borders or illegal milestones along the border with Paraguay, Bolivia and Brazil, so that drug traffickers or smugglers be forced to go through legal steps or choose directly not to enter Argentina.

This is one of the issues raised by President Mauricio Macri with his Bolivian counterpart, Evo Morales, who last year questioned the presence of the Argentine army.. This time, the Bolivian president agreed with Macri on the need to fight drug trafficking firmly. In fact, Evo Morales has agreed to pay the excess gas exported to Argentina with a Pampa aircraft that will be used for border control operations by Bolivia. The Bolivian state leader has also announced plans to soon expand the acquisition of aircraft produced by FADEA.

The reinforcement of the army on the northern border will also help to strengthen the work of the 500 soldiers already stationed there who are dedicated to health care and badistance in the flooded areas of the North. 39; Argentina.

To concretize this new deployment of soldiers, the idea is not to disable the brigades of the northern border, but rather to reinforce them with equipment and troops that will be deactivated from other units.

In this way, the Salta (V) Army Brigade will be maintained and will include an infantry regiment, a battalion of engineers, an intelligence society, a military hospital, an artillery group and a communication group; that of Jujuy where are an artillery group and an infantry group and the brigade III of Chaco and Formosa and the 12 of Posadas where there are regiments of infantry, cavalry, companies communication and engineering. None of this will be disabled.

At the same time, these days will be advanced with a new delivery of equipment to units participating in the Northern Border operation, training and instruction tasks will be intensified for operators of radars and drones entered into the force and the transfer. installation of container modules (bathrooms and offices) in the operator's area where deployed troops perform operational training.

Lieutenant General Claudio Ernesto Pasqualini He regularly travels to the northern border area where troops are deployed to oversee each of the logistics support tasks for the security forces.

Operación Integración Norte is under the direction of the operational command of the Chiefs of Staff of the Armed Forces, which supports the federal security forces.

Last March the government ordered a reinforcement of the equipment, weapons, rocket launchers and radars of the army for an overall value of 794 million dollars.
President Mauricio Macri In one act, he delivered equipment, military equipment and vehicles to the army during a visit to the Arsenal 602 battalion of Boulogne. In this way, Army equipment equals $ 438,354,871 in new or upgraded equipment and $ 356,054,684 in other derivatives of the "2018 residual effect" of equipment of the same strength. . Thus, a total amount of $ 794,409,555 invested in military equipment is added.

To all this, we add the two A4 planes that are within 2,500 kilometers of Frontera Norte, two more Pampas, two Texans II and an unnecessary amount of Air Force helicopters.

At the Ministry of Defense, they said that the functioning of the northern border "implied three fundamental axes of action". The main objective is the operational training provided by the Argentine army with its units deployed between San Antonio de los Cobres, city of Salta, and Misiones, Puerto Iguazú. Another of the detailed pillars of the program is logistical support to the security forces, through the means and specific training available to the armed forces.