By Zoila Palma: Former Peten Governor and Guatemalan Attorney Rudel Alvarez is disputing his Government’s reported denial of a Guatemalan army airplane in Belize’s airspace on September 24, 2026.
“I do believe that flight took place; the real-time flight tracking platform Flightradar recognized the flight. Zooming in on the map, it can be seen that at a certain point, the Air Force plane enters Belizean territorial waters, then exits and remains in a holding pattern for about 40 minutes, before turning off its transponder and returning to Guatemala,” Alvarez explained on Facebook.
In addition, Alvarez called out Guatemalan President Bernardo Arevalo who reportedly questioned the veracity of Flightradar and asserts that the Air Force never carried out that flight.
“The President has fallen into a trap that will only further damage his reputation.
The Army is deliberately lying to him; they did so three days ago when they told him that the Army never participated in the incursion in Huite, Zacapa, and now they say they did but don’t know how it happened. President Arevalo: Don’t trust the Army. Make urgent changes or they will continue to deceive you. The flight did exist and it has been scientifically proven,” Alvarez added.
But, Alvarez also said that Belize is making “a huge fuss about something simple.”
He further alleged that Belize remains “silent when illegal flights enter the heart of their territory every week with illicit cargo, sometimes even unloading it in their territorial waters.”
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By Zoila Palma: Former Peten Governor and Guatemalan Attorney Rudel Alvarez is disputing his Government’s reported denial of a Guatemalan army airplane in Belize’s airspace on September 24, 2026. “I do believe that flight took place; the real-time flight tracking platform Flightradar recognized the flight. Zooming in on the map, it can be seen that
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