Air Patrol organized a health brigade in Guapi, Cauca - Other Cities - Colombia

Eusebia Mountain Campaz72 years old, got up at 5 am in his house located in the path of Estero Hondo, del Municipality of Guapiput on her best outfit and went to the pier to board a wooden boat, in which she would navigate the Guají and Guapi rivers for about two hours, since two months ago she had registered to be a beneficiary of an examination and possible donation of glasses by the Colombian Civil Air Patrolwhich would reach this remote and difficult-to-access municipality in Cauca, to carry out a large health brigade that would benefit more than 500 people.

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Fifteen pilots and more than 30 volunteer health professionals arrived by air to the Colombian Pacific, to carry out a health brigade led by the Colombian Civil Air Patrol and aphidin order to provide free medical, surgical and humanitarian careto the inhabitants of the remote municipality of Guapi, Cauca, where access is complicated, there is armed conflict and unfortunately the health post does not have good infrastructure and there are also no specialists or surgeons.

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During the day that took place in a school and lasted 6 days, 571 people were treated, 65 surgical procedures were performed, 29 tubal ligations were performed, 79 glasses were donated, 160 thousand masks, hundreds of medications and supplements and the hospital was equipped with three oxygen concentrators and a diagnostic set. During 2022, the Air Patrol and Afidro will take volunteers in optometry, pediatrics, dermatology, planning, prenatal control, nutrition and surgeons, among others, to 19 more municipalities located in remote and vulnerable areas of the country.

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Fifteen pilots and more than 30 volunteer health professionals arrived by air to the Colombian Pacific.

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Juan Pablo Rueda / TIME

Mrs. Eusebia, after two hours of processing and a thorough examination of her eyes, was the beneficiary of a pair of glasses, because in the diagnosis they discovered cataracts, so her vision, both far and near, is very poor. Among hundreds of frames, she chose two of hers, which will be taken to Bogotá, to manufacture the lens that she needs to improve her vision and in a month, you can claim them at the health center.

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“I feel very well thanks to the man who commands this brigade, because one is worse every day because there is no solution. There is no mammogram, when you arrive in Cali you are already invaded by cancer. The State should send specialists for what is not here, well, look, I have cataracts in both of my eyes and I didn’t know,” highlighted.

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“The patient’s smile when he feels that they have been resolved, the patient’s smile when he is listened to and sees the grandparents and the people who come out with a solution to their illnesses and ailments that afflicted them for years, is the most beautiful thing that these brigades leave us” , he claimed Enrique Martín, director of aerial operations of the Colombian Civil Patrol.

Working Conditions for US Border Patrol Getting More Attention

Washington — 

A strained Border Patrol is getting increased attention from the Biden administration after tense meetings between senior officials and the rank and file while the agency deals with one of the largest spikes in migration along the U.S.-Mexico border in decades.

Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, who oversees the Border Patrol, laid out 19 ways to address working conditions after frosty receptions by agents, said Chris Magnus, the new commissioner of Customs and Border Protection.

Mayorkas also pledged in a memo to push for more prosecutions of people accused of assaulting CBP personnel in the course of their duties, an issue raised at a recent meeting in Laredo, Texas, and elsewhere, Magnus said Tuesday.

FILE – US Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Chris Magnus speaks during an interview in his office with The Associated Press, Feb. 8, 2022, in Washington.

“That’s something that agents in the field want to hear because assaults are on the uptick,” Magnus told The Associated Press. “We are not just seeing folks who are fleeing to the U.S. to get away from conditions. We are seeing smugglers, members of cartels, and drug organizations that are actively engaged in doing harm.”

Efforts to deal with working conditions for agents come as President Joe Biden has been criticized across the political spectrum over immigration. He has sought to reverse many hardcore policies of his predecessor but has come under fire over the situation at the border that could cause trouble for Democrats in the midterm elections.

CBP encountered migrants from all over the world about 1.7 million times along the U.S.-Mexico border last year. The total, among the highest in decades, is inflated by repeated apprehensions of people who were turned away, without being given a chance to seek asylum, under a public health order issued at the start of the pandemic.

Immigration advocates have condemned the administration for not repealing the public health order, known as Title 42, while critics, including many Border Patrol agents, say a Biden policy of allowing children and families to stay in the country and pursue asylum has encouraged irregular migration.

