Lt. Gen. Ruben Danio Paulino Sem, the minister of defense for the Dominican Republic, meets with officials at the joint operations center of Fuerzas Aliadas Humanitarias 2019, May 7, 2019 in Santo Domingo. FA-HUM 19 is a U.S. Army South-sponsored foreign humanitarian assistance and disaster relief exercise designed to build U.S. partner nation’s capacity for civil and military response to major disasters. More than 100 national experts from 13 Latin American countries will operate jointly throughout FA-HUM 19 simulations and training events from May 6 - 17, 2019 in the Dominican Republic.