All amounts in U.S. dollars. Numbers in italics are estimates, usually based on the closest year for which data are available.

All amounts in U.S. dollars. Numbers in italics are estimates, usually based on the closest year for which data are available.

All amounts in U.S. dollars.

All amounts in U.S. dollars.

Document: 2008 End-Use Monitoring Report

Program: International Narcotics Control and Law Enforcement

ASUNCION

Background EUM Program Coordinator Norberto Gamarra, Tel: 595 21 213 715 ext. 2238: gamarran@state.gov Inventory System Post does not have an automated inventory system. Post keeps manual records of donated items. Staff Member Responsibilities LES INL Program Assistant Norberto Gamarro is in charge of End Use Monitoring. He conducts all of post's on-site inventories and inspections. Gamarra reports to Pol/Econ Chief, Joan Shaker. There are no other INL staff positions. Other USG Agency Assistance INL collaborates with DEA, USAID and DOJ locally; however, only INL performs on-site inspections of INL-provided resources throughout the year. Counterpart Agencies National Anti-Drug Secretariat (SENAD) Ministry of Industry and Commerce's Specialized Technical Unit (UTE) Anti-Money Laundering Secretariat (SEPRELAD) Women's Secretariat Public Ministry's Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) Unit Receipt GOP agencies receiving INL-funded donations provide handwritten receipts. On-site Inspections About 80% of INL-donated items were inspected in 2008.

Status-Commodities

Vehicles
INL donated 4 Toyota Runners to SENAD in 1999, 1 Toyota Prado to SENAD in 2004, 8 Toyota Hiluxes to SENAD (one in 2001; 6 in 2004); 5 Nissan DX 4- wheel drive vehicles to the Public Ministry in 2005; two Toyota Hiluxes to UTE in 2005 and 2 Mitsubishi L200 pickups to SENAD in 2008. Two Toyota SENAD vehicles are based at SENAD headquarters in Asuncion but are used for anti-drug operations nationwide. The Public Ministry vehicles were used in Asuncion (2) and Ciudad del Este (3). UTE vehicles are based in Asuncion but are used in operations nationwide. All were in good to excellent condition at the year's end.

SENAD Toyota 4 Runner 4 Toyota Prado 1 Toyota Hilux 8 Mitsubishi L200 2 Public Ministry Nissan DX 5 Toyota Prado 1 Toyota Hilux 8 UTE Toyota Hilux 2

Canines
INL donated 5 of SENAD's 13 dogs; two in 2007 and three in 2008. They are used for drug detection in airports in Asuncion and Ciudad del Este, as well as in Encarnacion and PJC. INL provides veterinary care, food, uniforms, and training for the dog handlers, kennel maintenance. The dogs rotate every month between cities. Most are in good health; two dogs will be retired soon.

Computer Equipment
Eleven computers were donated to SENAD in 2007 and 2008. Nine are in Asuncion; one in Ciudad del Este; one in Salto Guaira. The computers are used for counternarcotics office work. Nine in Asuncion were inspected and are in good condition. Four laptops were donated to SENAD and the Public Ministry's IPR unit in 2007; two for each institution. Three are in Asuncion; one is in Ciudad del Este. Laptops in Asuncion are in good condition. The laptop in CDE was not inspected. Four printers were donated, two for SENAD and two for the Public Ministry between 2007 and 2008. Three are in Asuncion and one is in Ciudad del Este. Printers are in good condition.

Laboratory Equipment
One Agilent Gas Chromatograph, one Mass Spectrometer System (GCMS) and one Gas Chromatograph Flame Ionization Device were donated to SENAD lab in 2004; an auto-injector module for eight sample turrets, an auto-sampler tray module and a Chem-station PC bundle system were donated in 2005. All of the lab equipment is located in SENAD headquarters in Asuncion. The equipment supports investigations and helps bring investigation standards closer to international standards. The lab equipment is in fair condition.

