{"id":492655,"date":"2025-11-26T23:23:18","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T03:23:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/use-of-airports-kc-135-and-c-130-hercules-aircraft-what-else-does-the-agreement-between-dr-and-the-us-contemplate\/"},"modified":"2025-11-26T23:23:18","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T03:23:18","slug":"use-of-airports-kc-135-and-c-130-hercules-aircraft-what-else-does-the-agreement-between-dr-and-the-us-contemplate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/uncategorized\/use-of-airports-kc-135-and-c-130-hercules-aircraft-what-else-does-the-agreement-between-dr-and-the-us-contemplate\/","title":{"rendered":"Use of airports, KC-135 and C-130 Hercules aircraft, What else does the agreement between DR and the US contemplate?"},"content":{"rendered":"Santo Domingo<\/strong>.- In a meeting held by the United States Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth,<\/strong> with President Luis Abinader, at the National Palace, both countries agreed to expand bilateral cooperation to strengthen surveillance against drug trafficking<\/strong>.\n\nThis cooperation agreement between the Dominican Republic and the United States, the Southern Command and the North American Air Force will provide aircraft for refueling and air transport<\/strong> to support operations against drug trafficking, including the Southern Spear Operation,<\/strong> announced by the U.S. Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth,<\/a> on November 13, which also fights against the illicit trafficking of weapons.<\/strong>\n\nThis collaboration aims to disrupt illicit operations by transnational criminal organizations<\/strong> (TCOs) and foreign terrorist organizations<\/strong> (FTOs), identified by the United States on various routes spanning the entire Caribbean Sea.\n\nThere will be the presence of several KC-135 tanker aircraft<\/strong> in support of air patrol missions, expanding the capabilities of monitoring and interdiction<\/strong> over a large part of the maritime and aerial<\/strong> environments, and they will provide refueling services to aircraft from partner countries, thus guaranteeing sustained monitoring, detection and tracking<\/strong> of verified illicit smuggling activities.\n\n\n
You may be interested in: Government allows the US to operate in San Isidro and AILA<\/a><\/strong><\/h6>\n\n\nAdditionally, the cargo aircraft C-130 Hercules<\/strong> will facilitate aeromedical evacuations, firefighting, meteorological reconnaissance, and disaster assistance.\n\nDuring the long trajectory of solid security cooperation<\/strong> between both countries, the Dominican Republic continues to be an important partner committed to international efforts<\/strong> to counter illicit trafficking. This positively impacts the<\/strong> security<\/strong> of both territories and the<\/strong> stability<\/strong> of the entire region.\n\n\n

In the meeting, held in the Ambassadors’ Hall of the National Palace, President Abinader was accompanied by the First Lady Raquel Arbaje;<\/strong> the ministers of the Presidency, Jos\u00e9 Ignacio Paliza<\/strong>; of Defense, Lieutenant General Carlos Antonio Fern\u00e1ndez Onofre<\/strong>; of Foreign Affairs, Roberto \u00c1lvarez,<\/strong> of Interior and Police, Faride Raful, <\/strong>and the United States Ambassador to the country, Leah Campos.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Santo Domingo.- In a meeting held by the United States Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth, with President Luis Abinader, at the National Palace, both countries agreed to expand bilateral cooperation to strengthen surveillance against drug trafficking. This cooperation agreement between the Dominican Republic and the United States, the Southern Command and the North American Air […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":133543,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-492655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-24a3","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","dum_api":{"author_name":"Carolina \u00c1lvarez","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/cropped-WhatsApp-Image-2026-05-26-at-5.31.57-PM-96x96.jpeg","categories_name":["Uncategorized"],"featured_media_url":null},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/133543"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=492655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492655\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=492655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=492655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=492655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}