What’s behind Mexico’s military buying binge?

MEXICO CITY--It started with 27 rail cars full of ammunition rolling down the tracks into Mexico. That load of 30 million bullets was soon followed by fleets of Black Hawk helicopters and thousands of Humvees: in all more than $1 billion of American military equipment sold to Mexico within the past two years. In a […]









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