Miscellaneous Equipment
Air conditioners and furniture were donated to Women's Secretariat, UTE, and SENAD between 2006 and 2008. The furniture and air conditioners are located in Asuncion and in Pedro Juan Caballero. They are good condition.

Six camcorders were donated to the Public Ministry's IPR Unit in 2007. The camcorders are used for IPR operations. All are in Asuncion. Four digital cameras were donated to the Public Ministry's IPR unit in 2007. The cameras are used for IPR operations. All cameras are in Asuncion.

Status-Services

Construction Services
The inspection of a TIP shelter for TIP victims in Asuncion was completed in 2008.

Demand Reduction Public Awareness seminars for students, parents and teachers throughout the country were undertaken in 2008.

Program Impact
The USG continues to support GOP's institutional capabilities to combat and prosecute transnational and organized crime. All SENAD office equipment, communications equipment, vehicles, the canine program and the new facility in PJC are aimed at bolstering interdiction efforts and operational capabilities. SENAD continues to make progress in the drug enforcement arena, including the seizure of cocaine and marijuana and the disruption of important drug networks that operate in the country.

Vehicles
Without the donation of vehicles, SENAD officials would not have the capacity to execute counternarcotics operations.

Canines
In 2008, the canines seized 53 kilograms of cocaine and 1.148 kilograms of marihuana, primarily through interdiction operations in Asuncion's international Airport and in Mariscal Estigarriba, near Paraguay's border with Bolivia.

Problems and Corrective Action Plan (CAP)
Post was unable to monitor 100% of INL-donated equipment due to its staffing gap. Post has resolved this situation with the hiring of a new INL assistant, who is conducting regular inspections and will travel to see all INL-supported programs during calendar year 2009.

Document: International Narcotics Control Strategy Report

Program: International Narcotics Control and Law Enforcement

U.S. Policy Initiatives and Programs Bilateral Cooperation. The U.S. Mission in Paraguay works closely with the GOP to disrupt drug trafficking organizations and build stronger legal and regulatory measures to restrict drug trafficking, illegal contraband flows, and money laundering. The narcotics detection canine program continued to support seizure operations and was responsible for the direct seizure of 65 kilograms of cocaine. The USG funded the participation of SENAD, the Secretariat to Combat Money Laundering (SEPRELAD), and the Specialized Anti-Piracy Unit (UTE) agents at seminars on information sharing; illicit traffic of goods and trademark fraud; and money laundering. The USG has started a project to improve SENAD's physical headquarters in Asuncion. The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) continues to work with SENAD on improving its ability to develop criminal narcotics cases targeting major traffickers through technical assistance and training.

Document: Bureau for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs Program and Budget Guide, Fiscal Year 2010

Program: International Narcotics Control Economic Aid

FY 2010 Program

Demand Reduction

The goal of this project is to continue to expand the GOP’s drug abuse awareness program and will build on the achievements of previous years. Funds will be used to develop flyers, pamphlets, and other educational materials to be distributed by SENAD at schools and to enable the GOP to update its national study of the prevalence of risk factors in order to track the effectiveness of its demand reduction programs.

Document: Bureau for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs Program and Budget Guide, Fiscal Year 2010

Program: International Narcotics Control and Law Enforcement

Program Objectives and Performance Indicators

Enable the Government of Paraguay (GOP) to strengthen its technical and operational ability to interdict narcotics, conduct complex criminal investigations, and arrest traffickers.

• Increased quantity of cocaine seized; increased presence of Paraguay's anti- narcotics secretariat (SENAD) in areas where it previously had little or no presence; expanded SENAD operations.

Document: 2007 End-Use Monitoring Report

Program: International Narcotics Control and Law Enforcement

Procedures

The INL program assistant conducted periodic visits throughout the year to verify the status of commodities located in the outlying areas of the country. In addition, new color-coded and numbered stickers were placed on all items that were donated to the Government of Paraguay (GOP) to include vehicles and office furniture. INL provides computer equipment, software, training courses, vehicles, and tactical equipment to a variety of GOP agencies. These agencies include the Anti-Drug Secretariat (SENAD), the Ministry of Women for Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Program, the Specialized Investigation Unit (UTE), the Statistics Center Unit of the Ministry of Industry and Commerce (MIC), and the Public Ministry IPR Prosecutor’s Unit.

