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January 6, 2021 (Google Translation) – In a military ceremony presided over by the President of the Republic of Colombia, Doctor Iván Duque Márquez in the company of the First Lady María Juliana Ruíz de Duque, as well as the Vice President of the Republic of Colombia Doctor Martha Lucía Ramírez de Rincón, the Minister of National Defense Carlos Holmes…
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November 24, 2020 (Google Translation) – This vessel was transferred to the Colombian Navy within the framework of the international cooperation that the two nations have sustained for more than six decades. After sailing the seas of the Pacific Ocean and the Caribbean; and sail 10,581 miles, arriving in Cartagena from the Naval Base “Jinhae” of the Province of Gyeongsang…
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November 20, 2020 (Google Translation) – The mine hunter “Duero” (M-35) returns to Cartagena after participating in the Permanent Group of Measures Against Mines Nº2 of NATO. This morning, the mine hunter “Duero” (M-35) has returned to its base in the Cartagena Arsenal, from where it set sail on September 20 to join the Permanent Group of Measures Against Mines…
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October 31, 2020 (Google Translation) – The ship ARC “Gloria” docked at the dock for larger vessels of the ARC “Bolívar” Naval Base, in a ceremony presided over by Captain Ibo Plazas Moreno, Director of the Cartagena Naval Hospital, at the end of the first phase of the training, in which 76 students participated, including 7 women, from the “Almirante…
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October 23, 2020 (Google Translation) – Today, Friday, October 23, the CANEX-20 exercise carried out in the Tercio de Armada, in San Fernando and at the Rota Naval Base has ended. The CANEX Exercise is a biannual exercise programmed within the scope of the Army Protection Force (Tercio Norte de Ferrol, Tercio Sur de San Fernando, Tercio de Levante de…
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September 20, 2020 (Google Translation) – Despite the COVID-19 pandemic, the ARC “Gloria” training ship is the only training ship in Latin America that has sailed throughout the year. Today, the waters of the dock of the ARC “Bolívar” Naval Base was the natural setting that adorned the departure of the ARC Gloria School ship from Cartagena to a new…
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August 10, 2020 (Google Translation) – The mine hunter “Tambre” (M-33) has returned to its base in the Military Arsenal of Cartagena, from which it set sail on June 6, concluding a deployment in which it has been integrated into the permanent naval group of measures against mines No. 2 of NATO (SNMCMG-2) together with minehunters from the Italian, Turkish…
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August 1, 2020 (Google Translation) – This Friday, July 31, the ARC ship “Gloria” will set sail from Cartagena to a new voyage, in which 77 Cadets, including 14 women from the Naval Cadet School “Almirante Padilla”, will advance their training cruise as future Officers of the Colombian Navy, complying with the biosecurity protocols established by the COVID-19 pandemic. The…
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June 11, 2020 (Google Translation) – The waters of the Bay of Cartagena were the natural setting that adorned the departure ceremony of the ARC School Ship “Gloria” to start the Grumetes Training Cruise of the ARC Naval School of Noncommissioned Officers “Barranquilla”. In compliance with the Biosafety protocols established for the containment of the pandemic, the military act of…
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April 22, 2020 (Google Translation) – The oceanographic research vessel (BIO) “Hespérides” has called this morning at its base port in the Arsenal of Cartagena, after concluding its XXV Antarctic Campaign. The ship returns 161 days after leaving that same port, and after a 42-day period of isolation on board since the last time its crew was able to set…
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