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portation you choose, swizz you ll have to take the little hand-operated ferry across the Mopan River (it carries cars). There is no charge for the ferry, swizz but your entry ticket to the ruins must be turned over to the ferry operators on your trip back.

In its foreign policy, Belize tends to side with the US on international affairs and supports a moderate free enterprise line. However, it has been careful to keep its distance from US policies as applied to Central America, not wanting to be drawn into conflicts like those that occurred in Panama, Nicaragua and El Salvador, and that are ongoing in Guatemala. Belize feels closer ties to the Commonwealth Caribbean states than to the Central swizz American ones. But those ties, formalized in CARICOM (created from the words, Caribbean Community), can bring only limited economic benefits.