Status

All items provided to SENAD, SEPRELAD, UTE, MIC, and the Ministry of Woman’s Affairs are in good working condition, except for a few equipment items that were identified as deteriorated by normal wear and tear. The deteriorated equipment was separated out in order to proceed with the proper disposal. The GOP maintains INL-provided commodities in several field locations including Ciudad Del Este (CDE), Mariscal Estigarriba, Asuncion, and Pedro Juan Caballero. All equipment is used for its intended purpose.

Vehicles

Five new vehicles were donated to the IPR unit of the Public Ministry for operational and interdiction purposes. Two of these vehicles are in CDE and are kept in mint condition.

The SENAD has 21 INL-provided vehicles ranging in model years from 1996 to 2005. These vehicles are in good condition and are currently in use by SENAD for operational and interdiction purposes. INL provides maintenance services to 14 of these vehicles through a contract with a local dealer. The accident rate is very low; this year only one serious accident occurred during a SENAD operation. Fortunately, no casualties were reported and the insurance company is in the process of covering all the vehicles damages. Additionally, SENAD has four motorcycles.

Three vehicles were donated to UTE for operational and interdiction purposes. These vehicles are in excellent condition and are also being used for their intended purpose.

Vessels

SENAD has two boats with outboard motors and trailers. They are in working condition but need to be replaced soon.

Computer Equipment

Last year, INL provided computer equipment to UTE, SENAD, the Women’s Secretariat, and the Public Ministry. All of the equipment is in good working condition and is being used for its intended purpose.

In 2007, INL provided three new desktop computers, one laptop and three printers to SENAD; two computer servers, and one desk computer, four laptops, and nine printers to the Public Ministry; and one desktop computer to the Women’s Secretariat. All are in good condition and being used for their intended purpose.

Detector Dogs

INL funds support the detector dog program, which employs 13 dogs. INL funding provides veterinary care, food, new dogs, uniforms, and maintenance of the kennels and a vehicle for transporting the canines and guides to the various checkpoints throughout the country. This year one of the detector dogs died and three new dogs were locally purchased and incorporated into the program. The canine units are housed in kennels located at Asuncion Silvio Petirrossi International Airport, the SENAD regional bases at Mariscal Estigaribia, and Pedro Juan Caballero.

In 2007, the canines detected 51 kilogams of cocaine and 279 kilograms of marihuana, primarily through interdiction operations in Asuncion’s International Airport and in Mariscal Estigarribia, which is in the northern part of Paraguay near its border with Bolivia.

Communications Equipment

The communications equipment donated in prior years was inventoried by the INL program assistant and accounted for. In general, most of the equipment that had been donated in prior years is in fair condition; however, it is recommended that this equipment be replaced promptly.

Laboratory Equipment

The SENAD laboratory is equipped with one auto-injector module for eight sampler turrets, an auto-sampler tray module, and a Chem-Station PC bundle system. This equipment, donated in 2005, is in excellent condition. The drug laboratory played a key role in identifying the drugs, contributing to the conviction of drug traffickers.

The SENAD Central Counter Drug Laboratory has an Agilent Gas Chromatograph, a Mass Spectrometer System (GCMS), and a Gas Chromatograph Flame Ionization Device (GCFID) to support evidence processing in criminal drug cases. This lab equipment will support future investigative procedures and help bring investigative standards closer to international standards.

All laboratory equipment is located at SENAD’s base in Asuncion.

