USSOUTHCOM To Build
Clinic in Talamanca
The United States
Southern Command (USSOUTHCOM)
announced it will be
building a health clinic
in the Talamanca region
of Costa Rica.
The 345 square metre
(3.700 square feet)
clinic is to be located
in El Bambú community
near the Panama border
in the province of
Limón.
The announcement was
made by the U.S. Embassy
in San José.
The Talamanca project is
not the first by the
USSOUTHCOM, in Februay
the agency announced
plans to double funding
to us$2 million dollars
to Costa Rica counter
narcotics traffic. In
April USSOUTHCOM
contributed us$250.000
for the construction of
a new Coast Guard base
in Puntarenas.
USSOUTHCOM, located in
Miami, Florida, is one
of ten unified Combatant
Commands (COCOMs) in the
United States Department
of Defense. It is
responsible for
providing contingency
planning, operations,
and security cooperation
for Central and South
America, the Caribbean
(except U.S.
commonwealths,
territories, and
possessions), Cuba, the
Bahamas, their
territorial waters, and
for the force protection
of U.S. military
resources at these
locations. USSOUTHCOM is
also responsible for
ensuring the defense of
the Panama Canal and
canal area.
The U.S. Southern
Command Area of Focus
encompasses more than 30
countries and covers
about 15.6 million
square miles. The region
represents about
one-sixth of the
landmass of the world
assigned to regional
unified commands. |
