Belize Flight

US DEPARTMENT OF STATEBUREAU OF INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS MATTERSINTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS CONTROL STRAGEGY REPORTAPRIL 1994CANADA, MEXICO AND CENTRAL AMERICA 133 Belize 135 Canada 139 Costa Rica 142 El Salvador 146 Guatemala 149 Honduras 154 Mexico 158 Nicaragua 164 Panama 167 BELIZEI. SummaryThe Government of Belize (GOB) recognizes cocaine transit and use as the country's major problems. To a lesser extent, cannabis cultivation and trafficking and money laundering are also problems. The GOB is committed to eliminating drug trafficking, which it views as a danger to its democratic institutions. The GOB fully supports USG counter-narcotics programs and ... [Read More]

International Narcotics Control Strategy Reports

U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS CONTROL STRATEGY REPORTMARCH 1995BUREAU FOR INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS AND LAW ENFORCEMENT AFFAIRSCANADA, MEXICO AND CENTRAL AMERICA 117Belize 119Canada 123Costa Rica 126El Salvador 130Guatemala 133Honduras 137Mexico 140Nicaragua 148Panama 151BELIZEI. SummaryBelize's uncontrolled coast and large interior give it the potential to be a significant transshipment point for cocaine moving from South America to the United States. It is a limited producer of marijuana. The Belizean police and the Belize Defense Force (BDF) cooperate with ... [Read More]

Tips for Travelers to Central & South America

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Canada, Mexico, and Central America

Although only one suspect flight originating outside Mexico was detected in 2000, hundreds of internal flights moving drugs, primarily marijuana, from South/Central Mexico to the border overwhelmed limited law enforcement air and land assets. During 2000, the eastern Pacific coast of Mexico continued to be the favored route for maritime trafficking because of the vast area and a lack of natural choke points. In addition, there was a resumption of non-commercial vessel movement to Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula through the Western Caribbean. Maritime trafficking can involve single or multiple vessels, go-fast boats, fishing vessels and commercial carriers. Traffickers continued to use air shipments, although they appeared to be less frequent than maritime deliveries, as well as the overland route via Mexico’s southern border from Guatemala and Belize. ... [Read More]

Canada, Mexico, and Central America

Interdiction. Mexico's interdiction efforts focused on maritime and air drug movement on both coasts as traffickers responded with smaller load sizes. According to GOM reports, maritime interdiction—primarily in international waters—resulted in a number of important cocaine seizures. While most of the maritime seizures occurred along the west coast of Mexico, there were significant seizures in the Gulf of Mexico as well. Detection and monitoring assets continued to identify suspicious aircraft flying along the United States-Mexico border and near the Mexico-Guatemala and Mexico-Belize borders. Suspicious flights detected in northwestern Mexico generally involved internal, short-duration flights originating in Mexico, with the overwhelming majority of seizures involving marijuana. Suspicious flights in southeastern Mexico generally involved cocaine flights from South America, with a noticeable surge in mid-2003. ... [Read More]

F) Canada, Mexico, and Central America

The National Air Section (SAN) continued to provide excellent support for counternarcotics operations despite limited air assets and management problems. The SAN continued to respond rapidly to U.S. law enforcement requests to over-fly and photograph suspect areas and to identify suspect aircraft in flight or on the ground. The SAN provides logistical support in the transfer of detainees and drug evidence through Panama to U.S. jurisdiction. The SAN and PNP continued to cooperate in the surveillance of areas of potential coca and cannabis growth. During 2002, the SAN launched several reconnaissance flights to support SMN counternarcotics interdiction efforts. Both the SMN and SAN responded to reports of air drops of cocaine from general aviation aircraft to the Caribbean and Pacific coasts of Panama, several times resulting in small to multi-hundred kilogram seizures. ... [Read More]

Canada, Mexico, and Central America

Drug Flow/Transit. Cocaine from Colombia typically transits El Salvador via the Pan-American Highway and via maritime routes off the country’s Pacific coast. Heroin from Colombia usually goes through Panama, then via courier on a commercial passenger flight to El Salvador, with another commercial flight to Honduras, and then by bus to Guatemala. The Pan-American and Littoral Highways are the land routes preferred by traffickers. As in the rest of Central America, there has been a notable increase in the amount of heroin transiting both the international airport and land ports of entry. Both heroin and cocaine also transit by sea off the Salvadoran coast as well as through Salvadoran airspace. ... [Read More]

F) Canada, Mexico, and Central America

Mexico remains a major supplier of heroin, methamphetamine, and marijuana, and the transit point for more than one half of the cocaine sold in the U.S. Cocaine and other drugs are smuggled by every conceivable commercial and non-commercial conveyance: air and containerized maritime cargo; fishing vessels; flights to clandestine landing points; human couriers, (including undocumented migrants and children), and airdrops to go-fast boats off the Mexican coasts. While the Pacific coast of Mexico continued to be the favored route for maritime trafficking because of its lack of natural choke points, the events of September 11 caused the relocation of U.S. interdiction assets, leaving the area more open for drug smugglers. Other routes were favored as well, as an increase in non-commercial vessel movement to Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula through the western Caribbean, especially in the use of go-fast vessels was seen in 2001. With regard to air transport, although there were only three confirme ... [Read More]

Belize

Special Notice for Dual Nationals:  A person who is a citizen of both the U.S. and Belize is able to enter Belize with only a Belizean passport; such a dual national should be aware, however, that he/she must have a U.S. passport in order to board a flight to the U.S. from Belize. ... [Read More]

US Department Of State Post Report

From Houston and Miami, Belize is a 2-hour flight. TACA makes daily flights from these cities, San Salvador (with connections to all Central America), and Roatan and San Pedro Sula, Honduras. Continental Airlines flies twice daily from Houston, while American Airlines flies daily from Miami. Commuter airlines link Belize City to Tikal, Guatemala, and Chetumal and Cancun, Mexico. ...

Commercial cargo flights arrive in Belize weekly. Freighters make port calls from Miami two or three times a week, taking three days to make the journey. It is also possible to sail on cruise ships that call at Belize City in the winter. Communications Telephones and TelecommunicationsLast Updated:  11/28/2003 2:25 PM  ... [Read More]