"Israeli firms began exporting weapons in the 1950s to Latin America, including to Nicaragua and the Dominican Republic under the Somoza and Trujillo dictatorships. Massive government investment in the arms industry followed the 1967 War and the ensuing French arms embargo. Israeli arms, police, military training and equipment have now been sent to at least 140 countries, including to Guatemala in the 1980s under Efraín Ríos Montt, the former dictator recently convicted of genocide against the Maya."
Israel-Mexico: Military Cooperation to Crush Zapatistas Liberation Movement
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Mexico has gone public about military coordination with Israel in Chiapas, home to the Zapatistas liberation movement. (Image: Omar Torres / AFP/Newscom)