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Article: U.S. vets say Mexico using U.S. military equipment to intimidate Indians
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- April 25, 1998
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JULIE WATSON Associated Press Writer
AP Online
04-25-1998
MEXICO CITY (AP) _ The Mexican army is using U.S. military equipment intended to stop drug-smuggling to intimidate Indians in southern Mexico, a group of U.S. veterans charged Friday.
``Our government is supplying arms, equipment and training to the army of Mexico ... that are being used against the poor people of Mexico,'' said Wilson Powell, a Korean war veteran and a member of the Veterans for Peace delegation.
The four-member delegation spent 10 days monitoring military activities in the southern Mexican states of Oaxaca and Chiapas, where leftist guerrilla groups have risen up in recent years. They also visited the ...