They are coordinated by the Ministries of Defense of both countries.
The armies of Uruguay and Brazil will surely carry out joint operations, called mirrors, in the border strip over the course of the next two months.
The permanent actions carried out by the Uruguayan military are well known, as well as those carried out occasionally by Brazilian troops.
Now the idea is that both operations coincide in time. During his visit to Cerro Largo, the Minister of National Defense announced that he had already maintained contact with his counterpart from Brazil, a member of the Cabinet of the new Government of Lula Da Silva.
“The soldiering is today among the most prestigious functions and professions at the level of society” highlighted the Dr. Javier Garcia during his presence in the studios of THE PROFESSIONAL Radio this Monday.
“Everything is linked to the fact that they are the outstretched hand, the help, the solidarity and the social function that they fulfill that goes hand in hand with the main task they carry out. You can go a few kilometers and you will see them there in Noblía or in Paso de La Mina fulfilling their mission where the patrols are” held.
The Minister of Defense revealed that last weekend he had contact with the Army Commander where they agreed to meet to analyze a proposal to redesign border operations aimed at greater mobility. “If we stay only in the permanent positions, it determines that the one who knows that we are there goes elsewhere. Cerro Largo is one of the departments that has a long dry and lacustrine border with Brazil. That is why we are in some places where the State was not. The presence of the soldier at the border is to claim sovereignty and protect it in those places where the State was not present. basis.
Shares jointly
García announced that joint operations along the border are being coordinated with Brazil. “I met with the Brazilian Minister a month ago” reported. “I had met with those of the previous Government and now I met with the Minister of Defense of the current one and I proposed to do activities together. Here the Ágata Operations carried out by the Brazilian Army are known, which unlike ours – Uruguay’s Safe Border Plan – which is carried out permanently – are more punctual and for a determined period” remembered. “I proposed to the Minister of Brazil to do a mirror operation that coincides in time, that they be done simultaneously, they on their side and we on ours. Perhaps an Officer can be exchanged to serve as a connection and as a reciprocal Staff” advancement.
The Minister of National Defense considered that it will be an activity of enormous significance with the participation of the two armies with the aim of achieving greater efficiency in border work.
“Borders in any part of the world are sensitive places due to the development of organized crime: drug trafficking, large smuggling and rustling. If we are on a dry border, as in the case of Cerro Largo, where one passes from one country to another in a second, if we do not have the possibility of having capacity for action on both sides of the border, the crime is committed on one side and when passing for the other, the track was lost ” argument.
“These mirror operations will not take long to come to fruition. Surely in the course of the next two months we will be carrying them out” estimated Dr. Javier García.
