Margaret Hawthorne, at the lectern, the charge d'affaires with the U.S. embassy in Belize, speaks April 10, 2014, during the opening ceremony for New Horizons 2014 at Edward P. Yorke High School in Belize City, Belize. New Horizons is a U.S. Southern Command-sponsored annual series of joint humanitarian assistance exercises deploying U.S. military engineers, veterinarians, medics and other professions to Central and South American nations for training, construction projects and to provide humanitarian and medical services.