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Diego Luna
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Fuel to the Fire: Diego Luna and Ernesto López Portillo on the Rise of Militarism in Mexico
In October 2021, the United States and Mexico put an end to the Mérida Initiative—a thirteen-year, $3 billion security assistance package central to a new “war on drugs.” Despite years of weapons sales, military training,…