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		46Bit on June 15, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How a Mexican Drug Cartel Makes Its Billions I would assume they weren't new planes: likely easier to buy them off a company in a country with lax regulation than get Boeing to build you one.

refurb on June 15, 2012 [–]

Exactly. Lots of relatively undeveloped nations have their own carriers.

I can't imagine it would be than hard to buy a used 747 from a state with a dictator that was hard up for money.

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