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USA criticizes Colombia for having bought Brazilian aircraft

Bogotà, Colombia - 40 Embraer aircraft for a USD 234 m

Many critics and worries, according to US military sources, for the purchase for an amount of USD 234m of 40 Brazilian Emb-314 light-aircraft, while the American government would have preferred the modernization of Hercules C-130. The polemics regard the "Colombia Plan" against the drug-commerce, to which the United States have given a contribution of USD 1,7bn, started in the year 2000. In a letter...

AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency - 35806
Rome, Italy, 11/12/2002 17:47
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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