Guatemala - Ministerio de la Defensa Nacional - Organization
Servicio de Material de Guerra [SMG - Military Goods and Services] is tasked with maintaining mobility, and firepower, requires responsible personnel with special technical expertise, to carry out maintenance and maintenance of various types, models and / or antiquity of vehicles, armaments, ammunition and explosives, including manufacturing, repair, reconditioning, recovery, modification and destruction, as well as the safeguarding, control and distribution of these vital and sensitive resources for The Guatemalan Army. In 1957, the Military Assistance Program (MAP) - attached to the Central Warehouse of the Military Brigade "Mariscal Zavala", with its headquarters in the Aceituno Estate, km. 5.5 road to the Atlantic zone 17, was started until 1962, when it was moved To the facilities located in the Finca la Aurora zone 13, south of the capital city of Guatemala, initially in two small workshops of repair of vehicles and armament with a total of five specialists.
The General Directorate of Arms and Munitions Control [DIGECAM - Dirección General de Control de Armas y Municiones] was created by means of Decree number 39-89 of the Congress of the Republic of Guatemala, on June 29, 1989, and ratified by the then Constitutional President of the Republic MARCO VINICIO CEREZO AREVALO , On July 29 of the same year. Within the arms and ammunition law in Article 22, Chapter One, Title II, of the aforementioned Decree, the General Directorate for the Control of Weapons and Ammunition is established as a unit of the Ministry of National Defense and article 24 indicated its functions. Mission is to authorize, register and control the importation, manufacture, export, storage, sale, transport, possession and porting of the firearms and ammunition that enter, circulate and / or leave the national territory, through the authorization of the respective licenses, Physical record and inspections, to maintain the national inventory.
For more than four decades, the Industria Militar [Military Industry] has fulfilled the mission of manufacturing, acquiring, marketing and distributing arms, ammunition, equipment, articles of military use, clothing, footwear and any goods necessary for the exclusive purposes required by the Guatemalan Army and Other security institutions of the State of Guatemala, as established in the Governmental Agreement of creation. During those years of life, the Military Industry has provided clothing and footwear of the highest quality, made under the strictest quality standards, raw material and processes. That is why the products we manufacture being the hands of Guatemalan artisans, have been recognized with quality awards, both at the national level and internationally.
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