FYI one idea for where Mexico got the money to buy new equipment - the US
We give Mexico a lot of military assistance and aid - and I can see a Mexican official going to the US and saying "we need military assistance to be able to build up our army to resist the threat from the Nicaraguans and their Soviet allies" and the US saying "sure that sounds like a great idea"
and then a few years later really not thinking so when the equipment said aid bought starts pouring across the Rio Grande
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