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    <div> <span class="date">/ Published Nov. 10, 2020</span></div>
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    <p><strong>MIAMI, Fla. –</strong> Ecuadorian Army Lt. Gen. Luis Lara Jaramillo, Chief of the Ecuadorian Armed Forces’ Joint Staff, visited the headquarters of U.S. Southern Command (SOUTHCOM) in Miami November 10.   </p>

<p>Lara Jaramillo met with U.S. Navy Adm. Craig Faller, SOUTHCOM commander, and other command leaders to discuss his country’s longstanding cooperative defense ties with the United States.</p>

<p>The general’s visit was his first to SOUTHCOM’s headquarters. It comes as Ecuador hosts UNITAS, the world’s longest-running annual multinational maritime exercise, sponsored annually by the United States since 1960.</p>

<p>The U.S. and Ecuadorian armed forces enjoy a long history of security cooperation focused on topics of mutual interest; including air and maritime security; global peacekeeping; illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing; transnational organized crime; humanitarian assistance; and human rights.</p>

<p>This week, Ecuador will receive two 40-bed field hospitals, funded and donated under SOUTHCOM’s Humanitarian Assistance Program (HAP). Ecuadorian health-care professionals will staff, equip and operate the hospitals to care for patients in areas impacted by COVID-19.</p>

<p>From the onset of the pandemic, SOUTHCOM has worked closely with its Ecuadorian partners to purchase and donate $1.2 million in equipment and supplies essential to stopping the spread of COVID-19 and caring for infected patients in affected areas of the country.</p>

<p>Across the region, the command has funded more than 350 HAP projects, purchasing more than $19 million in supplies, equipment and other vital resources to support the COVID-19 response and mitigation efforts of 28 nations.</p>

<p>SOUTHCOM is one of the Department of Defense’s six geographically-focused unified commands with responsibility for U.S. military operations in the Caribbean, Central America and South America, as well as security cooperation with defense and public-security forces in the region.</p>

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<p><strong>LINKS TO ADDITIONAL INFORMATION</strong></p>

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 <p>Biography, U.S. Navy Adm. Craig Faller, Commander of U.S. Southern Command</p>
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 <p><a href="https://www.ccffaa.mil.ec/jefe-del-comando-conjunto-de-las-ff-aa/" target="_blank">Biography (<em>Spanish</em>), Ecuadorian Army Lt. Gen. Luis Lara Jaramillo, Commander of U.S. Southern Command</a></p>
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 <p>UNITAS multinational maritime security exercise</p>
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 <p>SOUTHCOM funded COVID-19 response assistance to the region</p>
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