Construction Projects

INL concluded the construction of a regional office facility for SENAD in Pedro Juan Caballero on April 11 at the approximate cost of $500K. This project was designed to enhance the GOP’s narcotics enforcement activities and cooperation with other Southern cone countries. The new facility includes one dorm for 30 special agents, one administrative building, a hanger and a K-9 kennel facility. At the end of the year, INL inspected this regional facility, which is being used and maintained properly. Post’s INL assistant also conducted periodic visits to the facility during the year.

Miscellaneous Equipment

INL donated furniture to the new regional TIP Shelter in Asuncion, including six bunk beds, 12 lockers, two desks, kitchen appliances, two tables, 10 chairs, a living room set and office equipment.

Impact

The USG continues to support GOP efforts to enhance its institutional capabilities to combat and prosecute transnational and organized crime. For SENAD, all office equipment, communications equipment, vehicles, the canine program and the new facility in PJC are aimed at bolstering interdiction efforts and operational capabilities. SENAD has continued to make advances in its drug enforcement activities, including the seizure of cocaine and marijuana and the disruption of important drug networks that operate in the country.

Post’s assistance to the MIC is dedicated to helping the IPR unit of UTE increase its ability to conduct operations in the tri-border area. Support to the Women’s Secretariat is primarily to combat TIP and to establish a shelter that can accommodate up to 20 women and girls who have been illegally trafficked outside Paraguay. Staff members will provide victims with medical, legal, and psychological assistance.

Document: FY 2010 Congressional Budget Justification for Foreign Operations

The United States will support the new Paraguayan Government's ambitious agenda to stem corruption and impunity, create jobs, and increase social investment to reduce poverty and improve health care services. In support of Paraguayan efforts to achieve these objectives, U.S. foreign assistance is aimed at strengthening democratic institutions and the rule of law, increasing trade, encouraging a more efficient business environment, and improving access to health care.

Peace and Security: Ensuring continued stability and security is a top concern for the Government of Paraguay (GOP), as it confronts a broad range of international crime threats including drug and arms trafficking, money laundering, counterfeiting, document forgery, intellectual property rights piracy, and trafficking in persons, particularly in the tri-border area. The United States will collaborate with Paraguayan authorities and partners in the region to target specific criminals and their organizations, and to help the new GOP develop a National Security Strategy. To achieve these objectives, U.S. programs will support legal reforms and provide training and equipment to bolster Paraguay’s capacity to investigate, capture and prosecute criminals. U.S. programs will also strengthen Paraguay's military as a democratic institution through the reorganization, modernization, and professionalization of the military’s key support, communications, and logistical forces. These improvements will increase the military’s ability to participate in peacekeeping operations.

Governing Justly and Democratically: The United States will help the GOP implement critical reforms that promote the professionalization of the civil service and improve transparency and accountability, including responsiveness to citizen needs. Anti-corruption efforts will include tracking corruption cases, strengthening internal investigative units, and improving the prosecutors’ capability to fight corruption. U.S. programs also will help improve local governments' ability to provide services by increasing tax revenue and citizen participation in decision making.

Investing in People: The United States will provide the Ministry of Health the technical assistance it needs to respond to public health emergencies, such as recent dengue and yellow fever outbreaks, and to improve information systems so that it has reliable, accurate, and timely data to monitor performance and implement more effective programs and policies. U.S. programs will help decentralize healthcare services to increase access to quality health care and extend the reach of family planning services, especially to underserved regions.

Economic Growth: The United States will continue collaborating with the GOP to promote economic policy reforms that address the corruption-induced distortions in the economy by supporting trade-based diversification, promoting exports and private sector investment, and improving business' ability to compete internationally. Technical assistance and training will help small farmers and local firms in rural, neglected areas of Paraguay improve their skills and knowledge of international standards and markets.

The United States will also expand the use of the Development Credit Authority to reduce constraints to credit in traditionally underserved economic areas by providing guarantees to one or more private banks over six years, increasing access to longer-term capital investment financing (more than one year) for small and medium rural enterprises. This effort will complement activities that support for equitable access by low- 646 income families and micro-scale enterprises to essential financial services (e.g. credit; savings; and insurance, remittances and payments services) provided by banks, non-governmental organization, financial institutions, and others.

