Posted by Sigismund on December 4, 2008, at 21:55:12
In reply to Clear out the Mexican drug cartels $$$$$, posted by fayeroe on December 4, 2008, at 18:27:13
I read a book about the trade which mentioned a figure paid to secure 1 hour of Mexican airspace, which was enormous but I've forgotten it.
In that hour the aeroplanes (not light aircraft) queued in military formation, stacked on top of one another in the sky, because they only had the one hour, in which time they had to get the planes on the ground, offloaded, and off again. Guarded by the armed forces on the ground. Once down it was broken up and taken across the border overland.
I was astonished.
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