FILE – Migrants seeking asylum in the U.S. are being processed by the U.S. border patrol after crossing the border from Mexico at Yuma, Arizona, Jan. 22, 2022.

Magnus said the agents, and the administration, are just trying to manage a complicated situation.

“We’re seeing folks that are encountering political conditions and violence, unsafe conditions to live and work, at unprecedented levels,” the former police chief of Tucson, Arizona, said in an interview, the first since he was sworn in Friday. “We’ve seen, for example, in places, earthquakes or other environmental conditions. We’re seeing unprecedented levels of poverty. All of these are things that are in many ways, you know, pushing migrants again at high levels to this country.”

The administration has sought to address the cause of migration, including by increasing aid to Central America and re-starting a visa program that was ended under President Donald Trump. It has also sought assistance from other countries, including Mexico, to do more to stop or take in migrants.

As the overall numbers have increased, and the administration has decided to allow many families to stay and seek asylum in a process that can take years, some Border Patrol agents have grown disenchanted as they spend their shifts processing and transporting people, not out in the field.

That frustration boiled over in Laredo as agents met late last month with Mayorkas and Border Patrol Chief Raul Ortiz, who acknowledged morale was at an “all-time low,” according to a leaked video published by the Washington Examiner. One agent complained about “doing nothing” except releasing people into the United States, referring to the practice of allowing migrants to remain free while their cases wind through immigration court.

FILE – Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas testifies before a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee hearing, on Sept. 21, 2021 on Capitol Hill.

At another meeting, in Yuma, Arizona, Mayorkas told agents he understood that apprehending families and children “is not what you signed up to do” and that their jobs were becoming more challenging amid an influx of Cubans, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans, according to video published by the conservative website Townhall. One of the agents turned his back on the secretary.

Magnus has heard similar concerns raised in meetings. “I think it has been difficult for many of them who spent most of their careers or anticipated that their careers would be largely working in the field, on the border,” he said.

The commissioner declined to specify the 19 areas where Mayorkas “wants to see improvement,” because they have not been publicly released. But another official, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss internal plans, said they include expanding the role of a new class of civilian employees to add tasks such as transporting migrants to medical facilities so agents can return to other duties.

Another point calls for faster decisions on asylum cases at the border. Agents have expressed frustration that asylum-seekers are freed in the U.S., often for years, while their claims make their way through a system backlogged with about 1.6 million cases.

Magnus said he hopes to expand mental health services for agents and provide additional resources to help them and their families cope with a stressful job that requires them to move often.

“There is never one simple solution to addressing morale at any organization, but I absolutely appreciate the very challenging conditions that the men and women of the Border Patrol and CBP in general have been have been working under,” he said.

2022 a year of surprises, they capture a huge and modern narco-submarine loaded with more than 6 tons of cocaine

Cocaine is a source of criminal resources. Those with access to their wealth quickly gain rise and power, in general today, there are more opportunities than ever to access cocaine both in America and in Europe because while the cocaine trade has spawned some of the most powerful criminal structures and notorious on the planet, they must innovate to continue persisting. And this is evidenced by the seizure made by US authorities today.

On January 12, 2022, from early hours, the United States Department of Justice announced that its coast guard units, in cooperation with European agencies, tracked and captured with its maritime units, a large submersible drug trafficker, which had previously been had detected during patrol maneuvers. They were more surprised when the boat skillfully began to maneuver, and has evaded the coast guard units, evidencing not only the skill of the crew but also the presence of advanced technology on the boat for such purposes, in other words, high-end military equipment. and of unknown origin that at times gave the advantage to this modern underwater narco.

Inter-agency cooperation and the use of advanced maritime drones made it possible to successfully pursue and capture the stealthy vessel. At the time of boarding by the authorities, the crew did not try to flee or destroy the boat, its four crew members were arrested, and the cargo of 6,350 kilos of cocaine (more than 6 tons) was confiscated. The value of the cargo, the nationalities of those captured and its origin are unknown at this time.

It is speculated that the cargo, which in total would be more than 6 tons of cocaine, would be destined for the cartels that currently control the European market, among other situations that are still under investigation by the United States Drug Control Administration. States (DEA), which has not yet issued an official statement.