Linkages with the Millennium Challenge Corporation The Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) approved a Phase II Threshold Program for Paraguay that focuses on sustaining achievements obtained during the first phase and addresses improving Paraguay's anticorruption indicator, which poses the largest hurdle to signing an MCC Compact. The Phase II program will strengthen key Paraguayan institutions charged with preventing, investigating, and prosecuting corruption.

Document: International Narcotics Control Strategy Report

Bilateral Cooperation. Working with the GOP, USG programs and policies in Paraguay focus on disrupting drug trafficking organizations and instituting stronger legal and regulatory measures to combat drug trafficking and money laundering. The GOP uses U.S. assistance to support SENAD's operations, including its base of operations in Pedro Juan Caballero and its canine program. U.S. assistance also provides support for SENAD operations in the northwestern town of Mariscal Estigarribia. The USG funded the participation of 50 new SENAD agents in a Basic Drug Enforcement Training Seminar which taught the knowledge and skills required to identify drug traffickers, to initiate and to develop investigations. The USG funded a five-week Sensitive Investigative Unit (SIU) program in Quantico, Virginia which trains DEA foreign counterparts to work on sensitive bilateral investigations. SENAD is one of only a dozen foreign counterpart agencies to obtain this training. The USG provided operational support and equipment to Paraguay’s intellectual property operational unit (UTE), as well as training seminars on intellectual property issues. The USG continued to provide a Resident Legal Advisor (RLA) to assist GOP efforts to pass and implement effective laws to combat money laundering, intellectual property theft, and terrorist financing.

Document: Section 1209 Report to Congress on Foreign-Assitance Related Programs Carried out by the Department of Defense

Program: Humanitarian and Civic Assistance

Projects support USSOUTHCOM TSC goal to shape the environment by promoting democracy, regional prosperity, and stability.

Document: Operation Southern Partner Ends

Program: Humanitarian and Civic Assistance

Airmen representing more than 25 career fields exchanged information and ideas with counterparts in the air forces of Chile, Paraguay, Argentina and Uruguay as they strengthened airman-to-airman relationships in the U.S. Southern Command area of focus.

Air Force subject matter experts took part in discussions, classes and field exercises in disaster preparedness, intelligence, search and rescue, command and control, maintenance, family readiness, public affairs, environmental protection and other career fields while also leading several joint community outreach projects.

Exchanges were designed to assist partner nation air forces during possible future cooperative efforts with U.S. forces while strengthening interoperability, understanding and relations with key career field counterparts. In addition, Airmen volunteered their free time to visit orphanages and shelters for abused children, repair a library in a trade school for at-risk youth, toured local emergency facilities and taught the dynamics of flight to schoolchildren in downtown Santiago, Chile.

Members of the Davis-Monthan AFB 48th Rescue Squadron led search and rescue exchanges in Uruguay and Chile, jumping out of a C-17 alongside military members of each partner nation. During one jump, more than 140 Uruguayan military members accompanied Airmen on a mission to simulate rescue efforts over land and water. In Chile, the team accomplished a high-altitude low-opening jump near an air base in the desert town of Iquique.

Document: IAAFA comes to JTF-Bravo, first time in 19 years classes held in C.A.

For the first time in 19 years, Inter-American Air Forces Academy instructors provided Air Force professional military education on Central American soil.

The IAAFA staff set up shop here and began instructing the Air Force Noncommissioned Officer Academy PME curriculum to 24 NCOs from 10 Latin American nations' air forces.

Airmen from Chile, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru and Uruguay attended the academy.

Joint Task Force-Bravo is hosting IAAFA by providing the infrastructure needed to provide support for the staff and students.

The two instructors and one administrator from Lackland provided the students with professional military education curriculum mirroring the Air Force NCO Academy and Squadron Officer School courses.