The Northern Triangle

Partner nations seek to protect maritime zones used as illegal trafficking routes for countries to the north.

Northern Triangle Naval Forces Conduct Maritime Patrols

Lorena Baires

Naval forces from the Northern Triangle (El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras) join efforts to conduct multinational maritime patrols within the 200 nautical miles of their respective sea boundaries. Since 2015, the partner nations work together to halt narcotrafficking structures attempting to take drugs northward.

“What we do is extend to maritime zones the same operations that each country’s naval units perform to protect maritime boundaries together and prevent transnational crime,” Captain René Merino, chief of the General Staff of the Salvadoran Naval Force (FNES, in Spanish), told Diálogo. “We all patrol in close coordination, each in our own territorial waters.”

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Source: dialogo-americas.com

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